It is all the time a very good marketing campaign tactic to reject PAC cash, as two of the Democrats operating for lawyer common have.
It is even higher if you find yourself not getting a lot of it anyway as is the case with Quentin Palfrey and Shannon Liss-Riordan.
But if you’re former Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, whose current unsuccessful marketing campaign for mayor of Boston was supported by PAC cash, you stay silent on the problem.
PAC (political motion committee) cash is particular curiosity cash raised independently of candidates however used to assist favored candidates.
Money is the milk of politics, so there’s little chance that modifications in PAC exercise will come about.
What ought to be of concern, although, is how politicians have turned the as soon as seasonal follow of elevating cash for a selected marketing campaign right into a full-time enterprise.
And, due to the web, politicians don’t have to satisfy their donors anymore.
This has allowed politicians to lift cash year-round even when they don’t seem to be operating for workplace or up for re-election. Nor do they inform donors what the cash is for.
Politicians have grow to be daring sufficient to request that marketing campaign contributors pledge to donate a hard and fast month-to-month sum on their bank cards, the best way charitable organizations just like the Salvation Army or Wounded Warriors do.
A great instance of fundraising run amok — though removed from the one one — is U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, the Malden Democrat who lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Markey, 76, was re-elected in 2020 after beating down a main problem from then U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy.
His subsequent election — if he runs once more — will likely be in 2026 when he will likely be 80 years previous. So why he’s begging supporters for marketing campaign donations already?
And he’s grubbing for donations as little as $3. It is demeaning.
Markey just isn’t poor. His and his spouse’s internet price is round $5 million. As a senator, he’s paid $174,000. He is married to Susan Blumenthal, a profitable doctor who lives in a million-dollar home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and has a fake home in Malden, which is his voting deal with.
The means Markey is elevating cash is an effective instance of why laws is required to ban politicians from elevating marketing campaign cash when they don’t seem to be formally operating for workplace.
Here is an instance of Markey’s April e-mail requests for donations as little as $3.
April 16: The donation “allows me to stay laser-focused on the work you all expect me to do, instead of worrying about fundraising and dialing for dollars every day like some of my colleagues.”
April 26; “Is there anything we can say to convince you to make a $3 contribution to stand with Ed Markey today?”
April 27: “We know $3 doesn’t seem like the kind of money that makes a difference, especially against the super PACs and fossil fuel giants of the world. But when we’re all in this together, it does.”
April 30: “If everyone reading this email chipped in $3, we would crush our April fundraising goals and be able to fund our organizing operation…”
April 30: “I know my team and I have emailed a number of times about tonight’s end-of-month fundraising deadline … But the truth is that right now, we’re still a touch short of where we need to be, so I need to ask one last time.”
And so, to paraphrase Markey’s hero JFK, ask not what Eddie Markey can do for you; however what you are able to do for Eddie Markey. And that’s to ship within the three bucks.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”