Thanks to everybody who gave to Steve Bullock over the weekend. We raised nearly 6K in two days. Overall, we’ve raised 662K so far since we started doing this in Fall 2016. Not bad.
I got a lot of requests to do a fundraiser for the Wisconsin Democratic Party. They’ve got a great leader — Ben Wikler — and right now Wisconsin looks like the most likely tipping point state, so it’s a win-win donation. Helps hopefully flip a state legislature and it also helps with the presidential campaign.
It’s an uphill battle to flip this one, though Politico does list as a real target this year. I found some other interesting targets in that article too and they jibe with what Sam Wang is saying so I’ll be doing fundraisers for Kansas, NC, and Florida as well later. Don’t forget — 2020 is a redistricting year so the state lejs are extremely important.
Steeplejack
Typo: jibe, not gibe.
DougJ
I didn’t know that!
WaterGirl
Doug, I added Political Fundraising under Featuring in the sidebar – only John Cole gets higher billing than that! It’s the second item in the hamburger menu on mobile, also.
So when your fundraising posts get pushed down by newer threads, folks have easy access to them at any time, just by clicking the link.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: @DougJ:
My dictionary says jibe is a “variant spelling of gibe”.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Balloon Juice is obviously not a meritocracy.
WaterGirl
@Baud: hahaha!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
we’re like a fucking SuperPAC!
WaterGirl
Donated. You are right – they do have a great leader in Ben Wikler. I thought we were screwed in Wisconsin with that last-minute ruling before the vote, but he’s a great organizer and deserves a ton of credit.
He absolutely deserves to have the money he needs to make things happen.
edited: damn autocorrect!
realbtl
Thanks all of you again from NW MT.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Get a better dictionary. If you looked on line, as, say, by entering “define jibe” on the Google, you could get the “variant of gibe” thing—with no accompanying definition. But of course you would click “See definitions in: all” just below to have everything revealed.
Steeplejack
@DougJ:
Thanks for your gracious response. Not trying to show you up; just wanting to improve the clarity of your excellent post.
Mai naem mobile
@WaterGirl: Ben Wikler(guessing your keyboard autocorrected to Walker) is awesome and a good follow on Twitter. I don’t follow local politics as well as I should but one of the two – the AZ state house or state senate is one short of a 50/50 split.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I did look on-line!
WaterGirl
@Mai naem mobile: Yes on autocorrect! Fixed, thank you.
Martin
Interesting.
The interstate popular vote compact works by having EC members vote for the candidate who wins the national popular vote, regardless of who won the state popular vote. Since the compact is administered at the state level, I assume this somewhat green-lights the idea that a state’s participation in the compact would allow them to punish members that refuse to do that.
Martin
Trump failing to read the room again.
The noose wasn’t found by anyone on Bubba’s team – it was found by a NASCAR employee. The whole thing was NASCARS decision, Bubba hardly said anything about it. NASCAR fans know this. Trump does not.
Adam Lang
WisDems are smart and organized.
They also pay their lower-level employees DRAMATICALLY below minimum wage for really hard work. As I know since I worked for them during the 2018 cycle. It’s hard for me to support that.
catclub
I think it was pretty clear the SC did NOT rule on that issue.
of course, they can punish an unfaithful elector, but it seems to me that does not actually change the vote of the unfaithful elector at the capitol.
Mousebumples
Planning to donate after work tonight, but debating a larger lump sum now versus a smaller monthly donation. From the insiders in the group, would one be preferred? I’d think more now is preferable, but I can follow directions. I’ll check back in a few hours. Thanks! (and thanks for the thread, Doug!)
WaterGirl
@Adam Lang: That has been the way of campaigns since forever. If you want to change that, get Dems in all 3 branches of government. Then the possibilities are wide open.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: If it’s $50 vs. $5 monthly, I’d say donate the $50 now. If you’re talking about a more significant amount of money, then knowing they will have that amount coming in every month would allow for planning.
I await someone more knowledgable than I am to weigh in and tell me that I’m wrong.
Mousebumples
@WaterGirl: That’s kinda what I thought. And I was thinking of probably $100 now versus $20/$25 per month. So about the same commitment total (now), so I’d think it would be better to get it now versus later… But i welcome a correction if I’m wrong. Thanks!
AM in NC
Thank you so much for supporting the state legislature races! It is going to take a bunch of cycles to undo the GOP hold on states they rigged, but each cycle we claw back a few more. We are working so hard here in NC to effect change at the state level, and I know it’s the same in many other states.
DougJ
@AM in NC:
l will do NC soon
JoJo
One thing to add about Wisconsin in what is most likely a dead thread-Republicans are very close to having a veto-proof majority in the legislature. Right now, the way things stand, Tony Evers can veto a shitty Republican redistricting plan, and eventually the whole thing would go to a Federal judge. In the past that has given Wisconsin mostly competitive districts, which would help immeasurably. However, if Republicans can get a veto-proof lege, that is all out the window. So Republicans and associated miscreants will be pouring money into state races here (my district is a particular target because our very good Assemblywoman Robyn Vining won buy about 500 votes-Republicans think they can turn it back). So, even if you think that turning WI blue is impossible, there is still something to fight for just on the subject of a veto-proof Republican majority.