The unsuccessful effort by Mr. Lessig and Mr. McKinnon, while admirable offers another huge lesson for progressives.
Their ten million dollars would have been much better spent in Texas getting One Million of the two million UNregistered Hispanic voters there registered and getting them to the polls.
Mayday PAC burst onto the political scene in the spring of 2014 with grandiose designs to elect a pro-campaign finance reform majority to the U.S. Congress by 2016. The 2014 cycle was a test run of sorts — with the group spending more than $10 million on a slate of candidates ostensibly united only in their belief in curbing the influence of big donors, lobbyists and money in the political system.
It was money down the drain.
Senate hopefuls Rick Weiland and Greg Orman and House candidates Paul Clements, Staci Appel and Rep. Carol Shea-Porter — all lost, despite Mayday’s much-touted, high-profile investments in those races.
In the only race where Mayday PAC backed a winner — supporting Republican Rep. Walter Jones’ in North Carolina — it was hard-pressed to claim credit, since Jones’ reelection to a safe GOP seat was all-but assured without outside HELP.
Of course one question here is just how the $10 million dollars was spent to assist these candidates? On negative teevee ads? Or was something(s)
bold and outside of the box attempted? I suspect
nothing bold was attempted.
I think one takeaway here is outside of Bloggo world, people just do not care about the "dark money" issue. I've yet to hear one person comment on the nearly $4 Billion spent on this midterm, or say something like "I'm going to stop voting".
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