Buying the Nomination -- Bloomberg Paying $2,500 per month to text for him to your friends.

Will the Democratic Party survive?

 

Bloomberg plans to pay people $2,500 a month to text about him https://t.co/3bjvq7fDun via @TheWeek

— TomP__TomWells (@TomP__TomJWells) February 19, 2020

From the article:

His Democratic presidential campaign team is putting out a call for so-called "deputy digital organizers" who will reportedly work for 20 to 30 hours a week and receive $2,500 per month in exchange for promoting Bloomberg via text each week to everyone in their phones' contact list, while making daily social media posts in support of his campaign, The Wall Street Journal reports. They'll also likely have to do some more traditional campaign work every once in a while like phone banking.

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One thing that's unclear is if the social media posts for the digital organizers should qualify as sponsored content on platforms like Facebook, which the Journal notes, is just beginning to grapple with the intersection of political advertising and influencer marketing. 

Rick Pearlstein, who has written excellent books on the rise of the Modern Republican Party, notes that it is more than he is paid for a monthly column.  

Signs of the (end)times: the amount I just heard the Bloomberg campaign is offering people a month to post on social media about him is the same amount I proposed to a media organization to be paid for a monthly column.

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) February 19, 2020

So when you get Bloomberg text messages, see tweets, or other internet messages, beware. Many are bought and paid for. 

Bloomberg is racist, sexist, and classist. 

As Kos said, if we nominate him, we are no better than Rs.