Thank you for this exhaustive and enlightening essay!
Personally have always been suspicious of solicitations premised on distributions to candidates. That starts with the possibility of funds being distributed to candidates I don't favor.
As an aside recently discovered a charge of $50 (which it turns out would be recurring) to a Republcation PAC in Arlington. I notified the CC vender it was fraud. They removed the donation and are investigating it. I'm watching for any further charges.
I can only afford very limited participation. I did donate to Trump's primary fund. In view of the Democrat's evilly conceived lawfare, I personally have no objection to my donation going for legal purposes. To me its a needed and just cause.
Finally, I've always made practically all donations to individual candidates. They have provided basis to be seen as legitimate candidates. I'm none the less besieged with 50+ solitatons a day, many unsavory with threats to a receipt of various proposed rebates - $2000 to $6000 - I'll miss out on if I don't pony up.
Lastly, might a required notice to every donor, to be acknowledged, with the partculars you've noted here, be demanded?
What are the ways forward to stop this grift? Your essay is surely one, but more is clearly needed.
I had no idea about the personal expenditures being allowed by a leadership PAC. No wonder these people never want to leave. We need to get DataRepublican on this. You already exposed Thune. I hope that finds a way to go viral.
I am starting to recognize a new form of AI prose in many substacks, this particular one included. It has a rhythm that makes me vocalize the texts of short sentences, which is annoying. Maybe this comes from listening to too many Youtube AI generated informational videos. Who knows but I guess this is the future. "This is more than regulatory failure. It is regulatory design. A referee who cannot blow the whistle is not a bug in the system. He is one of its features." ps: Our political system is disgusting.
Thank you for this exhaustive and enlightening essay!
Personally have always been suspicious of solicitations premised on distributions to candidates. That starts with the possibility of funds being distributed to candidates I don't favor.
As an aside recently discovered a charge of $50 (which it turns out would be recurring) to a Republcation PAC in Arlington. I notified the CC vender it was fraud. They removed the donation and are investigating it. I'm watching for any further charges.
I can only afford very limited participation. I did donate to Trump's primary fund. In view of the Democrat's evilly conceived lawfare, I personally have no objection to my donation going for legal purposes. To me its a needed and just cause.
Finally, I've always made practically all donations to individual candidates. They have provided basis to be seen as legitimate candidates. I'm none the less besieged with 50+ solitatons a day, many unsavory with threats to a receipt of various proposed rebates - $2000 to $6000 - I'll miss out on if I don't pony up.
Lastly, might a required notice to every donor, to be acknowledged, with the partculars you've noted here, be demanded?
What are the ways forward to stop this grift? Your essay is surely one, but more is clearly needed.
Oh my....so who has been forever taking the general public on a Magic Carpet Ride.
But we are tasked to please remain seated and blindfolded.
An reassured we will be landing again shortly,
you can remove the knives from your back upon debarking.
( I love the word debarking)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debark
Hooligan's and Rapscallions' the entire lot of em.
I had no idea about the personal expenditures being allowed by a leadership PAC. No wonder these people never want to leave. We need to get DataRepublican on this. You already exposed Thune. I hope that finds a way to go viral.
This is some serious investigative reporting. I wish it could be more widely made public.
What's that sound I hear?
Tis the Founding Fathers turning over in their collective graves, "We risked our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor for this?"
Better to bemoan than to be dug up and one's bones hung in effigy by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones.
I am starting to recognize a new form of AI prose in many substacks, this particular one included. It has a rhythm that makes me vocalize the texts of short sentences, which is annoying. Maybe this comes from listening to too many Youtube AI generated informational videos. Who knows but I guess this is the future. "This is more than regulatory failure. It is regulatory design. A referee who cannot blow the whistle is not a bug in the system. He is one of its features." ps: Our political system is disgusting.
Politics, the ultimate money making/laundering scheme.
Egad.