Do you know the difference between donating directly to a campaign and the millions of dollars that outside groups can dump into an election? Campaign finance laws can get confusing pretty quickly, so let me make it simple.
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When you donate directly to our campaign: -
There are strict limits on how much you can give ✅
- We have to disclose our donors and report our finances 📋
- Your money helps pay for organizers, field offices, campaign materials, TV ads, and everything else it takes to run this campaign 📺
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And when you see one of our ads, I have to put my name on it and tell you I approved it.
Outside groups play by a very different set of rules: -
They can raise and spend virtually unlimited amounts 💸
- They can spend money without revealing the donors behind it 🙈
- They can spend millions attacking a candidate without that candidate approving a thing
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Ads not made or approved by the candidate
- And Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United helped unleash a flood of outside money into our elections 😡
I believe that system is broken. Working people shouldn't have to wonder which billionaire or special interest is secretly bankrolling the political ads flooding their televisions. And billionaires shouldn't get a bigger say in our government just because they can write bigger checks.
That’s one of the reasons I’m running for Senate. Pete Ricketts is a billionaire. I’m an industrial mechanic. He has a family fortune to fall back on. I have people like you. And I wouldn't trade places with him.
If you agree that it's time to get big money and dark money out of our politics, will you pitch in $5 or whatever you can afford to help us beat billionaire Pete Ricketts and send a working-class independent to the U.S. Senate? |
