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Do You Donate?
It has been a while since I really thought about this, but since I am home with nothing better to do at the moment, I started thinking. How many of us donate to our political choices? When I get really fired up about a candidate, I have been known to donate. Recently, though, I can’t say that I have felt any compelling reason to donate.
I came across this site: WinRed.
Just for fun, I thought I would look across my own state and see how many BIPOC (that’s newspeak for non-white people) were running as Republicans who could have donations contributed via this website. I found quite a few, more than I thought I would, if I’m being honest. More than that, many of them are women. Women veterans.
Well, howdy!
Have you looked at ways to help your party of choice in elections, either through direct donations or by this website? If so, do you like to help people in other races or just your own locality?
I’m actually kind of excited at the idea of having more diverse people up front in the GOP’s view, particularly since many of them are women and veterans.
On the downside, I’m loath to donate via the general Committee because I feel like they regularly misuse my money and then harass me for more in two years.
What do you think? Direct donations? Huge websites? Donating to individuals in your area or doing some strategic donating on a national level? As for me, I just give money to people I like, regardless of where they are.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate you doing the research. A $74,000 fine, wow, that’s one heck of a consequence!
Yeah. I suppose what was worse was that he lost his marriage. And his engagement with the lady. Who knows who he is with now.
Either of which would be devastating. But he’s probably never done anything but work for the government, and has no idea how to proceed.
Direct donations ever since jumping Jim Jeffords.
the best line on Mark Sanford- when he was missing (ran off with his mistress) his aides said “he was hiking on the Appalachian trail”. Some wag later said they were misquoted what they meant to say was “he was on some Argentinian tail”.
I quit donating to groups some time ago. There have been exceptions: somebody was helping support a group of Republican Washington state congressmen flee to prevent getting a quorum and I sent money.
But I do donate to individual campaigns. I gave Elise Stefanik $$$ in her 2013 quest for office and she is still asking for more. Scott Walker got support in 2012 and again in the recall.
There was a Democrat Congresswoman that was just nuts (but I repeat myself) from, I think, NC and I helped her get primaried. Gary Robbins persuaded me to send money to Ilhan Omar’s opponent in the Democrat primary, so in my whole life that’s two Democrats. Ted Cruz got money, time and miles in his Presidential bid. Locally, Jon Henry got time and money in his bid to replace RINO Alexander, also my state Senator Mark Pody gets both time and money regularly. But I met Ted first, and had a conversation with his father. I ate breakfast with Jon Henry and I see and talk with Senator Pody several times a year – plus he actually reads and responds to my emails!
There have been some others but these come to mind.
in general, if I send money to someone they likely won’t win the vote.
I think you need to ramp up your donations to Democrats.
Good thought and I did sort of ask for it, but I’m only 50/50 there.
I give directly to my local candidates (and this year our candidate for congress because I now know her in person). By doing it this way I can write checks – so no personal info gets out. I even sent a check to DJT – directly by mail.
Back when I had more money than I could spend, I donated serious money to politicians. I had no ulterior motive but I enjoyed the relationships I developed and even today I feel like it was money well spent. Now I tithe in other ways.
I sure hope that Ilhan Omar is defeated. Her constituents are none to pleased by her un-Islamic affair with a married staffer, breaking up two marriages. The election is on August 11th.
Is this the same one who was involved in the Kennedy assassination?
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It’s been at least a decade since I’ve donated to the RNC, but I’ve made several modest donations to my state and county Republican parties. I’ve donated directly to several candidates, almost always just ones that I can vote for, but there have been a few libertarian-leaning Republicans outside my state who I have made a donation or two to.
I don’t agree with you often, but I’m with you.
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I donate quite a bit. One specific candidate I like is John James, running for the Senate in Michigan….attack helicopter pilot, ran a business, black guy. Also like the #walkaway campaign (ie, walking away from the Dem party)
Nonprofits include Judicial Watch, True the Vote (they fight electoral fraud), and FIRE (litigation against free-speech suppressing universities)
You put in more kindly than I would have.
Mt wife and I donate nationwide to individual candidate’s campaigns only, not to the national organizations . . .
So someone else puts your info in the database.
Well, yes – and when I asked about that he got a bit indignant.
I did buy a MAGA hat. I guess that counts.
Well, you were getting low on hats, I’m sure.
Much like guns, tacos and hot dogs, it’s very difficult to have enough hats.
I don’t donate to politicians and never will. In fact, I would love to go back to the nineteenth century where congressmen had real jobs when the congress was not in session. You would get a better quality of person in government that way. An individual with nothing but private sector experience going into government is so rare today, and I’m not giving my money to someone who’s entire life has already been subsidized at the taxpayer’s expense.
Trump has sown you don’t need to have political experience serving in office to get elected. One who’s navigated the real estate business world in NYC has to have well-honed political instincts to be successful. This is the reason a lot of the Republican elite hate Trump. He’s proven their years in office gaining experience don’t count if all you have is experience in office . . .
No, but money does help.
I should also point out that the Kickstarter to build Scott Walker a throne of skulls never took off. I’m pretty sure that’d count.
Well said. That’s why I voted for the big goof and will continue to support him.