That’s great, but they need tons of $$. Demonrats in safe seats need little $$, that’s why the ones in marginal seats will each have millions (not counting in-kind media/cultural help, subversive “aid” and whatever other illegalities). The GOP will have to match and exceed that amount in each race. Sadly, you can almost always determine who will win a federal race based on who has the most $$.
Absolutely stunning - older book but certainly eye opening. I don’t know how it escaped publicity when it came out but it will cause you to question every stinking thing any politician ever does. We all question how so many become so wealthy once they make it to Congress. No need to question any longer. Bribing leaders (campaign cash) to get their bills to the floor, even getting to speak on the floor, raising set amounts of money for committee assignments, funnel money from one congressional member to another all perfectly legal EVEN ON CAPITOL GROUNDS - the list is endless. I’ll finish this one before I start in on his new one “Profiles in Corruption.” I will have to have resuscitation before I can get to that...
Absolutely mind boggling what goes on off the House and Senate floors..They run to line their pockets and continue to do so after getting the job.
BTW - when is someone going to do something about the Senators who are on the campaign trail and collecting their taxpayer salary while AWOL? I have hounded everyone for years about this sticking point only to be told that the rule that exists at least in the House has never been enforced in XXXX years of years so why bring it up? I thought that was a novel way to go through life! Good grief!
Extortion by Peter Schweizer
“”Inside this best-selling bombshell of a book, Schweizer reveals the exorbitant secret “fees” each political party charges politicians for top committee assignments; how fourteen members of Congress bagged hundreds of thousands of dollars using a little-known self-loan loophole; how politicians use PACs to bankroll lavish lifestyles; and much more. Washington’s extortion racket has gone unreported — until now.””
I heard the NRCC out-raised the rats in January. March is their big fundraising month. And Trump has raised plenty of money that can be funnelled. He’s very focused on House races now.
In any case, our path is very simple, if Trump wins he’s carrying the districts we need to take back at least a narrow majority. There is no earthly reason anyone needs to be splitting tickets and I think we’ll have a record low split of House districts carried by the other party this year. Nationalize the election. Best with Bernie as the nominee, weak in the suburbs. 2018 bore this out, rats took every Hillary seat save 3 (Fitzpatrick, Hurd, Katko, all narrowly Hiillary). Unfortunately they took several of our better seats because of the typical midterm turnout advantage. Most of those should be no problem to get back.
That said we have some weak looking candidates in several key seats.
The President needs to loudly advocate his supporters to vote GOP down the line, I’m more worried about under-voting from lazy idiots than ticket splitting.