Crowdsourcing to influence senate votes

[Nice Guy Eddie 13410]

Interesting new idea to influence politicians.  In this case, there is a request to fund Susan Collins’ unknown 2020 opponent IF she votes for Kavanaugh’s confirmation.  

https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/387413/either-sen-collins-votes-no-on-kavanaugh-or-we-fund-her-future-opponent?ref_code=explore

its almost the reverse of a bribe but it’s not a bribe because Collins gets zero funds no matter how she votes.  But if she votes for Kavanaugh, her future opponent gets $1.3m.   This could easily be expanded.   And the only $ limits are on the individual limits not the overall fund. 

Btw, Collins isn’t happy about this. 

[Mojo Hand 4580]

Corporate donations to a candidate are free speech, but individual citizens donating to a candidate's opponent is a bribe."  SMH. 

[lemonlime 5503]

5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 

Btw, Collins isn’t happy about this. 

Womp womp.

[Anastasis 23393]

Pretty fucking ingenious. Avg donation around 30. Approach isn’t particularly generalizable. Requires narrow margin high interest events to work. But I like it. Creative. 

[Brisketexan 104559]

19 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Interesting new idea to influence politicians.  In this case, there is a request to fund Susan Collins’ unknown 2020 opponent IF she votes for Kavanaugh’s confirmation.  

https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/387413/either-sen-collins-votes-no-on-kavanaugh-or-we-fund-her-future-opponent?ref_code=explore

its almost the reverse of a bribe but it’s not a bribe because Collins gets zero funds no matter how she votes.  But if she votes for Kavanaugh, her future opponent gets $1.3m.   This could easily be expanded.   And the only $ limits are on the individual limits not the overall fund. 

Btw, Collins isn’t happy about this. 

I fucking love it.

Senators have long-since demonstrated that positive reinforcement only encourages their bad behavior.

Time to beat them into submission.

[jimmyjazz 45546]

I'm sure Congress will try to find a way to legislate this out of existence, even though they whore themselves out to big money every chance they get.

NO FAIR!  DO SOMETHING!

Fucking traitors.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

Susan Collins has been a huge disappointment throughout the Trump Administration.  

She shouldn’t be re-elected regardless 

[David Dennison 18652]

She's up in 2020.

Something tells me she might not run.

[Mack Tripper 696]

Collins is gonna retire

[Mack Tripper 696]

Susan Collins has been a huge disappointment throughout the Trump Administration.  
She shouldn’t be re-elected regardless 

Agreed

[burntorangebongos 10681]

So is Collins gonna go against the party line or what?

The Alaskan lady got read the riot act by the native Alaskans because of how Kavanaugh wrote about native Hawaiians. She is likely to side with the Dems. What is Collins gonna do?

 

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2659]

....and is Olympia Snowe not in the picture?

[Chuckie Finster 22598]

If you want to take money completely out of politics (ha), then I can agree that this is something to be concerned about.

 

But as long as big PACs are still throwing their money around, then average citizen crowdsourcing is not only okay, but long overdue.

 

[Brisketexan 104559]

Susan Collins has been a huge disappointment throughout the Trump Administration.  
She shouldn’t be re-elected regardless 

She's up in 2020.
Something tells me she might not run.

Collins is gonna retire

Then give the money to the Dem nominee to use against the GOP nominee to replace her.

If the GOP wants to go lockstep to fuck we the people, then we should defeat them in lockstep.

[TwiceHorn 31263]

36 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

If you want to take money completely out of politics (ha), then I can agree that this is something to be concerned about.

 

But as long as big PACs are still throwing their money around, then average citizen crowdsourcing is not only okay, but long overdue.

 

Yeah, actually, this is kind of the flip side of Citizens United.  Pretty much has to be legal and nearly untouchable.

[Celery Man 20882]

I'm for it

[Js1 85095]

9 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

Corporate donations to a candidate are free speech, but individual citizens donating to a candidate's opponent is a bribe."  SMH. 

Ding. Ding. Ding.