Polarizing Candidates Get Cash Boost in Democratic Vote Bill Bloomberg 7 hrs ago Bill Allison
(Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill.
As part of the sweeping voting-rights bill, House candidates who opt into public financing would get a 600% match for individual contributions of as much as $200, a move intended to lessen the power of deep-pocketed backers. Small-dollar donors, however, tend to give more to candidates who draw national attention as firebrands meaning the provision could end up rewarding partisanship.
Apr 07 2021, 10:24 PM
April 07 2021, 11:30 AM
April 07 2021, 10:24 PM
(Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill.
(Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill.
As part of the sweeping voting-rights bill, House candidates who opt into public financing would get a 600% match for individual contributions of as much as $200, a move intended to lessen the power of deep-pocketed backers. Small-dollar donors, however, tend to give more to candidates who draw national attention as firebrands meaning the provision could end up rewarding partisanship.
Remember when N.J.’s Van Drew promised ‘undying’ loyalty to Trump? Last year, he often didn’t mean it.
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, center, and Rep. Chris Smith, right, listen to a businessman at a reception prior to 2020 N.J. Chamber of Commerce Congressional Dinner in Washington.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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After switching to the Republican Party, New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew famously pledged his his ‘undying support’ to then-President Donald Trump during a December 2019 meeting at the White House.
But in his first year as a Republican, Van Drew opposed Trump more often than all but three members of the GOP conference, according to Congressional Quarterly’s annual vote studies.
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Conforti v. Hanlon case has made news on the political blogs this week. The Conforti plaintiffs have asked the federal court to end the “county line” in New Jersey primaries. That means that they want to suppress the free speech and associational rights of myself, the hundreds of grass roots activists in the party that I lead, and the party itself. While it doesn’t appear that my opinion is welcomed by the Conforti plaintiffs, I am going to air it here.
2020 congressional candidate Arati Kreibich is not the lead plaintiff, but she is a good study why this suit is bad for taxpayers and voters. Ms. Kreibich’s argument appears to rest at least in part on the belief that that she lost her primary to Congressman Gottheimer because she ran “off the line”, and that if there was no line she would have won. That’s nonsense.