Success for#MaydayPAC — now here are some good candidates for them to support
by digby
So the Mayday PAC made its goal yesterday and will have the money it set out to raise to help finance elections. Here’s their plan:
Our plan for reform has four stages:
In 2014, we will pilot the idea of a superPAC intervening in elections to support candidates who favor reform. The objective of this pilot intervention will be to both (a) convince Congress of the salience of this issue to voters, and (b) determine how best to intervene to move voters on the basis of this issue.
Based on what we learn in 2014, in 2016 we will engage in as many races we need to win a majority in Congress who have either cosponsored or committed to cosponsor fundamental reform legislation.
In 2017, we will then press to get Congress to pass, and the President to sign, legislation that fundamentally reforms of the way elections are funded.
After a Congress has been elected under this new system, we will push for whatever constitutional reform is necessary to secure the gains from this reform.
Here’s a nice list of candidates all of whom have committed to support this kind of reform — and they did it of their own volition regardless of getting any PAC money from anyone. They truly believe in this, which means they aren’t going to fold when the lobbyists and the political establishment comes calling with big checks and promises of committee assignments:
Blue America 14 House Races
Stanley Chang HI-01
Paul Clements MI-06
Alan Cohn FL-15
Alan Grayson FL-09
Tom Guild OK-05
Ted Lieu CA-33
Mike Obermueller MN-02
Pat Murphy IA-01
Gloria Bromell Tinubu SC-07
Michael Wager OH-14
Bonnie Watson Coleman NJ-12
Kelly Westlund WI-07
Rob Zerban WI-01
Blue America 14 Senate races:
Shenna Bellows Maine
Jeff Merkley Oregon
Brian Schatz Hawaii
Rick Weiland South Dakota
In many of these states a little goes a long way. Mayday PAC could make the difference.
Meanwhile, if you would like to directly support some candidates who will vote to take money out of politics as a matter of principle and conviction, click those links.
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