Panic Among End Citizens United PAC: Donations Are "Cratering"

This is good news. Democrats are ramping up the money machine to flip a Congressional seat in Pennsylvania.

The polling is getting closer, but there is nothing yet to ensure that Democrats are going to snag this seat. The bigger issue will come later this year when judges redraw the Congressional districts.

But that's another matter for another day.

Right now, EndCitizensUnited.org is raising big money to help out Connor Lamb, the Democrat, but they are running out of money, and the Republicans are going big, big, big to hold the seat!

Check out the latest eblast:

End Citizens United is a Political Action Committee dedicated to electing Democrats, transforming our broken campaign finance system, and ultimately ending Citizens United. If you really want to receive only our most urgent emails,click here.If you'd like tounsubscribe, click here.

When we announced our MAJOR ad campaign to help Conor Lamb win the Special Election,

we thought everyone would donate to fund our ads!

But with HOURS left until our deadline, donations are CRATERING:

ARTHUR SCHAPER: YOU HAVE NOT DONATED

We PROMISED our ads would go live THIS WEEK!

But if we can’t hit our goaltonight, we’ll have to CANCEL our ad campaign.

Don’t let Trump steal this election. Don’t stand idly by! Send in a 4X-MATCHED online donation to fund our Special Election Ads:

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Arthur, Trump and his team of Big Money cronies aredesperateto stop Conor Lamb from winning the U.S. House Special Election.

They know it’s the next step to fueling our DEMOCRATIC WAVE.

And once we take back the House for Democrats, Trump’s Big Money agenda will be utterly RUINED.We could END Citizens United!!

Please take this race seriously! All eyes are on us -- so Republicans are watching every single move we make over the next few weeks.

DONATE TO HELP ELECT CONOR LAMB AND END CITIZENS UNITED:

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Together,

-EndCitizensUnited.org

Silly Shelly Whitehouse, Still Beating "Overturn Citizens United" Drum

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) has resurrected the old argument over Citizens United. The Supreme Court decision opened up the power of independent PACs to spend unlimited amounts on candidates and causes, but they could not collude with candidates to do so.

Now he's hoping that this issue will bring in donations to help him in his re-election bid, although it would seem to me that because of his corrupt stance on illegal immigration as well as fanatical push for climate alarmism, he is facing more challenges than he realized.

Check out this eblast, and tell me if you think he is as delusional as I think he is:

Friends:

Eight years ago this month, the Supreme Court made a monumental decision to allow special-interest groups to spend unlimited money in political elections.

Ever since, we've watched dark-money groups throw obscene amounts of cash into election after election, with most of them backing hardline conservatives. Before the ruling, "outside" groups spent $143 million on the 2008 elections – but in 2016, they spent a whopping $1.4 billion. The current sorry state of our politics and the advance of partisan extremism owes a lot to this terrible ruling.

Enough is enough. If we let dark money decide elections, America could fall into the hands of big anonymous donors. Friends, grassroots support is the key to fighting back against the influx of dark money: Give $5 or more now to help me win reelection and keep up this fight for accountability in our politics.

A single court ruling opened the floodgates to anonymous, untraceable spending. That's why we've got to make it harder for Trump to nominate special-interest nominees to the Supreme Court. He's already begun stacking it with right-wing justices and could nominate more in the years to come.

If we want any chance of overturning Citizens United, we can't let Trump pack our highest court, so strengthening our Democratic firewall in the Senate is essential. But I need your help to win reelection and strengthen the Democratic firewall:

Will you give $5 or more to help me win reelection and continue fighting against the flood of dark money and keeping a check on Donald Trump's extreme nominees?

Thank you,

Sheldon

National Journal Asks Reid: Koch Greater Threat than Putin?

With all the talk about Koch Addiction as an attempted foil to Republican chances (gaining) to take back the US Senate, National  Journal has reported that the Democratic Party is obsessed with the Koch Brothers, using two interesting charts which combine the total amount of time they spending talking about the two Kansas-based oil magnates.

The National Journal, for all its liberal proclivities, cannot help but remark:

It's all part of Reid and the Democrats' calculated efforts to summon a suitable villain in 2014. Reid believes that the Kochs, the financiers at the center of a nationwide GOP network that is spending millions of dollars on campaign ads against Democrats, are the perfect foil.

But then:

The volume of the Democrats' Koch brothers messaging is cranked so high that its rise rivals congressional mentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, even amid the incursion into Crimea and the international standoff over Ukraine. In fact, so far in April, Sunlight's data show that "Koch brothers" has been said more than "Vladimir Putin."

So, Harry Reid thinks that the Koch Brothers are a greater threat to freedom and Democracy than Vladmir Putin, who just invaded Crimea and is poised to take over eastern portions of Ukraine next? Not just  a GOP shellacking in 2014, but Nevada residents might want to recall their senior US Senator, who is more interested in empty smears than dedicated constituent representation.

How can anyone be so blinded by partisan ambition that they view oil magnates in Kansas as a growing threat compared to Russian "president" (in fact dictator) who silences dissent in his own country while steam-rolling over the sovereignty of neighboring countries.