WTF where are the words, “And we congratulate you on your hard fought win.” Any sort of congratulations. Nor any sort of “Welcome to the fight.” No welcoming message. This is the deadest energy imaginable.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3h agoSchumer/Gillibrand on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social's nomination: "Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate. We look forward to working with Abdul and Democrats across Michigan to win this seat in November."
![The highlighted passage is what Rivera claims was left out of the DNC’s report.
The DNC bears some responsibility for this ecosystem. During the 2019 nominating process, candidates seeking the presidential nomination had to meet grassroots donor thresholds as well as other benchmarks identified by the DNC to make the debate stage. This led many candidates to make significant investments in online fundraising and other tactics to capture grassroots donors. The intense pressure to make the debates left campaigns with few options.
[By Charter, the DNC has the authority and responsibility to publish a code of fair campaign practices “including but not limited to providing information to campaigns; agreements between the Democratic National Committee and campaigns; fundraising; and common
vendors.”46 The DNC Chair is required to put this code in place before each Presidential cycle.]
The DNC can and should adopt a fundraising code of conduct to ensure grassroots fundraising remains ethically aligned and is more effective going into the future.
As Bonica writes, the costs and risks for Democrats are compounding:
Every dollar spent on fundraising consultants, list rentals, and SMS spammers is a dollar
not spent on voter contact, organizing, or actual political communication. Campaigns
that should be building movements are instead building donor databases. Political
energy that could mobilize communities gets redirected into optimizing email subject
lines and testing which desperate plea extracts the most dollars from exhausted
supporters.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:25cztqjrqfedqg22bpoqjljr/bafkreig3b2j6gmn7vkztfkqvyenpxm3janraab7qavczq6ey36qhyl4zuu)
