Money can't buy you love....
Nov. 18th, 2012 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaIt just hit me. Every last candidate I donated to and every last electoral campaign I donated time or money to save one, won at the polls this year.
No, I'm no well-heeled donor the likes of which Karl Rove & his ilk now explain themselves to. I did not contribute to any 501c4's this year. I'm a guy who sent $10 here, and $50 there, to help give candidates and causes a little boost directly. Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, & Claire McCaskill all got a few bucks from me for their senate runs. Drs. Ami Bera & Raul Ruìz each running against conservatives House members from here in California (Lundgren & Bono Mack) each got some cash directly to their campaigns. I made donations to grass roots groups in Maine, Maryland & Washington who were working for marriage equality.
Only the petitions I circulated for California prop 34 against our death penalty bore no fruit.
All in all, I think it was money and time well spent.
No, I'm no well-heeled donor the likes of which Karl Rove & his ilk now explain themselves to. I did not contribute to any 501c4's this year. I'm a guy who sent $10 here, and $50 there, to help give candidates and causes a little boost directly. Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, & Claire McCaskill all got a few bucks from me for their senate runs. Drs. Ami Bera & Raul Ruìz each running against conservatives House members from here in California (Lundgren & Bono Mack) each got some cash directly to their campaigns. I made donations to grass roots groups in Maine, Maryland & Washington who were working for marriage equality.
Only the petitions I circulated for California prop 34 against our death penalty bore no fruit.
All in all, I think it was money and time well spent.
