General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBig-Money Donors Demand Larger Say in Party Strategy
The Republican donors who have financed the partys vast outside-spending machine are turning against the consultants and political strategists they once lavished with hundreds of millions of dollars.
In recent months, they have begun holding back checks from Republican super PACs like American Crossroads, unsatisfied with the groups explanations for their failure to unseat President Obama or win back the Senate. Others, less willing than in the past to defer to the party elders and former congressional staff members who control the biggest groups, are demanding a bigger voice in creating strategy in exchange for their continued support.
Donors like Paul Singer, the billionaire Republican investor, have expanded their in-house political shops, building teams of loyal advisers and researchers to guide and coordinate their giving. And some of the biggest contributors to Republican outside groups in 2012 are now gravitating toward the more donor-centric political and philanthropic network overseen by Charles and David Koch, who have wooed them in part by promising more accountability over how money is spent.
People are really drawn to the Koch model, said Anthony Scaramucci, a New York hedge fund investor and Republican fund-raiser, who attended the Kochs annual donor conference near Palm Springs, Calif., in January. Its adaptive, data-driven, and they are the most propitious capital allocators in political activism.
more
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/politics/big-money-donors-demand-larger-say-in-party-strategy.html
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
jsr
(7,712 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)with both parties for decades now-slowly getting worse for voters as time marched on-it was happening right under our noses and-at least in my experience--I noticed-but ignored it out of blind trust in Dems-All of 'em - I excused it and rationalized that "they'd" Never do anything but "be" with their base..and Now? They're (neither side) just not "feeling the urge" to keep hiding it from us anymore.
They must believe the "rigging of the game" is now strong enuf to overcome any of Our objections/criticisms.
It's so remarkably evident these days because when all the "opinionators, pundits and other political slurry" discuss politics?
We, the People are rarely ever included in the conversation...
screw 'em
loudsue
(14,087 posts)It's the republican way.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)Not just in the primaries, but in the actual elections too.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)They seem to get the worst PR people on the planet. The only thing republicans have to do is read the script, but the script never changes, and the actors always end up playing the bad guy.