Citing Dark Money Tricia Duncan drops out, encourages supporters to back Frumin
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Anonymous
| So besides living in the ward, what are his connections? |
Anonymous
None. I just received a text from one of his volunteers who is actaully affiliated with DFER. Sad. |
Anonymous
Goulet? Well, his campaign chair is one of the lobbyists the Lab School hired to help get their lease extension. I guess that's a Ward 3 connection. |
Anonymous
Are you sure that's a volunteer and not being paid by DFER? |
Anonymous
Lol, no |
Anonymous
They claimed to be a volunteer but when I googled the name, the DFER connection was the first hit. |
Anonymous
Really? That’s coordination with an independent expenditure campaign, much more than “I saw a poll”! |
Anonymous
We had a paid canvasser come by, ask a bunch of questions. I’d like to know what is going to happen to all this data on us. If the sources of money are Walmart and Murdoch, they own demographic data on the neighborhood now? What will they do with it after the election? |
Anonymous
The sad reality? They already had that demographic information. They didn't gain anything new here. |
Anonymous
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This money that is pouring into this Ward 3 race from independent expenditures is quite something. DFER has an ad right now appearing on my page for Eric Goulet just below an ad for Medstar. Do you have any idea how much it costs to run these pop up ads? My friend even saw one for Eric on espn.com.
The financial disclosure statement shows that DFER paid their digital media company $375,000 in the last 90 days. They paid their direct mail vendor $398,000. Compare this to Matt Frumin's budget of about $169,000 for his whole campaign! And he out-fundraised everyone! These charter school advocates are literally trying to buy this council seat. None of their ads mention school choice. My guess is because Ward 3 families like neighborhood schools and predictable feeder patterns. I'm beginning to wonder if our schools are kept overcrowded so we fill some charter school seats with our students. Maybe this is so given that Goulet is proposing to not open the new high school which is the number one way to address overcrowding at Jackson Reed/Wilson. His idea is to explore buying the Intelsat building or doing something with Duke Ellington. Pipe dreams and more than twice the cost. |
Anonymous
| To put those DFER numbers in perspective, candidates who participate in DC Fair Elections are limited to $50 per donor and agree to cap their spending at $250,000 for the entire campaign. That amount of dark money makes a mockery of public campaign finance. |
Anonymous
| Frumin seems nice enough, but he also seems weak, adapting his message (some might say pandering) to what he thinks a particular group of voters wants to hear. His ANC service was meh, and he keeps using the same one or two volunteer stints to spin a tapestry of deep knowledge and experience. Not yet sold on Goulet, but he’s got more depth than Frumin. Thomas deserves a second look. |
Anonymous
To put the numbers in perspective, they were not only expenditures on one candidate. |
Anonymous
DFER has dropped over a million dollars in the past eight weeks on three candidates -- Muriel Bowser, Phil Mendelson and Eric Goulet. They are only one of several dark money groups spending big in this election, albeit the largest. They are spending the money on direct mail, digital advertising and consultants. A conservative estimate of the amount spent on Goulet's behalf is $400k. |
Anonymous
| All Dems, no? What does DFER want? Are your interests aligned? |