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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html

Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.

Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.

Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.

Didn’t the DNC raise a billion dollars for Kamala? Why is this happening?[/quote]

Over 15 billion "donated" dollars have been spent on presidential elections since 2016 with the amount raised and spent in 2020 and 2024 being over 100% more than in any previous election cycle. This investment into presidential campaigns gave the donating entities a return of Trump-Biden-Trump. 15 billion dollars spent to give us the worst leadership in American history.

Our political landscape has been poisoned by money and we're seeing the effects of this in Federal Government functionality. This is much, much more than just a DNC problem. The GOP was first to push the concept of loosening campaign finance regulations so that large donating entities could more easily pay to play and now 99% of Federal level politicians are puppets of their mega-donors.

Campaign finance in Federal level politics is a hot mess of the ultra wealthy buying political influence. Reducing the influence of money in politics won't be an easy fix. The first step is the American people understanding and acknowledging this as problem number one in politics and government.

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Well said.
We need to focus our energies on two key solutions:

1) ranked choice voting
2) mandatory publicly financed campaigns

Anything less will simply maintain the status quo. [/quote]

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