Anonymous
10/02/2020 19:45
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:^
And many of them are meeting with Trump tonight.
Many are perhaps regretting that now...
Karma
Anonymous
10/02/2020 18:52
Subject: How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
ACLU
Anonymous
10/02/2020 16:58
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No one on this board currently seems to know. Maybe they don't care - until January, when it's too late?
I care A LOT and have been following this stuff for a long time, and post a ton of links with cases in the voter suppression and vote by mail threads. But I actually don’t know the answer. PP is right that Marc Elias handles a ton of this litigation - I may tweet at him to see if I can find out. Certainly the ACLU is a good answer - and we give to them monthly - but I don’t know if that’s the only one. If it’s the DNC that would make me donate to them - I haven’t in a while. It could be also be the Biden campaign. Would love to know the answer if someone has better info.
I’m so glad OP asked this question. Marc Elias publishes Democracy Docket, which functions as a clearinghouse for voter info and updates on all of the voter suppression cases. Here are their sponsors and partners:
https://www.democracydocket.com/about-us/otf/
And they have a donation site on ActBlue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/democracy-docket-action-fund-1
I will start a monthly donation once I’m done donating to individual candidates in a month.
I came here to mention them as well. They're doing some good work.
https://www.democracydocket.com/
Anonymous
10/02/2020 15:36
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Anonymous wrote:^
And many of them are meeting with Trump tonight.
Many are perhaps regretting that now...
Anonymous
10/02/2020 15:26
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Bump
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:41
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No one on this board currently seems to know. Maybe they don't care - until January, when it's too late?
I care A LOT and have been following this stuff for a long time, and post a ton of links with cases in the voter suppression and vote by mail threads. But I actually don’t know the answer. PP is right that Marc Elias handles a ton of this litigation - I may tweet at him to see if I can find out. Certainly the ACLU is a good answer - and we give to them monthly - but I don’t know if that’s the only one. If it’s the DNC that would make me donate to them - I haven’t in a while. It could be also be the Biden campaign. Would love to know the answer if someone has better info.
I’m so glad OP asked this question. Marc Elias publishes Democracy Docket, which functions as a clearinghouse for voter info and updates on all of the voter suppression cases. Here are their sponsors and partners:
https://www.democracydocket.com/about-us/otf/
And they have a donation site on ActBlue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/democracy-docket-action-fund-1
I will start a monthly donation once I’m done donating to individual candidates in a month.
I just donated to the Democracy Docket Action Fund. It was quick and easy.
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:38
Subject: How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
DNC, DCCC, and DSCC all have legal funds and will financing legal challenges. But if your donation is large, you might try actually writing to one of these orgs (or the ACLU) to find out if you can earmark money for legal challenges specifically.
There are also PACs focused on voter suppression challenges. Stacey Abrams PAC is probably the most well-known: https://fairfight.com/
There are also PACs focused on voter suppression challenges. Stacey Abrams PAC is probably the most well-known: https://fairfight.com/
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:32
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No one on this board currently seems to know. Maybe they don't care - until January, when it's too late?
I care A LOT and have been following this stuff for a long time, and post a ton of links with cases in the voter suppression and vote by mail threads. But I actually don’t know the answer. PP is right that Marc Elias handles a ton of this litigation - I may tweet at him to see if I can find out. Certainly the ACLU is a good answer - and we give to them monthly - but I don’t know if that’s the only one. If it’s the DNC that would make me donate to them - I haven’t in a while. It could be also be the Biden campaign. Would love to know the answer if someone has better info.
I’m so glad OP asked this question. Marc Elias publishes Democracy Docket, which functions as a clearinghouse for voter info and updates on all of the voter suppression cases. Here are their sponsors and partners:
https://www.democracydocket.com/about-us/otf/
And they have a donation site on ActBlue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/democracy-docket-action-fund-1
I will start a monthly donation once I’m done donating to individual candidates in a month.
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:31
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger’s foundation? He’s offered funds to open polling places — so it’s possible that the foundation could give you some direction.
http://schwarzenegger.usc.edu/
If you scroll through the site, you’ll see a section on polling access grants.
The ACLU has already been mentioned.
http://schwarzenegger.usc.edu/
If you scroll through the site, you’ll see a section on polling access grants.
The ACLU has already been mentioned.
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:29
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
^
And many of them are meeting with Trump tonight.
And many of them are meeting with Trump tonight.
Anonymous
10/01/2020 23:27
Subject: Re:How do we donate to help fund all the litigation over voter suppression?
Here Are the Billionaires Funding Trump’s Voter Suppression Lawsuits
Dozens of billionaires have donated to the RNC's legal fund that is being used to fight against expanded access to mail voting.
PUBLISHED ON JUL 31, 2020 4:27PM EDT
DEMOCRACY PRIMARY CATEGORY IN WHICH BLOG POST IS PUBLISHED
Donald Shaw
EDITED BY
DAVID MOORE
With millions of people out of work and struggling to keep up with their bills because of the coronavirus shutdown, the federal government has passed new tax breaks for the rich and created trillions for bailing out large corporations. The 2020 election could give voters a chance to remove the politicians who enacted these policies, but if the Trump administration and Republican Party get their way, many voters will be forced to put their health at risk by voting in-person in November, almost certainly before a vaccine or a reliable treatment for the coronavirus is available.
For the past several months, national Republican have been at war in the courts over state policies—advanced mainly by Democrats, but also by Republicans in some states—designed to make it easier for people to safely vote. In more than a dozen states, including battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Michigan, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has initiated or joined lawsuits to block states from expanding vote-by-mail systems or to oppose Democratic lawsuits in states that have resisted putting universal vote-by-mail systems in place. The lawsuits are financed by a $20 million litigation budget that the Republicans have amassed for fighting Democrats on voting issues.
Trump and Republicans have repeatedly said that mail ballots are more susceptible to electoral fraud, though nonpartisan groups like Brennan Center for Justice say there is “no evidence” that voting by mail results in significant levels of fraud. Trump has said that he believes high levels of voting hurts Republicans.
“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told Politico in June. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think—I think it puts the election at risk.”
In Pennsylvania, a key swing state, the RNC has sued to stop state officials from making remote drop boxes available for voters to submit their ballots and from counting ballots that are mailed without being sealed in internal secrecy envelopes. In Iowa, another swing state, the RNC joined a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Democratic groups that seeks to overturn a law barring election officials from using voter rolls to look up information missing on mailed ballots. In California, the RNC filed a lawsuit in partnership with other Republican groups to prevent state election officials from following an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom to mail absentee ballots to all voters, but recently conceded after the legislature passed a legislative version of the order.
In a tweet on Thursday, now pinned to his profile, Trump said, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” adding, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Election experts like Rick Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, interpret Trump’s tweet as encouraging the continued slowdown of the U.S. Postal Service and withholding of needed funding from state boards of election to prepare vote-by-mail systems.
Trump recently selected former RNC convention finance chair Louis DeJoy to the position of postmaster general. Besides helping to raise money for the RNC, DeJoy has donated $114,500 to the RNC legal fund.
The RNC legal proceedings account has raised more than $23 million so far in the 2019-20 election cycle, including transfers from a Trump joint fundraising committee and large donations from more than two dozen billionaires, according to Sludge’s review of Federal Election Commission records.
While a Biden administration is unlikely to substantially roll back upwards wealth redistribution, the billionaires backing the lawsuits would almost certainly fare better under another four years of Trump. Biden, for example, has said he would try to end Trump’s signature 2017 tax law, which has disproportionately benefited the wealthy. According to research from University of California, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, Trump’s tax bill reduced tax rates for the country’s 400 richest households below the level that any other income group pays.
Below is a table of the billionaires, per Forbes latest list, who have donated to the RNC legal proceedings account so far this election cycle, including donations from spouses of billionaires. The donations listed below comprise about 15% of the total amount that the RNC legal proceedings account has received from individuals this cycle.
Billionaire Donors to RNC Legal Fund
Billionaire donors, according to Forbes, and their spouses who have donated to the Republican National Committee's legal proceedings account since Jan. 1, 2019.
Donors Company Position Amount
Ricketts, John and Marlene TD Ameritrade Founder $321,000
Fertitta, Frank and Jill Stations Casinos CEO $213,000
Fertitta, Lorenzo and Teresa Fertitta Capital Chairman $213,000
Warren, Kelcy and Amy Energy Transfer Partners CEO $213,000
Schwarzman, Stephen Blackstone Chairman and CEO $213,000
Perlmutter, Issac and Laura Marvel Entertainment Chairman $213,000
Hendricks, Diane ABC Supply Co-founder and Chair $213,000
Marcus, Bernard and Wilma Home Depot Co-founder $213,000
Davis, James New Balance Chairman $213,000
Catsimatidis, John and Andrea Gristedes Foods, United Refining Company Owner and CEO $193,900
Paulson, John Paulson & Co. President $106,500
Ruffin, Phillip Treasure Island Hotel and Casino Owner $106,500
McMahon, Linda WWE Spouce Vince is CEO $106,500
Deason, Darwin Affiliated Computer Services (Xerox) Founder $106,500
Beal, Andrew Beal Bank Founder $106,500
Schwab, Charles Charles Schwab Corporation Founder $106,500
Dolan, James Madison Square Garden Company CEO $106,500
Rahr, Stewart Kinray (Cardinal Health) Former owner $102,400
Stephens, Warren (trust) Stephens Inc. CEO and Chairman $90,500
Liemandt, Joe Trilogy Software and ESW Capital Founder $52,400
Reyes, Jude (plus trust fund) Reyes Holdings Co-Chairman $43,000
Reyes, Christopher Reyes Holdings Co-Chairman $21,500
Fisher, Kenneth Fisher Investments Founder $2,400
Lefrak, Richard LeFrak Chairman and CEO $1,500
Table: Donald Shaw, SLUDGE Source: Federal Election Commission Get the data Created with Datawrapper
At least 17 of the 24 billionaire donors to the RNC legal fund are among the top 400 wealthiest American households as ranked by Forbes magazine, including the following: Kelcy Warren, CEO of natural gas and propane pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners, net worth $4.3 billion; Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of The Blackstone Group private equity firm, net worth $17.7 billion; and Charles Schwab, net worth $7.7 billion. Two more top donor families, those of Fertitta brothers Lorenzo and Frank III, fall just outside the top 400 richest Americans, with net worth around $1.6 billion apiece.
This is who we are up against, folks.
Dozens of billionaires have donated to the RNC's legal fund that is being used to fight against expanded access to mail voting.
PUBLISHED ON JUL 31, 2020 4:27PM EDT
DEMOCRACY PRIMARY CATEGORY IN WHICH BLOG POST IS PUBLISHED
Donald Shaw
EDITED BY
DAVID MOORE
With millions of people out of work and struggling to keep up with their bills because of the coronavirus shutdown, the federal government has passed new tax breaks for the rich and created trillions for bailing out large corporations. The 2020 election could give voters a chance to remove the politicians who enacted these policies, but if the Trump administration and Republican Party get their way, many voters will be forced to put their health at risk by voting in-person in November, almost certainly before a vaccine or a reliable treatment for the coronavirus is available.
For the past several months, national Republican have been at war in the courts over state policies—advanced mainly by Democrats, but also by Republicans in some states—designed to make it easier for people to safely vote. In more than a dozen states, including battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Michigan, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has initiated or joined lawsuits to block states from expanding vote-by-mail systems or to oppose Democratic lawsuits in states that have resisted putting universal vote-by-mail systems in place. The lawsuits are financed by a $20 million litigation budget that the Republicans have amassed for fighting Democrats on voting issues.
Trump and Republicans have repeatedly said that mail ballots are more susceptible to electoral fraud, though nonpartisan groups like Brennan Center for Justice say there is “no evidence” that voting by mail results in significant levels of fraud. Trump has said that he believes high levels of voting hurts Republicans.
“My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told Politico in June. “We have many lawsuits going all over. And if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think—I think it puts the election at risk.”
In Pennsylvania, a key swing state, the RNC has sued to stop state officials from making remote drop boxes available for voters to submit their ballots and from counting ballots that are mailed without being sealed in internal secrecy envelopes. In Iowa, another swing state, the RNC joined a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Democratic groups that seeks to overturn a law barring election officials from using voter rolls to look up information missing on mailed ballots. In California, the RNC filed a lawsuit in partnership with other Republican groups to prevent state election officials from following an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom to mail absentee ballots to all voters, but recently conceded after the legislature passed a legislative version of the order.
In a tweet on Thursday, now pinned to his profile, Trump said, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” adding, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Election experts like Rick Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, interpret Trump’s tweet as encouraging the continued slowdown of the U.S. Postal Service and withholding of needed funding from state boards of election to prepare vote-by-mail systems.
Trump recently selected former RNC convention finance chair Louis DeJoy to the position of postmaster general. Besides helping to raise money for the RNC, DeJoy has donated $114,500 to the RNC legal fund.
The RNC legal proceedings account has raised more than $23 million so far in the 2019-20 election cycle, including transfers from a Trump joint fundraising committee and large donations from more than two dozen billionaires, according to Sludge’s review of Federal Election Commission records.
While a Biden administration is unlikely to substantially roll back upwards wealth redistribution, the billionaires backing the lawsuits would almost certainly fare better under another four years of Trump. Biden, for example, has said he would try to end Trump’s signature 2017 tax law, which has disproportionately benefited the wealthy. According to research from University of California, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, Trump’s tax bill reduced tax rates for the country’s 400 richest households below the level that any other income group pays.
Below is a table of the billionaires, per Forbes latest list, who have donated to the RNC legal proceedings account so far this election cycle, including donations from spouses of billionaires. The donations listed below comprise about 15% of the total amount that the RNC legal proceedings account has received from individuals this cycle.
Billionaire Donors to RNC Legal Fund
Billionaire donors, according to Forbes, and their spouses who have donated to the Republican National Committee's legal proceedings account since Jan. 1, 2019.
Donors Company Position Amount
Ricketts, John and Marlene TD Ameritrade Founder $321,000
Fertitta, Frank and Jill Stations Casinos CEO $213,000
Fertitta, Lorenzo and Teresa Fertitta Capital Chairman $213,000
Warren, Kelcy and Amy Energy Transfer Partners CEO $213,000
Schwarzman, Stephen Blackstone Chairman and CEO $213,000
Perlmutter, Issac and Laura Marvel Entertainment Chairman $213,000
Hendricks, Diane ABC Supply Co-founder and Chair $213,000
Marcus, Bernard and Wilma Home Depot Co-founder $213,000
Davis, James New Balance Chairman $213,000
Catsimatidis, John and Andrea Gristedes Foods, United Refining Company Owner and CEO $193,900
Paulson, John Paulson & Co. President $106,500
Ruffin, Phillip Treasure Island Hotel and Casino Owner $106,500
McMahon, Linda WWE Spouce Vince is CEO $106,500
Deason, Darwin Affiliated Computer Services (Xerox) Founder $106,500
Beal, Andrew Beal Bank Founder $106,500
Schwab, Charles Charles Schwab Corporation Founder $106,500
Dolan, James Madison Square Garden Company CEO $106,500
Rahr, Stewart Kinray (Cardinal Health) Former owner $102,400
Stephens, Warren (trust) Stephens Inc. CEO and Chairman $90,500
Liemandt, Joe Trilogy Software and ESW Capital Founder $52,400
Reyes, Jude (plus trust fund) Reyes Holdings Co-Chairman $43,000
Reyes, Christopher Reyes Holdings Co-Chairman $21,500
Fisher, Kenneth Fisher Investments Founder $2,400
Lefrak, Richard LeFrak Chairman and CEO $1,500
Table: Donald Shaw, SLUDGE Source: Federal Election Commission Get the data Created with Datawrapper
At least 17 of the 24 billionaire donors to the RNC legal fund are among the top 400 wealthiest American households as ranked by Forbes magazine, including the following: Kelcy Warren, CEO of natural gas and propane pipeline giant Energy Transfer Partners, net worth $4.3 billion; Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of The Blackstone Group private equity firm, net worth $17.7 billion; and Charles Schwab, net worth $7.7 billion. Two more top donor families, those of Fertitta brothers Lorenzo and Frank III, fall just outside the top 400 richest Americans, with net worth around $1.6 billion apiece.
This is who we are up against, folks.