Presidential elections have been good for getting Democrats
out to vote, but you’d never know it if we’re to take the advice of the DPW. They just booted their only candidate running against Sean Duffy.
Something is seriously wrong here. Chalk up a big one for
Scott Walker’s perfectly timed trashing of campaign finance regulation. WPR:
The only announced Democratic candidate running for U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy's 7th Congressional District seat has dropped out of the race. Kirk Bangstad, a Minocqua-area businessman, opera singer, and cancer activist, said he is dropping out after being told by Democratic party insiders that he would need at least $1.5 million in his race against Duffy, a three-term Republican. Thus far, Bangstad has raised about $145,000.Duffy's a blithering word salad tea party freeloader who has never had an original thought.
"It's an unsustainable system that candidates for office need to raise millions of dollars, basically on their own," Bangstad said. "I didn't believe in the system and I didn't believe in what I was doing."
Bangstad blamed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC in 2008, and the influence of super PACs and wealthy special interests. "Democracy is deeply in trouble, deeply in trouble, both in Wisconsin and in the U.S.," he said.
Seriously?? Who even knew about this guy running? Perhaps if we had known, we could have sent him some money to fight dufus Duffy. I refuse to give any money to the Democratic Party just because of things like this but will donate directly to the candidate.
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