Massachusetts Democrats are huge donors to Senate campaigns elsewhere

Sara Gideon, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a “Supper with Sara” campaign event on Oct. 1, 2020, in Dayton, ME. Ms. Gideon has collected more than $4.8 million from Massachusetts donors for her election campaign.  A Robert F. Bukaty/AP image.

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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Massachusetts Democrats are huge donors to Senate campaigns elsewhere.

While Quincy Quarry is generally OK with individuals making duly reported campaign donations within the rules, it has proble3ms with both huge donations of often anonymous soft money as well as contributions to candidates outside to well-outside of the donor’s district or state; that and with pay for play even if it is tacitly legal in Massachusetts.

To this point, it is thus only appropriate to note that recent campaign finance reports show that Massachusetts donors to Democratic US Senate candidates in other states totals up to north of $12 million to just three out of state candidates and over $34 million in total.

Also note that the actual totals are probably even greater as campaign donations of $200 or less to federal office candidates need not note the residence of these admittedly short money donors.

Even so, as those giveth, Karma taketh. 

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While the $4.8 million donated to Sara Gideon, the Democratic challenger of four-term incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, may help see Collins voted out of office, the $3.5 million and $3.8 million donated to the challengers,respectively, of major GOP targets of the Democrats Party, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are looking to be donations poured down a rat hole.

In short, one could thus argue that the late Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas “Tip” O’Neill (Democrat, Massachusetts) was further on to something when he said that “(a)ll politics is local”

Source: Massachusetts Democrats Are Huge Donors To Senate Campaigns Elsewhere

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