Do you remember the time not so very long ago when, according to Democrats and liberals, big money in politics was the most evil thing about our political system? Well that was then. Starting most noticeably during the presidential campaign last Fall when Hillary Clinton outspent the Donald Trump campaign by about two-to-one, Democrats and liberals have developed newfound respect for big money in politics to the extent they now actually brag about it. The latest example is Vox hyping big campaign spending in a March 27 article by Jeff Stein whose very title positively exults that Georgia Dems normally raise $10,000 for this House seat. This April they’ll have $3 million.
ROSWELL, Georgia — On a sunny Sunday in mid-February, Carly Barber, 54, spends her morning and afternoon going door-to-door for Jon Ossoff, the leading Democrat running for the Georgia House seat vacated by former Rep. Tom Price, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary.
...More than 7,000 people have already volunteered for Ossoff’s campaign, and he has raised more than $3 million — unprecedented numbers for the congressional district.
WOO! HOO! Big bucks! Big Bucks! When you got it, flaunt it, baby!
The April 18 special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District is Democrats’ first chance to eat into Republicans’ House majority — and potentially preview the 2018 midterm elections. “Normally, a Democrat running for Price’s seat would be lucky to raise $10,000 to $20,000,” says Phil Lunney, legislative liaison for the Fulton County Democrats. “There’s been nothing like it here, at least in the 21st century.”
Yeah! Forget our McCain-Feingold lectures about the corrupting influences of big money in politics. Nowadays we not only wallow in the big money, we absolutely love it!
As Jeff Stein readily admits, the Democrats' favored candidate, Jon Ossoff, is a lightweight but no matter... He's got the big bucks!!!
Ossoff’s inexperience would make an outright victory doubly surprising.
Though a former congressional aide and campaign manager for Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who represents Atlanta, this is Ossoff’s first race. On the trail, he talks of staffing national security issues for Johnson, his degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and his master’s degree from the London School of Economics. Canvassers are also told to speak of his time as a “small business owner” as the CEO of Insight TWI, which produces documentaries, primarily about corrupt foreign autocrats. (He was also raised in the district’s north DeKalb, where his parents still live.)
Ossoff's very thin level of experience has resulted in a funny TV ad picturing him as a frat boy Han Solo.
During the campaign, the Georgia GOP has tried caricaturing Ossoff, 30, as something of a frat boy. A $1.1 million “Star Wars” themed TV ad buy from a GOP Super PAC depicts him playing beer pong and dressing as Han Solo in an attack on his “experience.”
For the amount of money the Democrats are pouring into this campaign, perhaps they can afford to convert Ossoff's image from Han Solo to Luke Skywalker. ...May the Bucks be with you!
