Democrats roll out $90 million super PAC aimed at swing states

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Source: Politico



By MARC CAPUTO 05/31/2019 05:36 AM EDT

The nation’s largest super PAC devoted to grassroots Democratic turnout is launching its organizing efforts earlier than ever in seven swing states with a new campaign director and its largest budget to date: $80 million to $90 million.

For Our Future announced Friday that it’s hiring former President Barack Obama’s onetime Florida campaign chair, Ashley Walker, to coordinate its swing-state operations with the goal of identifying and turning out Democratic-leaning 2020 voters, namely people of color and so-called “sporadic voters” who don’t frequently cast ballots.

The committee, which was started in 2016 and historically has been funded by labor unions and billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, plans to build a network of 4,000 paid staff and an army of volunteers in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, states where it operated in 2018 and 2017.

“Over the cycles, we’ve gotten smarter and better at what we do,” Walker said. “For Our Future builds state-based capacity to effect change at the electoral and community level. And we run our organization with the same standards as a presidential campaign.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/democrats-super-pac-swing-states-1348502

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1. Kick and recommend. This is great!

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2. Glad to see Steyer funding something like this.

His ads are great, but action is even better.

Seems like we should have some kind of strategy to run candidates and inform voters in every area, even hopelessly-red districts. I bet a 50-state sort of thing might be very effective. . . .