Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Turned To A Big Donor To Pay For The DNC Voter Database, Despite...

[DonViejo]

Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Turned To A Big Donor To Pay For The DNC Voter Database, Despite Her Fundraising Pledge

A campaign aide said Warren didn’t solicit the money herself and that there was no violation of her promise to abstain from pay-for-access fundraising.

Ruby Cramer
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on July 15, 2019, at 1:37 p.m. ET

Elizabeth Warren relied on a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database — a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit, if not the letter, of the pledge she made to abstain from “big money” fundraising.

In February, two months into her presidential campaign, Warren set herself apart from the rest of the Democratic field by swearing off the kind of pay-for-play fundraising that typically gives wealthy donors outsize access and influence: front-row seats at closed-door fundraisers, one-on-one-time with candidates, and private phone calls, known on campaigns as hours-long blocks of “call time” for soliciting big checks.

Warren officials say she did not violate that pledge when her campaign turned to one of California’s top Democratic donors, a wealthy Silicon Valley physician named Karla Jurvetson, to help pay for access to a crucial voter database earlier this spring.

The so-called national “voter file,” a pool of data about millions of people that presidential campaigns use as a foundation for their own private data as they identify and track support over time, is managed by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and costs campaigns a total of $175,000, according to the DNC’s voter file contract.

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[PatrickforO]

1. No matter how they talk, I don't think any of these candidates,

including Warren, can eschew the super pacs. With Citizens United, that is how we roll here now in the twilight of the American Republic.

If we want to reverse this, we have to win elections, not shoot ourselves in the foot at the outset.

[Faux pas]

2. So what?

If that's the worst thing she does, she's still head and shoulders about most of the rest of them.

[SouthernProgressive]

3. One of the few problems I have with Warren....

Is the financial restrictions she has placed on herself. Go and get the money!

[left-of-center2012]

4. "A Warren campaign official said that the candidate herself did not make any calls ..."

Oh well, then it's OK?