Warren shuts down donor dinners, insider access [View all]

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In an email to supporters this morning, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is setting a new standard for her campaign by promising not to attend high dollar fundraisers, dinners or cocktail receptions with donors and ensuring that everyone has “equal access.”

The Democratic primary is the time when we get to make choices—and make a difference. Democrats deserve a chance to choose a nominee whose time is not for sale to people who can write big checks.

So I’ve made a decision: My presidential primary campaign will be run on the principle of equal access for anybody who joins it.

It means that wealthy donors won’t be able to purchase better seats or one-on-one time with me at our events. And it means I won’t be doing ‘call time,’ which is when candidates take hours to call wealthy donors to ask for their support. As a candidate for president, the expectation is you make hours of these calls a week and attend dozens of these exclusive events every quarter.

Doing things this way will give me hundreds and hundreds of hours of time back to spend with more voters, grassroots donors and volunteers.

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Liz added - No doubt I will be outraised by other campaigns.

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