November 12, 2009
No cash for you!
Well, we can’t stop them from stealing our money through taxation, but we can stop sending it to them willingly:
In a sign of deep discontent with the Washington political establishment, restive activists in both parties are taking out their frustrations on the Democratic and Republican campaign committees and hitting party leaders where it hurts — in the pocketbook.
Recognizing the key role campaign cash plays in lubricating the Beltway machine, conservative and liberal activists alike are organizing efforts to withhold cash from the party committees in the hopes of forcing top party leaders and members of Congress to pay heed to their demands.
For months, most of the action was on the Republican side, where conservative activists targeted the National Republican Senatorial Committee for its recruitment of moderate candidates and the National Republican Congressional Committee for its role in supporting a liberal GOP nominee in an upstate New York special election.
But now Democratic officials are also feeling the lash, with the Democratic National Committee coming under fire for allegedly not working hard enough on a recent Maine ballot initiative to repeal same-sex marriage and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee taking flak for supporting incumbents who voted against the health care bill.
In each case, activists have dispensed with the pleasantries and gone straight to the committees’ wallets—a move guaranteed to raise alarms at party headquarters.
People shouldn’t send their money to organizations that don’t represent them, and I don’t know about the Democrats, but I know most conservatives don’t feel the Republican Party represents them. A common theme on this blog has been that we need to take back power from our elected officials, but we also need to take back the power from these unelected organizations. Witholding money is the best way to go. It’s the universal language; everybody speaks cash.
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