Target: Ronna Romney McDaniel, Chair of Republican National Committee
Goal: Ensure that campaign donations are being used for their intended cause.
The battles in the Georgia Senate runoff race are apparently not just taking place at the ballot box. The campaign of one of the candidates, Republican Herschel Walker, has accused several high-profile political action committees (PACs)—and fellow Republican politicians—of essentially redirecting money intended for the candidate to their own interests. So, once again, everyday Americans may have been hoodwinked out of their well-intended donations.
Fundraising letters and emails ramped up in the aftermath of the election because of the potentially pivotal role the race’s outcome could have played in the balance of power in the Senate. These outreach tools implored individuals—many of them average donors—to contribute any amount of money they could to help Walker win. The small print (often on another page), however, told a different story. A committee associated with Donald Trump, for example, apparently failed to explicitly let donors know that only ten percent of their donations would be used toward Walker’s campaign. The rest of the money would reportedly be pocketed by Trump himself. PACs associated with prominent North Carolina politicians allegedly served up the same meager allocation and the same lack of transparency.
Only after these reported discrepancies were made public and addressed by Walker did the PACs even attempt to change course. But these developments beg the question: how many more such alleged schemes are misappropriating the hard-earned money of Americans? Sign the petition below to demand leadership clean up its deceptive act.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Chair McDaniel,
A dime: this pitiful sum is how much money prominent Republicans were apparently willing to put into Senatorial ambitions in Georgia. Republican candidate Herschel Walker and his campaign allege that just ten cents of every dollar from donors around the country reached him and bolstered his efforts. The rest, seemingly unbeknownst to the individuals who entrusted their money and their political goodwill, apparently further fattened the wallets of other politicians.
If the Republican National Committee continues to condone these practices, you risk not only losing pivotal elections but, more importantly, losing the trust of your increasingly disillusioned base. Take a small step in the campaign finance reform that all voters agree is desperately needed. End the deceptive fundraising tactics now.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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