Posted on 03/03/2021 7:48:57 PM PST by Ponce de Leon County
Fundraising companies say their fees are well-earned and still leave candidates with more money than they would have if their ads had not been shared widely. But critics, including Klacik and some other 2020 candidates, say the system is deceptive, trapping first-time politicians in onerous contracts that siphon away cash their donors intended for them.
“It sounds like part of the swamp that needs to be drained,” said Bruce Dale, a Klacik donor from Michigan who was aghast to learn that a chunk of his $800 in donations may not have made it to her. “They can say it’s legal, but there are a lot of things that are legal that are wrong. This is wrong.”
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By the end of Klacik’s campaign, she would raise a staggering $8.3 million and pay nearly $3.7 million of it to Olympic Media, according to campaign finance filings and her campaign manager. Klacik, now a frequent Fox News and Newsmax commentator, lost to Mfume in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District by more than 40 percentage points.
That guy makes me queasy.
And that means all the people. She is not a hateful race-baiter like her opponent Frizzell Gerald Gray ummm, I mean phony baloney Kweisi Mfume, professional career Negro, another phony black with a phony name.
She lost by 40 points, they want corrupt race hustlers.
Kim Klacik’s defeat is proof that the citizens of Baltimore are complete losers who choose to live in rat infested squalor with high crime and corruption.
Were any Dominion (magical!) Vote Counting Computers involved here?
Mfume won the April special election by about 40 points, the same approximate margin Cummings had consistently won by.
I always felt that Klacik, talented though she might be, was running a strictly vanity campaign, but I’d thought that given the high out-of-district giving she’d at least be able to bank some serious coin. I admit I was wrong: the fundraising barracudas cleaned up for themselves.
I wish Ms Klacik much luck and good fortune. We need some young and ambitious people joining us.
However, I recall a few of her televised ads from last year.
Some of them seemed a bit overwhelming, overdone.
Almost like a fashion shot.
Most conservatives don’t know much about her. If she runs for anything again, settle down and focus on your message, if I was to advise her. We don’t need to see long camera shots of her walking down the city streets in a fancy red dress as though in some music video.
Yes. I’m sure I sound pretty stuffy, but maybe she can give it a thought. We already know she’s a pretty girl, graceful and lady like. Tell us what you want to do as an Elevator Pitch, with less bells and less whistles.
Precisely.
It is stories like this that make me question whether the candidate would be a very good steward of other people’s money.
They seem to have slandered by quoting her as being disgusted by the syphoning of campaign funds by outside promoters.
Mfume is a known quantity to Baltimore blacks, white leftists, and various “progressives”.
Klacik faced an overwhelming effort to take Cummings seat (near my old neighborhood, which now has crime like we never had before).
Baltimorons like consistency, in their racists, corrupt politicians, Marxists, and stupids. Well, they got it.
I think that Baltimore is too far gone to be saved as a viable, safe city, at least for another generation, if it survives that long.
There are great black citizens of Baltimore, esp. those I went to Junior High and High School with. They have worked hard to achieve a decent life but they are not the ones who are running and ruining the city.
The corrupt Democrat machines of the D’Alessandro’s (Pelosi’s father and brother) and the Little Willie Adam’s criminal/political machine, set the tone for the 1960’s downfall of Baltimore.
Nothing short of a complete revolt against the liberal establishment (black, white, green, pink, orange) will ever reclaim Baltimore.
Add them to Philadelphia, NY City, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, LA, SF, Chicago, Cleveland, Albuquerque, Houston/Austin, Madison Wisc, Milwaukee, Kenosha, etc). Won’t even mention the Dem run and ruined cities of the once great New England cities.
Pathetic, pitiful, disappointing, disgusting, destroyed!
In baltimore it’s really sad to see that proud city in ruins like that. Such a beautiful skyline is rotted down to the foundations with democrat institutionalized corruption. The beautiful Wilkens avenue rowhomes that once were meticulously maintained. Now strewn with litter it’s a boarded up cess pool of crime and drugs. Pot holes the size of volkswagons, pratt street rat infested sewer holes surrounding historic landmarks. All over the city from towson to hanover there’s these bright spot rich entitled neighborhoods surrounded by poverty stricken crumbling slums populated with disenfranchised vassals paying tribute to their criminal and political warlords. All expressing shock every time their commissar gets reelected.
They wont even think to revitalize any of the neighborhoods for fear of being accused of ‘gentrification’. Which means driving all the pimps and drug abusers out of the neighborhood in favor of working middle class families. There are times that i could get the impression that these politicians are in the pockets bought and paid for by the drug cartels.
It's because you do sound stuffy.
Her ads were great. Baltimore is hopelessly corrupt. She didn't lose because she accurately contrasted the up-to-date image of today's young educated black people with the multi-generational rot due to graft in Baltimore's hopeless ghettoes. She lost because of Baltimore's deeply entrenched rot and graft.
ping!
Whereas Beshear is an aberrant one-off because of Bevin, and will be replaced by African-American Republican Secretary of State Daniel Cameron in 2023, the silver lining is that a red state with an outlier and outright liar Democrat governor reminds conservatives of the one-way ticket to Loserville and the damage that Democrats can do.
Maryland, otoh, is nearly 100% assured to yield the Governor's office to the socialist Alsobrooks in 2022, giving Democrats complete control of Maryland, not unlike Kalifornia.
It speaks directly to the inherent weakness of the GOP in Virginia North...work harder.
There’s no definition of swamp hustle out there yet. Good definition of Pelosi Payoff.
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