Russ Feingold decides to run a modern campaign, @SenRonJohnson. #TeaParty cranks up his whine-o-mati

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I am glad to see this. and look what the stupid Ron johnson camp cried!!


Russ Feingold decides to run a modern campaign, @SenRonJohnson. #TeaParty cranks up his whine-o-matic http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412133/-Russ-Feingold-decides-to-run-a-modern-campaign-Ron-Johnson-cranks-up-his-whine-o-matic … #p2 #wiunion



Fri Aug 14, 2015 at 11:32 AM PDT
Russ Feingold decides to run a modern campaign, Ron Johnson cranks up his whine-o-matic

by David Nir



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Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold


.................. Feingold has long fought against corrosive campaign cash, and 23 years ago, he promised to raise the majority of his funds from residents of his home state, something he did the very first time he sought office as well as in his three subsequent re-election bids.

But we live in a different world now, a world where Citizens United permits unlimited corporate dollars to flood any and every race. So what's a progressive to do? Unilaterally disarm? Fight with one hand behind his back? Give up every advantage while his opponent readily exploits them?

Feingold already tried that in 2010—the same year Citizens United was handed down—when he made and kept his in-state fundraising pledge for the fourth time. In return, his wealthy Republican opponent, Ron Johnson, self-funded an eye-popping $9 million, then went on to win by a 52-47 margin.

In his comeback bid this cycle, Feingold has acknowledged that it's not 1992 anymore, and he hasn't made the same pledge this time .....................

Feingold said his past pledges "preceded this insanity of allowing corporations to have unlimited contributions...that is the context in which that promise was made. It makes no sense now in light of the fact that you have dark money coming in, in unlimited amounts that isn't even disclosed. ...There is no hypocrisy or dishonesty when a certain set of facts that existed in 1992 simply do not exist anymore.".....


This, predictably, has sent Johnson's campaign into a fit of miserable whining:

"Senator Feingold built his whole career on his campaign finance promises. Now, he's breaking his promises," Johnson campaign spokesman Brian Reisinger said in a statement. [...]

"If Senator Feingold will violate his own principles on the issue most important to him, we know he will violate any principle on the issues important to Wisconsinites. He's becoming an example of exactly what's wrong in politics," said Reisinger of the Johnson campaign.

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Take it right to him, Russ. I don't think you can do on a state scale, especially in our crooked

state, as readily as what Bernie is trying to do on a national scale.

[marble falls]

2. I will be so glad when my fellow progressives in Wisconsin put Russ Feingold back into the Senate!

[Still In Wisconsin]

3. We're going to do it, too.

Then maybe we can shed a bit of the embarrassment caused by Scott Walker getting elected...thrice.