messaging is centralized, the worst player is mothership strategies, founded by dccc digital director which had started to develop these scam-like tactics even though they have a stake in dems success. mothership was outgrowth of this party operation, privatized aggressive fundraising strategic arm
End Citizens United sounds great but was founded by mothership founders. they created their own pac to become their first customer, this got the ball rolling, more prominent pacs and candidates started to use their services. Ossoff, Jamie Harrison were early clients
Stop Republicans, Progressive Turnout Project pacs all funnel $ back to mothership, so consultants get significant portion of the $ raised. elder fraud tactics adapted for political fundraising environment. this is also inefficient in $ / reputation spent and little is going back to party.
mothership responds with extremely defensive statement: we pass on way more than you think to campaigns and it is described as 'fundraising' but is really programmatic work going back to the party but the guest is not convinced
some groups are moving away from mothership, so they seem to have very few legitimate clients anymore and everyone remaining is part of this scam pac network. dems must be hearing about this, the party could shut it down, establish standards but they have not responded at all to this reporting
77 year old caller: 'they're not going to get me' because she has a burner phone for donations and blocks reports and deletes any donation spams and what a queen!
new filters and tools for iOS will minimize disruptions. carriers have been responsible for not addressing spam and robo-calls so now google and apple are developing software solutions. actblue is working on it but without party support it is not clear how successful their reforms will be
there is a ton of pushback from digital strategists against motherboard. act blue does not sell your data, it is a nonprofit. you should talk to your representative and let them know this is a problem