From Socialist Alternative On The Minneapolis Election Campaign

  

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Corporate lobbyist PACs are pouring money into the Minneapolis elections, issuing a call to action against Socialist Alternative candidate Ginger Jentzen. We need your help to beat back the PACs, and time is running out. The deadline to donate before the final campaign finance report is midnight tonight. Can you donate $5, $25, or $100 right now? Donate now Friends, With only two weeks left until election day, the attacks against the Ginger Jentzen campaign have begun. Downtown Developer PAC “Minneapolis Works!” is joining forces with the “Minnesota Jobs Coalition,” a major statewide Republican Super PAC, to try to buy this election. The Minnesota Jobs Coalition received $725,000 last year alone from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a Washington D.C. based GOP organization, in addition to many more thousands in corporate cash from organizations like Philip Morris’s parent company, the behemoth which spends millions lobbying against cigarette health warnings. And Minneapolis Works! is flooding the city - including Ward 3, where Ginger is running - with misleading mailers for establishment candidates. Ginger Jentzen's campaign is about building a new kind of politics, independent of the political establishment and corporate cash. As a city council member, Ginger will accept only an average worker’s wage, and will donate the rest of her $80,000/year salary to the Trump resistance and social justice movements. With bold ideas like taxing big developers to build affordable housing and rent control being discussed in Minneapolis for the first time in decades, Team Ginger is demonstrating that it’s possible to run a powerful campaign that, like Bernie Sanders’ campaign, is not for sale. Standing up against the billionaire class and winning gains for working people requires more than good intentions. Working people need elected representatives who will fight unambiguously for renters and working people, while building social movements. As the Executive Director of 15 Now Minnesota, Ginger built a powerful coalition of social justice organizations, unions, faith groups, neighborhood organizations and supportive small businesses, based around grassroots organizing, protests, and strikes, to win a historic transfer of wealth from big business to 71,000 low-income workers in Minneapolis. This is a victory that overwhelmingly benefits women and people of color, at a time when Trump and the Republicans are hell-bent on carrying out hateful right-wing policies. In these final two weeks, we can expect waves of attack mailers against Ginger's campaign, potentially radio and TV ads, and more, all designed to mislead voters. We can’t match Super PACs dollar for dollar, but we have a much more powerful weapon - the power of working people. There are nearly 30,000 registered voters in Ward 3. The Ginger Jentzen campaign needs to raise $2,500 by midnight tonight - the deadline for their final campaign finance report - to print enough new literature and mobilize their hundreds of volunteers to reach voters with their calls to make Minneapolis affordable to all. That’s a lot, but if 100 people chip in our median donation of $25, we can do it. Please donate now - time is running out! Contribute Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list