Stand with Kshama Sawant against Corporate PACs Socialist Alternative

Stand with Kshama Sawant against Corporate PACs

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6/27/2019 9:41 PM

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Please see below for a message from Kshama Sawant's campaign. Can you make a contribution to the campaign to stand against the corporate PACs which have already raised $1 million for ‘anybody but Kshama Sawant’? Her campaign needs to raise another $10,000 before our next important fundraising deadline this Sunday at midnight. *|FNAME|*, You may have heard us talking about the corporate PACs that have already built up a war chest of over $1 million for ‘anybody but Kshama.’ That’s because it will have a big impact on this race. During the 2017 Seattle mayoral election, the Chamber of Commerce’s corporate PAC (CASE), spent over half a million dollars — $350,000 of that from Amazon alone — to buy their mayoral pick, Jenny Durkan. When we won a historic tax on Amazon and Seattle’s biggest businesses last year to fund millions for affordable housing, corporate interests like Amazon, Starbucks and for-profit developer Vulcan quickly amassed $325,000 to bully the majority of Seattle’s City Council into repealing the tax. The corporate PAC money will only grow. PACs will send out multiple rounds of attack mail and potentially even tv ads spreading propaganda and lies about Kshama’s record of making things happen or the alleged doomsday effects of winning rent control as our movement for rent control gains momentum. Big developers will try to clamp down to prevent a victory which could reverberate nationwide, like our movement for 15 Now.   Make your contribution today to stand with Kshama Sawant and stop corporate PACs from buying another election.   The way we will win this campaign and keep a seat for working people in Seattle’s City Hall will be by building the biggest grassroots campaign Seattle has ever seen. It will be by knocking on the doors of all the nearly 100,000 voters in District 3, over and over, to defend Kshama Sawant against the corporate PAC attacks. And while our huge volunteer team drives this campaign, it costs money to print literature, blanket the district with red posters and fund an office with field organizers to coordinate our volunteer operation. We only have 4 days to raise $10,000 before our next important fundraising deadline this Sunday at midnight. We want to enter our July ‘Get out the Vote’ push on strong footing and be on track to cancel out Amazon’s $200,000 corporate PAC contribution. We’re proud to already lead the race in fundraising, with more contributors from District 3, the city of Seattle, and the state of Washington than any other campaign. And we're proud that our campaign is not for sale, funded entirely by grassroots donations from working people like yourself. The maximum contribution for an election cycle is $500 per individual.  Please dig deep and donate $15, $50, or $150 today to stand with Kshama Sawant and stop corporate PACs from buying another election. Contribute Copyright © 2019 Socialist Alternative, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from Socialist Alternative. Our mailing address is: Socialist Alternative 639 Union Street Basement Brooklyn, NY 11215 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.