Slotkin taking bundled campaign contributions

Wanted to flag yesterday’s New York Times article on New York mega-donors bundling campaign contributions to pour into Democratic House races in other states.

One of the mega-donor darlings happens to be Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin. Though she has pledged she won’t take corporate PAC money, she clearly has no issue with taking massive amounts of money from ultra-rich NYC donors.

Slotkin likes to tout Michigan’s 8th Congressional District as her home. Here’s the reality: Slotkin has never voted in the district, owns no property there, claimed the homestead exemption in Washington DC until recently, and received minimal donations from the district last quarter. 

From the New York Times:

“Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $10 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans.”

“One donor, who was approached about joining but declined and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the effort, said the group was raising the political profiles in Washington of its leaders by bundling donations from others.

“This is taking the Wall Street theory of ‘other people’s money’ and applying it to politics,” the donor said. “They want to be the ones to deliver the check, to be the players.”

“The group continues to solicit new partners to grow those sums even more, but has consciously tried to keep a low profile, aware that the idea of New York donors pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into races in Arizona, Nebraska and Michigan may not play well locally.”