Mary Peltola wants access to your bank account

July 5, 2023

Mary Peltola is soliciting campaign donations with an unusual pitch — asking for direct access to your bank account. Peltola’s creepy scheme would track and analyze every financial transaction to calculate how much she will deduct from the account.

“Whether it’s pushing tax hikes, inflation or this risky scheme, Mary Peltola can’t keep her hands off Alaskans’ bank accounts.” – NRCC Spokesperson Ben Petersen

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Peltola and AK Democrats have new fundraising scheme that will track your purchases, round up to them
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Suzanne Downing

Rep. Mary Peltola has partnered with a company that will track her supporters’ purchases, and round-up to the next dollar, an amount that will be donated to her reelection campaign.

By using Good Change, Peltola allows her supporters to have all their commercial transactions captured in what is promised by the company to be a secure system.

That means purchases made with credit cards for flights, books, food, booze, dating, toys, and porn will be sieved through the company’s database, which will automatically round up the purchase amount, and put it into a digital wallet for Peltola.

The Alaska Democratic Party has also partnered with Good Change to raise party funds.

The company describes the process this way:

1. Your donors will open a GoodChange account, then connect a credit card or bank account with GoodChange.
2. Each time they make a purchase, we will round up their spare change to the nearest dollar.
3. At the end of the round up cycle, GoodChange will transfer your donors’ total spare change into your GoodChange account.

There is a fee for the service, so not every penny will go to candidates. There’s a 10% fee captured by Good Change, plus a $3 charge for every new donor. If you return an item and get a refund, you won’t get the round-up portion back.

This is new territory for campaign fundraising.

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