On the highest floor of the tallest building in Boston, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was busy collecting big checks from some of the city’s politically connected insiders. It was April 2018 and Warren, up for reelection, was at a breakfast fundraiser hosted for her by John M. Connors Jr., one of the old-guard power brokers of Massachusetts.
As Warren has risen in the polls on her populist and anti-corruption message, some donors and, privately, opponents are chafing at her campaign’s purity claims of being “100% grassroots funded.” Several donors now hosting events for her rivals organized fundraisers for her last year. But when Rendell co-hosted Biden’s first fundraiser this spring, Warren’s campaign sent brickbats, deriding the affair as “a swanky private fundraiser for wealthy donors,” the likes of which she now shuns.
Warren’s surplus Senate cash has undergirded two important elements of her 2020 run. She was able to invest early in a massive political organization — spending 87 cents of every dollar she raised in early 2019 — without fear of bankrupting her bid, and she had that financial backstop to lessen the risk of forgoing traditional fundraisers.
“When we made the decision to run the campaign this way, the players in the usual money-for-influence game dismissed it as naive and said it would never work and it would kill the campaign,” Orthman said. “We’re pleased that our grassroots strategy has been so effective that they’re now threatened enough to be attacking us for it.”
There is no way to say exactly how much of the $10.4 million Warren transferred from 2018 was attributable to large donations. Her campaign said she had 380,000 donors to her reelection who gave an average of $30 — a strong grassroots following. Records show about $6 million of her Senate funds also came from donors who gave $1,000 or more.
In Florida, she was hosted for an event by billionaires Henry and Marsha Laufer. In New York, Meyer S. Frucher, the vice chairman of Nasdaq, held a reception for her. She was hosted by “Lost” creator Damon Lindelof and his wife, Heidi, in Southern California. Philanthropist Stephen M. Silberstein had Warren over to his San Francisco-area home. And as late as the fall of 2018, she visited Silicon Valley, where Karla Jurvetson, a multimillion-dollar Democratic contributor, hosted an event for her.
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Ah a poorly argued Warren hit piece. Do better NP
acoyne That's not hypocrisy, that's changing your mind. If she'd sworn off big donors AND still taken their money, that would be hypocrisy. Words, ya know. They're tricky.
Aw if shes not broken laws before
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