A longtime GOP operative helped the Green Party’s Jill Stein get on the N.H. ballot. Democrats smell mischief. - The Boston Globe
www.bostonglobe.com
The operative, Jefferson Thomas, might seem like an unlikely ally for Green Party stalwart Jill Stein.

“According to FEC filings, the Synapse Group has worked for Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination this cycle, as well as GOP candidates for Congress. Synapse has also been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for field and canvassing work by America PAC, the outside spending group started by allies of Musk that has spent millions of dollars this election cycle to boost Trump and oppose Democrats.”

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    223·
    16 days ago

    With a tip of the keyboard to a certain someone who has blocked me and won’t see this (a shame really):

    I can take a pretty educated guess as to who that is. You’re not wrong for posting this in the slightest.

    These shenanigans are the exact type of bullshit that shows the U.S. is a failed democracy, and is in need of severe election reform. That goes for the form of financial reform, switching to more representative types of voting like approval voting, measures taken to make gerrymandering impossible, etc.

    • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      233·
      16 days ago

      The irony in my discussions with that other user is that I wholeheartedly agree we need viable third parties. And to your point, we desperately need election reform. But their willful ignorance of the fact we need to put out the house fire before we start discussing changes to building codes is the kicker.

      The sad thing is that all the current third party candidates are useful idiots and not viable alternatives. And with democracy literally on the line, there’s not any real option other than acting like an adult and casting a ballot for the only option that moves us forward. And then the day after Election Day, start doing the real work to fix this for every Election Day thereafter.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        141·
        16 days ago

        It’s insane. It’s like trying to debate a wall. At this point, I’ve resigned myself to just trying to counter the wrongheaded arguments if I don’t see anyone else doing so.

        • geekwithsoul@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          92·
          16 days ago

          So many of us have - it’s sort of amazing. It doesn’t help that they often copy and paste common responses to different people, so in some cases the conversation is pretty much the same verbatim on their end.

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
            10·
            16 days ago

            As I said yesterday, I can’t believe he is not banned yet. Repeatedly claiming that he doesn’t care about the spoiler effect because he “doesn’t believe in it” and copy-pasting long (often unrelated) walls of text at people verbatim sounds to me like multiple violations of the “good faith discussion” rule.