Enough Promises Ohio, which was created last month, has spent a combined $1.58 million to promote Greg Levy and oppose Brown, according to recent filings from from the Federal Election Commission. Levy, a candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is also on the ballot in the tight race for Senate between Brown and Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted. He’s running a long-shot bid, currently polling at 5%, but could siphon away more progressive voters from Brown.
The super PAC spent a total of $828,359 on mailers supporting Levy or opposing Brown. Spectrum News, The Washington Post and Axios previously reported Enough Promises Ohio spent $400,000 on such mailers, but the expenditure has since grown.
The group also poured an additional $753,000 into ads supporting Levy and opposing Brown over the weekend, including one video ad on Google that knocks Brown as someone who “sold us out” and boosts “real progressive Greg Levy.”
Levy himself has distanced himself from the PAC, calling its boosting of him an “attempted deception of voters” that’s “a form of digital blackface.” Levy is Black. His spokesperson, Charlie Koenigsmark, also told POLITICO that he and the campaign “completely condemn this attempt to manipulate voters.”
They’re doing the hillary clinton pied piper strategy for communists now?
New theory of revolution:
Step 1: billionaires finance communist candidates as spoilers
Step 2: they accidentally win
I wanted Republican money to go to an ad in Maoist Standard English.
Kkkrakkker$$tani$$ support LEVY!
Squander their ill gotten gains making the socialist a household name
It’s pretty wild as someone on the ground with this campaign
dont back down, double down
This prompts a question that’s always under the surface.
Are the bourgeois really rational calculating experts who have solved the game and playing to their best advantage?
I hold that they are not, that they are not so smart, and they are influenced by their impulsive fantasies. This has a lot of implications.
The reason they come out on top is because whoever among them arrives at the right strategy for the moment can rise up within the class and correct the overall strategic direction. The entire class can be dipshits, and they can just pluck the best and smartest of the working class into their ranks to keep the whole thing running.
Gonna be captain buzzkill here and predict that the strategy will probably work.
It’ll: enrage establishment Dems against PSL while also pulling enough disaffected Dem voters to PSL to tilt the election to Republicans. The only real question is: will Republicans keep PSL around as a bogeymen to split liberals and keep Dems on the throat of PSL or will they harass and destroy PSL in the next stage of the red scare?
enrage establishment Dems against PSL
An absolutely necessary step of the process that was underway already, so this just accelerates it
while also pulling enough disaffected Dem voters to PSL to tilt the election to Republicans
Polling still looks like Brown wins, but also we don’t care. If we appear to be a spoiler, that is a huge profile boost for us and draws the people we want at this stage (not MSNBC dems)
will Republicans keep PSL around as a bogeymen to split liberals and keep Dems on the throat of PSL or will they harass and destroy PSL in the next stage of the red scare?
They are already attempting to do so in many ways and this raising of our profile will make that more difficult.
Speaking of which: Democrats absolutely refuse to do things on a state level that would actually help them, like Ranked Choice Voting. For every third party voter, democrats can run on “we’ll kick back, relax, and do nothing in office” as usual, but people who want the greens and want to keep the GOP out at all costs will simply not rank the GOP and rank dems last. There, now dems can be the semi-retired do-nothings they always wanted to be.
Ranked choice voting does not help democrats, it creates opportunity for third parties which removes power from both the democrats and the republicans. Even in short term there are also third parties who take votes from republicans. I haven’t seen any data that suggests that third party voters on average prefer democrats over republicans.
Doesn’t matter either way for PSL - someone posted the strategy here the other day
Yeah I read through that post; they’re doing the Bernie plan of seeking out the biggest voting bloc in the country (“didn’t vote”). I think it’s great and I hope it works out for them. But Americans are boorish and quick to anger, so if liberals see election results of “Dem 46%, Republicans 48% and PSL 6%,” they’re going to believe they were owed that 6%, even if all those 6% of voters were previously nonvoters.
