I will donate directly to candidates that I feel are worthy.

Making donating to Senator Sanders the same as donating to the DNC.

We can give directly to our local candidates. We don't need the DNC to distribute the money in the uneven hand that they have been doing. We don't need them to chose our candidates. And we certainly should consider having the candidates that we support have their own servers so they don't have firewall issues with the established insiders.

Individual candidates - even major party presidential nominees - do not have the money or infrastructure to run full ground campaigns across the country completely on their own. They rely heavily on the resources and infrastructure that the DNC provides through the Coordinated Campaign. Giving to individual candidates is good, but it's not even close to being enough. the local, state, and national candidates could never get out the vote and win an electuon without it, no matter how eager, committed or generous their supporters are.

That, fyi, is why Sanders is running as a Democrat and not as an Independent. Unlike some folks here, he knows he wouldn't stand a chance in the general without the help of the DNC.

Sorry if the DNC wants money they are going to have to earn it like everyone else. Maybe they can hold a bake sale. Or maybe they can go knock on some doors. Or maybe they can start listening to the people that support them, nah that would never work.

Infrastructure. You missed mine. Have a super duper happy authoritarian day.

DWS did it for me when she said it didn't matter if Scott Walker was recalled or not. Did not matter to whom? What resources are they putting into WI I wonder?

...but withholding money is a sure way of getting these pols and operatives' attention.

Send money directly to campaigns. If the DNC isn't measuring up for donors, they'll be no comfort to those considering enlisting their support in that election effort.

Your money can do much better than being used by DWS to prop up corporatist DINOs.

They specialize in elective rhinectomy to spite one's face.

Why don't we just provide direct support to those Democratic Party candidates of our own choosing?

Yeah ... That's what I will do instead ...

It's corrupt through and through.

Bernie doesn't need the DNC or Democrats to go the distance.

Guess I should add a tag just to be safe.

Why do we need a corrupt middleman?

All my donations go directly to candidates that I support.

He represents me and my family's best interests.

The DNC?

Not so much.

FYI: I haven't seen or spoken to anyone asking people to cut off donations to the DNC.

Of course, I wouldn't be cutting them off, simply because I've never once, ever, donated to them to begin with.

I donate what little I've got to give to candidates. Including candidates in general elections, when I support their candidacy.

Sanders will have what I've got to give.

I haven't donated to the DNC since a relatively small donation in 2008, once it looked certain to me that Obama would take the general. However, I've donated to a good number of campaigns of Democrats. No regrets.

I'll give to candidates, but the DNC, particularly under current leadership, has made it clear they have no use for those who think like me, and frankly they're corrupt and inept. So, no, not funneling my money to them just to help them do more hippie punching.

our slack. Just today, I read one post where the user was complaining that they couldn't give anymore with out the FEC coming down on them for it.

It must be sad to have so much money to throw away and not be able to do it.

you'll see vanity threads around here where DU'S 1 percenters brag about receiving phone calls from bundlers, dollar amounts given, dinners they've attended with the candidates directly, that sort of thing. They sound like 1 percenters from the other side. And you can guess which candidate they're all supporting.

I will happily support my state Democratic party, but then unlike Debbie Wasserman Schultz they dont support arresting and incarcerating terminally ill grandmas for smoking pot.

...since the folks here have been proudly saying they'd "NEVER give money to the DNC" for years.

In any event, I can probably make up for them: I'm currently at $26,000 for the DNC and its Committees, and about $80,000 overall for the Party, candidates, and advocacy groups.

Tammy Duckworth?

Kamala Harris?

Ted Strickland?

Well, as long as you can stick to your purity principles...