{"id":180186,"date":"2017-06-29T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/29\/speaking-of-democratic-party-consultants\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:11:00","slug":"speaking-of-democratic-party-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/29\/speaking-of-democratic-party-consultants\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Democratic Party Consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/143615\/democrats-emails-strategy-haywire\">belittling the standard Democratic Party &#8220;The Sky is Falling&#8221; fundraising email<\/a>, this little factoid is thrown in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">And that means the party\u2019s relationship with its consultant class will  have to change. Amidst the wreckage of Ossoff\u2019s campaign there emerges  only one winner: Mothership Strategies, which reportedly earned <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/former-dccc-insiders-firm-banked-millions-from-ossoffs-failed-campaign\/\">$3.9 million<\/a> for its work. Everyone else\u2014voters, the party, the candidate Mothership promoted\u2014lost. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is economics 101:&nbsp; The incentives for consultants are for spending money profligately, not on winning campaigns, or efficient allocation of resources, because they are given a cut of that spending.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>All the pious assertions otherwise are unmitigated crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article belittling the standard Democratic Party &#8220;The Sky is Falling&#8221; fundraising email, this little factoid is thrown in: And that means the party\u2019s relationship with its consultant class will have to change. Amidst the wreckage of Ossoff\u2019s campaign there emerges only one winner: Mothership Strategies, which reportedly earned $3.9 million for its work. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,513,368,588,374],"class_list":["post-180186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-fail","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}