In 2015 Seattle adopted an innovative small donor system for funding its local campaigns. Seattle gave four $25.00 democracy vouchers for every registered voter that could be donated to candidates who pledged to accept only cash donations under $250.00, among other stipulations. The program faced its first major test in 2019, when Amazon poured $1.5 million into city council races to defeat candidates and boost corporate ones. The result: of the sixth elections where Amazon and publicly financed went head-to-head, only one of Amazon candidates won. And the use of the vouchers increased the number of non-voucher small dollar donations and boosted grassroots participation. When big money doesn’t dominate our political system, the people can actually have their voices heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2015 Seattle adopted an innovative small donor system for funding its local campaigns. Seattle gave four $25.00 democracy vouchers for every registered voter that could be donated to candidates who pledged to accept only cash donations under $250.00, among other stipulations. The program faced its first major test in 2019, when Amazon poured $1.5 <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284,163],"tags":[686,684,683,685],"class_list":["post-14481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","tag-amazon","tag-big-money","tag-seattle","tag-small-donor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14482,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions\/14482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}