Zephyr Teachout ran against New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary earlier this year, on a populist platform. While she lost, she received more than a third of the vote and carried almost half of the state’s 62 counties.
While Teachout is well known for her efforts to limit the influence of money on politics, she still needed to raise money to fund her campaign. In this clip, she tells Bill that she felt like a “vacuum cleaner salesman” as she spent hours smiling and dialing in an effort to raise funds.
“If you have to spend half your day, 70 percent of your day, talking to donors and then turn around and give a speech engaging people on the issues that matter to them — their dental care, credit cards, the real difficulty finding a job — it feels false,” says Teachout, a constitutional and property law professor at Fordham Law School. “It’s hard to have those two conversations at the same time and gradually I think people have gotten more and more disillusioned because they feel like they aren’t being served.”
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Well, only if you're a Democrat. Asking for campaign money while planning the financial demise of who you are asking for campaign money from will always bring about these feelings. However, as soon as you turn Independent or an Independent Republican, all those feelings go away, as your goals change from humping for cash for your own selfish reasons to actually fighting for the rights and freedoms of your Constituents.
ReplyDeleteI know, it's an odd game, but people play it and love it.