It has reached the point where half of my incoming emails are spam from the Biden campaign.
These emails are all solicitations for donations. Given that this is all coming from the same source, you’d think they could figure out a way to limit it to one-a-day, or some such. With this volume, they have crossed the line between persistent reminders and simply being annoying.
In any case, today it finally dawned on me that I could unsubscribe. This is an odd thing to do, given that I never subscribed to anything in the first place. But, semantics aside, as long as it gets them to stop, that’ll do.
The point of this is that I am baffled by Federal campaign finance limits. Every time I hear about the latest multi-million-dollar fund raiser by either candidate, I keep coming back to what I thought the law said, regarding contribution limits: $3,300 per person, per candidate, per election. Like so:
Source: FEC.
Normally, I’d just chalk that up to the norm for modern America, which is that there are no binding rules for the rich, only for the little people. So, of course candidates can hold $100K/plate fund-raising dinners, for their campaigns. At the same time that hoi polloi are limited, by law, to $3,300, if donated to to a candidate’s campaign.
I would do that, except that among my emails from the Biden campaign is a request to donate $5K. Like so, from my in-box:
How on earth can the Biden campaign solicit a donation for $5K, from a mere commoner like myself, when the legal limit on donations to a political campaign, for an election, is $3,300?
I realize there are no binding limits on what the wealthy can spend to try to influence politics. But if there are no real limits to what the average Joe or Jane can spend, I sure wish they’d revise the law to make that clear. The current situation — a $3,300 limit which just about everyone seems to be able to avoid, one way or the other — turns Federal campaign spending limits into more of a joke than they already are.
