According to the latest FEC reports, twenty freshman Democratic House candidates who are rejecting corporate PAC money and endorsed by End Citizens United (ECU) raised over $500,000 in the second quarter of 2019.
“Conventional wisdom in Washington says candidates need corporate special interest money to win. The conventional wisdom is wrong,” said End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller. “These reformers are rejecting corporate PAC money and seeing a groundswell of grassroots support. They’re showing that there is a viable alternative to the Big Money machine in Washington.”
ECU-endorsed freshman House incumbents who reject corporate PAC money and raised over $500,000:
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Josh Harder (CA-10): $774,848
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Katie Hill (CA-25): $732,888
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Katie Porter (CA-45): $1,001,928
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Harley Rouda (CA-48): $775,491
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Mike Levin (CA-49): $503,117
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Lucy McBath (GA-06): $671,859
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Cindy Axne (IA-03): $603,287
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Elissa Slotkin (MI-08): $734,407
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Ilhan Omar (MN-05), $616,922
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Andy Kim (NJ-03): $629,325
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Tom Malinowski (NJ-07): $568,124
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Xochitl Torres Small (NM-02): $638,519
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Max Rose (NY-11): $801,343
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Antonio Delgado (NY-19): $672,508
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Anthony Brindisi (NY-22): $503,973
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Kendra Horn (OK-05): $583,953
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Joe Cunningham (SC-01): $615,591
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Colin Allred (TX-32): $591,989
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Abigail Spanberger (VA-07): $702,322
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Kim Schrier (WA-08): $612,325
ECU spearheaded the movement among candidates to forgo corporate PAC money in their campaigns. Fifty-eight members of the 116th Congress are refusing to take corporate PAC money, including 36 members of the House freshman class. The reform group has four million members nationwide and is entirely grassroots-funded with an average donation of just $14.
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