Politics: Who I Donated For in 2020 and Why

As I seek to write all of the posts that I want to do for all of my blogs (and brace yourself for any potential problems with updates should a vaccine make me sick enough to not do blogs that are not scheduled in advance as the first dose went relatively well, but it is the second one that could cause issues), there are some posts that I’ll want to cover for this blog that are more time sensitive than the others. I’m going to talk about who I donated to in the 2020 election cycle. I could talk some more about the people that I gave money to in 2018, but that isn’t as important as it could otherwise be.

The most important person that I donated to was the campaign of Kayne West. His was the cause that I needed to get behind most. Do you know why? Because April Fools! That’s why. I would not give money to him or any other candidate running for president. If I can vote for them, then I don’t give them money.

There are different categories of people that I donated to and amounts that I give. But I did give to lots of people. Once the insurrectionist known as Trump insisted on sending me a letter with the fact that we got stimulus money from the first of the three stimulus accounts, I felt that there would be a good way to get back at him. There were eleven people I gave money to as a result of this. I donated to the squad which then consisted of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. I also donated to the people who wound up being the House impeachment managers of the first Trump impeachment was Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia.

This may not be the only time that I donate to House races. Know that a lot can change with what might happen in the future. But I had bigger fish to fry and I knew that governors were fair game due to the insurrectionist passing the buck to them regarding handling the pandemic by making the governors take care of it. If I felt that a Democrat was handling it good, then I would give them money so that they could stay in office. But some weren’t covered. Since Montana’s governor, Steve Bullock, was term limited, I felt that there was no reason to invest in this race. I also didn’t invest in Utah’s race either since their governor at the time was Gary Herbert who was retiring. Also, there were three Republican governors that I felt were doing a good job with handling the pandemic and had no other issues that I didn’t donate money against Phil Scott of Vermont, Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, or Eric Holcomb of Indiana.

The Democratic governors that I wanted to stay in office were John Carney of Delaware, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and Jay Inslee of Washington. Thus, I gave them all money. As for the Republican governors that I wanted out of office, they were Mike Parson of Missouri, Jim Justice of West Virginia, and Doug Burgum of North Dakota. Thus, I donated to all of their Democratic opponents of Nicole Galloway, Ben Salango, and Shelley Lenz respectively.

Then came the senate races. I gave a lot more money to a lot more people for various reasons, the most notable one being the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. I’m not going to say who all I donated to, but I will say who I donated against. The Democrats that I donated to were Gary Peters and Tina Smith. The Republicans that I donated against were Dan Sullivan, Cory Gardner, David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, Jim Risch, Joni Ernst, Mitch McConnell, Steve Daines, Thom Tillis, Jim Inhofe, Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, John Cornyn, and Shelley Moore Capito. I would have donated against more, but that didn’t happen for various reasons.

Last came the attorney general races. I donated to Richard Finneran of Missouri, Josh Stein of North Carolina, Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, Greg Skordas of Utah, T.J. Donovan of Vermont, Bob Ferguson of Washington, and Sam Petsonk of West Virginia.

There’s nothing else to talk about in this post since I’ve covered all that I think is relevant and important that I can remember. I have no idea if I’ll do something like this again in the future, but might if only to tell you who I wanted to win and why I gave them money. I would only write a post like this after the elections have happened since then the donations would have already been done in the future.