Bundling Website Enables Campaign Donors to Target Green Candidates : Red, Green, and Blue

Bundling Website Enables Campaign Donors to Target Green Candidates

Published on June 27th, 2008

Wondering what to do with all that money (not) burning a hole in the pockets of your organic cotton jeans? Well, the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund has launched Give Green, the first bundling website to raise money exclusively for environmental champions and candidates. By donating through Give Green, donors can make it clear to candidates that they care deeply about environmental issues.

“Ever increasing numbers of environmental voters and donors live in every part of the country,” LCVAF President Gene Karpinski said. “But America’s clean energy future is not just a local issue. Give Green makes it easy for concerned citizens to support not only local environmental candidates, but also future members of Congress from across the country who will fight for a clean, renewable energy future.

“Bundling” is the somewhat controversial, but legal, process of accepting political contributions from many small individual donors, such as company employees or union members, and combining donations into one large lump sum, which is then given to a candidate.

Strategically, I applaud the LCV for developing an above-board bundling program that allows donors to target their campaign donations to races other than ‘their own.’ However, the fact that there are no limits to the amount of bundled contributions accepted and distributed by a member gives us, in my mind, sufficient reason to keep a close eye on how the broader practice of bundling develops in the future

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