Democrats request money while consoling after Minneapolis deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers, congressional candidates, and advocacy organizations have tied fundraising pleas to messages about the deaths of anti-immigration activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti, a Washington Examiner review of campaign emails has found.
Democrats who included fundraising pleas in emails regarding the killings of Good and Pretti included Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Arizona Democratic Party, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, and congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala of Illinois. Organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, among them MoveOn, Mark Elias’s Democracy Docket, and Indivisible, also used the deaths to encourage their supporters to give them money. Both Good and Pretti died this month after confrontations with federal officials while obstructing immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
“ICE agents shot and killed Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, in Minneapolis,” an email from the Arizona Democratic Party sent on Monday reads, although Pretti was in fact shot by a Border Patrol agent. Two sentences later, after accusing the Trump administration of “tainting” the investigations, the party invites readers to “chip in” to “flip the state blue so we can fight back against ICE” alongside a donation link.
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The email featured a second donation link at the bottom of its message.
Democrats who were physically closer to killings were no more reluctant to leverage them for campaign dollars.
“I am heartbroken,” Flanagan, who is currently running for Senate, wrote in a Jan. 15 email sent just after midnight. “You’ve probably seen the videos of ICE’s violence and chaos coming from every corner of Minnesota. The horrors of this last week in Minnesota have made one thing crystal clear: we need Senators who will stand up for what’s right all the time, not just when it’s politically expedient.”
The “horrors of last week” alluded to by the lieutenant governor was a reference to the killing of Good, which happened roughly a week prior.
Flanagan closed out her fundraising plea by saying that she will “always stand with Minnesota” and that she would appreciate if the person reading her message could “spare $5 or $10 today to stand with me.”
MoveOn, one of the largest progressive political operations in the country, was similarly direct in connecting the deaths to a fundraising pitch.
“Yesterday, ICE murdered another person in …
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers, congressional candidates, and advocacy organizations have tied fundraising pleas to messages about the deaths of anti-immigration activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti, a Washington Examiner review of campaign emails has found.
Democrats who included fundraising pleas in emails regarding the killings of Good and Pretti included Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Arizona Democratic Party, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, and congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala of Illinois. Organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, among them MoveOn, Mark Elias’s Democracy Docket, and Indivisible, also used the deaths to encourage their supporters to give them money. Both Good and Pretti died this month after confrontations with federal officials while obstructing immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
“ICE agents shot and killed Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, in Minneapolis,” an email from the Arizona Democratic Party sent on Monday reads, although Pretti was in fact shot by a Border Patrol agent. Two sentences later, after accusing the Trump administration of “tainting” the investigations, the party invites readers to “chip in” to “flip the state blue so we can fight back against ICE” alongside a donation link.
Screenshot | Archive of Political Emails
The email featured a second donation link at the bottom of its message.
Democrats who were physically closer to killings were no more reluctant to leverage them for campaign dollars.
“I am heartbroken,” Flanagan, who is currently running for Senate, wrote in a Jan. 15 email sent just after midnight. “You’ve probably seen the videos of ICE’s violence and chaos coming from every corner of Minnesota. The horrors of this last week in Minnesota have made one thing crystal clear: we need Senators who will stand up for what’s right all the time, not just when it’s politically expedient.”
The “horrors of last week” alluded to by the lieutenant governor was a reference to the killing of Good, which happened roughly a week prior.
Flanagan closed out her fundraising plea by saying that she will “always stand with Minnesota” and that she would appreciate if the person reading her message could “spare $5 or $10 today to stand with me.”
MoveOn, one of the largest progressive political operations in the country, was similarly direct in connecting the deaths to a fundraising pitch.
“Yesterday, ICE murdered another person in …
Democrats request money while consoling after Minneapolis deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
This isn't complicated—it's willpower.
Nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers, congressional candidates, and advocacy organizations have tied fundraising pleas to messages about the deaths of anti-immigration activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti, a Washington Examiner review of campaign emails has found.
Democrats who included fundraising pleas in emails regarding the killings of Good and Pretti included Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Arizona Democratic Party, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, and congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala of Illinois. Organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, among them MoveOn, Mark Elias’s Democracy Docket, and Indivisible, also used the deaths to encourage their supporters to give them money. Both Good and Pretti died this month after confrontations with federal officials while obstructing immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
“ICE agents shot and killed Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, in Minneapolis,” an email from the Arizona Democratic Party sent on Monday reads, although Pretti was in fact shot by a Border Patrol agent. Two sentences later, after accusing the Trump administration of “tainting” the investigations, the party invites readers to “chip in” to “flip the state blue so we can fight back against ICE” alongside a donation link.
Screenshot | Archive of Political Emails
The email featured a second donation link at the bottom of its message.
Democrats who were physically closer to killings were no more reluctant to leverage them for campaign dollars.
“I am heartbroken,” Flanagan, who is currently running for Senate, wrote in a Jan. 15 email sent just after midnight. “You’ve probably seen the videos of ICE’s violence and chaos coming from every corner of Minnesota. The horrors of this last week in Minnesota have made one thing crystal clear: we need Senators who will stand up for what’s right all the time, not just when it’s politically expedient.”
The “horrors of last week” alluded to by the lieutenant governor was a reference to the killing of Good, which happened roughly a week prior.
Flanagan closed out her fundraising plea by saying that she will “always stand with Minnesota” and that she would appreciate if the person reading her message could “spare $5 or $10 today to stand with me.”
MoveOn, one of the largest progressive political operations in the country, was similarly direct in connecting the deaths to a fundraising pitch.
“Yesterday, ICE murdered another person in …
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