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How We’ll Spend the Money |
We win elections in which we’ve made fundamental reform a key issue.
Once we hit our kick-start targets, the money raised is turned over to professional campaigners, who will craft interventions in targeted districts to make fundamental reform the issue in that campaign — and to make the reform candidate the winner.
In 2014, these interventions will serve as prototype for a much larger round of funding in the 2016 cycle. Our aim this year is to learn what works, and to prepare for the much bigger fight in 2016 for a majority in Congress committed to reform.
100% of the money you pledge will be used to fund campaigns. Any expenses we have to build and operate the MaydayPAC — and there will be some — will be paid for through other donations.
We hope you’ll give us the freedom to run the most effective campaign for fundamental reform that we can. But if you’d like to target your contributions, you can indicate whether your money will help only Republicans, or only Democrats.
If we meet the $1 million goal, Prof. Lawrence Lessig has committed to getting that amount matched. We will only collect the $1 million in commitments if it can be matched. The same for the $5 million goal.
At this point, the matching contributors can’t be named. But when the match is announced, they will be.
None of the money raised through this citizens-up campaign will be spent for overhead or other indirect costs. 100% of that money will be devoted to campaigns.
This doesn’t mean there is no overhead in this project. It means we will cover the costs of that overhead — including even the payment processing fees from your contributions — from other sources. Those costs will be as small as we can keep them. None of the directors of the Mayday PAC will be paid. And we will keep the costs of building and maintaining MayOne.us as low as possible. But whatever costs this organizing site incurs, we will cover them independently of the money raised through the two pledge campaigns.
We have decided upon using Stripe as our payment processor. Stripe has offered us a very competitive rate (for which we thank them), and Stripe is compliant with PCI requirements and no sensitive data hits our servers. When you enter in your credit card information, it is not stored on the MayOne.us site and goes directly to Stripe via the Stripe.js API.
Or in short: Yes, your money and info are safe.
You can ask us through our Contact Page. Feel free to send us your feedback.