The battle between Ben Wikler and Ken Martin could be a referendum on the influence of billionaire donors like Reid Hoffman in the Democratic Party.
Four candidates have declared their intention to compete for chair of the Democratic National Committee, but as the race heats up, an aggressively polite, exceedingly Midwestern cold war has broken out between factions backing the two state party chairs in the race:
Beyond the funding they receive from the national party, the parties have a single asset to their name: the voter file. Every candidate and campaign needs access to those files, which are maintained by the state parties. For years, Democratic donors including Hoffman have sought to privatize them. Doing so, chairs toldwould represent an extinction-level event for their already-beleaguered organizations.
Rae Steward, managing partner of Reid Hoffman’s investment fund, Investing in US, echoed that sentiment in a statement shared with. “When Investing in US entered the political space in 2017, we were generally skeptical of investment into state parties, and at first only gave modest support in a few instances.
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