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It’s more than a year until the Democratic National Convention, but the party is already working to raise the huge sums required for the affair. And we’re beginning to get a glimpse of what its high-dollar donors will get in return.
Copies of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s donor packages for the event advertise the access that the party’s deepest pockets will enjoy when they gather in Milwaukee next July to officially nominate the party’s challenger to President Donald Trump.
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The top sponsorship level is dubbed Platinum, and it requires individual contributors to donate or raise at least $500,000. In exchange, they get access to a VIP skybox during the convention, preferred accommodations and convention access, and 10 tickets to every DCCC event. Political action committees need only raise or donate $210,000 to achieve Platinum status, and they get all the same perks with the exception of skybox access.
The donor tiers run all the way down the metals ladder, from platinum to gold to silver to bronze. The bottom tier for individuals, dubbed the Speaker’s Cabinet, still requires fundraising of at least $71,000. For PACs, the bottom-tier “Partners & Allies” designation requires at least $30,000.
The DCCC, more than its counterparts at the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has relied heavily on corporate contributions this cycle. And while the DNC and DSCC will no doubt solicit their own high-dollar contributors at and prior to the convention, the DCCC’s solicitations show that it’s getting an early jump on big-money convention fundraising.
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