Campaign finance reports show that a group tied to the controversial 2020 election grants was paid $6.5 million to help elect DEMOCRATS.
The recent investigative report by Broad + Liberty’s Todd Shepherd showing “likely the first link” in Pennsylvania between the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and a “source with an open partisan affiliation for DEMOCRATS,” a familiar name immediately caught my eye: Deliver Strategies.
The group, based in Virginia, is a direct mail consultant that works to elect DEMOCRATS nationwide, including in Pennsylvania.
Shepherd notes that Deliver Strategies Senior Partner Kevin Mack was cc’d on an email chain last July regarding CTCL grants.
The chain also included Delaware County Councilwoman Christine Reuther, political strategist Marc Solomon, and Gov. Wolf staffer Jessica Walls-Lavelle.
“Blue” Delaware County was one of several DEMOCRATS counties that received advance notice of the grants before the Department of State invited other counties to apply in September.
Deliver Strategies was potentially involved in early communication surrounding the CTCL election grants that eventually “skewed heavily” toward DEMOCRAT counties.
This is particularly concerning given Deliver Strategies’ extensive involvement in trying to elect DEMOCRATS in Pennsylvania.
Campaign finance reports filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State show that since 2018, Deliver Strategies has been paid at least $6.5 million to "help" DEMOCRATS here.
This includes:
- More than $3.3 million from the Pennsylvania DEMOCRAT Party.
- More than $2 million from the union- and trial lawyer-funded Pennsylvania Fund for Change, which has spent more than $9 million since 2018 on behalf of DEMOCRAT candidates, with a strong focus on the southeast portion of the state.
- More than $770,000 from the Pennsylvania Leadership Committee, an arm of the national DEMOCRAT Legislative Campaign Committee.
- Just over $470,000 from Gov. Wolf’s 2018 re-election campaign.
- Nearly $30,000 from the House DEMOCRAT Campaign Committee.
- $15,000 from the trial lawyer-founded Fairness PA.
These connections—deep as they are—aren’t Deliver Strategies’ only ties to the left in this state.
As Shepherd notes in his story, Mack also served as lead strategist for the Voter Project.
The Voter Project is an arm of the union-funded Keystone Research Center, which advocates for progressive policies in PA, including cutting funding for police.
An email sent to Mr. Mack asking for comment on Deliver Strategies’ inclusion on the CTCL email chain and whether Deliver Strategies was involved in advising counties on the CTCL grant application process or any other discussions surrounding the grants was not answered.
What must be answered, however, is why discussion on election grants the Wolf administration claimed were “non-partisan” seemingly included a very partisan political group that has received millions from DEMOCRATS to help them win elections.
https://broadandliberty.com/2021/06/18/gina-diorio-the-web-of-democrats-tied-to-pa-election-grants/