{"id":1773266,"date":"2022-12-13T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773266"},"modified":"2022-12-13T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:02:31","slug":"ctcl-kicks-off-2024-election-cycle-with-a-new-80-million-zuckbucks-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ctcl-kicks-off-2024-election-cycle-with-a-new-80-million-zuckbucks-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"CTCL Kicks Off 2024 Election Cycle With A New $80 Million \u2018Zuckbucks\u2019 Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fctcl-kicks-off-2024-election-cycle-with-a-new-80-million-zuckbucks-pledge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A leftist nonprofit group that funded the private takeover of government election offices during the 2020 presidential election just announced its new round of beneficiaries for the 2024 cycle. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-tech-and-civic-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Center for Tech and Civic Life<\/a> \u2014 one of two groups that <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funneled<\/a> $328 million (colloquially termed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/how-mark-zuckerberg-helped-swing-the-electorate-in-the-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>\u201c) from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the blue counties of swing states to mobilize potential Democratic voters and swing the race for Joe Biden \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.electionexcellence.org\/media\/us-alliance-for-election-excellence-announces-finalists-for-2023-program&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1670950091408000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1fry4zekqqYMUbju-QC4Fw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> it will distribute $80 million in election grants in the next five years to the following counties and cities: <\/p>\n<p>  Contra Costa County, California Shasta County, California Greenwich, Connecticut Kane County, Illinois Macoupin County, Illinois Ottawa County, Michigan Clark County, Nevada Brunswick County, North Carolina Forsyth County, North Carolina Madison, Wisconsin  <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-united-states-government-and-politics-78e0e0d548df9023aeac1c9c690b48f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>, the grants \u201cwill vary based on the size of each jurisdiction, from $50,000 for those with fewer than 5,000 registered voters to $3 million for those with more than 1 million voters.\u201d There are hardly any restrictions on how the counties can spend the money, but there are also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-united-states-government-and-politics-78e0e0d548df9023aeac1c9c690b48f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no publicly available details<\/a> about what exactly they will use it for.<\/p>\n<p>CTCL did not specify how it chose these counties as recipients for grant funding. Most of the counties and cities picked lean heavily Democratic (such as Clark, Contra Costa, Madison, Ottawa, Greenwich, Kane, and Forsyth) and are located in swing states, while the others are smaller red counties (Macoupin, Brunswick, and Shasta) that exist in a solid blue or swing state. Given that the size of the grants will vary based on the size of each county, the blue counties and cities will receive more funding than the red counties due to the size of their populations \u2014 a strategic move on CTCL\u2019s part. <\/p>\n<p>Back in 2020, CTCL also divided its grants based on population \u2014 though not evenly per capita \u2014 handing the more populous, Democratic-dominated counties almost all the cash. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/shining-a-light-on-zuck-bucks-in-key-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capital Research Center<\/a>, CTCL \u201cconsistently gave bigger grants and more money per capita to counties that voted for Biden.\u201d For example, in Georgia, CTCL spent $1.41 per capita in Trump-leaning red counties and $5.33 in Biden-leaning blue ones. This discrepancy existed in all the major swing states during 2020. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty estimates CTCL grants <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021ElectionReviewStudy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a> an extra 8,000 votes for Biden in Wisconsin. <\/p>\n<p>While several states have since <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/states-banning-zuck-bucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned<\/a> the private funding of government election offices in the wake of the \u201cZuckbucks\u201d revelation, some states\u2019 Democratic governors have instead vetoed legislation to that effect, including Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Now certain counties in these states have been named recipients of CTCL\u2019s 2024 grants.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular note is the city of Madison, Wisconsin. One of the five most populous \u2014 and blue \u2014 cities in the Badger State, Madison was a key recipient of \u201cZuckBucks\u201d in 2020 (of the $10 million CTCL sent Wisconsin in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/paper\/the-wisconsin-zuckerbucks-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$8.5 million went to the five Democratic<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leftist nonprofit that funded the private takeover of government election offices in 2020 announced its new round of beneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1773269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8394,8392,4506,8393,8391,3728,6919,3623,5500],"class_list":["post-1773266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-zuckbucks","tag-8392","tag-4506","tag-ctcl","tag-cycle","tag-election","tag-federalist","tag-kicks","tag-pledge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}