Politics Is Everywhere Visit: https://www.opensecrets.org/527s/ (Links to an ext

Politics Is Everywhere Visit: https://www.opensecrets.org/527s/ (Links to an external site.) and spend some time examining the makeup of 527 organizations by industry, sector, expenditure, and size over time. Here are the questions to consider. What groups are most represented? Are there any groups or organizations that seem underrepresented? How would you group the different types of 527 organizations? Look at the names of the different organizations. Is it always clear what a 527 stands for or who it represents? What political considerations might inspire some of the name choices you see? I would like for you to focus particularly on the last two questions. As with all discussions, you are responsible for one original posting and substantive responses (at least 25 words in each post) to at least 2 other students. *****respond to these 2 posts******* 1. Wow, it is really difficult to tell what an organization stands for by their name, though some are plain as day. For example “Pelosi for DNC” seems pretty straightforward, but “OMG WTF” is a headscratcher. I was pleased to see ActBlue was at the top of the expenditures and contributions list, but not surprised since they have such aggressive donor emails. A gun rights organization is called “2AVOTERS” and it took me a second to realize it was in regard to the 2nd Amendment. If one has been paying attention, it’s fairly obvious when a political group is represented. I noticed that not one Democratic organization used the word “Liberty” but three Republican orgs did. Democratic orgs tend to use the word “Progress” – nine of the orgs have that in their name and none of the GOP orgs did. I found it interesting that “Women’s Issues” was separate from “Human Rights”. I’m curious as to whether that’s to keep the abortion/birth control hot button topic separate. Another thing that popped out to me was that the largest sector was the “Idealogical/Single-Issue” sector. 2. After looking at the names on this list, it is often difficult to tell just who the groups are and what they stand for from looking at their names. While some are obvious there are some that are not, such as Level the Playing Field, not sure what field they are trying to level. The largest sector seems to be ideological/single issue which I am fairly sure are funded by lobbyists and special interest groups to try and bring issues to the public eye that might have an impact either on elections or a bill coming through. Interesting to see how much of them money is provided by unions, makes one wonder if the people joining those unions and paying dues can tell you what their money is used for when given to a 527. I also think it is interesting how few of the names reflect any party affiliation, even though most of the issues are largely driven by one or the other.

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