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Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Minorities Paid Less To Work For Democrats Than For Republicans On National Campaign Trail
December 19, 2013 by Ben Bullard

In spite of the Democratic Partys co-opting of the narrative of hope and change for minorities in America, its actually the GOP that better compensates paid nonwhite minority staffers.

Thats according to a study from the New Organizing Institute (NOI), which reviewed expenditure information from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for 2012. NOI employed the following method to arrive at its conclusions:
We convened a team of researchers to compile expenditure data from the Federal Elections Commission, to extract data about individuals to whom payroll or salary payments were issued, and match it to a voter file enhanced with commercial data. This allowed us to create, for the first time, an evidence-based assessment of the staff composition of federal-level American campaigns. Using this method we were able to determine with good confidence the race/ethnicity and gender of 16,241 individual campaign staffers from 2012.

The hiring demographics indicate that Democrats campaigns hired more female and minority staffers than their Republican opponents. But among those minorities both parties did hire, the GOP paid more. African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents on the dollar.

Women on campaigns are also paid less than men, although at a rate not too far from parity: 95 cents on the dollar. Interestingly, although the proportions of staff are more skewed towards white men on Republican campaigns, the income disparities are more pronounced on Democratic campaigns.

Specifically, Democrat-led campaigns paid an average of $795 per paycheck to black staffers and $1,145 to whites. Republican campaign camps paid blacks an average paycheck of $1,317, while whites were paid $1,510. Democrats also paid women an average paycheck of $978, while Republicans paid women $1,448 per paycheck.
In fact, Republicans paid everybody more, including Hispanics, Asians and, of course, white men.

It's also a very well known fact that cheap-ass Democrats on average, donate about 15% of what Conservatives donate to charity. Libs are just naturally cheap skates and liars.

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Gitzo wrote:

Minorities Paid Less To Work For Democrats Than For Republicans On National Campaign Trail
December 19, 2013 by Ben Bullard

In spite of the Democratic Partys co-opting of the narrative of hope and change for minorities in America, its actually the GOP that better compensates paid nonwhite minority staffers.

Thats according to a study from the New Organizing Institute (NOI), which reviewed expenditure information from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for 2012. NOI employed the following method to arrive at its conclusions:
We convened a team of researchers to compile expenditure data from the Federal Elections Commission, to extract data about individuals to whom payroll or salary payments were issued, and match it to a voter file enhanced with commercial data. This allowed us to create, for the first time, an evidence-based assessment of the staff composition of federal-level American campaigns. Using this method we were able to determine with good confidence the race/ethnicity and gender of 16,241 individual campaign staffers from 2012.

The hiring demographics indicate that Democrats campaigns hired more female and minority staffers than their Republican opponents. But among those minorities both parties did hire, the GOP paid more. African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents on the dollar.

Women on campaigns are also paid less than men, although at a rate not too far from parity: 95 cents on the dollar. Interestingly, although the proportions of staff are more skewed towards white men on Republican campaigns, the income disparities are more pronounced on Democratic campaigns.

Specifically, Democrat-led campaigns paid an average of $795 per paycheck to black staffers and $1,145 to whites. Republican campaign camps paid blacks an average paycheck of $1,317, while whites were paid $1,510. Democrats also paid women an average paycheck of $978, while Republicans paid women $1,448 per paycheck.
In fact, Republicans paid everybody more, including Hispanics, Asians and, of course, white men.

It's also a very well known fact that cheap-ass Democrats on average, donate about 15% of what Conservatives donate to charity. Libs are just naturally cheap skates and liars.

Minorities Paid Less To Work For Democrats Than Fo... (show quote)

That is only fair. Morons should be paid less. :lol: :lol:

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Gitzo wrote:

Minorities Paid Less To Work For Democrats Than For Republicans On National Campaign Trail
December 19, 2013 by Ben Bullard

In spite of the Democratic Partys co-opting of the narrative of hope and change for minorities in America, its actually the GOP that better compensates paid nonwhite minority staffers.

Thats according to a study from the New Organizing Institute (NOI), which reviewed expenditure information from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for 2012. NOI employed the following method to arrive at its conclusions:
We convened a team of researchers to compile expenditure data from the Federal Elections Commission, to extract data about individuals to whom payroll or salary payments were issued, and match it to a voter file enhanced with commercial data. This allowed us to create, for the first time, an evidence-based assessment of the staff composition of federal-level American campaigns. Using this method we were able to determine with good confidence the race/ethnicity and gender of 16,241 individual campaign staffers from 2012.

The hiring demographics indicate that Democrats campaigns hired more female and minority staffers than their Republican opponents. But among those minorities both parties did hire, the GOP paid more. African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents on the dollar.

Women on campaigns are also paid less than men, although at a rate not too far from parity: 95 cents on the dollar. Interestingly, although the proportions of staff are more skewed towards white men on Republican campaigns, the income disparities are more pronounced on Democratic campaigns.

Specifically, Democrat-led campaigns paid an average of $795 per paycheck to black staffers and $1,145 to whites. Republican campaign camps paid blacks an average paycheck of $1,317, while whites were paid $1,510. Democrats also paid women an average paycheck of $978, while Republicans paid women $1,448 per paycheck.
In fact, Republicans paid everybody more, including Hispanics, Asians and, of course, white men.

It's also a very well known fact that cheap-ass Democrats on average, donate about 15% of what Conservatives donate to charity. Libs are just naturally cheap skates and liars.

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Who would believe anything you post after the debacle with the muslim outreach program that you posted and was proven to be total nonsense? Where do you get this crap?

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

silver wrote:

Who would believe anything you post after the debacle with the muslim outreach program that you posted and was proven to be total nonsense? Where do you get this crap?

#1. No one HAS proven that Muslim "outreach" program IS "nonsense"; Obama "reaches out" to Muslims EVERY DAY, and it's very easy to see by anyone who doesn't have his head up his butt, (like you do all the time. )

#2. What is YOUR "claim to fame", smart-ass? do you seriously think ANYONE is "impressed" by your pathetic attempts to "troll" every thread I start? Do you really think because YOU say something is "true or false", that all of the sensible people on this forum will be "convinced"? The only thing you are convincing anyone of, is that YOU are a pathetic, liberal FOOL.

#3 May I remind you that this is a "forum", where members are free to post items of interest as they see fit? If you are so upset by things that I post, why don't you do yourself a big favor and go hang out on Move-On.org with the rest of the lefty idiots, instead of continually making an ass of yourself?

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

bcheary wrote:

That is only fair. Morons should be paid less. :lol: :lol:

Lol! I hadn't thought about that, but you're absolutely right! All of those morons slaving away for the DemocRATS dedsere to get "minimum wage". (Which fact, when you think about it, is why they are able to get away with it! )

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Gitzo wrote:

Lol! I hadn't thought about that, but you're absolutely right! All of those morons slaving away for the DemocRATS dedsere to get "minimum wage". (Which fact, when you think about it, is why they are able to get away with it! )

:lol: :lol:

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Gitzo wrote:

#1. No one HAS proven that Muslim "outreach&q... (show quote)

HAHA poor baby. You are caught in the act of posting nonsense and you just can't admit it. You just post more nonsense without even checking the source. All the insults in the world can't make up for the fact that you are a sad and desperate person. You are right, this is a forum and you more then anybody should be sure that what you post is true. If you would take the time to investigate you would find that your Muslim post was from a comedy write up, total nonsense. You are so easily pulled in.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

silver wrote:

HAHA poor baby. You are caught in the act of posti... (show quote)

I have a limited amount of time to devote to arguing fools; you have already exceeded your limit.

Alfresco

Gitzo, you're right, this is a general forum, but it's not exclusively yours. People will rise to the bait and take you to task for your one sided, biased and uninformed ideas and opinions. Admit you enjoy the banter but don't feel this website is solely here for your pleasure.
Mitt Romney stopped paying his campaign workers the night he lost the election, stranding many without hotel rooms or flights home, typical republican. Republicans cut SNAP programs for the poor and unemployment benefits for folks out of work, yea, they sure do give!
The one thing you don't do is post anything relative to photography, nothing at all, humm, what's up with that.

WNYShooter Loc: WNY

silver wrote:

Who would believe anything you post after the debacle with the muslim outreach program that you posted and was proven to be total nonsense? Where do you get this crap?

Who are the campaigners in America?

Posted on Fri, Dec 13, 2013

What Bobby Kennedy called the ripples of hope that come out when you throw a stone in the lakethats going to be you . . .

- Barack Obama, speaking to his campaign team in Chicago after his successful re-election in 2012.

The people who staff campaigns have influence beyond Election Day. Campaigners are close to power, they guide the hand of our candidates for public office, influence how our public discourse is framed and on what terms our democracy is negotiated. Like ripples in a pond, the influence of campaigners extends throughout American politics.

At NOI we believe the staff composition of campaigns matters; that representative campaigns help build representative democracies. These beliefs drove us to seek to answer this important question: Who are the campaigners in America?

We convened a team of researchers to compile expenditure data from the Federal Elections Commission, to extract data about individuals to whom payroll or salary payments were issued, and match it to a voter file enhanced with commercial data. This allowed us to create, for the first time, an evidence-based assessment of the staff composition of federal-level American campaigns. Using this method we were able to determine with good confidence the race/ethnicity and gender of 16,241 individual campaign staffers from 2012.

Before we dive into the data, a caveat: drawing consistent information from FEC reports is a bit like trying to get pure flour back out of a fully baked cake. In addition to regular paychecks, individuals are sometimes issued reimbursements, bonuses, or payments that are simply not annotated at all. The address listed for employees might be their home address, it might be their temporary campaign address, or it might be campaign HQ. Even with the most exhaustive effort we would still be unable to untangle completely the twisted web of these federal reports.

We took what we considered to be the most practical and least-flawed approach to processing and analyzing the data and were confident that our findings are an accurate reflection of the composition of federal-level campaign staff. You dont have to take our word for it, though. If youd like to check the data, here it is.

Now that thats out of the way . . .

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The racial/ethnic diversity of staff on Democratic campaigns appears impressive. African Americans account for 12% of the American workforce (source) but account for more than twice that share of the workforce on Democratic federal-level campaigns. Staffers of Hispanic and Asian backgrounds are not represented on campaigns at the same level as the overall workforce, but Democratic campaigns are considerably more balanced by this measure than Republican campaigns. Women are underrepresented on campaigns. Republican campaigns have more pronounced disparities both in gender and racial/ethnic representation among campaign staff. 54.2% of all staff on Republican federal-level campaigns are white men, compared to 32.4% on Democratic races. Even on the more gender-balanced Democratic campaigns, however, there are 116 men for every 100 women staffers.

So should we break out the champagne and congratulate the Democrats for building representative campaigns?

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No.

African American staffers on Democratic federal-level campaigns are paid 70 cents on the dollar compared to their white counterparts; Hispanics are paid 68 cents on the dollar.

Women on campaigns are also paid less than men, although at a rate not too far from parity: 95 cents on the dollar. Interestingly, although the proportions of staff are more skewed towards white men on Republican campaigns, the income disparities are more pronounced on Democratic campaigns.

We do not have enough information in front of us to say definitively exactly whats going on here -- it could be the case that women and ethnic minorities are being paid less for the same work on campaigns, though standardized campaign payscales make this less likely (for example, many if not most campaigns have a flat payscale for workers at a certain level, $30,000/yr for a field organizer, e.g.). More likely, members of these groups are being hired for lower-level jobs and not moving into leadership positions proportionally. Perhaps its both. Although the overall representation of ethnic minorities on Democratic campaigns appears healthy when the numbers are viewed from thirty thousand feet, the salary disparities suggest that this representation becomes greatly diminished as you move up the campaign ladder.

Whatever the cause, the highest-level campaigns in America do not appear to have embraced a fully diverse workforce. This unfortunate echo of staffing disparities present in other sectors is a blemish on our campaigns and an impediment to a truly representative democracy.

http://neworganizing.com/content/blog/who-are-the-campaigners-in-america

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Gitzo wrote:

I have a limited amount of time to devote to arguing fools; you have already exceeded your limit.

You can't see the truth when it smacks you in the face. What a crock that you have a limited amount of time. You never post anything relevant, just conservative right wing nonsense.