What you should know if you want to jump on the RefundPete bandwagon.
The hashtag #RefundPete has been trending on Twitter as some donors to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign demanded their money back, citing reasons like the 2020 presidential candidate’s embrace of big-money donors and his onetime portrayal of small-dollar donations as “pocket change.”
“For a lot of people who are making minimum wage or near that, that’s a lot of money,” Widelec said of small-dollar contributions. “That outraged me — you don’t call that ‘pocket change.’” Some refunds are ‘a discretionary choice’ Candidates are only obligated to refund money “when they weren’t allowed to keep it in the first place,” Erin Chlopak, the director of campaign finance strategy at the nonprofit and nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, told MarketWatch.
Some candidates have also returned donations from controversial or unsavory figures, pointed out Temple University political science professor and campaign-finance expert Robin Kolodny. Kolodny said she wasn’t aware of any specific time limit that would constrain a refund, but suggested the decision would hinge on whether there was still cash on hand at the end of an election cycle. “If I’ve spent everything that I’ve taken in, and it’s the end of the cycle and I’m not running again, you’re probably out of luck,” she said.
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