Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress
@saikatc
I don't do call time asking big donors for money, and I haven't sent fundraising emails or texts to San Franciscans asking for money. That's not the case for my opponents.
Despite that, we've raised nearly $400,000 from almost 10,000 donors averaging just $27 a donation. We idual donors than my opponents combined.
But I know it's not enough. In this race, I'm up against millions of dollars that Scott Wiener is raising from AIPAC board members, tech VCs, the AI lobby, crypto billionaires, and Trump megadonors. I'm up against multiple corporate super PACs.
To face that kind of money, I could spend my time calling big donors for money, and then, like Scott, I'd owe them a million favors when I'm in DC. I can't do that in good conscience. Plus, they don't WANT me to win. After all, I am talking about completely changing Democratic Party leadership, passing a wealth tax on the ultrarich (including myself), and breaking the stranglehold of corporate money in our politics. And I've spent over a decade fighting for it at the federal level.
Or I can choose to put in my own resources so I'll have the freedom to fight the oligarchy in Washington. I've chosen to do the latter.
“The vast majority of Chakrabarti’s donors (66%) are from outside California. In fact, only 7% of them live in San Francisco.” When @saikatc isn’t trying to buy the seat with his own money, he’s trying to buy the seat with out of state money.
2026-04-18T15:43:25.000Z