re: #130 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Whoever the chair of the Wisconsin Democrats is. Definitely hope they have a future. These reunions with popular tv shows and movies have been a brilliant way of fundraising. The one thing I’ve enjoyed about the campaign is how everyone’s in it together.

This article is great:

At the center of much of this creative coordination is Wisconsin’s Ben Wikler, chair of the state party Democrats, who was focused on comedy two decades ago, writing for the Onion and working for Al Franken on his books and radio show, before rising in the political world. Now, his state party is the leading beneficiary of these fundraisers, raising more than $7 million since August, part of the $58.7 million it’s reportedly brought in over the past two years…

Wikler, who is such a “Princess Bride” obsessive that he memorized the script as a child. “I convinced my homeroom teacher in sixth grade to do a screening for our class and mouthed the words throughout the entire thing. I quoted the marriage blessing as my toast at my sister’s wedding,” he says. “So for me, the idea of having a ‘Princess Bride’ reunion to support the Democratic Party was a dream within a dream, to quote the movie.”

washingtonpost.com