Wes Moore, the Democratic nominee for Maryland governor, will be raising funds with some boldfaced names in New York and Massachusetts in the coming weeks. Director Spike Lee will host Moore for a fundraising event at his home on Martha's Vineyard on August 14, CNBC reports. Attendees will pay $500 to $6000 to get inside Lee's Oak Bluffs mansion.
A week later, Moore will head to the Hamptons for a second fundraiser hosted by Dilation Capital hedge fund managing partner Brian Eizenstat and C-Street Advisory Group CEO Jon Henes. CNBC reports that ticket prices are the same for that event. Moore is only one of many gubernatorial and presidential candidates heading where the money is this month; Stacey Abrams, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Ben Sasse and Lee Zeldin all have similar events planned in the Hamptons.
Moore's travel itinerary has caught the attention of his Republican opponent, Dan Cox. In a fundraising email to supporters, Cox said that while Moore "is raising money from the international law firms and big pharmaceuticals and is in the Hamptons this month raising money from Oprah, C-Street globalists and power-hungry radicals, this week I was in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore hearing concerns of students and parents."
"Globalist," really? Are code words still coded when spoken by a gubernatorial candidate?
ReplyDeleteThe term "globalist" still widely stands for anyone who favors free trade regardless of impact on a particular country, multi-nation policy commitments, and a muscular and interventionist foreign policy. If you read publications like the Financial Times, journalists and commentators of many ethnic backgrounds who favor these policies often refer to themselves as "globalists." Could "globalist" have a nefarious connotation in some circumstances? Yes, inasmuch as the "OK" hand gesture might, but globalist and "OK" are still considered legitimate expressions among the general public today.
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