Jonathan Herzog

So there's FEC form one, there's FEC form two, and now there's some forks in the road because there's some more problem solving.

So you have to have a campaign checking account.

You have to be able to collect money somehow.

Um, so then you're like, where do I go open a bank account?

Um, it turns out in New York,

There's a bank called Amalgamated Bank, which is a non-for-profit and will open you a checking account very easily.

But I did not know this.

And so I went from Citibank to Bank of America to so on and so forth, got stonewalled and gaslit and so on and so forth.

Why?

Not for a challenger to a Democratic incumbent.

Yes.

And so, yes.

And so if you're running in a primary against a very powerful incumbent, you will find that anyone you want to get any services from, whether that be accounting or legal or banking, you will have a very hard time doing that because of what's called the DCCC blacklist.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee decided recently after 2018, where we saw a couple of people kind of fall through the cracks.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Where she had raised less than one tenth of her opponent Crowley.

He raised three million.

He was slated to be the next speaker of the House.

Her campaign was floundering until the end of May when they released this viral video, after which they gained most of their donations.