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Fast Takes: Singing the ActBlues, girl dads mobilized in Maine and more

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From the left: Singing the ActBlues

ActBlue, the Democratic donation-processing behemoth, has “been criticized by its own stakeholders for being too careless in its compliance with campaign finance laws, too lax in its policing of PACs that use its platform, and for extensive internal chaos,” warns The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner. Worse, the criticism has brought no real changes, with reports of “sham PACs” that “use ActBlue to deceive donors” and steer money to PACs’ consultants rather than candidates. Plus, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones has been slammed for her “top-down brand of management and a regal travel style.” A “criminal indictment” could bring “an unfortunate squandering of infrastructure that took three decades to build.” Democrats “deserve better from their own.”

From the right: Girl Dads Mobilized in Maine

For all Maine’s “progressive credentials,” a group of 8,000 girl dads is pushing an initiative “rooted in biological reality to reclaim women’s sports,” for their daughters, cheers The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. Leyland Streiff & Co. aim to “get their Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine initiative on the November ballot.” They say it’s not about excluding trans students, but getting “their daughters to take their rightful places on fields.” Opponents say the proposition “violates the Maine Human Rights Act,” which “forbids discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ ” but it aligns Maine with........

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