Just to clarify - as you note, Gallego's promises on matching were "on a smaller scale."; and in the Gersony article, the mention is of matching, not 80x matching. I think that the idea of matching contributions is not inherently bad or fraudulent. "80x" is over the top, and isn't even logical, since anything over $67 would put the matching donation over the limit. So as far as I can tell, the two sides on this one aren't equivalent - Lake's campaign is claiming things that pretty much can't be true, while Gallego's is using a common mechanism that isn't necessarily misleading.
Just to clarify - as you note, Gallego's promises on matching were "on a smaller scale."; and in the Gersony article, the mention is of matching, not 80x matching. I think that the idea of matching contributions is not inherently bad or fraudulent. "80x" is over the top, and isn't even logical, since anything over $67 would put the matching donation over the limit. So as far as I can tell, the two sides on this one aren't equivalent - Lake's campaign is claiming things that pretty much can't be true, while Gallego's is using a common mechanism that isn't necessarily misleading.