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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2016, 04:08 PM Jul 2016

FEC Fails To Punish Koch-Funded Law Breakers

Several Koch-funded organizations were fined last week for breaking campaign finance laws, but the total amount of those fines was only about 1% of the total amount spent by these groups. That’s not a punishment, and it will do nothing to deter future criminal behavior. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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FEC Fails To Punish Koch-Funded Law Breakers (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jul 2016 OP

FEC rarely 'punishes' anyone. elleng Jul 2016 #1

501c3 not allowed to talk politics and kochs build fines into buisness model that does that. midnight Jul 2016 #2

Jane Meyers "Dark Money" book should be the turbinetree Jul 2016 #3

elleng

(131,077 posts)

1. FEC rarely 'punishes' anyone.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 04:17 PM

Jul 2016

midnight

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2. 501c3 not allowed to talk politics and kochs build fines into buisness model that does that.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 04:21 PM

Jul 2016

This is more than a problem with democracy… It is a problem with the rich and powerful being able to pay off whom ever or what ever offense they happen to commit. This is what elitism is… This is what privledge is…

turbinetree

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3. Jane Meyers "Dark Money" book should be the

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 05:40 PM

Jul 2016

litmus test for the FEC with these two, the complete history of how these two have been operating for years

Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie

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