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kcjohn1

(751 posts)
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:30 PM Apr 2016

Clinton: $350K per couple elite event vs Sanders: Speech on inequality

I'm amazed by the response by not only media but supposed democrats on this issue. It's like we live in alternative world where Sanders gets critized for giving a public speech on global equailty and social justice but no word on Clinton leaving the campaign trail to attend private fundraiser where couples are paying $350K to share a table with her.

Mind boggling they concern troll Sanders "leaving campaign trail" but aren't bothered by Clinton spending the bulk of her time fundraising with the global elite. In their world they can defend fundraisers but can't stand someone attending a conference on "social, economic and environmental issues"

FYI Hillary event is in SF on the 15th. Flight time from NYC to SF is 6hours. Flight time from NYC to Rome is 8hours. They both will essentially lose 1 day of campaigning. Sanders isn't selling his soul to highest bidder, but instead giving social, economic, and environment issues higher profile.

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Clinton: $350K per couple elite event vs Sanders: Speech on inequality (Original Post) kcjohn1 Apr 2016 OP
HRC - Duplicity Is As Duplicity Does cantbeserious Apr 2016 #1
How is this possible? GoldenSF Apr 2016 #2
Money laundering and superpacs.... daleanime Apr 2016 #5
Probably what Cenk talked about a few days ago pdsimdars Apr 2016 #6
Legalized Money Laundering kcjohn1 Apr 2016 #7
Read: How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State jwirr Apr 2016 #10
It's basically a temporary slush fund that Hillary can use to promote her campaign with think Apr 2016 #13
And after reading this it is very clear that the DNC and this jwirr Apr 2016 #18
It also buys superdelegates. How convenient. CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #15
Yes, as a delegate from my district I am really sick of this jwirr Apr 2016 #19
And we're told to get over it. Damn, could it be more obvious? CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #20
Oh I have no fear of getting over it. Things are only going to jwirr Apr 2016 #21
Thank you. PatrickforO Apr 2016 #3
The Truth Avalon Sparks Apr 2016 #4
Excellent analysis! nt 2cannan Apr 2016 #9
No one is denying that is what the ruling class is doing. But jwirr Apr 2016 #12
Yea, who is this Jew giving freely to help the poor? pdsimdars Apr 2016 #8
She's speaking to the people most repsonsible for inequality... scscholar Apr 2016 #11
LOL it - it's so obvious Avalon Sparks Apr 2016 #14
Some Dems are full-blown corporatists. Broward Apr 2016 #16
THey hijacked the Party Avalon Sparks Apr 2016 #17
Ding ding ding. rachacha Apr 2016 #24
K&R CharlotteVale Apr 2016 #22
What's good for the goose is TOTALLY HEINOUS for the gander! nt mhatrw Apr 2016 #23

GoldenSF

(27 posts)
2. How is this possible?
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:36 PM
Apr 2016

I thought the campaign limit was $2700 per person. How does she get away with charging $350k ($175k per person)?

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
6. Probably what Cenk talked about a few days ago
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:41 PM
Apr 2016

Where they aren't really fund raising for Hillary but for the DNC (wink wink) And then the DNC will fund Hillary.

kcjohn1

(751 posts)
7. Legalized Money Laundering
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:42 PM
Apr 2016

Basically it either goes to her SuperPac or "Hillary Victory Fund".

The way they get around the limits is for them to contribute $2,700 to her, and the rest to the DNC, and democrat state parties. These parties than reroute the funds to the Hillary Victory Fund which allows her to control how the money is used. The whole she is raising money for others is a big scam, and MSM hacks like Maddow instead of reporting on it, actually propagandize for her by saying she is actually raising money for others.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
10. Read: How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:48 PM
Apr 2016

Democratic Parties. That will answer your questions.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
13. It's basically a temporary slush fund that Hillary can use to promote her campaign with
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:12 PM
Apr 2016
Democratic Party fundraising effort helps Clinton find new donors, too

By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger February 20 2016

~Snip~

A record 32 state parties signed on to the fund, allowing the committee to solicit donations 130 times greater than what a supporter can give to Clinton’s campaign for the primary.

But the states have yet to see a financial windfall. Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer.

~Snip~

The early, expansive use of a jumbo-size joint fundraising committee shows how the Clinton campaign has worked to maximize donations from wealthy supporters, seizing on rules loosened by the Supreme Court.

Many states were wary of joining the effort, worried that such a partnership would be perceived as an endorsement of Clinton and might interfere with their efforts to raise money from home state donors. But campaign officials — including Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns — emphasized that this was a way to strengthen the party at its roots, a message Clinton echoed in the speech she delivered at the Minneapolis meeting to DNC members.

~Snip~

So far, the state parties have served only as a pass-through for their share of the funds. Campaign finance records show that nearly $2 million in donations to the fund initially routed last year to individual state party accounts was immediately transferred to the DNC, which is laboring to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

~Snip~

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lawrence Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) who is now with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “Joint victory funds are not intended to be separate operating committees that just support a single candidate. But they appear to be turning the traditional notion of a joint committee into a Hillary fundraising committee.”...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-party-fundraising-effort-helps-clinton-find-new-donors-too/2016/02/19/b8535cea-d68f-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
18. And after reading this it is very clear that the DNC and this
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:41 PM
Apr 2016

deal are for one purpose. To fund Hillary Clinton's campaign. So much for being neutral. I have no intention to donate to any of the organizations linked to this deal.

I am hoping that it will be brought up at the state conventions and ended immediately.

We have a district convention coming up next month I hope to be able to discuss is there.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
19. Yes, as a delegate from my district I am really sick of this
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:46 PM
Apr 2016

whole picture. IF the wonder why we think of staying home in November - I cannot think of a better reason.

 

CentralCoaster

(1,163 posts)
20. And we're told to get over it. Damn, could it be more obvious?
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:58 PM
Apr 2016

The Family Foundations are money laundering enterprises.

The Secretary of State used the office to make deals for Fossil Fuel and Arms interests, and others.

Taxpayer national resources were used to grease the skids, and then the Secretary leaves to pursue the presidency.

Add to this picture Super PACs and you have the perfect wholesale end of democracy, sold to the highest bidders and all hidden from view by a complicit MSM and DNC.

And we're supposed to get over it.

Avalon Sparks

(2,566 posts)
4. The Truth
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:40 PM
Apr 2016

It’s important not to lose sight of the one truth she’s been telling, and will continue to tell, the voters: things will not get better. Ever.

The American ruling class has been trying to figure out for years, if not decades, how to manage decline, how to get Americans to get used to diminished expectations, how to adapt to the notion that life for the next generation will be worse than for the previous generation, and now, how to accept low to zero growth rates as the new economic normal. Clinton’s campaign message isn’t just for Bernie voters; it’s for everyone.

When the leading candidate of the more left of the two parties is saying that – and getting the majority of its voters to embrace that message – the work of the American ruling class is done.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
12. No one is denying that is what the ruling class is doing. But
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:53 PM
Apr 2016

unlike you we are interested in trying to stop it one more time.

And Bernie is not promising anything will just magically happen. Any change will take time and will demand all of us take part in it over the long haul.

And even if it is impossible I would much rather go down with Bernie than with Hillary who got hers and does not care the least about the rest of us.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
8. Yea, who is this Jew giving freely to help the poor?
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:44 PM
Apr 2016

He's not getting paid any "speaker's fee". He is just donating his time to try to give the voiceless a voice. While Hillary is trying to give the powerful a stronger voice.

Now, which one is the true Christian? The one doing what Christ said to do, or the other worshiping mammon*.

(*Mammon / ˈ m æ m ən / in the New Testament of the Bible means money or material wealth and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain.)

 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
11. She's speaking to the people most repsonsible for inequality...
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 03:49 PM
Apr 2016

so that should count for something.

Broward

(1,976 posts)
16. Some Dems are full-blown corporatists.
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:34 PM
Apr 2016

It's a shame that the Party is now infested with right-wingers.

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