In a letter to the DNC, the Sanders campaign describes how Clinton may be commingling funds between her joint fundraising committee with the DNC’s Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) and her campaign fund Hillary For America (HFA) by having HVA subsidize and even make “impermissible in-kind” contributions to HFA directly.

The letter points out that $15 million was used from the HVF for direct mail and online solicitations solely for Clinton, meaning the small donor return would only benefit one campaign and not be disbursed amongst the committee. The letter further states that the HVF is paying Clinton campaign staffers on an over reimbursement basis, allowing the committee to inject large sums of money into her campaign at any given time.

A recent filing with Federal Elections Committee cited that over 9 million dollars was given to HFA by HVF while less than 2 million was disbursed to the other committee members.

DESPERATE Sanders supporters. Beyond ridiculous !

But he might have. FEC after him.

If only there was a way to take public money out of politics.

rather than a guy who hates the party and doesn't want to see it succeed.

FDR might disagree with you.

If centrist is what Democrat has become, then we are fucked as a country.

Did this all start when Dukakis ran away from the "liberal" label like it was the plague? Why are progressive ideals now a bad thing?

And if he hated the party and didn't want it to succeed, he would have run as an Independent. Is that really what you want?

By "actual Democrat" I mean someone who has been a registered Democrat for more than one election cycle, and who has raised funds for down ticket Democrats and the Democratic party, and who has shown a willingness to put her ego aside for the good of the party (endorsing Obama in 2008 after a long and bitter primary campaign).

Not some third party saboteur who baselessly accuses the party of breaking federal law and sues it, and then sends fundraising emails out to trash the party that is hosting him.

We're going to reject him hard tonight.

Maybe you should sit the next few plays out...

Good ... You've finally exposed yourself...

and who has raised funds for down ticket Democrats and the Democratic party, and who has shown a willingness to put her ego aside for the good of the party (endorsing Obama in 2008 after a long and bitter primary campaign).

Hope that works out in the GE.

I assume I won't see you complaining about independents that would have voted for Sanders not voting for Clinton, because, you know, you want this all done with "actual Democrats."

about which party and candidate will better serve the nation in office.

If someone thinks Donald Trump is better than Hillary Clinton, then no I don't want that person to help choose our party leadership.


By the way, plenty of moderate voters would vote for Clinton but not Sanders.

You think you get to just piss all over these people in the primaries and talk about how they just want free stuff and aren't real Democrats and aren't reliable voters and are just sexist Bernie Bros and then just expect them to forget all of that in the fall. You know that the likelihood isn't that they won't vote for the Republican but just won't vote because they have been so turned off by their reception. And probably won't become Democrats down the road, either, because it is being made clear that this isn't the party for progressives.

Independents are usually more than happy to tell anyone who will listen that they are not Democrats.

Sanders supporters would have a lot more cred on their cries of having to take it had they not dished it out with such zeal about how everyone who didn't vote for Sanders was a corrupt neocon neoliberal low information establishment drone.

I have been a progressive Democrat for over 30 years. I'm sick and tired of having to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. I'll be 50 when I vote this time around. If Clinton gets the nomination, I don't know how many more times I can do that. It would be nice if the party actually represented me. The only time I've feel really good about it was when I got to vote for Feingold. I will get to do that again this fall, so that will be enjoyable.

Both of my kids are millennials. Both are strikingly progressive. Neither one knows if they can vote for Clinton because they dislike her so much.

And pardon those of us that are upset that our party has been co-opted by centrists. I'm a progressive and would like our party to go back to that. YMMV.

Obama
Bush
Clinton
Bush
Reagan
Carter
Nixon
LBJ
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Truman
FDR

It started earlier but that was the first obvious symptom

The DLC was the obvious manifestation. The hard truth is that neoliberalism is not compatible with things like Climate change so it has already peaked. There are also revolts already starting. If we survive as a species, the war in Iraq and the Arab Spring, as well as Occupy will be seen as the beginning of that.

Oh I do not expect hyper partisans to understand why either

I think a lot of young voters that are progressives are going to be turned off to the Democratic party if Clinton gets the nomination. Hopefully that fuels something.

Also, hilarious.

And that's tonight.

Get used to it.

contributions will greatly increase after he's neatly put away in tonight's NY contest. Since the OP was concerned about Hillary's cash flow, I thought I could give him some reassurance.

friends find away around campaign finance law.

Maybe she can still agree to take matching funds...

So now she can lay chilly and prepare for the GE.

Hillary's is not the only one that may be in trouble the DNC could be bought in by conspiring go outside of the law to get money into Hillary's campaign.

the nomination and she will NEVER be president

I guess this means Sanders supporters are beating her at her own game!

She never saw that coming! Poetic justice.

What is it, you can have it both ways?

and loses.

I'll bet she won't put much of her own money in though. And that should tell us something about what she thinks of her own chances. She knows she's in deep shit with the FBI.

"Jeez, Hill, again? Okay, okay, I'll set it up. But could you choose a different subject than 'My Favorite Recipes' this time? Four of my most productive employees came down with food poisoning after that one. They really liked your 'Household Hints: How to Instruct Your Chief of Staff on Proper Discipline of the Servants', though. Maybe something along those lines?..."

There are no factual sources cited, no quantifiable data, no original news story referenced, it's just a blogger's rambling stream of consciousness.

If you were aware that this was nothing more than an anonymous personal rant then you've naively wasted everyone's time just to promote some badly written partisan puffery and all your posts should be suspect. Worse, if you weren't able to distinguish between the opinion of an unknown blogger and a legitimate news story, or at least the biased and well written commentary from the professional punditry class, then your posts are a total waste of time outside the one group.

On this already.

Anything that disagrees with that is obviously part of the Giant Right Wing Conspiracy (tm) and must be ignored!

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The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
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Of course not.

To check things

not small donors, new donors, or the big money bundlers, or the outside groups working on her behalf. Bernie beat Clinton in recent fundraising, and that's what prompted this blogger to claim that "Hillary is going broke", and calling her "cash strapped Clinton", even though Open Secrets has Hillary raising a total of $159,903,968, and Bernie $139,810,841.

Additionally, not all the money that Clinton raises is flowing into her campaign coffers, but going to other democrats down ballot, and as yet, Bernie isn't too keen on helping other democratic candidates. George Clooney's recent fundraiser collected as much as $353,000 per couple, but only the first $2,700 went to Clinton, the next $33,400 to the DNC and the rest to state parties. He talked about this in an interview with Chuck Todd that aired April 17 on "Meet the Press":

"The overwhelming amount of money that we're raising, and it is a lot, but the overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising is not going to Hillary to run for president, it's going to the down-ticket."

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/apr/17/george-clooney/george-clooney-decries-big-money-politics-says-mos/

Had I made any claims as to the source you would have had a point, I suppose. I'll be the best judge of how I spend my time here.

When you choose to link to a blog post with no factual citation, you've already made the point that you're more interested to tossing out these little firecrackers as chum. No doubt, it's one way to spend your time here, although it seems to be an oddly self limiting undertaking with a short shelf life.

campaigning.

And as to down ticket money - read How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties and see how much money they get back out of the deal in the end. Very little.

but this proud supporter sent in $100 yesterday - keep up the good work!

She has spent years preparing for the race. Money and manipulation have been top considerations. She is loaded but has money she cannot spend evidently. And her focus on only top top givers who are topped out at this point means she has not asked little people for support. Maybe she needs to ask! If she stands up and goes public, I am sure many people will support her. Not me, but I am aware of her amazing support in the general public. Future candidates take note! You need to build a relationship with the little guys!

Maybe George Clooney can shake down some more friends of his.

And if you put your trust in the people, you can't lose (to paraphrase Lincoln)

Hillary put her trust in money, in mammon. Don't say they didn't warn you.

It would have to be charity since there's really nothing important in them .. right?

eom

And Bernie is sucking up a lot of dollars, closing off many funding avenues that would be open to Hillary were he not doing as well as he is. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, and, apparently, nobody expects Bernie Sanders either.

Wouldn't have given to Hillary. I sure as hell wouldn't .

must be rough.

"Brother, Can You Spare 200K?"

What I can't understand is why the main$tream, Corporate Propaganda Machine, American Pravda doesn't just let Hill run all of her commercials FOR FREE! Seriously, they might as well. It's not as if they hold any pretense towards a lack of bias towards her. The Powers That Be desperately prefer her to Bernie, this is clear to anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear.

with the 33 state democratic parties - so that they can by-pass the $2,700 limit.

Hillary has had a huge advantage in the race for money - she has all kinds of corporate donors as well as superPac money to run her campaign. And she is close to broke? I don't think she is very efficient when it comes to working on a budget. How is she going to do with our national budget?

On the other hand so far Bernie has a lot less resources and is running an excellent campaign with the money he has.