2016 Postmortem
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http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/04/are-hillary-clinton-and-the-dnc-skirting-election-law/Deutsch, now lead counsel to Senator Bernie Sanders campaign for President, would seem to be well qualified in defining what is and is not legal under Federal election law. From 2006 to 2014, Deutsch was Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Advisor to Commissioner Steven T. Walther at the FEC. Prior to that, he served as Assistant General Counsel at the FEC from 2004 to 2006 where he supervised a team of Federal election law attorneys.
The joint fundraising committee set up by the Clinton campaign is called the Hillary Victory Fund. Its Treasurer, Elizabeth Jones, doubles as the Chief Operating Officer for Hillary Clintons main campaign fund, Hillary for America. The joint committee was supposed to financially benefit the Hillary campaign, the DNC, and 32 state committees that agreed to come on board. The concept, in theory, is to raise joint funds to benefit the broader Democratic party and congressional candidates running for office. But by ramping up the joint fundraising committee before the primary races have concluded, before Hillary is even the partys nominee, and with her own people in charge of the joint committee, it has created the growing perception that this so-called joint effort is really just a ham-fisted appendage of a political machine that wants to skip the quaintness of primary voting and let big donors install the Democratic partys candidate.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... so badly?
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(11,641 posts)it's a big shell game....
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...to which she feels entitled. Laws are just for the little people to follow. Nixon in a pantsuit.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)It is dishonest, and a shell game, however it is legal, much like how Multi-Corporations, and Big Banks are able to manipulate the economy and gamble away using the system, while everyone else has to bail them out... It is legal.
Again, these fund raisers, where they do bundling of donations, skirting the donation limits by having State Parties sign up for this for funds that should be going to them(they have not, they say it will be done at some point).
Somehow or another, it does make me question how they spend their money.
Especially as their campaign is the one that gets in to trouble paying and tipping the venues that host their gatherings.
As it is technically legal, and it is also an extension of how things are usually done, it once again shows the limitations of the campaign finance reform, and the rule system. It just allows me to appreciate the small donor and grass roots movements even more.
Clinton is a master of using the system to her advantage. So, technically she has done nothing wrong, it just shows how the current system is not working properly. Please note, that now that the Republicans know this can be done, they will use the self-same method on other elections, as that is what usually happens.