Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders, answer why your presidential campaign even needs a dark money group
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/02/02/bernie-sanders-campaign-dark-money-our-revolution-editorials-debates/4556051002/
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Sanders founded Our Revolution
This year brings a new chapter in the story. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has created, and is the beneficiary of, a new kind of dark money group called Our Revolution.
OUR REVOLUTION: Our mission is much more than electing Bernie Sanders
What makes Our Revolution different is that it is designed to advance Sanders cause against other Democrats in the primaries, rather than against a Republican in a general election. Its one thing to say you have to play the dark money game because the other side surely will. It is quite another to be first off the mark in bringing its corrosive powers into a new area.
Sanders has long been a big critic of money in politics, often criticizing political action committees and the candidates who benefit from them. To then go out and found a group like Our Revolution is hypocritical.
Before and after Iowa caucuses
Our Revolution claims to voluntarily report all donors who give more than $250. But it doesn't file documents with any agency, provide identifying information about individuals or specify how much they gave.
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more background
Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns
Bernie Sanders says he doesnt want a super PAC. Instead, he has Our Revolution, a nonprofit political organization he founded that functions much the same as one.
https://apnews.com/345bbd1af529cfb1e41305fa3ab1e604
WASHINGTON (AP)
Like a super PAC, which is shorthand for super political action committee, Our Revolution can raise unlimited sums from wealthy patrons that dwarf the limits faced by candidates and conventional PACs. Unlike a super PAC, however, the group doesnt have to disclose its donors a stream of revenue commonly referred to as dark money.
Now, with less than one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, Our Revolution appears to be skirting campaign finance law, which forbids groups founded by federal candidates and officeholders from using large donations to finance federal election activity, including Sanders 2020 bid.
A debate over big money in politics has riven the Democratic primary with Sanders and fellow progressive, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, leading the attack on rivals including former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who have relied on big-dollar donors.
But while Warren has come under fire for courting wealthy financiers in her past Senate campaigns, Sanders and Our Revolution have largely avoided scrutiny during the primary, even as he has accelerated his criticism of others, among them Biden, for relying on super PACs founded by their allies.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
still_one
(92,250 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hypocrite.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bluewater
(5,376 posts)Which part of the country are you currently in?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)2. How's Sweden?
Which part of the country are you currently in?
So you are saying...
They are not a US citizen? You know that for a fact? You seem to doubt their facts and frankly attack them. We have many posters, US citizens that do not live here. We have others that are not and I love their imput.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,422 posts)I have always been open about my background since I joined, so they probably knew about the Sweden part
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,793 posts)Diss people that do not live here that they
have no right to an opinion when in fact they are citizens.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,422 posts)I did live in the US for several years as an adult, I have travelled extensively there, plus I am a political junkie of some sorts, so feel up to the task of contributing here overall. Trump is a global threat, as is the entire Republican party, so waters edge with an ocean between is not a true barrier to the negative impacts, unfortunately.
Nice little corridor of tension if things go pear shaped with Russia and the Baltics.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bluewater
(5,376 posts)I was just curious about what part of the country you were in, I have friends in Gothenburg.
I don't know why that other poster went off the deep end about me asking.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,422 posts)Hugz
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bluewater
(5,376 posts)Where did you get that from?
They mentioned they were currently living in Sweden in a previous post, and I just asked what part of the country they were currently in.
Pardon me for wanting to discuss places I like learning more about.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(43,422 posts)Södermalm atm to be more precise
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
squirecam
(2,706 posts)When he made the 40 billionaires attack with this info.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Bernie was just on CNN bragging to Jake Tapper that Our Revolution doesn't take money from billionaires. Well, how would anybody really know since Sanders hides the donors in violation of campaign finance law?
https://www.commoncause.org/resource/common-cause-v-our-revolution-soft-money-violation/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,278 posts)let the vetting begin.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)....he has several other national organizations that are openly supporting him:
Justice Democrats (PAC)
Sunshine Movement
Democratic Socialists of America (PAC)
People's Action (Super PAC)
Center for Popular Democracy (Independent Expenditure group)
National Nurses United (Super PAC)
Friends of the Earth (Independent Expenditure group)
Plus, his campaign hasn't disclosed the names, locations, or other data for 70% of his contributions.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Gabbard was caught at a fundraiser Republican donors held for her. Our Revolution's also not allowed to accept more than $5000 from any one donor and Sanders is accepting hundreds of thousands. Same thing the Trump campaign got in trouble over.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,546 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden