Sanders NY PAC Uses GoFundMe for Questionable Fund Raising

[Her Sister]

https://gobling.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/sanders-ny-pac-uses-gofundme-for-questionable-fund-raising/

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The crowdfunding came to light in a tweet that included (“tagged”) Ben Jealous, former NAACP chair and venture capitalist who publicly endorsed Sanders in his bid for the nomination. (show twitter in link) Rubino asserts that the GoFundMe accounts are legal. However, the Lawn Signs account includes a photo of the contract signed between Park Outdoor and Progressive Believers PAC. Under campaign finance regulations, all PACs (political action committees) must be registered and submit reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). A search of the FEC for Keith Rubino did not return a result. Likewise a search for “Progressive Believers PAC” in the FEC Candidate and Committee Viewer found no such committee.

The rules regarding “Individual Expenditures” state the following:

While there is no limit on how much anyone may spend on an independent expenditure, the law does require persons making independent expenditures to report them and to disclose the sources of the funds they used.

The absence of the Progressive Believers PAC among fundraising entities in the FEC indicates that Rubino’s fundraising for the Sanders presidential campaign may not be legal.

Rubino uses his occupational email account at Oswego State University as his contact, which draws the public institution into political campaign funding, also contrary to FEC regulations.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Ooopsie. Here comes another FEC letter to the Sanders campaign!

[KewlKat]

2. A gift.........now that's get some pundits on this one!!!!

I wonder how his employer will feel about this connection?

Rubino uses his occupational email account at Oswego State University as his contact, which draws the public institution into political campaign funding, also contrary to FEC regulations.

[KewlKat]

3. Hmmm....Progressive Believers have a contract that says their a PAC.

Rubino asserts that the GoFundMe accounts are legal. However, the Lawn Signs account includes a photo of the contract signed between Park Outdoor and Progressive Believers PAC.

Under campaign finance regulations, all PACs (political action committees) must be registered and submit reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

A search of the FEC for Keith Rubino did not return a result. Likewise a search for “Progressive Believers PAC” in the FEC Candidate and Committee Viewer found no such committee.

[Her Sister]

4. The Actual title of the article is

Fake Sanders NY PAC Uses GoFundMe for Questionable Fund Raising

[CalvinballPro]

5. More open right-wing tactics. We're well beyond the Kitchen Sink Phase now.

Why bother to learn the rules when feigning ignorance is your planned defense for explaining why you broke them?

[LAS14]

6. Is there a list somewhere of FEC letters...

... to Sanders? Have any been sent to Hillary?

[Her Sister]

7. That website has articles on all these FEC issues

and they put the link to all the FEC letters in question. The author seems to be good in investigative writing.

https://gobling.wordpress.com/

[George II]

8. The rules don't apply to them - fundraising, contribution limits, foreign contributions....

....PACs but no PACs, superdelegates. Where does it end?

And they call Clinton's nomination a "coronation"?