State Party Officials Reportedly Displeased with Clinton-DNC 'Laundering' Scheme

[Karmadillo]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/02/state-party-officials-reportedly-displeased-clinton-dnc-laundering-scheme

Monday, May 02, 2016
State Party Officials Reportedly Displeased with Clinton-DNC 'Laundering' Scheme
Sanders campaign lambastes Clinton for 'looting funds meant for the state parties to skirt fundraising limits on her presidential campaign.'
byDeirdre Fulton, staff writer

Hillary Clinton's use of a so-called joint fundraising committee, through which her presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and 32 state party committees can solicit big-money donors, is under fire not just from rival Bernie Sanders, but also from state party officials and their allies, according to reporting by Politico.

Politico's deep dive into the latest Federal Election Commission filings, published Monday, shows that the Hillary Victory Fund "has transferred $3.8 million to the state parties, but almost all of that cash ($3.3 million, or 88 percent) was quickly transferred to the DNC, usually within a day or two, by the Clinton staffer who controls the committee."

The analysis continues:

By contrast, the victory fund has transferred $15.4 million to Clinton’s campaign and $5.7 million to the DNC, which will work closely with Clinton’s campaign if and when she becomes the party’s nominee. And most of the $23.3 million spent directly by the victory fund has gone towards expenses that appear to have directly benefited Clinton’s campaign, including $2.8 million for “salary and overhead” and $8.6 million for web advertising that mostly looks indistinguishable from Clinton campaign ads and that has helped Clinton build a network of small donors who will be critical in a general election expected to cost each side well in excess of $1 billion.

Unsurprisingly the arrangement is ruffling more than a few feathers, notably "among some participating state party officials and their allies," according to Politico reporters Kenneth P. Vogel and Isaac Arnsdorf. "They grumble privately that Clinton is merely using them to subsidize her own operation, while her allies overstate her support for their parties and knock Sanders for not doing enough to help the party."

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"Secretary Clinton has exploited the rules in ways that let her high-dollar donors like Alice Walton of Wal-Mart fame and the actor George Clooney and his super-rich Hollywood friends skirt legal limits on campaign contributions," Weaver said. "If Secretary Clinton can't raise the funds needed to run in a competitive primary without resorting to launderinga, how will she compete against Donald Trump in a general election?"

[arcane1]

1. Praised for "raising money for downticket Dems" and then defended for keeping the money?

Just when things can't seem to get any more crazy

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Exactly. n/t

[rhett o rick]

7. Her fans don't care at all what she does. Her toughness overrides everything else.

Heaven help out troops and their families if she becomes president. Why do I think that Cheney is smiling at the though of a neocon winning the Presidency.

[pdsimdars]

16. Kind of like Trump, raising funds for the Vets and then keeping it.

[nc4bo]

33. Even her talk of a noble cause is nothing but a bag full of her typical lies.

Remember when she said:

CLINTON: You're asking me to say, "have I ever?" I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever have. I don't believe I ever will. I am going to do the best I can to level with the American people.

Time for a refresher!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/18/hillary_clinton_wont_flatly_deny_she_will_never_lie_to_the_public.html

[arcane1]

39. "I don't believe I ever have" ALWAYS means "I have and will again" n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

38. It has to be laundered. How else are they going to get the stench of the Wal*Mart Waltons off of it!

[OilemFirchen]

2. The ever-reliable Commondreams...

citing the ever-reliable Politico, citing the ever-reliable anonymous sources.

What's not to like?

[libdem4life]

5. Isn't it convenient that her friends don't report on her goings on.

That leaves those who are not so friendly to do the task.

Get real ... slamming political/progressive sites and media outlets that don't kow tow is getting OLD.

Back to Shoot the Messenger, rather than defend or explain the facts as written. Shoddy.

[imagine2015]

6. So we should trust the always reliable Hillary who won't release her Wall Street transcripts.

Right.

I take it you don't like or approve of liberal websites like Common Dreams.

You must really hate The Nation and The Progressive!

What more conservative websites do you depend on for your news and information.

[OilemFirchen]

8. I've been a forty-year subscriber to The Nation.

I've always been impressed by their ability to maintain a high level of integrity despite often contentious internecine battles. I find the Progressive to be fairly reliable, though not as readable as in the past.

Common Dreams is garbage hipster faux-journalism. That they cite Politico - and specifically a typical unsourced crapfest - is evidence.

[rhett o rick]

10. And who do you think is "ever-reliable"? CNN, the Fox News for the Clinton Campaign? nm

[OilemFirchen]

12. I'm wasting my 4,00th post on this?

Whatever.

See my post, submitted before your question.

Y'know what happens when you ass?

[rhett o rick]

13. WTFrack? "Y'know what happens when you ass?" I guess not. nm

[pdsimdars]

17. We just dismiss what we don't want to hear, but always trust Hillary. . . .

People ain't buying that BS

[OilemFirchen]

22. Though I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with my post...

I trust no one implicitly.

[haikugal]

3. All that and still accusing Bernie of being dishonest and greedy...how Rovian. nt

[Kip Humphrey]

9. Standing in line for graft, then receiving none or crumbs is not good politics for the corrupt.

[Progressive dog]

11. Who is that Weaver guy who is complaining about

the fundraising? I wonder if he's the same Weaver who works for Bernie. Probably not, since Bernie signed the same joint fundraising agreement that Hillary's campaign is using. That would be dishonest not to disclose that and we know Bernie's campaign always claims to be honest.

[rhett o rick]

14. Did you read the article? It would have answered your question. The Clinton Campaign are

misusing the system to launder money. But I'm sure you don't care as to Clinton "The Ends Justify the Means."

[Progressive dog]

15. Actually I did read the article in Politico.

I noticed that Bernie raised no money for Democrats in the same period. Of course that would be expected.

[pdsimdars]

19. Well, that's a lie. He did raise money for specific candidates, not for the DNC.

[Progressive dog]

25. He raised money (sort of)

for 3 candidates, one of whom is running in the Democratic primary for congress in my district. She is coming off an illustrious political career of first trying to get the Working Family party nomination to run against the Dem. Gov. Cuomo in the general. When that nomination went to Cuomo, she challenged him in a primary and lost. So maybe the other two are Democrats, but she sure isn't.

[rhett o rick]

20. And you call yourself progressive. LOL. If you were really progressive you'd

find yourself on the opposite side of Clinton.

Progressives don't support:

The corruption of Big Money in government via Citizens United.
Job killing "Free Trade" agreements
Fracking for oil company profits over people's water quality.
Unregulated domestic spying and no oversight for the NSA/CIA Security State.
Drone killing of terrorist "suspects" in foreign lands (100 innocents killed for each suspect)
Prisons for Profits
American Exceptionalism as an excuse for neocon imperialism.

Progressives do support:

Strengthening Social Security (e.g., raising the cap)
Helping college students afford college (telling them to get a job doesn't cut it).
Making major corps pay their fair share of taxes
Reducing the defense budget
Taking a hard stand against torture and indefinite detention.
The end of the militarization of our local police forces.
The legalization of marijuana especially for medical use. Denying medical marijuana to those that need it is cruel.

[Progressive dog]

24. No I wouldn't, I want progress not

phony slogans. Slogans do not represent thought.

[rhett o rick]

28. LOL. You want progress for the Corporations. Tell me you don't support the TPP.

or fracking or the Patriot Act or denying medical marijuana to those suffering.

Speaking of phony slogans, name some progressive issues you support.

[Progressive dog]

29. Repeating your religious test

doesn't make it any less phony.
If I knew what you believed to be progressive, I still wouldn't bother feeding your problem of thinking outside of slogans.

[rhett o rick]

32. Just as I thought. You aren't any more progressive than Richard Nixon. nm

[Progressive dog]

34. That is funny coming from someone who

replaces thought with lists.

[pdsimdars]

18. come on, they don't actually READ things, just free associate on the headlines.

[DebDoo]

21. "They grumble privately that Clinton is merely using them to subsidize her own operation, while her

"They grumble privately that Clinton is merely using them to subsidize her own operation, while her allies overstate her support for their parties and knock Sanders for not doing enough to help the party."

[jwirr]

26. As a Bernie supporter and delegate I think it is ironic that

first they make our votes irrelevant by giving huge support to Hillary through these laundered donations and then they say we are not doing enough to support the party. The party quit helping my candidate the day they entered into this agreement.

And they are ignoring that the Bernie supporters are supporting party candidates outside the DNC system. We even have a pac for that purpose.

[Baobab]

31. This is what everybody i have spoke to about this thinks too.

>As a Bernie supporter and delegate I think it is ironic that
>first they make our votes irrelevant by giving huge support to Hillary through these laundered donations and then they say we are not >doing enough to support the party. The party quit helping my candidate the day they entered into this agreement.

>And they are ignoring that the Bernie supporters are supporting party candidates outside the DNC system. We even have a pac for that purpose.

Its getting old, this double standard.

[Live and Learn]

23. K&R nt

[kstewart33]

27. You need a more reputable source. nt

[riversedge]

30. common dreams trying to kick up dirt where there is none.

[w4rma]

40. You don't think that another Clinton con isn't important? Hillary only works for her self-promotion.

And within the Democratic Party, the Clintons sabotage Democrats.

[aikoaiko]

35. This claim deserves more investigation.

We have been down the road before.

Of course this is all too believable of the HRC campaign.

[Babel_17]

36. This is what needs to be looked at, the reactions of those the money is intended for, and ...

the reactions of the donors. Arguably, the donors opinions should count the most. But it's good to hear from a representative of a state party that is affected by how the money gets cut up.

Edit: I never really thought much of campaign finance law, I saw it in terms of the claim that Secretary Clinton, rather than Sanders, has been working hard for others. So that too is interesting, that some are saying the law might have been violated.

[Xyzse]

41. This was mentioned before, and is well known.

Washington Post has discussed this before, but there has been no actual investigation.

I know I have cited this issue quite a few times before.

Is there an Investigation to this now?