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Related: About this forumNo Other Candidate (Dem or GOP) Is Benefiting from Citizens' United Like Hillary
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/04/07/19521/how-citizens-united-helping-hillary-clinton-win-white-house
Hillary Clinton fashions herself as the ultimate general in a war against big-money politics.
You're not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me, Clinton said following the New Hampshire primary.
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Clintons massive campaign machine is built of the very stuff super PACs, secret cash, unlimited contributions she says shell attack upon winning the White House.
Indeed, a Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Clintons own election efforts are largely immune from her reformist platform. While Clinton rails against unaccountable money" that is corrupting our political system, corporations, unions and nonprofits bankrolled by unknown donors have already poured millions of dollars into a network of Clinton-boosting political organizations. Thats on top of the tens of millions an elite club of Democratic megadonors, including billionaires George Soros and Haim Saban, have contributed.
Hillary Clinton fashions herself as the ultimate general in a war against big-money politics.
You're not going to find anybody more committed to aggressive campaign finance reform than me, Clinton said following the New Hampshire primary.
snip
Clintons massive campaign machine is built of the very stuff super PACs, secret cash, unlimited contributions she says shell attack upon winning the White House.
Indeed, a Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Clintons own election efforts are largely immune from her reformist platform. While Clinton rails against unaccountable money" that is corrupting our political system, corporations, unions and nonprofits bankrolled by unknown donors have already poured millions of dollars into a network of Clinton-boosting political organizations. Thats on top of the tens of millions an elite club of Democratic megadonors, including billionaires George Soros and Haim Saban, have contributed.
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No Other Candidate (Dem or GOP) Is Benefiting from Citizens' United Like Hillary (Original Post)
amborin
May 2016
OP
I get it, I just disagree. Trump is too great a risk to not use all means possible.
YouDig
May 2016
#10
Bigger liar, or bigger hypocrite? Such a tough call. The morons who support her swear she'll
Doctor_J
May 2016
#8
KPN
(15,677 posts)1. Boom! Or it should be -- doubt it here at DU these days.
Not enough Democrats left around here it seems.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)2. She needs to beat Trump. Use all legal means available.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)5. Even the ones we are against because two wrongs make a right. nt
YouDig
(2,280 posts)7. I'm against the law, but while it's the law, you use all legal means.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)9. I understand your reasoning and I hope you can understand mine.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)10. I get it, I just disagree. Trump is too great a risk to not use all means possible.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)11. I feel the same way.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)3. K&R! Thank you for this excellent post.
and SPOT FUCKING ON!
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)4. It's all for the GE
Bernie outspent Hillary in the primaries. The pacs are for a GE. So what?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)13. Copy/pasted talking point says what?
Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)14. That was an intelligent response!
Way to go!
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)6. It 's occurred to me that there's a bit of pulling the ladder up behind you
to Hillary's claims of campaign finance reform - she milking the current system for all it's worth-yet says she'll change it?
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)8. Bigger liar, or bigger hypocrite? Such a tough call. The morons who support her swear she'll
nominate a justice who will overturn this abomination. Completely decoupled from reality.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)12. Legalized money laundering, and she's cashing in big-time. Even scamming downticket Dems.
It's how crooks roll.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)15. and that's why she'll never try to kill it
sand MSM dosent' want that golden goose killed either. Probablby another reason MSM is with her (and part of the problem)