MI-GOV: Abdul continues his daily scorched earth attacks against Whitmer.

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173. Oh dear...

This sounds like the same type of misunderstanding of the complexities of political financial management that led the unfortunate Dr. El-Sayed to lodge a libelous “money laundering” criminal accusation (which he later back peddled into a mere “legal money laundering” smear) against his opponent.

The Onward Together noncharitable, not-for-profit, membership organization exists as a 501(c) (4) for fundraising purposes. This is fully disclosed and clearly stated if you donate via a disclosure link on the donation page.
https://www.onwardtogether.org/disclosure/

Onward Together CMTE also exists as a committee pac.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00640490

Finally, the third entity under this umbrella is the Onward Together PAC, structured as a superpac. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&strID=C00638874

As I stated earlier, I have no problem with the way Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean structured the fundraising apparatus for their political activism. They have not spent the better part of three years slandering other Democrats concerning donations. I trust them.

Our Revolution, on the other hand, identifies itself as a “501(c)(4) corporation”, but the information is not contained at their “disclosure” link.
https://ourrevolution.com/disclosure-policy/

If you want “transparency”, you might find it serendipitously by seeking out and scrolling through the Our Revolution corporate bylaws. None of this information is available on or through the donation page; it takes a bit of digging or luck. If you click on the “about” tab, scroll down to the bottom, bypass the useless “disclosure” link, and read the bylaws of the corporation, you can find the information. It can also be found in the fine print at the very bottom of the “about” page.

On the "donation" page itself, there is a whole new level of opacity. You cannot donate directly to Our Revolution. You must donate to “Act Blue Civics" a registered charitable organization formed to democratize social welfare giving” which then disperses the money back to OR.

I was distressed to read the tale of poor Mr. Koscielniak’s struggle to cancel a recurring donation. Perhaps next time he should simply do what most adults would do: call the credit card company.

It woud have quick and easy, but Mr. Koscielniak would not have gotten his picture in the newspaper and Common Cause would not have had the opportunity to make speculative accusations while linking Hillary, Barack, and Karl Rove together all the while ignoring the elephant in the room: the remarkably opaque Our Revolution which preaches what it doesn’t practice.

As I stated earlier, I trust Citizen Activist Hillary Clinton; “Senator” Nina Turner is another matter altogether.