Brazile book excerpt may describe Joint Financing Agreement *after* primary was won [View all]

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In the absence of the signed, dated August 2015 agreement that Brazile claimed to find, this is the most likely scenario.

I submit Brazile’s excerpt about Clinton campaign control over the DNC is very likely in reference to an updated 2016 agreement entered after Clinton won the primary election. All signs are that the 2015 agreement had no provisions that gave the Clinton campaign unusual control over the DNC, and this is supported by supposed document leaks from last year.

News articles in August 2015 reported on the HFA JFA
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/dnc-democratic-committee-hillary-clinton-fundraising-agreement-2016-121813
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/27/clinton-campaign-signs-joint-fundraising-agreement-with-dnc/?utm_term=.bb7fa6bb2ffa

*No reference to provisions by which the Clinton campaign had control over DNC messaging or staffing*

The Bernie campaign signed a JFA in November 2015
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-2016-fundraising-dnc-215559
At various points described as the same or similar

The chief purpose of the agreements is to facilitate personal donations to the greater cause of the campaign in excess of limits on donation to a single entity through a loophole the Supreme Court opened in McCutcheon vs FEC striking down aggregate donation limits. Portions of funds must be segregated and reserved for the general campaign, whoever is the winner

This basic pattern disadvantaged Sanders over Clinton to the extent his campaign had far fewer large donors to take advantage of the arrangement

Starting in April 2016, the Sanders campaign loudly complained about the financing provisions of the HFA JFA. It did fundraise from small donors with this line
https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/sanders-clinton-dnc-campaign-finance-laws-222102
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sanders-accuses-dnc-clinton-campaign-illegal-scheme
https://berniesanders.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Bernie-2016-Letter-to-DNC-1.pdf
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/clinton-dnc-joint-fundraising-raises-serious-campaign-finance-concerns/


More complaints about the fundraising in May 2016
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little-for-state-parties-222670
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/politico-exposes-clinton-campaign-money-laundering-scheme/

I have not found that any actual violation was ever sustained. Our campaign finance laws are terrible after the Supreme Court gutted controls

Later in the year, a purported dump of John Podesta’s emails includes an unexecuted JFA with no language about control

Link to tweet

Clinton delegate count guarantees victory by June 7, 2016, widely reported

On Jun 9, CNN reports talks on a new JFA to start using funds for the general

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-dnc/index.html

“Hillary Clinton, in an effort to entirely turn her focus to the general election, will begin raising money for the general election and Democratic National Convention on Wednesday by filing paperwork on a new joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic Party, according to a spokesman.”

On Jun 16, CNN reports HFA has taken control of party
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/16/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-dnc/index.html
”Hillary Clinton's campaign is taking the reins of the Democratic National Committee, installing a new top official on Thursday to oversee the party's day-to-day operations through the general election…."

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