What is Donna Brazile's agenda?

[moriah]

37. You are very misinformed, and that's part of the problem here.

OpenSecrets.org shows it is untrue. You can see what state parties transferred to the DNC in total for those states that actually report it.

In North Carolina, the HVF gave them $3.4 million. The DNC gave them $12 million. They transferred back less than half a mil to each.

Until the primaries were officially over, which could have happened sooner but late primary states did deserve their chance to vote and I think suppressing that would have suppressed GE voter turnout, the HVF could not release money to states. The Politico article making the "money laundering" accusations was done before the primaries were over and those funds, by the agreement, had to be used for the general election.

Yes, in some states like Mississippi, which apparently raised absolutely zip on their own, transferred most of $3+ million from the HVF back to the DNC. Which distributed it to states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. For the General Election for a state that had absolutely nothing in play, that is a strategy that makes sense for winning an election.

Joint fundraising agreements always include provisions to raise money for the candidate directly, because they bundle donations to the candidate, the national party, and the states. So the fact less than a third of the total money raised went to HFA isn't some conspiracy, but how joint fundraising agreements work.

The states did not "get screwed", and would have been a hell of a lot worse off without the JFA because she was the only one able/wlling to solicit the money the party would need to win. The fact we won the majority of the popular vote demonstrates it wasn't an entire failure. The states benefited from the money raised during the General Election -- which was its entire purpose.