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KPN

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11. Here. This doesn't prove anything definitively but does give the DCCC
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 01:21 PM
Dec 2017

wiggle room to withhold funding based on "shared values", focusing on "holding Republicans accountable", and not engaging "in tactics that do harm to our chances of winning a General
Election".

Given the stuff that has been perceived to occur in the past, I can see how this agreement template might cause some concerns regarding things like discouraging debate within the party re: values, giving candidates who have and take super PAC backing an edge over grassroot campaigns via the "no "tactics that do harm" clause, etc.; super-PACS can engage in those tactics directly while candidates can't.

Again, nothing definitive, but cause for concern among progressives who eschew corporate and Wall Street campaign contributions. Question is: are the concerns legitimate? I'm inclined to say let's not over-react to this stuff, but the party needs to be aware of the potential concern.

[link:https://mic.com/articles/186648/is-the-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-stifling-dissent-within-the-party#.Rm29QX3jO|

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