BREAKING: DNC FUNNELLING MONEY TO HILLARY

[Halliburton]

Behind the scenes at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis last August, campaign officials for Hillary Clinton were making a hard sell to the state parties.

In private huddles, they urged state officials to sign onto an ambitious fundraising endeavorthat would allow Clinton’s presidential bid, the DNC and the state parties to scoop up and share big checks from wealthy donors. It would mark the earliest creation of a joint fundraising committee between a presidential candidate and the party, and it would be the biggest ever, thanks to a 2014 Supreme Court decision that knocked down a cap on how much donors could give to federal campaigns in a single year.

A record 32 state parties signed on to the fund, allowing the committee to solicit donations 130 times greater than what a supporter can give to Clinton’s campaign for the primary.

But the states have yet to see a financial windfall. Meanwhile, Clinton’s own campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-party-fundraising-effort-helps-clinton-find-new-donors-too/2016/02/19/b8535cea-d68f-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html

Pretty telling that even with Lil' Debbie's shennanigans, Hillary is still struggling to find enough donors to keep her extravagant campaign afloat

[djean111]

1. Which is why they will never again get a penny from me. n/t

[MissDeeds]

9. Me either

I've been a Democrat all my life, but after the way the party hierarchy has tried to thwart the democratic process in this primary, I'm done. After voting for Bernie in the caucus, my husband and I are switching our affiliation to Independent.

[Duval]

101. The Democratic Party has abandoned us.

We're thinking the same, MissDeeds. If she wins, at least Bernie and the rest of us have started a real movement. Bernie will be too old to run in 8 years, but someone will come along to pick up and continue his message.

[Lunabell]

112. In Florida you can't vote in the primaries unless you register to either party.

That is the only reason I am not an Independent.

[djean111]

121. My grandson just changed his registration from Independent (he was not thinking when he registered,

he meant to register non-affiliated) to Democrat last week. So he could vote for Bernie in the primary.
He works at a large grocery store, all his co-workers are for Bernie (and they are outraged over the TPP!), one manager seems to be for Trump, and Hillary only gets "NO, not Hillary" remarks. They are not to talk about politics in the break-room, of course. But he has seen a few Bernie stickers, no Hillary stickers, and no Trump or any other GOP stickers. A few old Romney stickers.

[Eleanors38]

15. "Right, right. You're bloody-well right."

[Ferd Berfel]

51. Zero Integrity

They might as well - I will not lift a finger to help Hillary or the DNC

[840high]

56. Or me.

[WillyT]

82. + 1,000,000,000 - What You Said !!!

[Zorra]

120. +1 nt

[Fearless]

2. Good luck with this strategy.

[roguevalley]

50. she is dead to me.

Indict her already

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. It sucks when your opponent has no low information voters, because then they read stories like this.

They don't appreciate stories like this. They react appropriately. Polls reflect that. And here we are with a real horse race.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. CORRUPT TO THE CORE! I want a TRUSTWORTHY, HONEST, DECENT, HONORABLE AND AUTHENTIC PRESIDENT!

Bernie Sanders!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[cui bono]

6. +1,000,000!!!

[dchill]

10. +1,000,001

[nc4bo]

25. +1,000,002!

[hifiguy]

38. 1,000,003!

[Mudcat]

53. +1,000,003 (& another $3 to Bern)

[840high]

58. .+10

[cantbeserious]

79. Plus Billions And Billions And Billions

eom

[Dr Hobbitstein]

115. You're posting lies from a site who's banner states

"Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias". You don't even try to hide it anymore, do you?

[SCantiGOP]

117. How many paid trolls you think we have on here?

Just wondering what you think

[farleftlib]

91. + billions

Every time I turn around she's sucking at another trough of dirty money.

[truebluegreen]

113. + a brazillion!

[Katashi_itto]

5. They will never get a penny from me ever.

[Matariki]

11. They don't need our pennies

They've got their shiny new rule allowing unlimited funds from lobbyists & PAC donations. They don't need us except to vote. Which we'll do because "do you want Donald Trump to win???"

[Katashi_itto]

21. Sorry that threat no longer moves me.

If its death by a thousand paper cuts by Hillary or A bullet to the head by a Republican. I will take the quick one.

[Matariki]

27. In my more cynical moments I sometimes suspect collusion

when the difference between parties are mainly culture war stuff while both 'sides' quietly give corporate powers everything they want.

[Katashi_itto]

35. Exactly! I am done with it.

Bernie or nothing.

[MisterP]

49. collusion, shared interest, it's starting to blur together

the New Dems' explicit purpose was to put conservative GOP policies into the party, while the GOP swung right at the same time: the end of the Cold War spooked the masters in the early 90s as bad as the Church Committee and Carter's cleanup campaign: the late 70s is when the neocons and fundagelicals took over, all following the Powell Memo; same story as both Red Scares

orchestrated

we need to make the political system robust against people who openly mock the idea of democracy

[redruddyred]

96. in all my moments i suspect exactly this nt

[Dustlawyer]

114. I use the Harlem Glogetrotter analogy as it fits like a glove to our political situation.

The Globetrotters always play the Washington Generals and many in the crowd, especially the kids, think it is a real game. Both sides play hard, but the end result is preordained.

The Republicans and Democrats fight and snipe at each other, shifting the blame for America's problems on the other side's supporters and/or policies. The culpable parties are in the shadows reaping all of the benefits. They get followers who treat them like their favorite sports teams, ignoring their "team's" faults and painting the opposition with everything that is wrong. Both teams are owned by the same corporation and the owners are taking all the money out of the back of the arena.

Hillary is the promoter selling the tickets for the owners and telling the fans that it is all real! Bernie is more like the guy watching a magician and pointing out how he is doing each trick designed to misdirect and fool the people. Unfortunately, too many want to be deceived and resent hearing how they are being taken advantage of!

[Matariki]

141. That's a well constructed analogy.

Sadly, I think you're on to something

[plus5mace]

7. I can't believe Bernie can compete with this level of collusion.

If Bernie can defeat the entire power base of the Democratic Party in their own primary he is unstoppable.

[dchill]

12. It is WE who will do it.

Because there's no reason not to.

[Jarqui]

42. I don't know how it's going to turn out but it's already been a remarkable

ride with Bernie. For the next decade and maybe forever, he's changing American politics.

He's touched a nerve similar to that which Obama found. People want BIG change.

To some extent, (I wouldn't dare compare the mentality, morality or ideology of the two groups) Trump's done something kind of similar - touched a nerve but of the ignorant and racists .

Quote from that article

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lawrence Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission who is now with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “Joint victory funds are not intended to be separate operating committees that just support a single candidate. But they appear to be turning the traditional notion of a joint committee into a Hillary fundraising committee.”

I read and saw somewhere that Hillary's campaign is even using DNC offices - sharing them. Can't they see how unfair that is? Of course they can. Now this sleazy money grab.

To their credit about 18 states wouldn't go along with it. And then I read this:

But the states have yet to see a financial windfall. Meanwhile, Clinton’s own campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer.

So we Bernie supporters have been fending off criticism that Bernie hasn't been contributing to this tangled, corrupt scam at the DNC. But the facts are: the states haven't seen money from it either because Hillary got it.

This woman is too much.

[Lorien]

8. They say that you can tell how a candidate will do business in office

by the way they run their campaign. Great for Bernie, TERRIBLE for Hillary!

[TexasBushwhacker]

146. And Bernie even pays his interns n/t

[dchill]

13. If she's so experienced and well-prepared...

Why is she out of money already?

[hifiguy]

17. Cleaning bills for the Royal Regalia and the tiara?

[Volaris]

31. Cause she blew a 30 point lead in Iowa and then spent it all pulling a popular vote TIE.

Let them waste their filthy fucking lucre, as far as I'm concerned...I don't think it will buy them a win this time.
The jig us up, and the Electorate has finally caught wise.

[Trajan]

60. Totally agree

You spoke my mind, exactly ...

[Volaris]

72. What makes it worse is that Iowa went down the way it did

And then Debbie had the gall to send me an email asking for MOAR MONIES! Because REASONS!

whatever, if they are going to waste it on tie votes, I'd rather send it to Sanders anyway.

[Karma13612]

136. If there are numerous shenanigans again today in NV,

I hope we got louder and more insistent to know the truth about the actual caucus results.

[Volaris]

137. Agreed. We will know by morning tho.

Clinton assumed that she had the whole thing in her pocket. If Bernie gets the Presidency, his secret service codename should be Pickpocket, cause that's how he will have one this thing...One little bit at a time=)

[A Simple Game]

67. You don't think Bill and Chelsea work cheap do you? n/t

[WiffenPoof]

68. Because she was...

..looking past the primaries... She thought she was a lock for the nomination.

[bvf]

95. A combination of

arrogance (early on) and a late panic that only seems to do more and more damage to her, uh, brand.

[mhatrw]

14. No WONDER we keep hearing about how MUCH Clinton has raised for other Dem candidates!

She is tithing them very same money THEY THEMSELVES raised!

Praise the Lord!

[Kittycat]

74. ^^^^* another talking point dismissed!

[hifiguy]

16. Corruption in its purest form.

Somewhere in the great beyond, Richard Nixon is laughing his ass off.

[dana_b]

18. they have this crap and they have superdelegates

so they don't need us at all!

All hail the Queen!

[Beowulf]

46. The two are connected.

Many of the super delegates are also office holders/seekers who need campaign funds. Endorse Bernie and watch your access to these funds disappear.

The Clintons have always been big pay-to-play politicians. Remember the Lincoln Bedroom? We shouldn't be surprised by this, but it that doesn't make this any less sleazy.

[whatchamacallit]

19. Best democracy money can buy

[libtodeath]

20. Hillary is not a person of the people.

[dana_b]

23. and the leaders of the party are not for us either

disgusting

[libtodeath]

26. They are more interested in power and prestige then helping us.

[dana_b]

37. exactly

I not only won't vote for her Highness, I will only vote for Dems who do not partake in this crap. I am done with them.

[brooklynite]

22. BREAKING: DNC FUNNELLING MONEY TO BERNIE

This is a Joint-Fundraising agreement; i.e. the two entities raise funds together and spilt the contributions.

Want to know who else has a Joint-Fundraising agreement?

Sanders campaign inks joint fundraising pact with DNC

Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign has signed a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee, the DNC confirmed to POLITICO.

The move, which comes more than two months after Hillary Clinton's campaign signed such an agreement in August, will allow Sanders' team to raise up to $33,400 for the committee as well as $2,700 for the campaign from individual donors at events.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-2016-fundraising-dnc-215559

[dana_b]

32. so he's raising money for them

From the OP article:

In comparison, the treasurer of the Bernie Victory Fund, Sanders’s joint fundraising committee with the party, is the DNC’s chief financial officer, Bradley Marshall. So far, the fund has raised just $1,000 — a donation from the DNC.

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So really?? You want to compare?? It's a f-ing joke and the leaders as well as Hillary and her cronies are corrupt to the bone!!!!!! All hail the Queen!!!

[UglyGreed]

89. Shift the blame

game is all they have.........SMH!!!!

[stevenleser]

36. Thanks for the facts. nt

[basselope]

61. 33 whole thousand?

I think that is more than she made per minute speaking to Goldman Sachs

[Paulie]

63. And Bernie still is waiting on dates from them to "joint campaign"

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/clinton-sanders-party-fundraising-217293

Sanders, meanwhile, has never made raising money for the party a priority, despite recently proving his fundraising prowess by signing a letter for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that brought the party group over $1 million, according to a Sanders aide. His campaign inked a fundraising agreement with the DNC in November, a few months after Clinton’s was signed, but it could never nail down a date for any fundraising events with the committee — and the Vermont-based operation now says it’s entirely up to the DNC to identify some dates that work for it.

[passiveporcupine]

84. Agreed. I'm not sure why Wapo is posting this as if it's something unprecedented

Candidates have always been able to do joint fundraising with the party.

This is totally confusing to me.

[Agschmid]

132. Because it's the WAPO and some people eat it right up...

[passiveporcupine]

142. Well, that does apply to both sides of this democratic fight

[Agschmid]

143. It does.

[bigtree]

97. lol, Sanders has the same deal with the DNC

...but hasn't delivered more than squat on his obligation.

Really amazingly stupid, hypocritical outrage.

[w4rma]

103. And why would he? Under current "leadership" the DNC would just funnel that money to Hillary. (nt)

[brooklynite]

154. No, they wouldn't...because they can't

A Joint-Fundraising agreement splits funds between the Candidate and the Party in a prescribed manner. However, the Party can ONLY give $5,000 to a candidate's campaign. Which you'd have know if you'd checked with the FEC. But it's so much easier to jump to "we all know" conclusions, right?

[treestar]

150. they take things and run with them before finding out the basics

then end up looking dumb.

Thanks for the information!

[Odin2005]

24. More anti-democratic BS from the Establishment.

[jfern]

28. It's not the Democratic party, it's the Clinton party

The party only exists to help the Clintons. It's time to take our party back.

[cali]

41. The Clinton Corruption Party

[hifiguy]

43. Put the whole damn family, including Hedge Fund Son-in-Law

on a raft and set it adift. Right after doing the same thing to the Bush Crime Family.

Sick to the teeth of these two corrupt, self-serving families of crooks.

[Merryland]

57. I second that emotion. you've nailed it.

[CharlotteVale]

29. The Democratic Party is undemocratic and corrupt to the core.

[jwirr]

30. Is there any way that we the people can lodge a class action

suit against DWS and the DNC? They are destroying our party.

[brooklynite]

45. Will you be filing one agains the Sanders campaign as well?

[Uncle Joe]

33. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Halliburton.

[napi21]

34. That's why I NEVER donate to any parties or pacs. When I donate it's always direct to

a particular candidate. I've always done that. I worked hard to get that money and I won't let anyone else decide who gets it.

[cali]

39. Hillary is corrupt through and through. So is DWS and the DNC

Disgusting.

[desmiller]

40. HUGE K&R

naughty, naughty Debbie & Hillary

[Thinkingabout]

44. Is this any different than money funneled to Sanders?

[fbc]

47. So she is basically stealing state election funds?

It seems like these states should be suing her campaign for fraud.

[corkhead]

138. yes and it's money that will be wasted on her instead of being used on down ticket races

[zentrum]

48. Hence, her big

…endorsements from "Names" in the Democratic Party.

Shameful.

But not unheard of in the Democratic Party—just more efficient now. It echoes so much the MacCarthy-Humphrey primary—that was one of the things that I've always seen as causal in making so many Democrats tune out and stop being interested or involved in the party or politics.

My dad has described to me what it was like in the local meeting where delegates were being chosen and the room was overwhelming for MacCarthy. He said the Humphrey-wing behaved almost like thugs, with threatening body language etc. The actual votes (by hand raising) were not recognized and delegates for Humphrey were sent to the convention from this local.

This may be happening again, but in a sanitized version, using Super Delegates and media-wide "talking points" and bottomless funding.

[Purveyor]

52. Not a penny of that $$$ is mine. I donate directly to the

candidates I support, period.

[wyldwolf]

54. Hillary has raised $32 million dollars for DNC v $0 from Senator Sanders.

Not only is he not a democrat he doesn't support the party.

[newthinking]

62. His coattails will be large but will not be of the same corrupt system

The Democratic party is US, the people who belong to it (the party). The DNC are not "the party". That is more clear than ever.

Just like corporations are not "People", the DNC is not "the Party". Enough of that nonsense.

[OxQQme]

69. No duh wolf

Let's all just support "The Party" regardless the corruption.

NOT!

[Logical]

88. That is your take away from this story? Wow! nt

[bvf]

98. My god. *Whoosh!*

[Old Codger]

55. BAU

Normal sleeze coming from DNC and their pre-crowned candidate

[newthinking]

59. So they choose to be even more corrupt.

Besides ignoring the will of the population and stacking the primaries they will engage even more corruption from the corporations to win. If that does not expose the whole idea of "incremental change"by the current elite as phony I don't know what does.

[LiberalArkie]

64. As much money as they burn on private jets and the places they stay, I would imagine it takes a

lot of money for even the caviar.

[Jack Rabbit]

65. Who would have ever suspected Debbie Wasserman Schultz of playing favorites?

[center]

[/center]

[hifiguy]

73. I recently read a new book about Nixon

by a guy named Tim Weiner - "One Man Against The World" which includes lots of recently released tapes. I can only compare DWS to John Mitchell, the former Nixon AG who ran CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President, and was there EVER a better acronym?). Mitchell eventually became the only AG ever to go to the Big House. Anything was justified to advance Richard Nixon, according to Mitchell. The similarities are rather glaring.

[MADem]

66. Bernie can get his cut, too--as soon as he does the events he promised DWS that he would do--and

hasn't. Did y'all MISS this article a few months back????


http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-2016-fundraising-dnc-215559

He knows how the game works--he's been raking in the dough at fundraisers for years, ever since he became a Senate candidate over a decade ago. And he has been a happy attendee at dozens and dozens of DNC Big Donor events, AND taken his cut from them.

ALL he has to do is say he's available, give the DNC a few dates, and SHOW UP.

LOL at the characterizations in this thread..!

[nolabels]

106. Haven't you noticed yet............

............ah, why waste my breath

[MADem]

110. I've noticed that he hasn't done any of the campaign fundraisers he signed up to do, as he has done

in the past. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/259298-sanders-dnc-strike-fundraising-deal

Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign will jointly raise money with the Democratic National Committee going forward, a DNC official told The Hill on Thursday.


The Sanders campaign and the national party have reached an agreement to coordinate their fundraising efforts, enabling the two to solicit checks together in an effort that could boost the DNC’s war chest for the general election.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign signed a similar agreement with the DNC in late August.

He gets a piece of the take immediately just by showing up--it's an easy way to rake in large amounts quickly. And as we have learned, he has done it before.

[treestar]

152. even after brooklyn informed them how it was

they continue to do the Corruption Dance. It's what they want to believe.

[november3rd]

70. This is going to become illegal behavior soon, I hope

[Tarc]

71. Democrats gave money to a Democratic candidate that they like?

[PeterGM]

111. I think you are missing the point.

The outrage is that people are discovering that the democratic party structure is deeply undemocratic, and that's what people are railing about
If the DNC were interested in objectively nominating the candidate that the people wanted the most, they would stay completely neutral n this nomination process... (Full disclosure I'm a Dane, and fascinated by the way american politics work) It feels to me that the Democratic party is structured in a way that insults the intelligence of the voters, by having a "we know best" attitude.

Just to be clear, I'm not railing against Clinton, I just think there shouldn't be favoritism from the people running the nomination process... That would be like having Real Madrid fans as referees in a match Real vs Barcelona... It just looks bad.

[firebrand80]

75. DNC Funneled Money to Obama in 2008!!!!!

Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee are establishing a joint fund-raising committee, a step that is usually only undertaken by a party’s presumptive nominee but in this case is being driven by how long it has taken the Democrats to settle their nomination fight.

The joint fund-raising agreement, which allows donors to write a single large check which is then divvied up between the candidate’s campaign and the party, was first reported by Time magazine’s The Page and confirmed by the Obama campaign.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/obama-and-dnc-set-up-fund-raising-committee/?_r=0

[Depaysement]

76. The Clintons might consider usurping the old British tradition

Of granting peerages. Sir Marc Lasry, Sir Lloyd Blankfein, etc.

It's a long, long way from Hope.

[firebrand80]

77. DNC Funneled Money to John Kerry in 2004!!!!!!

Sen. John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee have formed a joint fundraising venture designed to maximize donors’ ability to write a single check to benefit the Massachusetts Senator’s presidential campaign as well as the national party.
The committee — Kerry Victory 2004 — was established March 22 and is the first such undertaking for a Democratic presidential candidate and the DNC. The agreement enables a donor to contribute simultaneously to Kerry and the national committee.

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/49_104/-5045-1.html

[amborin]

78. she's mismanaging her campaign yet again; imagine what a disaster she'd be

[berningman]

80. I hate these people

[NowSam]

81. I hope she tells them to cut it out

and knock it off, while reassuring us that there is no real conflict of interest. I now believe she is taking a dive on purpose and that her real goal is a financial fleecing.

[kgnu_fan]

83. oh boy.... what a corrupt situation.... dirty trick...

[Akicita]

85. You people are ridiculous.

Don't you understand that the coronation must go on. What other candidate has dodged sniper bullets for America? Who has stood arm in arm with the victims of her husbands sexual depredations, making sure they receive justice? Are you aware that she has the economic moxy to turn a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit just by reading the Wall Street Journal?

I am surprised she has not been campaigning on her investment acumen. She must be saving it as a secret weapon. Put her in office, give her control of the Treasury, give her a copy of the Wall Street Journal, let her invest in the cattle futures market, and our 19 trillion dollar debt will just disappear. She's proven it.

[ReasonableToo]

86. I stopped donating to the party when they renewed the Patriot act.

Now $ goes to candidates

[UglyGreed]

87. hmmm

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/9/1467700/-This-May-Be-The-Reason-Bernie-s-Not-Fundraising-for-the-State-Democratic-Parties

[RoccoR5955]

92. +1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! n.t.

[Zen Democrat]

93. Not another dime to the DNC from me until DWS is gone and a progressive is in charge.

[UglyGreed]

94. I recall a DU member

a few months ago telling me about big ticket fundraisers and how it helps the candidates up and down the line and we "regular people" benefit from these types of deals. Almost the exact same wording used in this article...............

[alfredo]

99. Hillary is bringing a lot of money into the DNC.

Down ticket candidates will look favorable upon the politician that is helping fund their campaign.
It works that way all the way down to the local level.

[4dsc]

100. This is why I don't support the DNC or contribute to them

EOM

[JonathanRackham]

102. That's not a funnel

More of an enema. ....

[davidpdx]

105. Thread winner!

[Duckfan]

104. That pic of DWS looks like a mug shot

Did she just get released in time to F-up our democracy?

When I hear DNC, or DWS I now think of the anti-christ.

Didn't use to, but now I do.

[Betty Karlson]

107. So Debbie is not just biased and untrustworthy, she is also corrupt?

Can we ditch the chair please? Pretty soon? Like: yesterday?

What is that horrible DINO still doing there?!?

[Enthusiast]

108. Kicked and recommended!

[zazen]

109. so there's no basis for lawsuit or complaint to FEC here?

I plead total ignorance about this, but it seems like going forward one way to hold them accountable and increase the visibility of this is to bring a major class action suit, or voting rights action, or something, for this behavior.

[brooklynite]

122. So you want to sue the DNC for doing with Clinton what they're doing with Sanders?

[TBF]

116. The DNC emailed me a chance to meet Obama in Austin, TX -

it is March 11th and I will be away for Spring Break. The cheapest ticket was $250, and there was a $10,000 option for a couple to attend, dinner & photo with Obama. How cool would that be? But for much less than $10,000 I will be visiting a national park with my kiddos and NOT giving money to the DNC.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

119. Enjoy your trip!

Spending time with your kiddos in nature is a much better use of your money, anyway.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

118. No money from me to the DNC!

None.

I live in a red state where money from the national party is not benefiting me, anyway. Why in the hell would I send money to the national party so the Clintons, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, and corporatists can scheme against my candidate?

HELL, NO!

[brooklynite]

123. This is one of themost embarassing threads I've read...

Apparently a misleading/dishonest title is all it takes to generate outrage today. Several people have pointed out that the actual story is about a joint-fundraising agreement, which both Clinton and Sanders have previously agreed to.

[rhett o rick]

124. What is embarassing is that you would try to rationalize the dishonesty that envelops the

DNC / Clinton Campaign.

Your post does nothing to refute the OP. Show us that the Sanders Campaign is happy with what is happening.

We are fighting the corrupt political culture of the rich, super-rich, and super-duper-rich and their strangle hold on the political process. We want the People to have more power in the political process and not the super-rich that some seem to worship.

[brooklynite]

125. If the Sanders Campaign is unhappy...why did they sign a JFA as well?

[rhett o rick]

129. I hope you realize that that's not an argument. Arguing via questions doesn't work.

If you have a case, spell it out. I don't know the circumstances at the time of the signing, if in fact they did sign. You've made no case. I also don't know if the Sanders' campaign is happy with the results. I don't trust the billionaire backed DNC to be honest. They want Clinton so bad that you should be skeptical. Why do the rich and super-rich want Clinton sooo bad?

It's sad that now some Democrats are embracing Citizens United and the Corp-Media because they favor Clinton.

This is a class war and Sanders and Clinton are on opposite sides.

[brooklynite]

130. "If you have a case, spell it out..."

Okay -
1. Joint Fundraising Agreements are a part of the fundraising process for campaigns.
2. JFAs have nothing to do with Citizens United, which deals with independent expenditures.
2. No campaign is obliged to sign one.
3. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton chose to sign one.
4. Bernie Sanders hasn't complained about signing one.

[rhett o rick]

131. And so you deduce that these shinanigans are ok with the Sanders' campaign?

"Clinton’s own campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer."

The hubris of the DNC and Clinton campaign will be their downfall. The "anything goes" is not a Democratic Principle.

[spyker29]

127. +1. Unbelievable on a Democratic site.

[NurseJackie]

151. Yes... it most certainly is! And, yes... that appears to be the case.

It's difficult for me to determine with great certainty whether it's a matter of someone mis-reading, or not reading, or deliberately "misunderstanding".

Whatever it may be, and regardless of anyone's motivations, what's NOT difficult for me to be certain about is that Bernie will not be the nominee. Super Tuesday is coming this way very soon and in due time, threads like this one will become a thing of the past.

[treestar]

153. It's been decided ahead of time that there is CORRUPTION!

No facts, please.

Bernie is so entitled to the nomination that Hillary should just step down! (And I've actually seen that posted here). The DNC should bow down to him. The states should change from caucus to primary or the other way round depending on which side factors Bernie, or it's CORRUPTION!

[Faux pas]

126. D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G

Beating us by cheating us.

[brooklynite]

128. Explain the cheating...

[rhett o rick]

133. It's well explained in the article.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lawrence Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission who is now with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “Joint victory funds are not intended to be separate operating committees that just support a single candidate. But they appear to be turning the traditional notion of a joint committee into a Hillary fundraising committee.”

[Karma13612]

134. Yet ANOTHER example of how SOME candidates

Are maximizing on dysfunction in the FEC right now.

There must be so many loopholes and poorly defined regs in the current campaign finance law that it can't be effective at all.

This article makes me ill.

But thanks for exposing it so we all know the lengths to which the DNC and HRC will go to land the nomination.

[Historic NY]

135. Hillary should have kept the money she has helped raise totaling more that 32 million.

she honored her agreement to help the state parties, BS signed but so far raised $1000. Tell Bernie to live up to the agreement or he should refuse funding or support in the general from the DNC.

[wolfie001]

139. Turd Way politics as usual!

These people have zero in common with the lower and middle classes (under $250,000 is middle class, right Hillary?).

[chknltl]

140. knr nt

[DownriverDem]

144. Money flows to all

You don't think the repubs are pushing money every which way too? Bernie is not a member of the Democratic Party. I wish he were. Since Citizen United money is coming from everywhere through clever ways. We the people don't even know who is buying our elections. No one is required to report who gives what. It's coming from other countries too. DNC money is only a drop in the bucket.

[brooklynite]

145. After two losses, maybe Sanders should invoke the Joint Funding Agreement HE signed...

...if he needs more Democratic support.

[George II]

147. Wrong - it's the other way around, Clinton is "funneling" money to the Democratic Party....

....to the tune of $18M last quarter. You know, the party that she's belonged to for decades.

Sanders hasn't funneled a thin dime to the Democratic Party.

[UglyGreed]

148. Kick for

some of the Hillary supporters who believe that "regular people" are helped by big money fundraisers

[UglyGreed]

149. Kick

for us "regular people"

[George II]

155. I guess you missed this article - "Clinton donates millions to strapped Democratic Party"

http://kxan.com/2016/02/18/clinton-bid-a-financial-boon-for-strapped-democratic-party/?cid=twitter_KXAN_News

Clinton donates millions to strapped Democratic Party

Associated Press

Published: February 18, 2016, 6:54 am Updated: February 18, 2016, 6:56 am

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So much for the "funneling", eh?