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Clinton's super PACs
Affords her the luxury of raising monies for the DNC. This excerpt is further down in the article. Her big donors donate to her campaign first, DNC second.
The party committee has been trying to rebuild its finances after carrying a high debt load following Mr. Obama’s re-election in 2012. The committee wiped out a chunk of its bank debt in the last few months, but is still working to pay off about $7 million owed to vendors.
But under new limits that were put into effect last winter, the main party committees can now solicit donations of up to $334,000 per person, or almost $700,000 per couple, far more than the $5,400 per couple the campaign itself can raise for the primary. That means huge amounts of money could be going to the D.N.C. at the request of the campaign, where officials want to be mindful of the investments.
The Clinton campaign can coordinate spending and messaging with the party committee, whereas it is barred from doing so with super PACs, which have no limit on donations. (The campaign, however, is restricted in how much it can ask donors to give super PACs.) But the party must also stay neutral through the primary, in which voting does not begin until Feb. 1.
That limits the type of control over the party committee that Mrs. Clinton’s team can have. But the party committee also badly needs Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising help to retire its debt, something that the two other Democratic candidates — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who both trail Mrs. Clinton significantly in polls — are not in a position to do.
But under new limits that were put into effect last winter, the main party committees can now solicit donations of up to $334,000 per person, or almost $700,000 per couple, far more than the $5,400 per couple the campaign itself can raise for the primary. That means huge amounts of money could be going to the D.N.C. at the request of the campaign, where officials want to be mindful of the investments.
The Clinton campaign can coordinate spending and messaging with the party committee, whereas it is barred from doing so with super PACs, which have no limit on donations. (The campaign, however, is restricted in how much it can ask donors to give super PACs.) But the party must also stay neutral through the primary, in which voting does not begin until Feb. 1.
That limits the type of control over the party committee that Mrs. Clinton’s team can have. But the party committee also badly needs Mrs. Clinton’s fund-raising help to retire its debt, something that the two other Democratic candidates — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who both trail Mrs. Clinton significantly in polls — are not in a position to do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fortifies-ties-and-fund-raising-with-democratic-committee.html?
