Bernie Sanders: Wrong on Immigration Reform - (A Correct The record production)

[think]

Correct the Record is a Hillary Clinton Super Pac:

How a super PAC plans to coordinate directly with Hillary Clinton’s campaign

By Matea Gold May 12, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.

On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The group’s move was first reported by the New York Times.

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But Correct the Record believes it can avoid the coordination ban by relying on a 2006 Federal Election Commission regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs, is off limits from regulation. The “Internet exemption” said that such free postings do not constitute campaign expenditures, allowing independent groups to consult with candidates about the content they post on their sites. By adopting the measure, the FEC limited its online jurisdiction to regulating paid political ads.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/

[Faux pas]

1. Try to beat us

by cheating us. And her people wonder why the rest of us can't stand her or anything she stands for.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. This is going to hurt Sanders - badly - in California and Arizona. Maybe even Texas.

But only among people who are longing for comprehensive immigration reform, obviously not those who are against any kind of immigration reform.

The FEC hasn't gone after Correct the Record yet, so this video must be okay or they will be going after CtR soon. We'll see.

But the FEC is going after the illegal donations to Bernie Sanders' campaign - donations from illegal over-contributions and donations from foreign addresses that haven't been properly accounted for by confirming their US citizenship. Since October last year to the end of January this year, the FEC sent a second notice, and have counted a total of 665 potentially illegal foreign donations to Bernie 2016, and hundreds of donors who've gone beyond their contribution limits. The FEC noted that there were more foreign contributions in just the month of January than in the previous three months combined, and has flagged over 3,500 contributions as over-the-limit.

He's received two letter from the FEC. The Sanders' campaign response to the first letter has a deadline of March 17, 2016 - which is today. I'll be interested to see what happens. Now, it could be that nothing comes of this and it falls by the wayside, but it's a fair question to ask whether a presidential candidate who's campaign received two consecutive FEC notices with threats of audits can be entrusted with the United States Treasury.

[think]

3. Yes. Creating smear videos with half truths and lies will certainly hurt Sanders. Go Hillary!!!!!

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Right. Because nothing in that video is true. Uh huh. Sorry. Everything in that vid is the truth.

And the truth, think, is hurting Sanders with minorities and why he lost Florida so badly - just as badly as he'll lose California.

He should have NEVER gone on to Dobbs' show. He had NO reason to go to Lou "I hate Mexicans" Dobbs' show to lie about immigrants bringing down wages for Americans, after voting NO on the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill. Saying what he said back then was a patently false Republican smear against the most vulnerable people in our country. In fact, studies, even back then, have shown that undocumented workers RAISE wages for native U.S. workers and create jobs.

Don't believe me? Look at Robert Reich's video laying it out all in a video for you and Bernie. Robert Reich called people perpetuating those lies as "demagogues". Consequently, Reich is a Bernie supporter.