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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 02:39 PM Feb 2016

DNC Opens The Gates To Unlimited Wall Street Funding to the Hillary Victory Fund.

http://usuncut.com/news/the-dnc-opens-the-gates-to-unlimited-wall-street-funding/

The Democratic National Committee, headed by the massively unpopular Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has just lifted the last restrictions preventing the DNC from receiving direct contributions from Wall Street and special interest lobbyists.

Under the new rules, political action committees (PACs) and other corporate lobbyists and special interests are now free to donate unlimited sums to the DNC itself. The previous restrictions were put in place by President Barack Obama after his own election, which he marked by saying, “We are going to change how Washington works.”

He continued by affirming that corporate PACs “will not fund my party. They will not run our White House. And they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I’m president of the United States of America.”

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Robert Reich, who was Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor and is a harsh critic of Wall Street and vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders, was aghast at the DNC’s decision, posting a scathing Facebook post in which he accuses the DNC of being a “siphon for more corruption.”
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DNC Opens The Gates To Unlimited Wall Street Funding to the Hillary Victory Fund. (Original Post) DhhD Feb 2016 OP
The victory fund supports the DNC. Supports Electing Democrats., like bernie. misterhighwasted Feb 2016 #1
PACs are different from the DNC. No skating around that. Bernie has not been skating in the DhhD Feb 2016 #4
Very old news, and long debunked. Chichiri Feb 2016 #2
"Z E R O" misterhighwasted Feb 2016 #3
Going there with Hillary and Bill? DhhD Feb 2016 #7
Your numbers conflict with other posts and replies today. I am not going to back to your DhhD Feb 2016 #5
Zero Integrity Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #6
Rigged. Corrupt. And Hillary at center. Again. cali Feb 2016 #8

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
4. PACs are different from the DNC. No skating around that. Bernie has not been skating in the
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 03:20 PM
Feb 2016

Democratic Party as long as Clinton has and is doing his part, most fairly.

Chichiri

(4,667 posts)
2. Very old news, and long debunked.
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 02:44 PM
Feb 2016

What it amounts to, is that Hillary has raised 15 mil for herself and 5 mil for down-ticket Democrats, while Bernie has raised 20 mil for himself and 0 for down-ticket Democrats.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
5. Your numbers conflict with other posts and replies today. I am not going to back to your
Thu Feb 18, 2016, 03:23 PM
Feb 2016

debunked Hillary past funding; not willing to update for you. The 21 century is here.

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