2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton Scam Exposed - Hillary Victory Fund
Will our astute "investigative reporters" like Maddow (or hacks as I call them) point this out next time they are going on and on about how Hillary is raising money for the down ticket candidates? This stuff is worse than anything GOP candidates are doing in terms of corruption.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-committee-raised-33-million-222044
Joint committee helps state parties, but spends most of its cash boosting Clinton.
Hillary Clinton in the first three months of the year raised $33 million into a joint account her campaign formed with Democratic Party committees, according to a report filed Friday night with the Federal Election Commission.
The report shows that the joint account, called the Hillary Victory Fund, spent heavily trying to develop a small donor base for Clintons presidential campaign, but also took advantage of its unique structure to raise nearly $5 million from just 14 mega-rich donors, including entertainment titans Barry Diller, James Cameron and Haim Saban.
The fund comprises Clintons presidential campaign committee, as well as the Democratic National Committee and 32 state party committees. As a result, it can accept checks as large as $358,000 per person a total determined by the maximum donation to each of its component committees ($5,400 to the Clinton campaign, $33,400 to the DNC and $10,000 to each of the state parties).
The idea is that the committee will help the state parties raise money for their general election efforts, an area where Clintons allies argue that her insurgent rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Bernie Sanders has done little. Sanders has a joint fundraising committee, as well, but it has been relatively inactive.
Yet, during the first three months of the year, the $2 million transferred by the Hillary Victory Fund to various state party committees paled in comparison to the $9.5 million it transferred to Clintons campaign committee or the $3.5 million it transferred to the DNC.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)scum sucking lies and cronyism, this ploy
passy
(853 posts)Kentonio
(4,377 posts)$10,000 to each of the state parties, yet the total is only around $350k. Are there not state parties in all 50 states?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MaeScott
(878 posts)Is there a listing?
Agony
(2,605 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,362 posts)Thanks for the thread, kcjohn1.
Segami
(14,923 posts)Should anyone really be surprised?
Lone_Wolf
(1,603 posts)TYT did a segment about how it worked. It's more about helping herself than the down ticket Dems.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Quelle surprise
Bookmarking to use again when this bogus talking point comes up next time.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)If you think it is such a scam, then ask your Dem candidates to the money back.