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MADem

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9. You do understand that HILLPAC raised MILLIONS for Senate candidates?
Wed Jan 8, 2014, 03:08 PM
Jan 2014

MILLIONS?

And you do realize that Bloomberg's money is also going to a PAC, and that cash will be dispensed in dribs and drabs (like ten grand to every incumbent running, or thereabouts?) and then the lion's share used as the PAC managers might like, for needed media buys?

So...who is he gonna "own" and how is he gonna "own" them, anymore than HRC or any other politician with a PAC will "own" someone?

My example is just fine. Instead of managing his own PAC--which he could do, and then he'd be able to "influence" those to whom he makes donations--he's given over the money to the majority leader, to stuff in a PAC, which a committee will distribute--and Bloomberg is not on that committee. Frankly, HRC had more power over where "her" PAC money went than Bloomberg will have with regard to where his donation will go. He's given over the money for Dems to spend, and that is where his control over the money ends.

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