"Laundering by th Millions" DNC funneled $$$ into the Hillary Victory Fund Before A Single Vote Cast

[amborin]

Watch: Young Turks Reveals How the DNC and 33 States Used Loopholes to Funnel Millions Into the 'Hillary Victory Fund'


According to Counterpunch and Cenk Uygur, the host of Young Turks, the DNC and different states' Democratic parties have long been funneling money into Hillary Clinton’s campaign, otherwise known as "laundering by the millions." Counterpunch explains:


In August 2015, at the Democratic Party convention in Minneapolis, 33 democratic state parties made deals with the Hillary Clinton campaign and a joint fundraising entity called the Hillary Victory Fund.

The deal allowed many of her core billionaire and inner circle individual donors to run the maximum amounts of money allowed through those state parties to the Hillary Victory Fund in New York and the DNC in Washington.

No one had cast a single vote yet in the Democratic primary. “Not only had we not decided who the Democratic nominee was in August of 2015, we still haven’t decided,” Cenk Uygur pointed out on Monday. “But back then, the DNC already made their decision.”

The DNC was so positive Hillary was going to be the nominee that it began a process of actively funneling money to her campaign. At the same time, it convinced 33 Democratic state parties to go along with the plan. Counterpunch states:


The idea was to increase how much one could personally donate to Hillary by taking advantage of the Supreme Court ruling 2014, McCutcheon v FEC, that knocked down a cap on aggregate limits as to how much a donor could give to a federal campaign in a year. It thus eliminated the ceiling on amounts spent by a single donor to a presidential candidate.

“McCutcheon was a terrible decision," Uygur explained, adding that, "it put Citizens United on steroids, and said, ‘you can give even more money as long as you give it to the party, and then in this case they figured, ‘I got it, there’s still caps on how much an individual can give to Hillary Clinton directly but what if we funnel it through the party. And we funnel it through the state democratic parties.' Bingo."

Using this system to arm the party against Republicans in a general election makes it slightly more understandable, Uygur opined. But shouldn't voters in the Democratic Party at least have a say?

"With this scheme, the Hillary Victory Fund raised over $26 million for the Clinton campaign by the end of 2015.

And not only did Hillary’s multi-millionaire and billionaire supporters get to bypass individual campaign donation limits to state parties by using several state parties apparatus, but the Clinton campaign got the added bonus of buying that state’s super-delegates with the promise of contributions to that Democratic organization’s re-election fund," Counterpunch concluded, eliminating any doubt as to where the DNC stands.


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-scotus-decision-best-described-citizens-united-steroids-used-state-loopholes

[AzDar]

1. Yup. The best (super) delegates money can buy...

[roguevalley]

12. they did through Alaska. it made the front page. Fuck all of them everywhere.

[Sheepshank]

2. There's positive thinking for you n/t

[jwirr]

3. If our state parties are selling our super-delegates and sending

money to Hillary even before the first votes exactly what are we voting for? I voted at the caucus, I am a Bernie delegate but states are financing Hillary Clinton's campaign through laundered donations to the DNC - my candidate does not get any of that money even if he wanted to take it. Along with the deal on the money they somehow committed our super-delegates were promised to Hillary regardless of what we want.

So I am a delegate. I am not sure what I am supposed to do because none of it makes any difference. The DNC and Hillary have killed democracy.

[djean111]

4. Looks like what Hillary's supporters really want - is for Bernie to raise money for Hillary.

IMO that's the only reason the DNC welcomed him. He was to hand over supporters and cash. And the cynical pretense that he had moved Hillary to the left. Oh what a tangled web we weave...

[floriduck]

5. One more reason today's Democratic Party is about to implode.

And reasons like this are why no one will ever see Hillary Clinton inaugurated as President of the United States.

[HereSince1628]

6. Someone got a short-cut to the list of the 33 state parties?

[enlightenment]

8. See my post, below. nt

[HereSince1628]

10. Thnx. I sort of remembered this happening in WI

but wasn't sure if I was remembering correctly

[enlightenment]

11. You're welcome.

It's appalling - but not surprising. Unfortunately.

[enlightenment]

7. Link to the Open Secrets page on this fund.

Democracy, bought and paid for.

https://www.opensecrets.org/jfc/summary.php?id=C00586537

[KoKo]

22. Look at the larger Donations to Wisconsin and Oklahoma

which Bernie won ..But, am I wrong in thinking that the extra money given to those states means that her Campaign thought the race was so tight that they wanted to make sure they bought the Delegates vote?

Recipient Party Type** Office Sought Total
Clinton, Hillary D C Pres $4,440,000
DNC Services Corp D P $2,263,436
Democratic Party of Wisconsin D P $207,278
Democratic Party of Oklahoma D P $140,000
Democratic Party of New Hampshire D P $74,700
Democratic Party of Pennsylvania D P $70,500
Democratic Party of Texas D P $69,100
Democratic Executive Cmte of Florida D P $66,200
Democratic Party of Nevada D P $66,200
Democratic Party of Colorado D P $66,000
Democratic Party of Ohio D P $66,000
Democratic Cmte of Utah D P $64,100
Democratic Party of Alaska D P $64,100
Democratic Party of Mississippi D P $64,100
Democratic Party of Montana D P $64,100
Democratic Party of Oregon D P $64,100
Democratic Party of South Carolina D P $64,100
Democratic Party of Tennessee D P $64,100
Democratic State Cmte of Massachusetts D P $64,100
Georgia Federal Elections Cmte D P $64,100
Idaho State Democratic Party D P $64,100
Michigan Democratic State Central Cmte D P $64,100
Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party D P $64,100
Missouri Democratic State Cmte D P $64,100
Rhode Island Democratic State Cmte D P $64,100
West Virginia State Democratic Exec Cmte D P $64,100
Wyoming State Democratic Central Cmte D P $64,100
Democratic Party of North Carolina D P $64,000
Democratic State Central Cmte/Louisiana D P $64,000
Indiana Democratic Congressional Victory Cmte D P $64,000
Democratic Party of Arkansas D P $63,000
Maine Democratic State Cmte D P $59,800
Democratic Party of Virginia D P $43,500
* denotes an incumbent
**Recipient types: C for candidates, L for leadership PACs, P for party committees, J for Joint Fundraising committees, O for outside spending groups, A for PACs.

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WgI

[Dragonfli]

9. K&R

[PufPuf23]

13. The Democratic Party should believe and support democracy.

The DNC is practicing pay for play which is not democracy.

I want change.

[RiverLover]

15. +1 /nt

[Scuba]

14. So very disappointed that new Wisconsin party chair Martha Laning signed onto this scam.

[Octafish]

16. No wonder they like Citizens United.

Super-delegates seem well fed, too.

[mrdmk]

17. Hillary Victory Fund, my ass! There you have it, Hillary Clinton helps down-ticket candidates

while Bernie Sanders takes the money for himself. That is the big cover-up of this stench...

No wonder this topic has been beaten to shit, its a look over there while this has been going on.

Who the hell comes up with these strategies and expects to get away with them, or do I need to ask?


.

[frylock]

18. DERPA DERP DOWNTICKET DEMOCRATS!!1!2!

Also, derp.

[polichick]

19. More corruption - what a surprise!

[think]

20. More information:

Democratic Party fundraising effort helps Clinton find new donors, too

By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger February 20 2016

~Snip~

A record 32 state parties signed on to the fund, allowing the committee to solicit donations 130 times greater than what a supporter can give to Clinton’s campaign for the primary.

But the states have yet to see a financial windfall. Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer.

~Snip~

The early, expansive use of a jumbo-size joint fundraising committee shows how the Clinton campaign has worked to maximize donations from wealthy supporters, seizing on rules loosened by the Supreme Court.

Many states were wary of joining the effort, worried that such a partnership would be perceived as an endorsement of Clinton and might interfere with their efforts to raise money from home state donors. But campaign officials — including Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns — emphasized that this was a way to strengthen the party at its roots, a message Clinton echoed in the speech she delivered at the Minneapolis meeting to DNC members.

~Snip~

So far, the state parties have served only as a pass-through for their share of the funds. Campaign finance records show that nearly $2 million in donations to the fund initially routed last year to individual state party accounts was immediately transferred to the DNC, which is laboring to pay off millions of dollars in debt.

~Snip~

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lawrence Noble, a former general counsel of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) who is now with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. “Joint victory funds are not intended to be separate operating committees that just support a single candidate. But they appear to be turning the traditional notion of a joint committee into a Hillary fundraising committee.”...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-party-fundraising-effort-helps-clinton-find-new-donors-too/2016/02/19/b8535cea-d68f-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html

[DemocraticSocialist8]

21. This is bad smh