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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA Increasingly Using Untraceable Dollars to Influence US Elections (ie: Russia et al)
https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/op-ed-bringing-dark-money-to-a-gunfight-the-nra-and-other-groups-are-increasingly-using-untraceable-dollars-to-influence-our-elections/. . . In the 2016 elections, the NRA reported spending more than $35 million on political advertising without reporting a single donor, the most of any dark-money organization. It has been an aggressive opponent of common-sense regulation of money in politics, and has repeatedly bent and broken rules that guard against the influence of big campaign donors.
Just last week, it was revealed that the NRA used a shell company to funnel millions of dollars to the same campaign consultants used by four Republican Senate candidates. Federal law generally prohibits special-interest groups from using the same vendors as candidates without a sufficient fire wall in place, because candidates arent allowed to accept or utilize the massive, secret contributions that a group like the NRA regularly receives.
Which brings us back to the FBIs reported concern from last January: Was the NRA acting as a conduit for money from the Russian government, or merely facilitating high-profile meetings for foreign agents? The evidence is still not clear.
In February 2016, Butina and Paul Erickson, a Republican operative and NRA fund-raiser, incorporated an LLC in South Dakota. The purpose of this shell company remains a mystery. . .
Just last week, it was revealed that the NRA used a shell company to funnel millions of dollars to the same campaign consultants used by four Republican Senate candidates. Federal law generally prohibits special-interest groups from using the same vendors as candidates without a sufficient fire wall in place, because candidates arent allowed to accept or utilize the massive, secret contributions that a group like the NRA regularly receives.
Which brings us back to the FBIs reported concern from last January: Was the NRA acting as a conduit for money from the Russian government, or merely facilitating high-profile meetings for foreign agents? The evidence is still not clear.
In February 2016, Butina and Paul Erickson, a Republican operative and NRA fund-raiser, incorporated an LLC in South Dakota. The purpose of this shell company remains a mystery. . .
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NRA Increasingly Using Untraceable Dollars to Influence US Elections (ie: Russia et al) (Original Post)
CousinIT
Jul 2018
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Meanwhile some Democrats, aided by Not Democrats are busy primarying viable candidates . . . .
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2018
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. Who were the 4 GOP Senate Campaigns that they refer too?
blm
(113,059 posts)7. Thom Tillis was the first, and also used Cambridge Analytica
His was another unlikely win.
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)2. The NRA dark money is the key
Unmask a Russian source for a material portion of it, the whole party goes down.
Mueller will sort it out.
You cannot hide this stuff from FBI.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)3. Bitcoin, bitcoin, blockchain, blockchain
untraceable public record, governments can't even agree (YET) upon how to tax it. Banking secrecy is beneficial for whom, exactly?
Stinky The Clown
(67,798 posts)4. Meanwhile some Democrats, aided by Not Democrats are busy primarying viable candidates . . . .
. . . . in favor of can't-win fringe democrats in an election year in which our very democracy may well be hanging in the balance.
murielm99
(30,739 posts)6. You got that right!
Qutzupalotl
(14,311 posts)5. Another act in furtherance of a conspiracy,
so it doesnt really matter to them at this point. Might as well ride the money train a little longer. I hope Mueller can still track everything.
samir.g
(835 posts)8. NRA is a traitorous terrorist organization and should be dealt with as such.
Their officers and operatives should all be in prison.
Noir and Loesch should at least be absolute pariahs.