Cummings Responds to Explosive New Report on Chairman Gowdy's Links to STOP HILLARY PAC

[Justice]

Source: House Select Committee on Benghazi



"Gowdy’s leadership PAC, Themis, shared the same treasurer as Stop Hillary PAC since 2013, an outspoken political operative and Clinton opponent named Dan Backer.

Backer also served as treasurer on three other PACs that each donated $2,000 to Gowdy for Congress in April. Only after being confronted with these facts by the Washington Post did Gowdy return these donations on Friday.

Just last month, STOP Hillary PAC spent $10,000 on robocalls and other efforts in support of Gowdy."



Read more: http://democrats.benghazi.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-responds-to-explosive-new-report-on-chairman-gowdy-s-links-to-stop

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See Washington Post article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gowdys-pleas-to-keep-benghazi-probe-above-politics-have-gone-unheeded/2015/10/19/23f31428-7668-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html

STOP HILLARY PAC Treasurer - Dan Backer "We do stuff that is probably tasteless to some people, but we think it’s hilarious."

[blm]

1. This is HUGE!!! And I hope it shakes the dust off the GD-P crowd

because the blatant manipulation of Democrats has been making me SICK!!!!

[HooptieWagon]

53. Wall St manipulating Third way Dems makes me sick.

Same banks supporting Clinton and Bush, Blankenfield said he'd be happy with either.

[blm]

58. If one considers that a good reason for catapulting the GOP's lies and propaganda

then have it - just don't pretend that there should be honor attached to that decision.

[zazen]

2. a special prosecutor needs to be appointed to go hunting through HIS emails--pig n/t

[blm]

3. BINGO! and American people need to send RNC and Gowdy's PAC a bill to pay us back!!!

.

[turbinetree]

11. I want to also know why his staff and others while on the clock.....................

would have Merlot nights every Tuesday, and so far this little escapade has cost the taxpayers $4.5 million

I want to know if the drunk and his little brain trust majority leader knew also, even Cantor, he was still in office when this was voted on, why not how many knew in there right wing corrupt caucus







Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Botany]

19. " ..... this little escapade has cost the taxpayers $4.5 million."

Wrong $4,780,000.00 + and counting

$8 per minute ..... $480.00 per hour ...... $11,520.00 per day ..... $4,204,800.00 per year

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027268609

[turbinetree]

21. And the MSM should be saying something about............................

this every night, with clock.



Thanks for the information


Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[wildbilln864]

18. excellent idea! thanks! n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Knew damn well there was a fund

raiser behind these farce. Eat me Rethugs,you are so busted..

[mpcamb]

52. It's sorta Game, Set, Match, right?

Bur will it make it to the regular news??

[Justice]

5. Really important article about Dan Backer - Treasurer of Gowdy's PAC and Stop Hillary PAC

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frat-house-fund-raising-with-dan-backer.html

Very slippery, arrogant individual.

[Hortensis]

29. This prize must be a real hero to some of the GD-P crowd.

Like his characterization that Hillary married poorly. I suspect she may not be the only woman he has problems with.

"Sometimes it's nice to have a big fat hammer to hit someone." – Dan Backer

[Beacool]

50. What a disgusting little weasel.

[Kingofalldems]

6. How is this not criminal?

[onehandle]

7. IOKIYAR nt

[HooptieWagon]

54. Or Republican lite.

[SCantiGOP]

10. Richard Nixon famously said:

If the President does it, it's not illegal. Gowdy is just updating that to say if the republicans do it it's OK.

[Stuart G]

8. What do you know...ugly dishonest stuff now coming out..Chairman Gowdy did nasty things...oh my!!!

What will the next chapter be??? Illegal!!!!! what do you think??

[starroute]

9. Not that sleaze Dan Backer, again

A couple of years ago, I kept posting about him every few months in hopes that someone would notice -- but he's been able to keep flying under the radar. Among other things, he's been centrally involved in the phony IRS scandal.

Here are links to just a few of my earlier posts:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=863163

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=186670

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3733427

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=78829

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3375416

[stonecutter357]

12. K&R!

[Renew Deal]

13. This is who some DUers are in bed with.

[BootinUp]

16. what?

[Renew Deal]

25. Exactly what I said.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Are you insinuating someting, sir?

??

[NuclearDem]

23. Insinuating nothing.

Explicitly saying that certain Democrats have swallowed every damned thing from this Republican hack about the email nonscandal hook line and sinker.

Often the exact same people who turn around and whine about RW attacks on Sanders.

[Le Taz Hot]

31. Uh, this is about Benghazi.

NOT the emails and I've seen NO ONE on DU thinking Benghazi is legit. Both you and your co-hort seem to have a difficult time distinguishing fact from fiction seeing as how both of you are manufacturing the latter.

[Renew Deal]

33. Email came from Benghazi

You can't separate them when it's inconvenient for you.

[Darb]

34. Sorry, I've seen plenty of common ground

between Bernie folks and the 'baggers. Contort all you want. I call it out often only to be denounced as something or other........not a pony I guess.

[Le Taz Hot]

38. "Bernie folks and the 'baggers."

I rest my case.

[Renew Deal]

40. Yes, and you lost.

[wordpix]

42. no YOU lost. I'm a Bernie fan but the only teabags I like are in hot water

so your argument crumbles b/c I'm a typical Bernie supporter.

And I'll vote Hillary if she's the nominee

[HooptieWagon]

56. Damn those Socialist voting "baggers"!

That's some freakin paranoid delusions....

[emulatorloo]

45. E-mail 'scandal' originated with Gowdy and Benghazi Committee

There have been quite a few stories posted here on DU about emailghazi which relied mostly on direct quotations from Gowdy. Gowdy was presented as credible. He isn't.

[Renew Deal]

26. Yes

[Jack Rabbit]

47. Well, I guess I didn't get that memo

Speaking only for myself, I have always thought the Benghazi Committee exists only because it's a a partisan witch hunt and that no further investigation of Mrs. Clinton's emails is going to be worth the money they plan to spend on it or enlighten us with a lesson we haven't already learned from it. Like the candidate I support, I'm sick of hearing about them.

I have never said otherwise.

So I will put you insinuation down here with claims the NAFTA created jobs, that Mrs. Clinton receives no support from Wall Street banks, and that all anyone needs to know about the TPP can be found on whitehouse.gov.

Have a good day, sir.

[Le Taz Hot]

28. Excuse me?

That is a bald-faced lie. People posting Hillary's (many) negatives is NOT "in bed with" anyone. You just lost ALL credibility.

[Renew Deal]

32. Are you feeling guilty about something?

I'm not talking about "negatives" in a general sense. All candidates have those. I'm talking about those humping Beghazi and Email.

[Le Taz Hot]

36. Please point me to any post on DU

agreeing with the Gowdy's Benghazi witch hunt. And yes, I say Benghazi because that is the subject of the OP.

The email issues is a separate issue and is ongoing.

[Renew Deal]

39. Email came from Benghazi

Would you shed a tear if Hillary lost the primary because of some Benghazi finding?

[Jack Rabbit]

48. No

If Hillary loses the nomination, I won't shed a tear at all. Furthermore, if she does, it will be for good reasons, not for any adumbrated by cheap demagogues like Trey Gowdy or Ted Cruz.

Again, have a good day, sir.

[Darb]

35. Yeah right, one just cannot differentiate between the two.

Whatev.

[wordpix]

41. what are you talking about? links?

[Renew Deal]

44. Start here

http://www.democraticunderground.com

[Jack Rabbit]

49. You linked to the DU home page

I think you're trying tell us what we already know. You don't have anything to back up you claims.

[HooptieWagon]

57. Of course not.

Just more brainless shit-flinging.

[HooptieWagon]

55. Same Wall St billionaires funding GOP...

...and Hillary. No change from when Koch Bros funded the DLC. Hmmm.....

[CanonRay]

14. Nixon's "ratfuckers" reincarnated?

[Dont call me Shirley]

15. Gowdy needs to see some jail time.

[wildbilln864]

20. that would be justice indeed! n/t

[NonMetro]

22. Thank You Rep Cummings For Expressing Your Shock And Outrage.

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We're outraged, too! Now, 5 Democrats have been sitting face to face with Gowdy for over a year. This new revelation happened in April - 6 months ago - and the Democrats on the committee are "shocked" to "learn" of this from the Washington Post? You mean you never suspected anything like that was going on? But good job anyway for being shocked now!

[Midnight Writer]

24. Everybody criticizing Gowdy and his Committee need to "SHUT UP".

Chairman Gowdy is personally upset by ATTACKS ON HIS CHARACTER and QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS MOTIVATIONS.

So everybody just cool it, OK?

[Le Taz Hot]

30. Apparently, that's also true of people

criticizing Hillary Clinton. Look above this post.

[Darb]

37. Weak sauce, sorry.

If you do not want to be called out as indistinguishable from the 'baggers, stop parroting their horseshit while stumping for Bern. Just stay positive for the Berner, and everything will be fine. Otherwise, deal.

[yardwork]

27. This is the PAC that put out the ad about Benghazi during the debate.

Voice overs putting words in the mouths of the people who died during the attack on Benghazi.

Their surviving family members have expressed shock and disgust.

[emulatorloo]

46. Now it all makes sense, doesn't it

[wordpix]

43. good! Cummings is a national treasure, thank you!

[randys1]

51. When the vile punks say shit like this

STOP HILLARY PAC Treasurer - Dan Backer "We do stuff that is probably tasteless to some people, but we think it’s hilarious.

It is time to treat them like the horrid assholes they are.