Hillary says she supports campaign finance reform but she thumbs her nose at the current law

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She claims she wants campaign finance reform, but not only relies on SuperPACS, she COORDINATES directly with them. This is the most disingenuous of all her many disingenuous positions. It is right there in the voters' faces.

Has any candidate so egregiously given the finger to the law? Has any other candidate openly coordinated with a SuperPAC?

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1. Link plz....n/t

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2. This is OLD news, you really should know what your candidate it up to

David Brock, the founder of the Correct The Record rapid response and opposition research group that coordinates with the Clinton campaign, told POLITICO on Monday morning.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/david-brock-bernie-sanders-218954#ixzz3zhRy6VSU

Early on the Clinton campaign said they were coordinating with Brock's SuperPAC, Correct the Record. Old news.

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3. "How a super PAC plans to coordinate directly with Hillary Clinton’s campaign"

Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.

On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The group’s move was first reported by the New York Times.

That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with a candidate or political party. Several said the relationship between the campaign and the super PAC would test the legal limits.

But Correct the Record believes it can avoid the coordination ban by relying on a 2006 Federal Election Commission regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs, is off limits from regulation. The “Internet exemption” said that such free postings do not constitute campaign expenditures, allowing independent groups to consult with candidates about the content they post on their sites. By adopting the measure, the FEC limited its online jurisdiction to regulating paid political ads.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/

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4. Every time a bring this up a new HIllary supporter acts indignant about it, until educated

about their candidate's sleazy coordination with a SuperPAC, something I haven't even seen a republican do. If a republican has done it, please let me know. It would be just as wrong it they did.

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5. Probably even breaking the law.

It just hasn't been challenged like this yet.