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Rachel Maddow Debunks Bernie Sanders Claim Of Clinton Campaign Finance ViolationsBy Jason Easley on Tue, Apr 19th, 2016 at 9:18 am
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell debunked the Sanders campaign's claim that Hillary Clinton and the DNC have violated campaign finance laws.
There is one point about the Sanders allegations that doesnt add up. Bernie Sanders is the biggest champion for getting rid of Citizens United in the United States. If the Sanders campaign had any evidence that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign violated campaign finance laws, why didnt they file an FEC complaint?
An FEC complaint would create national headlines and shine a light on the dirty campaign finance system, but the Sanders campaign chose not to do that. The answer to the question of why they didnt can be found in their carefully chosen language in the letter to the DNC. The Sanders campaign wrote about concerns and apparent violations, which indicated that they dont have any hard evidence to back up their allegations.
Campaign finance experts are suggesting that the Sanders campaign is off base with these allegations, and the timing of the claims screams strategic move to try to swing the electorate on the eve of a critical must-win primary.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/19/rachel-maddow-debunks-bernie-sanders-claim-clinton-campaign-finance-violations.html
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Response to berni_mccoy (Reply #1)
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berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Why don't you google DU for Andrea Mitchell Greenspan... I'm sure you'll be enlightened.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Bob41213
(491 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)election experts? Immediately before a critical election Sanders filed "allegations" but didn't offer one shred of proof to back them up. This is dirty politics, guys. You can still support Bernie, but he is not the man his supporters want to believe he is.
Btw, embrace truth, reject lies. That's what grownups do. The other's for fools.
Ive talked to as many experts as we could since this first evolved. PolitiFact says its mostly wrong. Larry Noble, who had been a general counsel at the FEC, and is an expert on this says that the allegation is not correct. They may be pushing the envelope, but that there really is no underlying corrupt nature to this relationship.
I talked to the DNC, and they say that this is a joint campaign victory fund that was also offered to Bernie Sanders. That the Sanders campaign, they claim, signed an agreement, but they never exercised it, so they never engaged.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I like him even more now lol
mythology
(9,527 posts)Sanders supporters have had no problem believing their claims unquestioningly.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Merryland
(1,134 posts)Rachel is one of the most brilliant women on earth, second only to Hillary herself.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Sanders was the recipient of this same program. The guy does not have an ounce of credibility in my mind. Shame on the DNC for not requiring that a candidate be a registered Democrat for five years.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I haven't seen the segment, but it's easy for me to imagine that it looked something like this:
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)He has become such a disappointment
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)right?
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I am sure people work hard to be accepted as interns on this show and then they work hard to contribute to the show. Wonder if anyone left because they supported Bernie and found it difficult to work in such a pro clinton atmosphere. It would take a very strong person to give up such an assignment.
amborin
(16,631 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Broward
(1,976 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)Hillary takes full advantage of McCutcheon vs FEC (Citizens United II) - uses the legalized bribery system she claims she will later fight against.
She thus lacks integrity.