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marym625

(17,997 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 12:11 AM Jun 2015

"African Americans for Bernie Sanders 2016" -DONATION ALERT

Found this out there. Great advice. We should use the ACT BLUE Omaha Steve set up DU ACT BLUE

Rachael UstorfAfrican Americans for Bernie Sanders 2016

13 hrs · Edited · 

BERNers, please remember:
DO NOT DONATE TO BERNIE THROUGH BET ON BERNIE dot com OR PLEDGE SANDERS dot com or ANY OTHER SITE EXCEPT BernieSanders.com ORActBlue.com!

Berniesanders.com and ActBlue are the ONLY campaign fund donation sites where ALL funds go DIRECTLY to Bernie. All other either A) keep a percentage for themselves or B) Keep ALL the funds.

Please share this info!

UPDATE: 
"May 19, the FEC ordered Bet on Bernie to remove "Bernie" from its name or face possible enforcement action because the committee is unauthorized by Sanders. Several super PACs that support or oppose presidential candidates have received similar notices, including Northern Michigan for Bernie Sanders."
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/30/sanders-unable-superpacs/28184005/


On edit: Bernie Sanders endorses the DU ACT BLUE

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"African Americans for Bernie Sanders 2016" -DONATION ALERT (Original Post) marym625 Jun 2015 OP
Hate scammers of any sort. nt SusanCalvin Jun 2015 #1
Same here marym625 Jun 2015 #2
Act Blue is not a PAC hootinholler Jun 2015 #3
absolutely marym625 Jun 2015 #4

marym625

(17,997 posts)
2. Same here
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 12:25 AM
Jun 2015

And people who hide who they're working for to continue to make money.

Glad these particular scammers were caught!

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)
3. Act Blue is not a PAC
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 01:43 AM
Jun 2015

It is a service available to raise funds. They are funded by 'tips' that you can give when you donate to a candidate. They do nothing but collect donations and pass them on to campaigns.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
4. absolutely
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 01:46 AM
Jun 2015

Last edited Sun Jun 21, 2015, 07:45 AM - Edit history (1)

I worded that badly and fixed it. Never meant ACT BLUE was a pac.

Thanks for pointing it out. I love ACT BLUE and wouldn't want the wrong information out there. Especially by me

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