Obama edict requires DNC to return $100,000

[Hope And Change]

Sen. Obama changed the DNC's fund-raising rules after besting Sen. Hillary Clinton in a long primary battle.

Obama edict requires DNC to return $100,000

Posted: 09:46 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Democratic National Committee is now operating under Barack Obama's fundraising rules.

The DNC today returned about $100,000 in money from lobbyists and political action committees.

A party official says the donations were already "in the pipeline" when Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, instituted the standards for the committee.

Obama imposed the rules to avoid a conflict with his own ban on money from federal lobbyists and PACs.

Republican John McCain does accept money from lobbyists and PACs as does the Republican National Committee and other party committees.

Obama's ban does not apply to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee nor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

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Obama's ban does not apply to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee nor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Why doesn`t the ban apply to these commitees too?And even if it did, corporations and PAC:s would still be able to influence congress by giving donations directly to the politicians, right?

[still_one]

1. I think it is great and everything, but it is disturbing that mccain still accepts that money

and doing so may put us at a disadvantage

[Zodiak]

2. The DSCC and DCCC is not Obama's to control

Schumer and Emanuel run the other two operations, both DLC-types. The DNC runs the Presidential campaign, so that is Obama's to control.

Obama also cannot control individual campaigns. The law does...and the law says lobbyists are legal. That sucks, but not Obama's to control.

So over the avenues that Obama does control, he has imposed this rule. I am not complaining, and neither should you unless you acknowledge that Obama has done what is within his purview to do, and it is the responsibility of Schumer, Emanuel, and the individual campaigns to do the rest.

[Hope And Change]

6. I see.Thanks for the info.However I read that Obama is in favour of public financing

and that could be an option...to make a new election reform if Obama gets elected President in order to weaken the power of corporations and PAC:s.Don`t know if the congress would be willing to approve this.

[MGKrebs]

7. List of the top 10 PAC's:

American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $39,392,153
AT&T Inc $39,065,076
National Assn of Realtors $32,336,506
American Assn for Justice $28,727,389
Goldman Sachs $28,701,957
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $27,898,934
National Education Assn $27,713,779
Laborers Union $26,503,339
Service Employees International Union $25,931,093
Carpenters & Joiners Union $25,627,582


Just fyi.



http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/index.php

[Hope And Change]

9. Interesting info.Thanks.

[ananda]

3. Yeah, what's that all about?

Not applying to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee nor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?

That makes no sense. What good is it to have a president free of corrupting influences when Congress is still corrupt??????

[Zodiak]

4. Ask Schumer and Emanuel

They run those operations. But I am afraid you will not get far with them because they are both DLC-types (Schumer takes money from the DLC and gives speeches at their conferences, Emanuel is DLC).

The problem we have is that the previous power base is "New Democrat" who have no problems with taking corporate money. If we want to change things, we need to remove DLC-types from the top of the power structure in the party.

We went a long way in putting Obama in the nominee position, but there is much work to be done. I must say that I did not anticipate that the DLC would be challenged like they have in this election cycle, but I know also that it will mean nothing if we do not win in November. If we are lucky, we can have the DLC out of the top power positions in the party by 2012, but probably not sooner.

[MGKrebs]

8. Perhaps they recognize that "PAC money" isn't the same as "corporate money".

6 of the top 10 PAC's are unions and one other is the people friendly trial lawyers PAC.

[DevonRex]

5. See post #2. He doesn't have control of those committees. It

would be great if they chose to follow his lead, though.