Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign has been a curious case study for political scientists. Never has there been so presumptive of a (non-incumbant) nominee with such little voter enthusiasm behind them.
Clinton’s support has been so astoundingly tepid, that the candidate’s Super PAC recently paid over $1 million for a troll army to create fake social media enthusiasm for her. Apparently the Clinton campaign and their Super PACs have plenty of money to spend — albeit at the expense of state and local campaigns.
In the days before Hillary Clinton launched an unprecedented big-money fundraising vehicle with state parties last summer, she vowed “to rebuild our party from the ground up,” proclaiming “when our state parties are strong, we win. That’s what will happen.”
But less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised by that effort has stayed in the state parties’ coffers, according to a POLITICO analysis of the latest Federal Election Commission filings.
The venture, the Hillary Victory Fund, is a so-called joint fundraising committee comprised of Clinton’s presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and 32 state party committees. The setup allows Clinton to solicit checks of $350,000 or more from her super-rich supporters at extravagant fundraisers including a dinner at George Clooney’s house and a concert at Radio City Music Hall featuring Katy Perry and Elton John.
The victory fund has transferred $3.8 million to the state parties, but almost all of that cash ($3.3 million, or 88 percent) was quickly transferred to the DNC, usually within a day or two, by the Clinton staffer who controls the committee, POLITICO’s analysis of the FEC records found.
By contrast, the victory fund has transferred $15.4 million to Clinton’s campaign and $5.7 million to the DNC, which will work closely with Clinton’s campaign if and when she becomes the party’s nominee. And most of the $23.3 million spent directly by the victory fund has gone toward expenses that appear to have directly benefited Clinton’s campaign, including $2.8 million for “salary and overhead” and $8.6 million for web advertising that mostly looks indistinguishable from Clinton campaign ads and that has helped Clinton build a network of small donors who will be critical in a general election expected to cost each side well in excess of $1 billion.
The arrangement has sparked concerns among campaign finance watchdogs and allies of Clinton’s Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. They see it as a circumvention of campaign contribution limits by a national party apparatus intent on doing whatever it takes to help Clinton defeat Sanders during the party’s primary, and then win the White House.
Bernie Sanders is not the only person concerned about the disparate amounts of money filling the Clinton campaign’s coffers. Democrats running for the House, Senate, governor seats, and local elections could really feel the effects of Clinton’s ravenous appetite for funding come election day.
Source: Politico
Hillary is very greedy
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The political establishment, left and right is putting on an all-out push to prove that, when push comes to shove, they can still buy the Oval Office for the candidate of THEIR CHOICE.
It’s goes in her pocket,what a loser.
If Krauthammer is correct, HOW CAN THE CLINTONS stay out of jail? JC
Charles Krauthammer – ON THE CLINTONS
The Clinton Foundation is “organized crime” at its finest, and we are financing it! Here is a good, concise summary of how the Clinton Foundation works as a tax free international money laundering scheme. It may eventually prove to be the largest political criminal enterprise in U.S. history. This is a textbook case on how you hide foreign money sent to you and re-package it, to be used for your own purposes. All tax free.
Here’s how it works:
1. You create a separate foreign “charity.” In this case one in Canada.
2. Foreign oligarch’s & governments then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did, contributing mega millions. I am sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return. (Imagine Putin’s buddies waking up one morning and just deciding to send un-told millions to a Canadian charity).
3. The Canadian charity then bundles these separate donations & makes a massive donation to the Clinton Foundation.
4. The Clinton Foundation and the cooperating Canadian charity claim Canadian law prohibits the identification of individual donors.
5. The Clinton Foundation, then “spends” some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Unfortunately, experts believe this is on the order of 10%. Much of the balance goes to enrich the Clinton’s, pay salaries to un-told numbers of hangers on, & fund lavish travel, etc. Again virtually all tax free, which means you & I are subsidizing it.
6. The Clinton Foundation with access to the world’s best accountants somehow fails to report much of this on their tax filings. They discover these “clerical errors” and begin the process of re-filing 5 years of tax returns. Most Foundations would be closed for this alone.
7. Net result: foreign money, much of it from other countries, goes into the Clinton’s pockets tax free & untraceable back to the original donor. This is the textbook definition of money laundering.
Oh, by the way, the Canadian “charity” includes as a principal one Frank Giustra. Google him. He is the guy who was central to the formation of Uranium One, a Canadian company that somehow acquired massive U.S. uranium interests & then sold them to an organization controlled by Russia. This transaction required U.S. State Department approval, and guess who was Secretary of State, when the approval was granted? Yes, Hillary Clinton!!!
As an aside, imagine how former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell feels. That poor schlep is in jail because he and his wife took $165,000 in gifts and loans for doing minor favors for a guy promoting a vitamin company. Not legal, but not exactly putting U.S. security at risk.
Sarcasm aside, if you are still not persuaded this was a cleverly structured way to get unidentified foreign money to the Clinton’s ask yourself this: Why did these foreign interests funnel money through a Canadian charity? Why not donate directly to the Clinton Foundation? Better yet, why not donate money directly to the people, organizations & countries in need?
This is the essence of money laundering and influence peddling. Now you know why Hillary’s destruction of 30,000 e-mails was a risk she was willing to take. Bill and Hillary are devious, unprincipled, dishonest, and criminal, and they are Slick! warning: They could be back in the White House in January 2017. Do not let it happen. Remember, most people are not well informed. We must somehow inform and educate them.
Charles Krauthammer
http://truthfeed.com/?p=1410