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So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.

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The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. He wasted no words. He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt.
“What?” I screamed. “I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.”
That wasn’t true, he said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.

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”Gary, how did they do this without me knowing?” I asked. “I don’t know how Debbie relates to the officers,” Gary said. He described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse. Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.

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What’s the burn rate, Gary?” I asked. “How much money do we need every month to fund the party?”
The burn rate was $3.5 million to $4 million a month, he said.

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When I got back from a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard

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I at last found the document that described it all: the Joint Fund-Raising Agreement between the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund, and Hillary for America.
The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.
I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.

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Yet the states kept less than half of 1 percent of the $82 million they had amassed from the extravagant fund-raisers Hillary’s campaign was holding, just as Gary had described to me when he and I talked in August. When the Politico story described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.

really queer Christmas posted:

Lol at the dems forever. Bernie would have won

1gnoirents posted:

I thought this was common knowledge tbh. But proof is nice I suppose.

Pawn 17 posted:

We already got proof of this a while ago when the DNC was sued by Bernie supporters for rigging the primary. The DNC responded to the lawsuit by saying yes, they rigged it, but they are ALLOWED to rig it, so there was no wrongdoing.

myDad posted:

old beast lunatic posted:

This was painfully obvious to anyone following the primaries.

old beast lunatic posted:

This was painfully obvious to anyone following the primaries.

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

There was nothing suspicious going on in that campaign at all! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/officials-investigating-why-126000-voters-were-purged-from-ny-rolls

ReadingZucchini posted:

Lol, if only there were some process that were intended to find the best (or even the most likely to win an election) candidate to run for a party. Maybe if the dems had used something like that, they could have beaten the GOP's racist sexual predator lol.

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

drat sucks to have cheated and still lost lol.

Creamed Cormp posted:

so aside from some muckracking by some random nobody far removed from the Democratic party, do we have any evidence of this """"rigging""""" or are you just yet another drumpf-loving bernie bro anti liberal trying to drag the most qualified candidate in the mud by spreading around russian funded fake new- nah I'm just fuckin' with you, can you actually imagine someone dumb enough to write that for real?

really queer Christmas posted:

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/926116616902934528

really queer Christmas posted:

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/926116616902934528

I hope the democrat party dies

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

drat sucks to have cheated and still lost lol.

really queer Christmas posted:

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/926116616902934528

I hope the democrat party dies