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minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months ago“Endorsement” meaning the 25 45 million a month to a PAC… How the fuck are we not going after them for this? The PAC system is incredibly fucked, but outside of a handful of progressives no politicians want to admit it’s legal bribery
minus-squarebig_slap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agomaybe this is the straw that breaks the camels back. hoping this admission changes things
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt won’t. Biden inherited the HVF, and called it the BVF but it did the same thing. A big part of the discussion of Kamala taking over, was if she got the BVF. I don’t know what she’s calling it now, but she has it. It’s the thing Hillary did that took all the money from state parties, that coordinated with the DNC during the primary. Giant shit show. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donors-can-now-give-620600-to-biden-and-dnc-expanding-democratic-big-money-fundraising/2020/05/16/d2bf51cc-978a-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/g-s1-12807/harris-biden-fec-campaign-finance Neither party will do shit about it, because they all benefit from it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/
“Endorsement” meaning the
2545 million a month to a PAC…How the fuck are we not going after them for this?
The PAC system is incredibly fucked, but outside of a handful of progressives no politicians want to admit it’s legal bribery
maybe this is the straw that breaks the camels back. hoping this admission changes things
It won’t.
Biden inherited the HVF, and called it the BVF but it did the same thing.
A big part of the discussion of Kamala taking over, was if she got the BVF.
I don’t know what she’s calling it now, but she has it.
It’s the thing Hillary did that took all the money from state parties, that coordinated with the DNC during the primary. Giant shit show.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donors-can-now-give-620600-to-biden-and-dnc-expanding-democratic-big-money-fundraising/2020/05/16/d2bf51cc-978a-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/23/g-s1-12807/harris-biden-fec-campaign-finance
Neither party will do shit about it, because they all benefit from it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/