AP News: Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns

[pnwmom]

https://apnews.com/345bbd1af529cfb1e41305fa3ab1e604

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders says he doesn’t want a super PAC. Instead, he has Our Revolution, a nonprofit political organization he founded that functions much the same as one.

Like a super PAC, which is shorthand for super political action committee, Our Revolution can raise unlimited sums from wealthy patrons that dwarf the limits faced by candidates and conventional PACs. Unlike a super PAC, however, the group doesn’t have to disclose its donors — a stream of revenue commonly referred to as “dark money.”

Now, with less than one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, Our Revolution appears to be skirting campaign finance law, which forbids groups founded by federal candidates and officeholders from using large donations to finance federal election activity, including Sanders’ 2020 bid.

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Our Revolution has taken in nearly $1 million from donors who gave more than the limits and whose identities it hasn’t fully disclosed, according to tax filings for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Much of it came from those who contributed six-figure sums.

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. .

[MineralMan]

10. What a menacing GIF!

And posted without comment, too...

[Cha]

2. Shine the Light!

[NYMinute]

3. Casino, bar and escorts in the basement of the

Church of Holier than Thou.

[brer cat]

8. ...

[guillaumeb]

4. In a system driven by access to money,

where the SCOTUS equates money with speech, this is inevitable.

[pnwmom]

5. But at least he could be honest about it. When he's criticizing others

for going to corporate fundraisers, and not being transparent about his own funding, it doesn't inspire trust.

[guillaumeb]

6. Agreed.

[Cha]

7. KICK!

[NurseJackie]

9. Wow! Such hypocrisy.

Our Revolution has taken in nearly $1 million from donors who gave more than the limits and whose identities it hasn’t fully disclosed, according to tax filings for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Much of it came from those who contributed six-figure sums.

Wow! Such hypocrisy.

It makes me sick.

[ehrnst]

11. Indeed. A different standard for everyone else....

[Hortensis]

12. I think Sanders believes his wonderful ideals justify what he's doing

to achieve them. He seems to think that if the Repub-Russian assaults on democracy take us out (or maybe if we, in our corruption, join the right), he'll be able to step in, rally the American people to rise in support of him (that great support is critical to the success of all his plans, but he doesn't doubt he can generate it), and he will then lead America into the future.

He gives no indication of caring or fearing that our RW foes are far larger and more numerous than him, incredibly more powerful than him, and more ruthless than he's ever been. They'd step on him in passing without even noticing, much less a thank-you, but he doesn't seem to believe that could happen. The great uprising of the people he'd lead from the left wouldn't let it.

[betsuni]

13. K&R

[wyldwolf]

14. bro' splaining in 3...2...

[David__77]

15. Cool.

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