Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Nate Silver tweets, "ThE DeMoCrAtiC PriMaRy Is OvEr": [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)He cannot directly convert funds donated for his campaign to personal use.
He can employ them for future political purposes, to support other candidates, or roll them into a future campaign of his own.
Although careful choice of who provides services to such campaigns, who handles their media work and such like, could direct much of the take into friendly or familial hands. If done too obviously, of course, that is actionable....
"From Bernies perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they dont want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."
"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden