Primary Error: Donna Brazile Mixed Up Two Different Clinton-DNC Agreements

[wyldwolf]

Not sure if this is a reliable source. Never heard of it.

Donna Brazile reopened 2016 Democratic primary wounds yesterday by publishing a portion of her new book, Hacks: The Inside Story Of The Break Ins And Breakdowns at POLITICO. Although the usual suspects leaped on her claims that Hillary Clinton “control[ed] the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised” in a 2015 document, by the evening it became clear that Brazile had misrepresented the reality.

There is absolutely nothing in the Clinton campaign’s 2015 Joint Fundraising Agreement that gave her any such “control” — not even in the draft version of that document hacked by Russian intelligence and published by WikiLeaks.

Whereas Brazile claimed that Clinton wanted to “wield control of [DNC] operations” in 2015, she never assumed any such powers until June of 2016, when the primary race was over and she was the official nominee. As Brazile acknowledges, it is absolutely normal for the nominee to take control of the party apparatus at that point.

It is also normal for the nominee to sign a whole new Joint Fundraising Agreement with the DNC, which is exactly what Clinton did. Brazile has two different Agreements mixed up in her mind — and her publisher has failed on a basic fact-check. Either someone is too lazy to read the actual DNC documents for themselves, or they are lying on purpose.

Neither of these possibilities is comforting, and the latter seems all too likely, as Brazile is clearly hanging her narrative on other people’s bad information.

For example, a POLITICO hit piece last year described Clinton’s fundraising agreement with the state parties as “essentially … money laundering.” Brazile repeats this shady construction, saying that “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.”

But that is not what the 2015 Joint Fundraising Agreement said — and it is not what happened.

http://deepstatenation.com/primary-error-donna-brazile-mixed-up-two-different-clinton-dnc-agreements/

[leftofcool]

3. Better yet, support the DSCC who is rasing millions for Democrats

[DURHAM D]

4. Millions for people running for the Senate,

doesn't help down ticket and state level races.

[comradebillyboy]

8. Or both...

[Wwcd]

2. K & R

Fools

[procon]

5. Color me skeptical until some of major media outlets verify this info

and start reporting it. I am suspicious of anything written by an unknown blogger who self identifies himself as a "rabbit caretaker". That CV just doesn't give me any confidence in his chops as an investigative journalist. Maybe he's onto something, I dunno, but I would like to see a 2nd legitimate source reach the same conclusions.

[Not Ruth]

6. He has a few rabbit pics up on the internet

Reminds me of 20committee and the cats

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I agree, and it seems like the information should be easily verified.

[liberalnarb]

9. "Deep State Nation" ? I doubt its very credible.

[Brother Buzz]

10. The author, Matt Osborne, is kinda legit

He's been published in Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, The National Memo, Seeking Alpha, shots, Investment Advisor Magazine.

[liberalnarb]

11. Hmmm. We'll see where it goes.

[Brother Buzz]

12. I don't disagree

And I'm not totally discounting the story either; there just may be some there there.

[liberalnarb]

14. It all seems really suspicious.

[joshcryer]

13. Damn, Twitter trolls got their accounts suspended.

What a shitty world we live in now.

[zentrum]

15. Brazille has been an

.....exceptionally loyal soldier for The Democrats. Her analysis is from the inside. I think lots of people are having a come to Jesus moment. She has no reason to speak out unless she is deeply troubled. In this, I stand with her. We've got to be able to fight Trump, fight nazis, and the Republican agenda and tell the truth and improve our own party at the same time. This can't be an either-or decision.

[lancelyons]

16. Why would Brazile do something so damaging as this. What is her motives?

Why would Brazile do something so damaging as this. What is her motives?

I certainly believe that turn around is fair play and that she should be hammered for any incorrect stuff she is pushing.

Boy all the good work she might have done has been destroyed.

[thesquanderer]

19. Either she really cares about exposing truth, or she wants to sell books.

(Or some combination, of course.)

[True Blue American]

17. Donna Brazile

Has been for Donna as long as I can remember.

She and Debbie ran the DNC into the ground after Terry McAullife cleared all the debts,built a new DNC head quarters in Virginia.

Donna is strictly a self promoter,Judy like DWS. They have already proved she lied in her book.

[lagomorph777]

18. If this was 2016; I'd have a ton of opinions on Brazile, HRC, et al.

My only opinion now is "What the fuck does this have to do with impeaching Trump?"

[MrScorpio]

20. I've had the anti-Hill brigade bothering me today on Twitter

Of course, they were too busy hating on Hill to do their homework as well.

[RandomAccess]

21. I don't think so

This article was written in Feb 2016 and it says, about the August agreement, about the same thing Brazille wrote:

Democratic Party fundraising effort helps Clinton find new donors, too February 20, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-party-fundraising-effort-helps-clinton-find-new-donors-too/2016/02/19/b8535cea-d68f-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html

Behind the scenes at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis last August, campaign officials for Hillary Clinton were making a hard sell to the state parties.

In private huddles, they urged state officials to sign on to an ambitious fundraising endeavor that would allow Clinton’s presidential bid, the DNC and the state parties to scoop up and share big checks from wealthy donors. It would mark the earliest creation of a joint fundraising committee between a presidential candidate and the party, and it would be the biggest ever, thanks to a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision that knocked down a cap on how much donors could give to federal campaigns in a single year.

A record 32 state parties signed on to the fund, allowing the committee to solicit donations 130 times greater than what a supporter can give to Clinton’s campaign for the primary.

But the states have yet to see a financial windfall. Meanwhile, Clinton’s campaign has been a major beneficiary, getting an infusion of low-dollar contributions through the committee at a time when rival Bernie Sanders’s army of small donors is helping him close in on her financially. The fund is run by Clinton campaign staff, and its treasurer is Clinton’s chief operating officer.