Clinton Campaign compromises 2 more surrogates' integrity.

[kristopher]

Yep they're telling another whopper - this time ImEx bank. Nope, "transactions" aren't the same as "funding" are they?

Bernie said only 25% ofImEx funding goes to small businesses. He was correct. Hillary promptly launched two surrogates to claim
Jesse Lehrich ‏@JesseLehrich
90% of Ex-Im transactions directly support small businesses.
#DemDebate

And Reps. Dingall and Tim Ryan repeat the misleading supposed refutation:



TRUTH FROM CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43581.pdf page 11

[kristopher]

1. Text reference

...U.S. small businesses account for the majority of Ex-Im Bank’s transactions by number (89% in FY2014), while larger companies represent the majority by dollar amount. Ex-Im Bank reported that almost 56% of its total authorizations for FY2014 supported infrastructure projects.15

Ex-Im Bank has met its 20% small business target from Congress in some years, but has fallen short in other years, based on authorization amount (see Table 2). At the same time, small business transactions supported by the Bank constitute the majority of Ex-Im Bank’s transactions by number...

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43581.pdf pg 10

[Matt_in_STL]

2. They are playing with semantics

They correctly refer to the 90% of transactions made with small businesses but they leave out the fact that it isn't anywhere near 90% of the overall funding. It's their way of playing both sides, as always.