Hillary Clinton and David Brock bending the rules on Campaign Finance and Dark Money

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Hillary Clinton’s Bulldog Blazes New Campaign Finance Trails

David Brock, one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party, never doubted that he would spend the 2016 cycle working to make Hillary Clinton president. The question was how he should do it while staying on the right side of the law.

As his lawyers drafted memos with his options for how to keep his activities legal, he found that he could keep his hand in several different operations at the same time without running afoul of the law, helping manage Correct the Record, a super PAC devoted to defending Clinton, while staying on the board of a separate super PAC that raises money to promote her campaign. The first group has close ties to the Clinton campaign; the second, legally, cannot coordinate spending with the campaign.

“What they are doing with Correct the Record is groundbreaking,” explains Paul Ryan, a lawyer at the Campaign Legal Center, who is considering filing complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department challenging the group’s novel legal theories. “It is creating new ways to undermine campaign regulation.”

In his current role, Brock now works on what he calls the “coordinated” side of the Clinton campaign. His group, Correct the Record, raises unlimited funds outside the regulated campaign finance system. But since it does not pay for advertising advocating her election, he says he can continue under current rules to talk to her, and her campaign staff about strategy, while deploying the unregulated money he raises to advocating her election online, through the press, or through other means of non-paid communications.

At the same time, he has stayed on the board of Priorities USA, the group that will pay for much of the Clinton television advertising effort with unregulated donations that sometimes top $1 million from wealthy Democrats. Not only that, but he has established a joint fundraising committee that will raise money for both Correct the Record, the “coordinated” group, and Priorities, the “independent” group, at the same time from the same donors.

How is this guy not in jail?

F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says

“The likelihood of the laws being enforced is slim,” Ann M. Ravel, the chairwoman, said in an interview. “I never want to give up, but I’m not under any illusions. People think the F.E.C. is dysfunctional. It’s worse than dysfunctional.”

Mrs. Clinton has become the candidate of Citizens United.

[Tommy2Tone]

1. He's an operative

How is he not in jail?

[arikara]

2. I just can't with that woman.

I used to admire her but that was eons ago.

[lobodons]

6. I can't stand

people who can't stand Hillary. But hey, no worries. Come 2017, she will have 8 years as President and thank God she will have 2-3 SCOTUS picks instead of anyone on the GOP side. That will give us a 5-4 and even a 6-3 majority progressive Dems for the next 30 years. (Take a look at her Husbands choices. I think she will do just fine in this category)

[nichomachus]

3. Hillary -- getting worse by the day nt

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Don't worry. She's meant to be President. It's, like, totally OK.

(OK. I've heard about that primary stuff and all, but come on! Cut the crap!! Enough with the "democracy" BS. She's our next president! Game over, Dude!)

[JackInGreen]

5. But buy but IOKIYH

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