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Carly Fiorina’s ‘Super PAC’ Aids Her Campaign, in Plain Sight (Illegal coordination?)
NY Times ^ | 9/30/15 | NICK CORASANITIS

Posted on 09/30/2015 8:43:12 AM PDT by jimbo123

The table festooned with red “Carly for America” placards arrived hours before the candidate. Political operatives took up positions outside the front door to catch supporters of Carly Fiorina, the corporate executive-turned-Republican contender, and gather their contact information before steering them inside to the room where she would speak.

But the table, the placards and the workers didn’t belong to Mrs. Fiorina’s campaign. They were there thanks to the “super PAC” supporting her run for president.

The Federal Election Commission forbids direct coordination between campaigns and super PACs, lest candidates effectively rely almost entirely on the huge, unlimited donations of a small number of billionaires. But in 2016, the groups are aggressively exploiting gray areas and loopholes in the rules, few of which the commission – deadlocked with its three Republican and three Democratic members – has hastened to close.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturf; chamberofcommerce; designatedloser; fiorino; goldenparachute; gope; hp; layoffs; lucent; nograssroots4carly; nograssrootssupport; rino
FioRINO has no grassroots support or donations so her Super Pac has to do everything for her. That's why she's trying to steal Jeb's Right To Rise money, because she can't raise money for her own campaign from anyone except from her Chamber of Commerce backers.
1 posted on 09/30/2015 8:43:12 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Note: Trump is the only candidate who doesn’t have this problem.


2 posted on 09/30/2015 8:47:53 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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I am getting really sick of hearing about this fraud, to the point that any mention of her makes me sick.


3 posted on 09/30/2015 8:53:00 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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GOPe Designated Loser.
4 posted on 09/30/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT by jimbo123
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She actually is doing very nicely on grassroots donations. Still, she doesn’t have a billion dollars of her own to spend on her campaign, as does Trump, who seems to be spending much of it on buying trolls to publish anti-Fiorina stuff innuendo and trash by every means and across the ideological spectrum (from liberal rags to conservative boards).


5 posted on 09/30/2015 8:58:58 AM PDT by livius
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6 posted on 09/30/2015 9:01:17 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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Grassroots Support? Really?

Carly Fiorina Holds 2 Fundraisers In Dallas Monday (with Roger Dorf, U.S. Chamber of Commerce)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3342197/posts


7 posted on 09/30/2015 9:01:59 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Damn it, where’s my Trump money? 56 million - the amount of HP’s federal fine for bribing government officials which started just after Fiorina took over as CEO, starting with Russians which she loves to remind us of.

Nothing to see here, just Fiorina operating as normal.


8 posted on 09/30/2015 9:05:23 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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That's why she's trying to steal Jeb's Right To Rise money, because she can't raise money for her own campaign from anyone except from her Chamber of Commerce backers.
What does that say about Cruz's superPAC (Keep The Promise) that gave her PAC $500,000
9 posted on 09/30/2015 9:06:54 AM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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FioRINO doesn’t want to talk to Putin because he will remind her of the HP bribes she gave his buddies.


10 posted on 09/30/2015 9:09:26 AM PDT by jimbo123
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She actually is doing very nicely on grassroots donations.
So what's your problem?
11 posted on 09/30/2015 9:10:22 AM PDT by lewislynn (Meghan Kelley...#sand--Rosie, the Don was right-- Hillary, lipstick on a pig)
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Fox let her die


12 posted on 09/30/2015 9:37:19 AM PDT by scooby321
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