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Records show more Democrat politicians using campaign funds to pay family members
American Thinker ^ | 19 Jul, 2022 | Rajan Laad

Posted on 07/19/2022 10:05:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 07/19/2022 10:05:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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These are just the small fish. The larger fish are harder to pin down, but 10% for the Big Guy does not seem to be shocking Brandon supporters.


2 posted on 07/19/2022 10:05:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Spreading the wealth? /s


3 posted on 07/19/2022 10:06:46 AM PDT by cranked
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If my brother, wife, child or other family member works for my campaign, I'll pay him out of campaign funds . . . it's a job.

I see nothing wrong with paying family for work done . . . unless it's illegal to DO so.

4 posted on 07/19/2022 10:08:21 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I may not have proof, but they're true !)
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Pigs at the trough. Politics is, and will continue to be, a Criminal Enterprise.


5 posted on 07/19/2022 10:08:25 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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I’m beginning to watch American Thinker . . . just sayin’


6 posted on 07/19/2022 10:09:22 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I may not have proof, but they're true !)
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They don’t even try to hide it anymore because they know the crooked libtard DOJ won’t do anything 🤪


7 posted on 07/19/2022 10:09:27 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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Maxine Waters ripped off her campaign fund bigtime and didn’t even blink an eye


8 posted on 07/19/2022 10:10:42 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110

It’s likely illegal.


9 posted on 07/19/2022 10:11:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: knarf

it is not that family works for you that is the issue. It is the amount they are paid, usually for tasks they have no qualifications for or for a task that is never meant to do anything anyway.

Now one could say “who cares” it only hurts the candidate, but that still misses the point. The intent was always to siphon the funds off for personal gain as opposed to support an honest run for office.

Simply put it is legal graft and an abuse of the good will of those donating.


10 posted on 07/19/2022 10:13:11 AM PDT by Skwor
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NOT breaking/shocking/bombshell? 😂✌


11 posted on 07/19/2022 10:13:31 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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“If my brother, wife, child or other family member works for my campaign, I’ll pay him out of campaign funds . . . it’s a job.”

‘Works” is the key word there.
So too, what experience do they have doing the “job”?

If you give your 10 year old a million dollar salary out of campaign funds to smile on camera, that woud certainly be a questinable use of campaign funds.

What is legal for politicians would get prison time for most others.


12 posted on 07/19/2022 10:13:49 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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Oligarchs gonna oligarch.

And there’s no oligarch like an American oligarch. Just ask Nancy and her drinking-man husband.


13 posted on 07/19/2022 10:15:07 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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The Big Fish get high paying jobs for their kids in various corporation.


14 posted on 07/19/2022 10:15:15 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Republican voters have the same problem with never-Trumpers. Sometimes I think the ‘24 debates should be between DJT and one or 2 of them. Show the country who the real enemy is. Everyone already knows where the democrats are coming from.

Put it out there Don. Any republican who supports the Democrat nominee will be offered the free publicity. 60 minutes only.


15 posted on 07/19/2022 10:16:45 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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I would wager that this is a general Swamp thing, and that the Dims just don’t bother to hide it since the media has their back.


16 posted on 07/19/2022 10:17:33 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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But...but...but...that’s ray cist!


17 posted on 07/19/2022 10:17:35 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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yeah but everyone knows as long as you are a Democrat you can do WHATEVER you want and get away with it


18 posted on 07/19/2022 10:17:53 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Looks like the corruption dam has broken.

Now DC is no better than Russia and the Ukraine, and only a little better than all the Third World shttholes.


19 posted on 07/19/2022 10:19:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Anybody with the ‘D’ behind their name is a part of the longest running, most corrupt crime cabal in history. They control all three branches of govt and members of the Repugnant Congress simply go along to get along.


20 posted on 07/19/2022 10:31:31 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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