Posted on 11/03/2017 7:42:34 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said the revelations that the Democratic National Committee rigged the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton underscores the need for an overhaul of campaign finance laws and a complete overhaul of the national party.
Mrs. Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, resigned as vice chair of the DNC in 2016 to endorse Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont in the Democratic primary last year and has been outspoken in her criticism of the way the DNC handled the election.
“The DNC secretly chose their nominee over a year before the primary elections even occurred. This shines a light on how deeply broken our campaign finance laws are, and how they’ve weakened individual candidates while strengthening and empowering political parties and special interested,” Mrs. Gabbard says in a video she blasted out Friday. “These laws allowed the Clinton campaign to bypass individual campaign contribution limits by funneling millions of dollars through the DNC and state parties — taking control of the DNC in the process.”
The video comes after Donna Brazile, who took over as interim chair of the DNC on the eve of the Democratic National Convention, released a new book that reveals that the Clinton campaign helped the DNC retire debt leftover from 2012 in exchange for having significant control over the party.
In her video, Ms. Gabbard, who is considered a possible 2020 presidential candidate, called for the end of “superdelegates” and to open up the primary contests by adopting same-day voter registration.
“No more games, no more retaliation, no more picking of winners or losers — we must act now to take back our party,” she said.
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Reorganization of DNC without changing out the current democrats in DC will accomplish exactly nothing
> This shines a light on how deeply broken our campaign finance laws are
I’d argue that campaign finance laws give power to the major parties. The stronger the laws, the more a candidate needs the party to work through all of the regulations and limitations on campaign fund raising and spending.
Ds (as well as Rs) know how to put enough layers of law firms between the candidate and the campaign law violators so that violations don’t hurt the candidate even though directed by the candidate’s advisors. Whether it’s fundraising or spending.
And both parties know how to move money between different groups (state party, federal party, pac,...) They have a huge pot of funds/donors who can be directed to the necessary candidates. And if and independent starts making waves, the D or R candidate can get whatever money or legal help needed to avoid an independent win.
In 2016 Ds formed a PAC to get around campaign finance laws by building a “volunteer army” to slant social media toward Hillary. They bragged about finding the loophole. An independent would need to pay for the same “army” which isn’t allowed. The way Ds got around the law was with volunteers (in numbers an independent can’t achieve if a “volunteer army” is stopping him/her every step of the way in trying to build a “volunteer army” of his/her own). The Ds only had to pay for the group of people who controlled the army. And that group didn’t personally manipulate social media (i.e. post). They only manipulated the volunteers so they didn’t violate the law.
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
Matthew 12
Something similar in flavor will happen with this “overhaul”.
“who took over as interim chair of the DNC on the eve of the Democratic National Convention”
I seem to remember she took over DNC because Wasserman-Shultz stepped down after apologizing for rigging the primaries against Bernie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc-wikileaks-emails.html
PHILADELPHIA —Democrats arrived at their nominating convention on Sunday under a cloud of discord as Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, abruptly said she was resigning after a trove of leaked emails showed party officials conspiring to sabotage the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
And Brazile was part of the rigging in that she clandestinely slid debate questions from CNN to HRC for primary debates, making her present claims of outrage sort of humerous.
Indeed.
The first thing and the signal the they have overhauled the Party successfully, is to re-name the Party to the Democrat Communist Party. There it would be, out in the open. Make Alinski, Marx, Hegal, et al required reading for all Party officials.
Setting herself up for 2024. Who else do they have. She’ll still be a hottie 8 years from now.
First thing she did was discuss this with Trump.
Where did that come from...was it from "A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Universe"...?
Thanks in advance.
Hottie? Well, if you say so ...
Yes, and Gabbard would be a perfect fit. I don't know Gabbard, but I know Hawaii. The state is unbelievably corrupt.
I am not a lawyer, but I imagine that Gabbard has grounds and standing to sue the DNC, and a lot of the individuals who orchestrated the scammery.
She may even have the “balls” to do it. We shall see.
She was at Trump Tower right after the election.
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