“I don’t have a super PAC.”
Call them what you want, they are still SUPER-PAC’s!
Senator Bernie Sanders has disavowed super PACs,
pledging to refuse their support during his presidential run.
This is the 2nd (Second) discovery of “Super Packs” supporting Sanders?
(National Nurses United Super-Pac)
(Democratic Socialists of America Super PAC)
How many more are yet to be discovered?
Only time will tell!
Neither Sanders’ campaign nor the DSA, which also professes distaste for the post-Citizens United campaign finance regime, returned requests for comment.
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
8/27/2015
The super PAC run by the Democratic Socialists of America has spent tens of thousands of dollars supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.
The DSA’s national director told the Federal Election Commission Wednesday that its super PAC has spent $21,139 supporting Sanders’ candidacy;
paltry sums compared to the more heavily financed super PACs involved in the 2016 presidential contest.
However, Sanders himself has disavowed super PACs,
pledging to refuse their support during his presidential run.
A Progressive Socialist lying about finances to finance his activities: the ends justify the means.
While the is a groundswell among the impressionable and the ignorant in support of Sanders – an avowed Socialist,
those same supporters exist clueless to the ravages of Socialism and the economic failures it leaves in its wake.
Short crash course:
When a Republic succumbs to “democracy” it succumbs to mob rule that eventually facilitates an oligarchy
(what has happened now in the US in the aftermath of the passage of the 17th Amendment).
That oligarchy always – always – makes way for despotism.
The Democratic Socialists of America Has a Super PAC, and It’s Backing Bernie Sanders
Sanders pledged to refuse super PAC support during presidential run
BY: Lachlan Markay
August 27, 2015 5:00 am
The super PAC run by the Democratic Socialists of America has spent tens of thousands of dollars supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid, newly released campaign finance records show.
Maria Svart, DSA’s national director, told the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday that its super PAC spent $10,200 supporting Sanders’ candidacy since July.
In the two months prior, FEC records show, it spent another $10,939 on the Vermont Senator’s behalf.
Those are paltry sums compared to the more heavily financed super PACs involved in the 2016 presidential contest.
However, Sanders himself has disavowed super PACs, pledging to refuse their support during his presidential run.
“I will not have a super PAC,” Sanders said shortly after he announced his candidacy.
Candidates cannot “have” super PACs in a strict sense, since they are generally legally prohibited from coordinating with campaigns, a prohibition the limits of which Hillary Clinton’s campaign has bypassed by coordinating directly with a super PAC that it says is not bound by that prohibition.
Neither Sanders’ campaign nor the DSA, which also professes distaste for the post-Citizens United campaign finance regime, returned requests for comment.
DSA has endorsed Sanders and created a page on its website devoted to supporting his presidential bid.
“His candidacy could help expand both the progressive movement and the democratic socialist voice within that movement,”
the site says.
“Those who wish to promote the goals of democratic socialism should consider taking concrete and specific actions at the grassroots level that would support Sanders’ candidacy.”
The largest pro-Sanders expenditures from DSA’s super PAC have gone toward fundraising efforts.
The group also lists payments for bumper stickers, printing, staff salaries, and other overhead expenses.
Sanders recently received criticism from a leading campaign finance reformer who claims that he has gone soft on the money-in-politics issue.
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor who is considering his own presidential bid, said on Wednesday that Sanders “has been seduced by the consultants.”
“He’s not giving us a reason to believe he thinks
[the campaign finance system]
must be fixed first,” Lessig said during a question and answer session on the website Reddit on Wednesday.
Sanders has previously described himself as a democratic socialist, so the support of a group recently described as
“the U.S.’s largest Marxist organization,”
signals longstanding ideological sympathies.
support from nurses union by Josh Stewart investigations Nov. 18, 2015, 11:15 a.m.
Bernie Sanders can often be heard on the campaign trail decrying the role of money in politics. Sanders has stated many times he does not have a super PAC, and even dedicated a page on his website entitled “I don’t have a super PAC.” But it seems he’s getting super PAC support — whether he wants it or not.
National Nurses United endorsed Sanders on Aug. 11, and to date the group’s affiliated super PAC has spent a little more than $569,000 in support of him. The spending ranges from print and online ads to printing materials, with significant buys in key states like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. As of the last super PAC filing on June 30, the group had about $250,000 cash on hand
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