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Zombie said:
There would need to be suspicion of a crime having been committed for an investigation, I have yet to hear what that could have been.

Don't get me wrong, the DNC was a cluster**** of an organization and poorly run but that's not exactly a crime.

I have also not heard an example of how the DNC could have rigged the primary for Clinton. There's a lot of innuendo being thrown around that fits the Clinton is a crook narrative, but again no actual evidence of criminal wrong doing.

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The Clinton team running the DNC show is about as rigged as it gets. It is a huge conflict of interest. Is it illegal? I don't know.

As for an "investigation" perhaps a review of the issue is a better way to put it. At the gov. level reviews to ensure that everything is on the up and up is very common. I support doing so here but then again I think they are almost all corrupt. Regardless of the letter by their name so I am probably biased here lol.
 
The DNC is going to have to make amends with democratic voters. There's a big opportunity to turn opinions on Trump into huge gains, but this kind of stuff could potentially kill all of that and just further disenfranchise voters and make people feel like none of it matters, might as well vote for incompetent reality TV personalities and see what happens.
 
Bulletproof said:
The DNC is going to have to make amends with democratic voters. There's a big opportunity to turn opinions on Trump into huge gains, but this kind of stuff could potentially kill all of that and just further disenfranchise voters and make people feel like none of it matters, might as well vote for incompetent reality TV personalities and see what happens.
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If they really cleaned house and campaigned on cleaning up their act (like that Dominos campaign about bettering their pizza a few years ago) I think they could garner a lot of attention for themselves. If 1 or 2 people are moved around it is a huge opportunity blown.
 
Stoked said:
If they really cleaned house and campaigned on cleaning up their act (like that Dominos campaign about bettering their pizza a few years ago) I think they could garner a lot of attention for themselves. If 1 or 2 people are moved around it is a huge opportunity blown.
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Domino's pizza is still hot trash, so I'm not sure it's the best analogy.
 
Siro said:
Domino's pizza is still hot trash, so I'm not sure it's the best analogy.
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So you’re saying is it’s actually a better analogy than originally thought?
 
Stoked said:
The Clinton team running the DNC show is about as rigged as it gets. It is a huge conflict of interest. Is it illegal? I don't know.

As for an "investigation" perhaps a review of the issue is a better way to put it. At the gov. level reviews to ensure that everything is on the up and up is very common. I support doing so here but then again I think they are almost all corrupt. Regardless of the letter by their name so I am probably biased here lol.
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So what specifically do you suppose Clinton did in running the show that 'rigged' the primary? I agree it's a conflict of interest, but that doesn't make it illegal. This looks to me like a party tipping the scales a bit to favor their own party's candidate (Bernie is not a Democrat) which isn't really much of a surprise.

As someone who voted for Bernie during the primary I hope Brazil is trying to shed some light on what happened so we can heal some of the rifts in the party.

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Zombie said:
So what specifically do you suppose Clinton did in running the show that 'rigged' the primary? I agree it's a conflict of interest, but that doesn't make it illegal. This looks to me like a party tipping the scales a bit to favor their own party's candidate (Bernie is not a Democrat) which isn't really much of a surprise.

As someone who voted for Bernie during the primary I hope Brazil is trying to shed some light on what happened so we can heal some of the rifts in the party.

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Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.

Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund...

“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”...

Right around the time of the convention, the leaked emails revealed Hillary’s campaign was grabbing money from the state parties for its own purposes, leaving the states with very little to support down-ballot races.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
 
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Zombie said:
That's not illegal (although I dont lilke them)and Bernies campaign also signed a joint fundraising agreement fyi.

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I was mostly speaking to your comment about rigging the primary. Controlling DNC money, press releases, etc certainly sounds like rigging the primary to me. Further not only did she quite possibly cost the party the Whitehouse she crippled their chances in Congress by siphoning off money. I am not a lawyer but that sounds at least borderline illegal. It's money laundering to avoid FEC compliance ain't it?
 
♪alt13 said:
I was mostly speaking to your comment about rigging the primary. Controlling DNC money, press releases, etc certainly sounds like rigging the primary to me. Further she not only did she quite possibly cost the party the Whitehouse she crippled their chances in Congress by siphoning off money. I am not a lawyer but that sounds at least borderline illegal. It's money laundering to avoid FEC compliance ain't it?
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It's funny. Here's a comment I made a few days ago before Donna Brazil came out:

infection said:
I wonder which is more likely... Russian interference putting Trump in office or DNC primary interference putting Sanders out and thus putting Trump in office. I know only one of those theories gets play.
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♪alt13 said:
I was mostly speaking to your comment about rigging the primary. Controlling DNC money, press releases, etc certainly sounds like rigging the primary to me. Further not only did she quite possibly cost the party the Whitehouse she crippled their chances in Congress by siphoning off money. I am not a lawyer but that sounds at least borderline illegal. It's money laundering to avoid FEC compliance ain't it?
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I'm not sure how that constitutes money laundering but I agree that it probably hurt downballot tickets and was the wrong call. Again, controlling the money and having veto power over DNC press releases etc isn't a good look, but that doesn't constitute "rigging" imo. No-one who wanted to vote for Bernie was kept from doing so.
♪alt13 said:
I was mostly speaking to your comment about rigging the primary. Controlling DNC money, press releases, etc certainly sounds like rigging the primary to me. Further not only did she quite possibly cost the party the Whitehouse she crippled their chances in Congress by siphoning off money. I am not a lawyer but that sounds at least borderline illegal. It's money laundering to avoid FEC compliance ain't it?
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