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Home Front: Politix
De Blasio used state account he controls as campaign slush fund
2019-07-21
[NYPOST] NY Fairness PAC’s purchases for Hizzoner’s campaign included:
  • $40,000 in digital media consulting services purchased on May 15, the day before de Blasio’s launch;

  • $8,562 for “launch weekend travel,” including $3,970.70 in plane tickets bought on United Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue Airways on May 16 and May 17;

  • $4,200 for rent at The Yard, the Brooklyn coworking space where de Blasio’s campaign is headquartered, which was paid in June.
However, the campaign booked the PAC’s spending as a debt, not as a contribution — a legal maneuver that stunned lawyers, campaign finance experts and political consultants.

“It appears de Blasio’s state PAC spending is in excess of federal limits,” said Tyler Cole, a top lawyer at Issue One, a Washington, DC, watchdog group that focuses on campaign finance reform. “Federal candidates must run their campaigns out of federally regulated committees — the law is only meaningful if they abide by the federal limits.”

He added: “You can’t allow candidates to use state committees to do an end-run around the law.”

The maneuver of listing state PAC expenditures as a campaign debt for a federal campaign instead of a donation stunned one Democratic strategist.

The donation limit end-run was “among the most creative ways to circumvent election laws that I’ve ever seen,” the source said.

“If it’s not a violation of the letter of the law, it’s certainly a violation of the spirit of the law,” the person added.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Sub consciously many Americans are loosing interest in protecting the West when Europe is allowing rampant Islamic migration into their countries. And when news organizations over there such as the BBC are giving a lot of supportive coverage to extreme leftist politicians in the US such as AOC.
Posted by: Phaick Uneretle6310   2019-07-21 15:57  

#3  We’ve always had heavy discussions of articles about politics and culture — some pretty serious flame wars on the subject in the old days, too. I’ll go directly to a few articles and commenters that catch my eye, then go back to the beginning and read down to the last comment at the end, to ensure that I’m up to date on the current WoT battlefronts. I apologize for not keeping up with the weekly Europe/Britain/Australia round ups, but it required more time than I have.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-21 15:43  

#2  An interesting observation Merc.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-07-21 08:37  

#1  Warning - off topic comment - sorta, sorta not.

Looking at the number of views of posted articles over the past year or so, it's easy to spot the trend. Articles at the top of the page generally get fewer views than those at the bottom. That is, traditional "War on Terror" items are becoming of less interest than local issues. One theory is that war fatigue is setting in... just tired of reading about the latest splodydope. My own feeling is that the war has just moved closer to home. The terrorists that represent an existential threat are more likely to be found in NYC, LA and Portland than in Kabul or Damascus. (The jury is still out on Tehran).
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-07-21 07:57  

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