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She reminds me very much of this person:
The string pullers for AOC want war in the Left - getcher popcorn ready
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oh, but wait. there's more.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-diverting-campaign-cash-to-his-own-companies
AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
by Alana Goodman
| March 04, 2019 03:34 PM
Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.
Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.
The arrangement skirted reporting requirements and may have violated the $5,000 limit on contributions from federal PACs to candidates, according to the complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.
Campaign finance attorneys described the arrangement as “really weird” and an indication "there’s something amiss." They said there was no way of telling where the political donations went — meaning they could have been pocketed or used by the company to pay for off-the-books campaign operations.
PACs are required to disclose how and when funds are spent, including for expenditures such as advertisements, fundraising emails, donations to candidates, and payments for events and to vendors.
The private companies to which Chakrabarti transferred the money from the PACs are not subject to these requirements.
[Also read: Poor people not allowed in AOC's luxury apartment complex]
The complaint names Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti as respondents. It asks the FEC to investigate and audit the two PACs, saying they were engaged in an "an elaborate scheme to avoid proper disclosure of campaign expenditures."
Tom Anderson, director of the National Legal and Policy Center's Government Integrity Project, said: "It appears Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her associates ran an off-the-books operation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, thus violating the foundation of all campaign finance laws: transparency."
Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist's 2016 presidential campaign.
He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect progressive candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
According to the Brand New Congress website, the PAC would build a "unified campaign" infrastructure including fundraising, organizing, rallies, and advertising progressive congressional candidates across the country could "plug into," saving the individual campaigns time and money.
"Our idea is really to run a single unified presidential-style campaign that is going to look a lot like the Bernie Sanders campaign,” said Chakrabarti in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in May 2016. "The campaign infrastructure and fundraising is set aside from the campaigning."
In 2016 and 2017, Chakrabarti’s PACs raised about $3.3 million for the project, primarily from small donors. During this time, the committees transferred over $1 million to two shell companies controlled by Chakrabarti with names similar to one of the PACs, Brand New Campaign LLC and Brand New Congress LLC, according to federal election filings.
[Related: AOC 'living wage' rules allow her staff to dodge financial disclosure laws]
A few weeks after starting the Brand New Congress PAC, Chakrabarti formed one of the companies, Brand New Campaign LLC, in Delaware, using a registered agent service and mailbox-only address.
Over the next seven months, as small-dollar political donations poured into the PAC from progressives across the country, the committee transferred over $200,000, 82 percent of the contributions, to the company Brand New Campaign LLC. The payments were for "strategic consulting," according to federal election filings. They were sent to an apartment address listed for Chakrabarti in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan.
In 2017, Brand New Congress PAC transferred another $240,000 to Brand New Congress LLC, also for "strategic consulting." Another PAC co-founded by Chakrabarti that year, Justice Democrats, transferred an additional $605,000 to Brand New Congress LLC in 2017.
Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered in any state, according to state government records available online. It is unclear where or when it was incorporated.
Adav Noti, the senior director of the Campaign Legal Center and a former FEC lawyer, said the arrangement was highly unusual and seemed intended to obscure the destination of the funds.
"None of that makes any sense," said Noti. "I can't even begin to disentangle that. They're either confused or they're trying to conceal something."
Noti said it would be simpler to set up a consulting company and work directly with campaigns to provide services for a fee rather than creating a federal PAC and sending the money to a company controlled by the same person.
"It does seem like there's something amiss. I can only think of really two likely possibilities for this sort of pattern of disbursements," said Noti. "One is the scam PAC possibility — they're really just paying themselves and they’re concealing it by using the LLC. The other is that there’s actually another recipient, that the money is going to the LLC and then being disbursed in some other way that they want to conceal."
[Also read: Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce Maduro, criticizes US interventionism instead]
Bradley A. Smith, a former chairman of the FEC, said he has never seen such an arrangement. "It's a really weird situation," he said. "I see almost no way that you can do that without it being at least a reporting violation, quite likely a violation of the contribution limits. You might say from a campaign finance angle that the LLC was essentially operating as an unregistered committee."
Chakrabarti declined to comment on the FEC complaint or provide details about his companies’ financial activities. Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, declined to comment.
Zeynab Day, communications director for the Brand New Congress PAC, said Chakrabarti was not currently affiliated with the group and that it recently went through a "transition period." She referred questions about the LLC to Chakrabarti. “I’m unable to answer any questions about the LLC … I am not informed about them. We are not an affiliated group,” she said.
A spokesperson for Justice Democrats said he did not know why the PAC paid so much money to Chakrabarti’s LLCs. When asked what the Justice Democrats PAC does on a daily basis, he said, “It’s very clear what we do,” but declined to elaborate.
Chakrabarti founded Brand New Congress PAC, in April 2016. According to a statement released by Justice Democrats PAC last May, Chakrabarti "was the only controlling member" of the company Brand New Congress LLC and "took no salary." The statement added: "Saikat is lucky to have a small side business that generates him enough income that he is able to do all of this work as a volunteer."
Lock her up!
Meh the ideological split was eventually comming... the question is when they openly move to straight socialist liberal as a party, where are all the capitalistic moderates going to go? Thats st least a third of that party...
And all of the Muslim voters cannot vote for anti religion policies, and all the conservative hispanics that have voted for moderate dems wont back full left wing candidates... i mean you basically lose the swing vote by a lot everywhere but the very blue aeras...
And all of the Muslim voters cannot vote for anti religion policies, and all the conservative hispanics that have voted for moderate dems wont back full left wing candidates... i mean you basically lose the swing vote by a lot everywhere but the very blue aeras...
It’s like my new Dem Rep Conor Lamb. Guy essentially ran as a Republican and won. Full-blown Libtard won’t win in western Pennsylvania. Libs don’t think there is anyone outside of the cities.
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My hope is that the dims will consolidate as the far left socialists they are, the Pubbies will occupy the 'moderate' space vacated by the dims, and that the sane will seize on this MAGA business and form a new majority party to lead America back from the abyss. Permanently. Call it the Constitution party, the Trump party, the coalition of the lucid, whatever. Check religion, race, ethnicity, ideology, and bad attitudes at the door.
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2017 deficit: $665 Billion
2018 deficit: $779 Billion
2019 deficit: $984 Billion
National Debt: $25.8 Trillion
The MAGA business has us deeper into the abyss than ever.
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The nat debt is 22.1. 9.3T of that was added on hussein's watch alone. No deficit is good. Is that your point? What does MAGA have to do with deficits? MAGA is the solution to deficits. Unless you oppose America becoming great again. Is that your position?
that's 2.4 trillion, added together, right?
as Vincent said ...
so wouldn't that be a cut of at least 1/3 in what BathHouse Barry did to this country?
The Green New Deal will cure all that ails.
So Trog, what's your position on the GND?
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WTF? Nope. Deficits are up under Trump and growing. How is that a solution?
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Liberals take AOC seriously, but not literally. The problem with Trumptards is they take AOC literally, but not seriously.
I have a broken watch that I take more seriously than that dumb ****.
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You couldn't be more wrong
Hard left turn!
CNN’s Panel Of Clinton Voters: We Love AOC! Biden … Not So Much; "She's the Candidate of the Future"
A panel of 2016 Hillary Clinton supporters was asked their thoughts on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The panel praised her.
“Get ready for her,” one panelist warns about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “ she’s the candidate of the future.”
"Wow."
"I love her."
"What a woman."
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/06/cnns-panel-clinton-voters-love-aoc-biden-not-much/
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Old white people are out the Dem door
Sorry Bernie, sorry Grey Beaver, you are old news
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Hard Core Dems hate white people!
Pelosi Doing ‘Dirty Work of Powerful White Men’ with Antisemitism Condemnation
Linda Sarsour, co-leader of the embattled Women’s March, attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Democrats draft a resolution condemning antisemitism following blowback from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) latest anti-semitic remarks.
Omar became the center of controversy after suggesting last week that lawmakers are pressured by pro-Israel groups to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country.”
Some of Omar’s allies are furious with the latest attempt by Democrats to punish the freshman congresswoman for her repeated antisemitism.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...ful-white-men-with-antisemitism-condemnation/
Pelosi Doing ‘Dirty Work of Powerful White Men’ with Antisemitism Condemnation
Linda Sarsour, co-leader of the embattled Women’s March, attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Democrats draft a resolution condemning antisemitism following blowback from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) latest anti-semitic remarks.
Omar became the center of controversy after suggesting last week that lawmakers are pressured by pro-Israel groups to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country.”
Some of Omar’s allies are furious with the latest attempt by Democrats to punish the freshman congresswoman for her repeated antisemitism.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...ful-white-men-with-antisemitism-condemnation/
So, dodging the question yet again. And nobody in their right mind should take her even remotely seriously or literally.
You couldn't be more wrong
Hard left turn!
CNN’s Panel Of Clinton Voters: We Love AOC! Biden … Not So Much; "She's the Candidate of the Future"
A panel of 2016 Hillary Clinton supporters was asked their thoughts on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The panel praised her.
“Get ready for her,” one panelist warns about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “ she’s the candidate of the future.”
"Wow."
"I love her."
"What a woman."
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/06/cnns-panel-clinton-voters-love-aoc-biden-not-much/
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Why'd CNN only ask those six gays?
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AOC is like the intellectual leader of the democrat party for sure. How could you not like take her seriously?
The separation of powers and spending authority of congress only relevant when a President asks for money to build a wall Trog?
She's at the tippy top. She's the boss!
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Illustrate the linkage between MAGA and deficits. Facts. Figures. Not sound bites or emotion.
A great America has no need to operate under deficits. A great America is a funded America. A great America is an America with humming industry, full employment, and commerce exploding all over the countryside. The tax coffers overflow. Everybody is taken care of. That is the essense of Trump's message. Aside from your visceral hatred of Trump and all things 'Trump', what is your issue with MAGA? MAGA DOES NOT cause deficits, quite the opposite.
OK, that aside. Who spends the money? Hint: who appropriates the money? If MAGA 'caused deficits', why would Trump need to beg congress for a few merely crumbs to fulfill his and congress' only real constitutional obligation to secure our Southern border from a $1.3T spending bill? The rest of that bill has NOTHING to do with why those people are in Washington.
Has Trump presented a budget to congress? When the talking heads speak of an 'omnibus spending bill', what do they mean? Who writes 'omnibus spending bills' and packs them full of pork and mines? When was the last time the gubmint operated under a budget? C'mon Trog. Facts. Figures.
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Gay men are exciting. It says so right on the screen.
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These images scream 'caption this'.
I can't even imagine what the Sarsour contortion is, damn that's a fright, so I'll try Pelosi. She looks like she's in a hemorrhoid 'flare up'. She's saying 'Steny get my Tucks!'.
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Omar, the next rising star of the lurching left Dem hard core
It's all good fun, war is war
Democrats in turmoil as they try to answer anti-Semitism charges
House Democrats found themselves in an increasingly chaotic week as they rushed to address charges that Rep. Ilhan Omar is making anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter, only to find they can't agree on the wording of a resolution condemning those remarks.
Comments from Omar, D-Minn., prompted Democrats to prompted leaders to write a resolution aimed at countering an emerging narrative that a wing of the new Democratic majority is anti-Semitic.
But the resolution won't name her, and late Tuesday, Democrats came under new pressure to add language condemning anti-Muslim remarks.
That demand forced Democrats to retreat from their plan to vote on the resolution Wednesday, and now, it's not clear if the vote can happen Thursday.
The exact timing of a vote now appears uncertain as the party grapples over exactly what it should be denouncing.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...l-as-they-try-to-answer-anti-semitism-charges
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Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris Condemn Effort To Rebuke Ilhan Omar
The Vermont senator said he opposes anti-Semitism, but fears that targeting congresswoman Omar is a “way of stifling debate” over Israel and Palestine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bern...semitism-statement_n_5c80385be4b0e62f69e98739
It's all good fun, war is war
Democrats in turmoil as they try to answer anti-Semitism charges
House Democrats found themselves in an increasingly chaotic week as they rushed to address charges that Rep. Ilhan Omar is making anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter, only to find they can't agree on the wording of a resolution condemning those remarks.
Comments from Omar, D-Minn., prompted Democrats to prompted leaders to write a resolution aimed at countering an emerging narrative that a wing of the new Democratic majority is anti-Semitic.
But the resolution won't name her, and late Tuesday, Democrats came under new pressure to add language condemning anti-Muslim remarks.
That demand forced Democrats to retreat from their plan to vote on the resolution Wednesday, and now, it's not clear if the vote can happen Thursday.
The exact timing of a vote now appears uncertain as the party grapples over exactly what it should be denouncing.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...l-as-they-try-to-answer-anti-semitism-charges
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Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris Condemn Effort To Rebuke Ilhan Omar
The Vermont senator said he opposes anti-Semitism, but fears that targeting congresswoman Omar is a “way of stifling debate” over Israel and Palestine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bern...semitism-statement_n_5c80385be4b0e62f69e98739
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