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Bernie Sanders Super PAC: Our Revolution
“I do not have a super PAC in which billionaires make contributions…I don’t want a super PAC because our campaign and administration is there to represent working families, not the wealthy.”
The problem for Sanders is that he does, though one has to wonder how ‘super’ it is when evidently, even the Political Action Committee (PAC) in Vermont doesn’t know enough about the law to know they are actually a PAC. A fun fact I discovered when I posted this Associated Press (AP) article on Our Revolution to Facebook. Some of the comments from people who actually know the Sanders family might have been quaint if it was not so obvious that they have a ‘hey, kids let’s put on a show in the barn’ feel that demonstrated that they apparently don’t know — though all the feigned naiveté was a bit much — that this is very bad for the candidate.
“Sanders and Our Revolution have largely avoided scrutiny during the primary, even as he has accelerated his criticism of others, among them Biden, for relying on super PACs founded by their allies.”
Though Sanders claims ignorance, he founded the organization and it is structured to raise…
“unlimited sums from wealthy patrons that dwarf the limits faced by candidates and conventional PACs. Unlike a super PAC, however, the group doesn’t have to disclose its donors — a stream…
