Clinton Team Outsources Dirt Digging to SuperPAC in Apparent Violation of Campaign Finance Laws
by Chris White | 2:52 pm, October 13th, 2016
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Clinton and Brock via screengrab
A recently filed complaint with the Federal Elections Commission accused Hillary Clinton’s campaign of illegally coordinating with David Brock’s super PAC, Correct the Record (CTR). The complaint, filed by the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), alleged that the Clinton campaign has received nearly $6 million in illegal contributions from CTR in the form of coordinated expenditures. The Clinton campaign and CTR maintain that the coordination is permitted under a narrow reading of a 2006 FEC ruling that exempted some forms of online content from regulation (“internet exception”). However, newly released emails from Wikileaks suggest the coordination goes far beyond any reasonable interpretation of the 2006 ruling.
In one email chain from October 2015, Clinton campaign staffers are discussing a way to fight back against fundraising effort by former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. The Rubio fundraising campaign used a quote from controversial author Ed Klein’s book that had Bill Clinton saying Hillary feared running against Rubio. The leaked emails show the Clinton campaign believed the quote was fabricated and wanted to shame Rubio for using it.
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