Funding for BLM has been funneled through ActBlue to various Democratic Party interests. [More]You know, the ones who give the signals...
Part of this funding has been from foreign sources, breaking party finance rules.And Christopher Wray and William Barr are doing what...?
[Via Jess]
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President Trump hasn’t been able to purge his admin of all communists and Bush Crime Family retainers, many of whom are members of both groups. Some are members of Conservative, Inc., that is neocons like Bill Kristol and Karl Rove.
This claim has been circulating through conservative websites for weeks. The "proof" offered for it is ludicrous and displays a gross understanding of how Carey Committees work.
ActBlue is a Carey Committee (combination PAC/SuperPAC), meaning they are authorized to accept money for and funnel money to many separate activist groups. One of the federal requirements is that they keep separate bank accounts for each group. Athough candidates cannot accept overseas money, there is no such restriction on activist groups.
A leftist group who doesn't want to bother setting up a card merchant account, doing all the IRS paperwork, coding a donation website, and all that, simply contracts with ActBlue to act as a payment processor, somewhat like PayPal. ActBlue takes a cut off the top for their services and cuts them checks for the remainder. Again, each account must remain separate.
The original posting that "discovered this misbehavior" posted a chart of ActBlue's Top Ten fund recipients, cut off the "top ten" line (a sign of bad faith as far as I'm concerned) and then pretended that these were the people to whom "all" ActBlue funding went. #10 got something like $29M. No non-election account, including BLM, got even near that much money (thankfully) so none of them showed up in this list.
If conservatives are going to continue to claim that ActBlue is funneling non-candidate money to candidates, they'd better find themselves some actual proof.
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