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This is NOT just some guy's opinion!!!  In this video, AOC openly talks about this with the group that recruited her, discussing how her brother submitted her name but she didn't think she stood a chance, and then how she decided she wanted to do it.

 

What the heck!?  And this "Justice Democrats" group was just founded 2 years ago?   How did this happen in America?  This is just outrageous!!  Thankfully, Trump, at 70 years old, decided he would step in and try to change the direction this country was headed before it was too late.

 

At least it's only T minus 16 days now.  (And we got a new nickname for AOC, Alexandria Occasional Cortex!!)

 

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Pretty sad to think they actually just went looking for bodies to get elected....No experience, no knowledge of what in the hell they are talking about....Nothing more than a Broadway Audition for a 3rd string actress other than AOC and the rest think they really amount to something and are going to make a huge difference in America and American Politics.

 

Sad thing sad she may only serve on term but she will get her salary for the rest of her life for not accomplishing Anything.

 

Here's another pretty sad video of 4 of them showing just how little they care.

 

https://rightwingfolks.com/trump-campaign-brutally-shuts-down-pelosi-after-she-tells-trump-dont-run/

 

Karsten

 

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This is DISGUSTING, that something like this can happen in the United States of America.

 

Why didn't somebody stop it from happening?  Didn't anyone know there was a casting call for these idiots?

 

Someone needs to get this video circulated around, like to some influential Republicans, even President Trump.  How about Sean Hannity and Fox News?  How do you reach these people?

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2 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

Post a link on the Wed thread for Adam and ask his thoughts.....most everyone looks at that weekly....CL

 

Thank you so much, CL. 

That's a great idea.

Is there a place to post it now in anticipation of next Wednesday, or shall I wait until Wednesday and post it in the actual thread?

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So someone please explain to me how come I am considered so vile and wicked for saying 

the very same things this guy is saying? I've been telling everyone for more than three yrs 

what the Democratic Socialist Party is and I've caught all manner of ridicule for pointing this out.

These people are Demonically controlled and Evil to the core. They must be stopped at all cost.

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Deep Breath my friend. You are not vile or wicked. Some lefties hate the truth being tossed in their face.

 

You need to take your precious daughter outside and make a snowman and maybe a few snow angels. :)

 

Life is good my friend, them there is Gieco  LOL.

 

Sorry had to ad the last part.

 

Cheers, pp

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Just a little more of the Green Peace Named Pompous Little Twit, Bartender, that had 2 Bank Accounts closed, Evicted by the Sheriff from 2 apartments. Claims her fathers Condo as her Home Address but no one has ever seen her there, Postman says the mail piles up for , Put her Boyfriend(Okay Snowflake) on her staff.....Really, My Father would have back handed me across the pond if I acted like this,

 

 

 

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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez could be facing JAIL TIME!!  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-millionaire-chief-of-staff-violated-fec-rules-to-hide-885g-fec-complaint-alleges

 

Also check out the post on how OAC was chosen from a Casting Call, as was Ilhan Omar, whose fellow House Democrats are calling for a vote to condemn her anti-Semitic comments.   Good Gosh!!  We cannot drain the swamp and throw out these socialists fast enough!!!  T minus 14 days and counting!

 

Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions 'off the books,' FEC complaint alleges

 

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive firebrand's multimillionaire chief of staff, apparently violated campaign finance law by funneling nearly $1 million in contributions from political action committees Chakrabarti established to private companies that he also controlled, according to an explosive complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and obtained by Fox News.

Amid the allegations, a former FEC commissioner late Monday suggested in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation that Ocasio-Cortez and her team could separately be facing major fines and potentially even jail time if they were knowingly and willfully violating the law by hiding their control of the Justice Democrats political action committee (PAC). Such an arrangement could have allowed Ocasio-Cortez's campaign to receive donations in excess of the normal limit, by pooling contributions to both the PAC and the campaign itself.

 

The FEC complaint asserts that Chakrabarti established two PACs, the Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC, and then systematically transfered more than $885,000 in contributions received by those PACs to the Brand New Campaign LLC and the Brand New Congress LLC -- companies that, unlike PACs, are exempt from reporting all of their significant expenditures. The PACs claimed the payments were for "strategic consulting."

Although large financial transfers from PACs to LLCs are not necessarily improper, the complaint argues that the goal of the "extensive" scheme was seemingly to illegally dodge detailed legal reporting requirements of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which are designed to track campaign expenditures.

 

"It appears 'strategic consulting' was a mischaracterization of a wide range of activities that should have been reported individually," the complaint states.

 
The complaint was drafted by the conservative, Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC). Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti, according to the NLPC's complaint, appeared to have "orchestrated an extensive off-the-books operation to make hundreds of thousands of dollars of expenditures in support of multiple candidates for federal office."
 

The funds, the NLPC writes, were likely spent on campaign events for Ocasio-Cortez and other far-left Democratic candidates favored by Chakrabarti, who made his fortune in Silicon Valley and previously worked on Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. But no precise accounting for the expenses is available, and the complaint asks the FEC to conduct an investigation into the matter immediately.

 

"These are not minor or technical violations," Tom Anderson, director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project, said in a statement. "We are talking about real money here. In all my years of studying FEC reports, I’ve never seen a more ambitious operation to circumvent reporting requirements. Representative Ocasio-Cortez has been quite vocal in condemning so-called dark money, but her own campaign went to great lengths to avoid the sunlight of disclosure.”

Added Anderson: “They believe their cause is so great that they don’t have to play by the rules. They believe that they are above campaign finance law."

 

Brand New Congress LLC does not appear to be registered as an LLC in any state, according to the complaint, but is a registered 527 tax-exempt organization. Fox News confirmed that Brand New Campaign LLC is a registered Delaware corporation, but Brand New Congress LLC is not.

Ocasio-Cortez's office did not return a request for comment.

 

In announcing the complaint the NLPC pointed to a 2016 interview on MSNBC, in which the 33-year-old Chakrabarti told anchor Rachel Maddow that he wanted to employ a "single, unified presidential-style campaign" model to "galvanize" voters nationally to elect progressives to Congress, while helping candidates avoid the stress of fundraising and managing their own campaigns.

 

Other legal experts also sounded the alarm on Monday, saying Chakrabarti's unusual arrangement raised serious unanswered questions.

Former FEC Associate General Counsel for Policy Adav Noti, who currently directs the Campaign Legal Center, told Fox News that it was a "total mystery" to him why Chakrabarti had established an LLC seemingly to take money from the PAC, rather than simply create a "normal venture," like a consulting business, to provide services for candidates on the books.

 

"Certainly, it's not permissible to use an LLC or any other kind of intermediary to conceal the recipient or purpose of a PAC's spending," Noti said. "The law requires the PAC to report who it disburses money to. You can't try to evade that by routing it through an LLC or corporation or anyone else."

 

 

Noti added: "What's so weird about this situation is that the PAC that disbursed so much of its money to one entity that was so clearly affiliated with the PAC. Usually, that's a sign that it's what's come to be known as a 'scam PAC' -- one that's operated for the financial benefit of its operators, rather than one designed to engage in political activity."

At the same time, Noti said, Chakrabarti had provided "long descriptions of why they structured it the way they did -- which is not something a scam PAC would do," because it only draws attention to the unusual setup. And Noti cautioned that there is a tendency for some groups to try to gain attention by invoking Ocasio-Cortez.

 

"But on the other hand," Noti added, Ocasio-Cortez's "explanations don't make a lot of sense on their face. I read their explanation multiple times, and I still don't understand. If you want to start a business to provide services to campaigns -- many of those are organized as LLC's, and you sell your services."

 

"I read their explanation multiple times, and I still don't understand."— Former FEC Associate General Counsel Adav Noti

 

Instead, Chaktrabarti "started a PAC, which has legal obligations to report all of is incoming and outgoing money, and then used the PAC to disperse its funds to the LLC," Noti said.

 

Added former FEC chairman Bradley A. Smith, in an interview with The Washington Examiner: "It's a really weird situation. 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."

 

Last week, Anderson also raised concerns over Ocasio-Cortez's decision to announce, with much fanfare, that she would offer a minimum salary of $52,000 to her staffers, and a maximum salary of $80,000 -- far below the typical six-figure highs hit by chiefs of staff and other high-level congressional workers.

Government watchdogs pointed out that federal law requires congressional workers making more than $126,000 a year -- which would ordinarily include Chakrabarti -- to file detailed forms outlining all of their outside income, including investments and gifts.

 

“Purposefully underpaying staffers in order to avoid transparency is an old trick some of the most corrupt members of Congress have used time and again,” Anderson said.

 

Speaking to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent dismissed the FEC complaint, saying the campaign had consulted an elections lawyer and that all money was properly accounted for.

 

“It was payment for services. ... We believe that complaint is politically motivated, basically intended to create a political story,” Trent told the Post.

Noti told Fox News that Trent's explanation could be plausible -- and if so, it might help Ocasio-Cortez's team avoid civil fraud lawsuits.

 

"One possibility -- a strong possibility, based on the description they put out, is they just got really bad legal advice that somehow said they had to to do this," Noti said. "But regardless, when they decided to use the PAC form, which they did, they subjected themselves to all the legal requirements that come with that."

 

Election laws are complicated, Noti added, and there have been some erroneous recent reports related to Ocasio-Cortez's campaign. For example, FEC filings reviewed by Fox News show that Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign paid the Justice Democrats PAC more than $35,000 from 2017 to 2018 for "web services," “strategic consulting,” and "campaign services."

 

While some outlets have incorrectly reported that federal rules generally prohibit PACs from providing more than $5,000 in services to campaigns, Noti told Fox News that the payments were likely proper so long as they were for the fair market value of the services rendered.

 

In terms of possible penalties, Noti said that Ocasio-Cortez's campaign could be facing FEC fines if it followed bad legal advice and made reporting errors. But civil or even criminal fraud statutes, as opposed to campaign finance laws, would potentially kick in if it were determined that Chakrabarti had intentionally tried to hide the money to use for illicit expenses.

 

Meanwhile, former FEC commissioner Brad Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundation's investigative unit that, because Ocasio-Cortez may have held legal control of the Justice Democrats PAC while the PAC was supporting her campaign, the two committees were likely acting as affiliated committees -- and therefore share an individual contribution limit of $2,700 that might have been improperly and repeatedly exceeded.

 

The Daily Caller News Foundation's review of archived copies of the Justice Democrats PAC's website and relevant campaign documents indicated that Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti "obtained majority control of Justice Democrats PAC in December 2017" -- and yet allegedly failed to disclose afterward to the FEC the fact that the PAC was supporting her candidacy.

 

“If this were determined to be knowing and willful, they could be facing jail time," Smith said. "Even if it’s not knowing and willful, it would be a clear civil violation of the act, which would require disgorgement of the contributions and civil penalties. I think they’ve got some real issues here.”

 

Added former Republican FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovsky: “If the facts as alleged are true, and a candidate had control over a PAC that was working to get that candidate elected, then that candidate is potentially in very big trouble and may have engaged in multiple violations of federal campaign finance law, including receiving excessive contributions."

 

Monday's FEC complaint comes on the heels of a separate complaint by the Washington, D.C.-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which alleged last week that the Brand New Congress PAC may have illegally funneled thousands of dollars to Ocasio-Cortez's live-in boyfriend, Riley Roberts.

 

It was first reported late last month that the Brand New Congress PAC paid Roberts during the early days of the Ocasio-Cortez campaign. According to FEC records, the PAC made two payments to Roberts – one in August 2017 and one in September 2017 – both for $3,000.

 

The FEC complaint specifically cites the use of "intermediaries" to make the payments, "the vague and amorphous nature of the services Riley ostensibly provided," the relatively small amount of money raised by the campaign at that stage and "the romantic relationship between Ocasio-Cortez and Riley" in asserting the transactions might violate campaign finance law.

 

The Coolidge Reagan Foundation -- a 501(c)(3) -- is requesting that the FEC look into the payments for potential violations on relevant campaign finance laws that state that campaign contributions “shall not be converted by any person to personal use” and that “an authorized committee must report the name and address of each person who has received any disbursement not disclosed.”

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6 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

 

Yup in a cell right next to Manafort, Gates and Cohen...

 

B/A

And don't forget president Trump, got to have Trump in the same cell. Anyone who actually thinks any Democrat is going to serve jail time is probably living in a fantasy world. Forget, welcome to the revolution, probably most likely welcome to the tribulation.

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4 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

And don't forget president Trump, got to have Trump in the same cell. Anyone who actually thinks any Democrat is going to serve jail time is probably living in a fantasy world. Forget, welcome to the revolution, probably most likely welcome to the tribulation.

 

You know I believe most of D.C politicians are crooks. So this is no surprise.

 

B/A

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15 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You know what I find to be the most interesting thing about liberals is? They're complete and total lack of understanding anything that was meant to be humor.

 

Right back at you... I'm not the one who goes on neg rampages... When I make a joke about anything the haters come out in full force... I'm saying you are a hater, just there times you don't get the humor in any of what is happening to our system... Things get so bad sometimes all you can do is laugh... Or you would have to cry.

 

B/A

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5 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

 

Right back at you... I'm not the one who goes on neg rampages... When I make a joke about anything the haters come out in full force... I'm saying you are a hater, just there times you don't get the humor in any of what is happening to our system... Things get so bad sometimes all you can do is laugh... Or you would have to cry.

 

B/A

I stop negging you quite some time ago. I'm sorry you feel like I'm a hater. I actually think you're a good person and hold you in high esteem. I will be taking the time  Of Lent off from the internet to consider how many people think I'm a hater, troll, an evil person, and some even call me Satan. Maybe after 40 days I can change my ways to more meat your all satisfaction.:tiphat:

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1 minute ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

I stop negging you quite some time ago. I'm sorry you feel like I'm a hater. I actually think you're a good person and hold you in high esteem. I will be taking the time  Of Lent off from the internet to consider how many people think I'm a hater, troll, an evil person, and some even call me Satan. Maybe after 40 days I can change my ways to more meat your all satisfaction.:tiphat:

 

I'm sorry, that was a typo... I meant "I'm NOT saying you are a hater" I apologize for that... I too believe you to be a very good person... Pleae accept my apologies...

 

B/A

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