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Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by bmelton on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:49PM (#11114047)
Beyond that, according to the FEC, he's been the biggest recipient of PAC spending.

His stance is that it's okay because he isn't fund-raising for those PACs, and that they are union PACs, not business. I personally don't see a distinction between unions and corporations.

Full disclosure, I think that Citizens United was decided correctly.

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by guelo on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:56PM (#11114078)
Here it says Bernie has received virtually no PAC spending, https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N0000052...
Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by bmelton on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:21PM (#11114179)
This article cites the FEC.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders...

In one sense, it's hard to track the dollars directly. For example, an Anti-Hillary PAC at this point is effectively a pro-Bernie PAC.

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by guelo on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:47PM (#11114326)
Oh, I see it now. It's in OpenSecret's "Total Spent by All Outside Organizations Targeting Sanders". $1,881,017 spent on Bernie, mostly from the nurses.

On Hillary's page it says outside money spent $2,921,391 for Hillary and $4,413,617 against. So NYTime's reporting is probably out of date since it was before the Iowa vote.

Spending is a bad metric this early anyway since most PACs are just starting to ramp up their spending. Looking at spending + warchests, the Nurses have a couple million to play with while Bush, Clinton, Rubio, etc have 10s of millions. https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?chrt=V&...

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by bmelton on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:51PM (#11114346)
Possibly. Not sure which is more out of date; the numbers from the FEC didn't jive with OpenSecrets the day the article was published either.

It's just as easy to believe that OpenSecrets has a reporting delay as it is to believe that the FEC is using some legacy software that doesn't update quickly.

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by flubert on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:26PM (#11114209)
Maybe you guys are both correct? In that PACs aren't donating to the campaign, but are advertising on the candidates behalf. Anyway you can get the raw data at:

http://www.fec.gov/data/IndependentExpenditure.do?format=htm...

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by astronautjones on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:23PM (#11114478)
>> I personally don't see a distinction between unions and corporations.

The only workers' rights you have were gained by unions in spite of corporate opposition

Re:Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle by matthewowen on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:12PM (#11114149)
Not all PACs are Super-PACs.