Money is very important in politics; no one would deny that. Still, the amounts that get spent for high federal offices are vastly larger than for other races. The presidential election costs billions. Senate races sometimes cost tens of millions of dollars. Races for the House of Representatives usually cost less than a million dollars, but rarely go above that number. In state campaigns, the dollars spent are often much less. Money does get spent in governors' races. Once you get down to state legislatures, however, it is almost unheard of to see big bucks spent. This is why the following story is extraordinary.
In 2015, Virginia governor Terry MacAuliffe and his campaign gave one Democrat candidate for the state senate just under half a million dollars. MacAuliffe then had the Virginia state Democrat party give that same candidate for state senate another quarter of a million bucks. All together, the Democrat candidate Jill McCabe got roughly $700,000 from MacAuliffe and his allies in the party. This, of course, is over and above whatever amounts McCabe was able to raise on her own through direct contrbutions.
What makes this contribution extraordinary are two facts: 1) Terry MacAuliffe is a long time and close confidant of the Clintons; and 2) Jill McCabe is the wife of the assistant director of the FBI who was in charge of the investigation by the FBI of Hillary Clinton and her emails. Throw in the additional information that the story of the Hillary Clinton private, unsecured email system broke in early March of 2015 and it was one week later when MacAuliffe met with the McCabe campaign to discuss helping her with cash and you get the full picture.
We are supposed to believe that Jill McCabe got extraordinary amounts of campaign cash from a member of the Clinton inner circle just one week after the Hillary email story broke and this was all just a coincidence. You know, a coincidence like when Bill Clinton secretly went on the jet holding the Attorney General just before a final decision was made on the investigation into Hillary's emails. There is no way this is a coincidence.
The corruption demonstrated here is extraordinary.
In 2015, Virginia governor Terry MacAuliffe and his campaign gave one Democrat candidate for the state senate just under half a million dollars. MacAuliffe then had the Virginia state Democrat party give that same candidate for state senate another quarter of a million bucks. All together, the Democrat candidate Jill McCabe got roughly $700,000 from MacAuliffe and his allies in the party. This, of course, is over and above whatever amounts McCabe was able to raise on her own through direct contrbutions.
What makes this contribution extraordinary are two facts: 1) Terry MacAuliffe is a long time and close confidant of the Clintons; and 2) Jill McCabe is the wife of the assistant director of the FBI who was in charge of the investigation by the FBI of Hillary Clinton and her emails. Throw in the additional information that the story of the Hillary Clinton private, unsecured email system broke in early March of 2015 and it was one week later when MacAuliffe met with the McCabe campaign to discuss helping her with cash and you get the full picture.
We are supposed to believe that Jill McCabe got extraordinary amounts of campaign cash from a member of the Clinton inner circle just one week after the Hillary email story broke and this was all just a coincidence. You know, a coincidence like when Bill Clinton secretly went on the jet holding the Attorney General just before a final decision was made on the investigation into Hillary's emails. There is no way this is a coincidence.
The corruption demonstrated here is extraordinary.
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