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I was going to post a meaty rebuttal but there are so many filings for campaign finance violations back & forth by DeSantis campaign, Trump campaign and independent watch dogs that it seems the rules are honored more in the breech.
The group that is switching to Trump appears to have behaved properly.
The DeSantis campaign has many complaints about it’s relationship with pacs and I found at least one against the Trump campaign.
This is the most concrete one I found. The issues are complex and violations are apparently ubiquitous.

An election watchdog organization has filed a second complaint relating to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign, alleging a Canadian hedge fund made more than $167,000 in illegal contributions to his operation. The non-partisan, Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center is asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate Toronto-based ECN Capital Corporation for violating federal campaign finance laws that prohibit contributions from foreign nationals and foreign corporations. The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits the contributions to U.S. elections and also bans foreign nationals from participating in any decision-making process with regard to making a political contribution.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article276790476.html#storylink=cpy


39 posted on 09/04/2023 5:09:17 PM PDT by JayGalt (A proud slave must be broken before the contagion spreads. Ever was it thus.)
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To: JayGalt

Seems McCain-Feingold need to be scraped.

McCain didn’t leave us with much good — including obamacare.


42 posted on 09/04/2023 5:14:11 PM PDT by boycott
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