{"id":236278,"date":"2016-04-06T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=236278"},"modified":"2016-04-06T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:25:15","slug":"hedge-funds-part-tricky-money-maneuver-put-hillary-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hedge-funds-part-tricky-money-maneuver-put-hillary-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds are Part of a Tricky Money Maneuver to Put Hillary in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>At the Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on November 14, 2015, Hillary Clinton attempted to portray herself as the fierce enemy of hedge funds. She told the audience the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou have two billionaire hedge fund managers who started a Super PAC and they\u2019re advertising against me in Iowa as we speak. So they clearly think I\u2019m going to do what I say I will do\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But two hedge fund billionaires backing a Republican candidate pales in comparison to the tens of millions of dollars flooding into Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign from other hedge fund billionaires \u2013 including money flowing into a joint fundraising committee called the \u201cHillary Victory Fund\u201d that is sluicing money to both Hillary\u2019s main candidate committee, Hillary for America, as well as into the Democratic National Committee and 33 separate state Democratic committees, which has some observers crying foul.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/04\/01\/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties\/\">article at <em>CounterPunch<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> which questioned the ethics of the arrangement, quotes Paul Blumenthal, campaign finance reporter for the <em>Huffington Post,<\/em> as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is a highly unusual arraignment if only because presidential candidates do not normally enter into fundraising agreements with their party\u2019s committees until after they actually win the nomination. And second, Clinton\u2019s fundraising committee is the first since the Supreme Court\u2019s 2014 McCutcheon v FEC decision eliminated aggregate contribution limits and congress increased party contribution limits in the 2014 omnibus budget bill.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/04\/06\/hedge-funds-are-part-of-a-tricky-money-maneuver-to-put-hillary-in-the-white-house\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on November 14, 2015, Hillary Clinton attempted to portray herself as the fierce enemy of hedge funds. She told the audience the following: \u201cYou have two billionaire hedge fund managers who started a Super PAC and they\u2019re advertising against me in Iowa as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}