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Conservative Fundraising Efforts Corrupted

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So for all of you RWNJs I have bad news. It looks like you are participating in a multi-level marketing scheme. According to these reports http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/u...nto-fund-raising-tool.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

It looks like the Tea Party leadership is funneling money to high paid consultants and whatnot, while donating only 910,000 of 6.7 million raised towards actually promoting candidates. This has drawn the ire of individuals like Trey Gowdy who has his named used in many of these emails to raise small contributions of 30, 50, or 100 dollars. These guys create consultancy groups, then they make a SuperPac, and pay themselves with their own super pac which is overwhelmingly anti-establishment.

Ben Carson's campaign seems to be doing much of the same, spending all their money on consultants and social media groups trying to raise more money. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/...re-than-two-thirds-of-his-third-quarter-haul/

So how do all of our resident anti-establishment conservatives feel? These guys are stealing your money, with the campaign finance reforms that you wanted.
 
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