ONWARD - The Hill, "Bullock blasts Biden for being open to super PAC funding - BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 10/29/19 05:54 PM EDT, stating in part:
Presidential candidate and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) blasted former Vice President Joe Biden for reversing his [Biden's] stance on super PACs.
Bullock called out Biden after reports emerged that his [Biden's] former aide filed paperwork to form a super PAC a week after the Biden campaign indicated its openness to super PAC money.
“You don’t ‘Unite the Country’ by buying an election,” Bullock said in the release. “Vice President Biden and I are fighting for similar core values, but as long as super PACs and dark money groups are able to flood our elections with millions of dollars, Washington won’t be able to make true progress on the big issues facing our country.”
The Montana governor called the news about Biden “deeply disappointing.”
“I’ve spent my entire career fighting to get Big Money out of politics, and I’m not going to back down now,” he said in the release.
Bullock also touted his own record in fighting “Big Money,” saying he passed “the most progressive finance disclosure laws in the country,” and he’s been described as the “biggest threat to Citizens United.”
Progressives were also quick to criticize Biden after his campaign signaled that super PAC money might be necessary to defeat President Trump. Candidates such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have vowed not to take money from super PACs, opting instead to fundraise mostly from small donors.
However, Biden defended his stance earlier Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC, saying his campaign’s announcement last week was an “understandable response” for people who want Trump out of the White House.
[...] The Biden campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
[links in original omitted] " ... interview with MSNBC" means Comcast putting its corpoirate thumb on the scale, Comcast whose chief lobbyist was the very first big-money fundraiser host for Creepy Ol' Joe. Anything but an unbiased outlet being used by Biden to tell his story, sans any speculative questioning. Earlier the same day of its reporting of Bullock's condemnation of PAC money influence buying, The Hill independently reported of MSNBC's playing softball with Joe:
Biden said in an interview with MSNBC that his campaign has the necessary funds to win the presidential race in 2020.
“The fact is we got in several months later than most of the candidates did, but we’re doing well,” he said. “And we’re approaching a significant number of individual contributions. I think we’ll have all the money we need to run a full-blown campaign in every one of the early states.”
The former vice president said he’s not currently accepting PAC or super PAC money but hinted that he may need to in order to take on Trump.
“Here’s what happened: You know there’s been a grassroots response out there to the fact that Trump has gone out and decided to not only ask the Russians and the Chinese to get involved and making sure I’m not the nominee, but he has his folks are [sic] spending an awful lot of money … telling lies about me,” Biden said on MSNBC.
He called his campaign’s signaling last week to be open to using super PAC money in an election an “understandable response” for those who want Trump out of the White House.
“My guess is they would have done the same thing for anybody who was attacked in the Democratic primary if they were leading,” he added.
The former vice president has fallen behind other candidates in fundraising in the most recent quarter, raising $15.2 million last quarter and having $8.9 million on hand.
Other presidential candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have refused to take money from super PACs, saying they will mostly accept donations from small donors. Sanders raised $25 million and has almost $34 million in cash on hand for his campaign, while Warren has collected $24.6 million last quarter and has $26 million on hand.
Dissembling? You decide. Consider this days-later https://unitethecountry.com/about/ astroturf website, which insultingly publishes stock disclaimer language: "Paid for by Unite the Country, unitethecountry.com, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee." Yeah. Sure. Look at the screen capture.
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Do you think those PAC folks and Biden campaign folks golf? While ostensibly not telling one another about anything besides strokes per hole and running score? Fat chance. They even have an asshole video. Blowing smoke, yelling loud, absolutely no content, none whatsoever. An insult to anyone who thinks, (even a little). Trump does empty-of-content videos much better than Biden, without that violent yelling at the end, at us. Like a bad boss would.
Jez. SO - Who are these PAC promoters; read this and this, (linking here for further detail), for truth. Hangers-on having an ongoing past to present investment interest in Joe, each a sort of shareholder, bets placed on Joe's number as the wheel spins.
And the money sources? All dark money. Joe's moved to the dark side of the force. How much from whom is inside-the-PAC info, and do you expect that is info for which there is insider interest to share?
To share: With real people, with real needs and sick and tired of the same old shit shoveled at them? These PAC-Man people aim things as if they collectively presume that there is reality to the mythical herd of unicorns, independents who voted for Trump but now would bet on Joe's number? They, those convertible independents, are nonexistent, despite our being told by Pelosi and others that it is myth to believe in energizing the young and those now excluded and disenfranchised (of any age) who want reform, that as the myth but with their unicorn herd being so real you can close your eyesand touch one. Pelosi is out of touch with a trend.
The JOEPAC cronies should have called the site "Sell out the country" because Biden wants big money to hold sway, his way. He poses, he struts, he fumbles his lines, and shouts out his video lines like a raging bull. Yet, surprisingly, Dem establishment donors have put their chips on his number, as the wheel spins, the ball landing later after months of primary voter spinning and spinning. Expecting all that to yield Joe's number is not real. It is virtual reality, told and sold by a really dumb looking amateurish PAC website. It will attract dark money, for sure, but will it delude enough voters to matter?