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In reply to the discussion: David Hogg is being paid a six figure salary by his PAC and may be using DNC emails to raise money for this PAC [View all]DFW
(57,931 posts)If their PAC has distributed $600K in salary, $3 Million expenses, and only $12,600 in candidate contributions, if they don't have rational explanations ready, they are not helping their cause. If they raised $12 million, disbursed 2% of that to the causes they claim to be helping, and over 90% on expenses (a good bit of which will be their own salaries and travel expenses), they had better have solid reasons to back these numbers. The concept of "out with the old, in with the new," even by their own definition was supposed to refer to the makeup of the Democratic caucus in the House, not the names of occupants of hotel suites.
About 20 years ago, Bill Clinton was talking to some people about the costs involved in some aid programs, citing that expenses ate up about 25% of the budget while he was in office, and about 4% now that he was overseeing similar programs as a charity. One of his small audience asked why the expenses were so much higher when they were being directed by the government, and he answered without hesitation, "because we were stupid, that's why!"
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