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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Iowa. Nurses. RIF.[/quote]

I'm sorry but that is not comprehensible English. Can you show me a source that shows that Sanders accepted the support of a super PAC or not?
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Isn't that exactly what the linked article alleges and what posters are pointing to?

Sure, it's not concrete. But that's the allegation. With the way our election system works, there's no way of really knowing. Bernie can avoid directly coordinating with PACs set up by people who know the drill. Wink wink. His big donors can funnel money to him using aliases or through other channels (their staff, relatives, etc...remember when that happened in dc recently?).

You must be younger than I am if you aren't familiar with RIF. [/quote]

All sorts of things "can" be done. What we know about what "is" being done is that a PAC that was set up six years ago has been supporting Sanders. There is no evidence that any of the things that you describe are being done.

If you don't like that the Nurses PAC is supporting Sanders, what do you expect him to do about it?
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The California Nurses Association (rebranded, National Nurses United) SuperPAC is supporting Bernie.  By law, he cannot coordinate with the SuperPAC.  I don't know if he's made any public statements asking them to stop their activities-- he can certainly do that if he wants to distance himself from their activities. Now, there are certainly SuperPACs that are acting within the letter of the law on coordination while also, wink-wink, coordinating with the candidate.  There have been public news articles on this- see Bush and Right to Rise and Carly Fiorina (posted her entire campaign schedule on her website and let superPAC show up with "unauthorized" campaign materials and staff to run the event).  I don't think there have been any allegations that the Sanders campaign is doing this kind of activity with the Nurse's SuperPAC-- but who knows?[/quote]

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