Bernie Sanders says outside political groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums backing candidates should be abolished, including those supporting him. But he stopped short of saying a political nonprofit he founded should end its efforts.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles and waves while seated in front of an audience before the start of a forum broadcast on radio in a New Hampshire Public Radio station, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Concord, N.H.
“I would think that we should end super PACs right now. So I would tell my opponents who have a super PAC, why don’t you end it? And certainly that’s applicable to the groups that are supporting me,” Sanders said. Our Revolution is not a super PAC. But the tax-exempt political nonprofit he founded in 2016 functions much like one — but without having to reveal who its donors are. Like super PACs, these nonprofits were similarly empowered to raise and spend unlimited sums after the Citizens United decision.
The campaign finance act says that groups “directly or indirectly established” by federal officeholders or candidates can’t “solicit, receive, direct, transfer, or spend funds” for federal electoral activity that exceeds the “limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements” of the law. Those limits are currently set at $2,800 for candidates and $5,000 for political action committees.
But he was far more circumspect about Our Revolution on Sunday, chalking it up to a “broken” campaign finance system that he would try to overhaul if elected president.
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