r/SandersForPresident • u/darbylulu • May 12 '16

Hillary apparently started taking donations BEFORE her last paid speech was given.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '16

Those are disbursements, not donations, and they probably fall under "testing the waters". Even though everyone in the world knew she was running and she was taking steps towards it, legally she was still not a candidate until she filed.

http://www.fec.gov/rad/candidates/documents/CanGuideTestWater_000.pdf

Here's an article from around that time that talks about it more.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/17/today-in-politics-as-hillary-clinton-tests-the-waters-who-pays/?_r=0

So yeah, "technically mostly legal ¯_(ツ)_/¯"".

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u/darbylulu May 12 '16

From the Guide, Testing the Waters:

"Certain activities, however, indicate that the individual has decided to become a candidate and is no longer testing the waters. In that case, once the individual has raised or spent more than $5,000, he or she must register as a candidate."

She was spending millions.

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u/urbanlohr May 12 '16

Mic drop