{"id":107041,"date":"2016-09-17T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107041"},"modified":"2016-09-17T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T04:14:07","slug":"debate-rules-being-set-by-hillary-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107041","title":{"rendered":"Debate Rules Being Set by Hillary Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS<\/a>: Campaign contributions from ‘bipartisan’ debate commissioners given exclusively to Clinton<\/p>\n

The men and women who run the supposedly \u201cnonpartisan\u201d Commission on Presidential Debates have put their money where their mouths are \u2014 and it all has gone to Democrat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

The amount of money is small by the standards of a modern presidential campaign, but it is one-sided. A pair of Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University examined campaign finance reports and found that all of the $5,650 in contributions that commission members have made to presidential candidates during this election season have gone to Clinton.<\/p>\n

Republican Donald Trump, who will meet Clinton in the first debate a week from Monday, received no donations from debate commission members. Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who both learned Friday that they will be shut out of the first debate, also received nothing.<\/p>\n

Kevin Zeese, an adviser to the Stein campaign, told LifeZette the contributions are further evidence of a bipartisan conspiracy to rig the electoral system against third-party alternatives. And the fact that Clinton scooped up all of the contributions made by commission members this year fits with the fact that she has won support not only from her own party but many Establishment figures in the Republican Party, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cHillary Clinton has done a really good job of uniting the two parties,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like one party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWS: Campaign contributions from ‘bipartisan’ debate commissioners given exclusively to Clinton The men and women who run the supposedly \u201cnonpartisan\u201d Commission on Presidential Debates have put their money where their mouths are \u2014 and it all has gone to Democrat … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t