Remember kids, whatever you do--Don't drink the Kool-Aid!

Many people wonder how the Granny with the Kool-Aid managed to get so many super delegates, and so thoroughly buy the loyalty of not only the DNC, but many state Democratic parties. In particular many Berners have been dismayed to find that so many super delegates refuse to switch their vote to reflect their states overwhelming choice of Bernie.

Many of us have been amazed at how many politicians we thought were "good progressives" seem to have drunk the Clinton Kool-Aid and become hardcore supporters to the exclusion of reality.

The secret of course is the so called HRC Victory Fund, which the press insists is something of a "kindness" on the part of Granny Kool-Aid in helping down ballot candidates and state parties. In fact, they keep asking Bernie, why he isn't doing the same?

The simple truth is that this is a disingenuous question, most likely asked by media members who do not really understand what Granny Kool-Aid has done.

Margot Kidder (yes, Christopher Reeve's Lois Lane) has a great new in depth article at Counter Punch describing the HRC Victory Fund and how it allowed HRC to buy so many state super delegates:

How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties

Here is the core of the idea as presented in this long article that goes into the details.

In August 2015, at the Democratic Party convention in Minneapolis, 33 democratic state parties made deals with the Hillary Clinton campaign and a joint fundraising entity called The Hillary Victory Fund. The deal allowed many of her core billionaire and inner circle individual donors to run the maximum amounts of money allowed through those state parties to the Hillary Victory Fund in New York and the DNC in Washington.

The idea was to increase how much one could personally donate to Hillary by taking advantage of the Supreme Court ruling 2014, McCutcheon v FEC, that knocked down a cap on aggregate limits as to how much a donor could give to a federal campaign in a year. It thus eliminated the ceiling on amounts spent by a single donor to a presidential candidate.

In other words, a single donor, by giving 10,000 dollars a year to each signatory state could legally give an extra $330,000 a year for two years to the Hillary Victory Fund. For each donor, this raised their individual legal cap on the Presidential campaign to $660,000 if given in both 2015 and 2016. And to one million, three hundred and 20 thousand dollars if an equal amount were also donated in their spouse’s name.

From these large amounts of money being transferred from state coffers to the Hillary Victory Fund in Washington, the Clinton campaign got the first $2,700, the DNC was to get the next $33,400, and the remainder was to be split among the 33 signatory states. With this scheme, the Hillary Victory Fund raised over $26 million for the Clinton Campaign by the end of 2015.

The article continues in great depth to describe what has transpired. Read and be amazed at the machinations that go on behind the scenes of Granny Kool-Aids Victory Fund in each state. Details on the players, their connections and how they connived to ensure victory for HRC.

We need true campaign finance reform!

It's an article truly worthy of Lois Lane!