Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.
For four months, the Republican Party and its many presidential hopefuls
have laid into likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over donations
to a family foundation. That these attacks contradict the GOP's broader
stand on campaign finance -- and call into question their own weighty
burden of donor conflicts -- hasn't troubled them at all.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called contributions to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation “thinly veiled bribes.” The nation can’t afford the “drama”
represented by those donations, according to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina asked Clinton to explain why
contributions to the foundation “don’t represent a conflict of interest.” And the Republican National Committee has made the donations a central part of its campaign against Clinton.
Republicans, including those now running for president, defend dark
money groups as a means to protect what they argue is the First
Amendment right of donors to engage in political activity without
"retaliation." Perhaps, that retaliation would come in the form of
stories informing the public about how those donors are seeking to
influence public policy.
Full story at HuffPo.
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