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3. Krystal Ball
Sun Oct 21, 2018, 02:15 PM
Oct 2018

Who by the way has been very active on twitter backhanding Dems

Is Krystal Ball's PAC a fresh approach or a get-rich scheme?

“A new Democratic group — one with support from Democratic congressmen and three of the biggest names in the tech industry — is testing the boundary between a new approach to politics and a self-enriching scam.

When the People’s House Project launched last May, founder Krystal Ball billed it as an organization that would defy old conventions and show Democrats a new model for winning campaigns. The former MSNBC host said her political action committee would support longshot candidates who embraced economic populism and lacked a political background — the kind of office-seekers who normally don’t receive support from party leaders.

But thus far, nobody has benefited more financially from the group than Ball herself. Of the $445,000 Ball raised for the group, she paid herself more than a third of that — $174,000 — in salary, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. The majority of her salary — $104,000 — came in the first three months of this year alone.”

Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article210775574.html#storylink=cpy


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