Sanders Campaign Complains About Clinton's Joint Fundraising Committee
The Bernie Sanders campaign has sent a letter of complaint to the DNC on the eve of the New York primary about Hillary Clinton's joint fundraising committee -- an FEC approved committee to raise money for the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and downticket races.
The complaint comes just one day after a protest at George and Amal Clooney's home in California which ended with Bernie Sanders' supporters throwing one-dollar bills at Hillary Clinton's motorcade as she left. Clinton was attending a fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund, which is her joint fundraising committee.
The Sanders campaign “is particularly concerned that these extremely large-dollar individual contributions have been used by the Hillary Victory Fund to pay for more than $7.8 million in direct mail efforts and over $8.6 million in online advertising." They further allege that this improperly benefits the Clinton campaign "by generating low-dollar contributions that flow only to HFA [Hillary for America] rather than to the DNC or any of the participating state party committees.” (Full text - PDF)