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Citadel Billionaire Ken Griffin donates $2.5 million to Susan Collins after she cut his taxes four times (i.imgur.com)

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

$104K is the cap on donations directly to a candidate’s campaign - that they can spend on staffing costs, rent for a headquarters, ads etc.

The work-around is for people like Ken to instead donate unlimited funds to a technically* non-affiliated Political Action Committees whose sole existence just so happens to be supporting your preferred candidate and is usually run by their ex-staffers or affiliates and legally* can not directly collude in messaging.

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ahhhhh I get it, winkwink nudgenudge say no more.