DNC staffer reportedly breaks party rules to fundraise for Clinton

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A high-ranking official in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reportedly violating the party's own rules by fundraising for Hillary Clinton before she has been officially selected as the Democratic presidential candidate for 2016.

DNC finance chairman Henry R. Muñoz III, who bundled significant contributions to President Obama's campaign in 2012, reportedly helped organize a fundraiser for Clinton in Texas, even though DNC rules require that Muñoz and his fellow staffers "maintain impartiality and even-handedness during the Democratic Party Presidential nominating process."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.