Political Payback? ATF Agents Donate Big to Obama

By Jennifer Kerns

President Barack Obama has unveiled an executive action to increase the size and scope of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by hiring 200 new ATF agents and increasing the agency’s funding by an additional $4 million in the fiscal year 2017.

Now it seems the president’s executive action on guns may have involved political cronyism and campaign-cash paybacks.

Campaign finance records reveal that ATF agents and Department of Justice employees have contributed a stunning $1.8 million to Obama’s campaigns, the Democrat party, and other candidates.

Campaign contribution data shared exclusively with me by Crowdpac – a non-partisan political data site based in Silicon Valley – show that since 2004, 2,253 DOJ employees have donated $1.74 million and 68 donors from the ATF have contributed $68,000.

The federal employees rated a liberal score. DOJ employee donations ranked a “4.9L” on Crowdpac’s scale of liberal to conservative (10L is the most liberal on the left, 0 is neutral, and 10C is the most conservative on the right). ATF employees ranked a “3L.”

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Source:: The Blaze