Only Hillary Clinton raised money for Democrats (through joint agreement with the DNC)

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Last edited Fri Nov 3, 2017, 08:40 PM - Edit history (1)

Kaivan Shroff‏ @KaivanShroff 6h6 hours ago
DNC Chair sets the record straight:

1. Clinton and Sanders had same joint-fundraising agreement

2. Only Clinton raised money for Democrats

Link to tweet

[questionseverything]

1. your title is false...bernie raised 5 mil for down ticket dems

there are more ways to raise money than thru the dnc

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2. I changed the title

...but you know well her money raised was for ANY Democratic candidate, where Sanders' was for handpicked few who were running at the time, not through the Democratic National Committee which was engaged in electing Dems nationally.

[questionseverything]

3. thanks for changing the title

I think it is important that democrats be accurate

honestly I don't know how the entire fundraising thing works...I thought I read yesterday that the dnc is about presidential candidates and some other alphabet agency was tasked with congressional peops

I thought the 1% hc gave the states was for getting out the vote not for candidates(altho of course that would help entire ticket)

that we have to find peops that can write a check for 325 grand to fund dem campaigns makes me sad

the one thing I am sure of is we should never again give the repubs a 2 month head start debating

[BainsBane]

4. Get out tihe vote is for candidates.

That is how candidates win. Those who devote the their fundraising haul to TV ads lose. Candidates have to get supporters to the polls because votes are what matters.

If you want to see campaign finance law changed, rather than used as an cudgel and excuse to defeat Democrats, you could try to convince people, including Sanders supporters, it matters. Of course with Clinton’s defeat we’ve seen legal reform abandoned entirely as an issue.

[WhiteTara]

6. Sanders didn't actually raise money for anyone but himself

he allowed select candidates to piggyback on his fund raising letters.

[Duppers]

7. Yep. "Bernie Sanders: Prolific Democratic Party fundraiser"

"Bernie Sanders rails against big money in politics, but has consistently helped and benefited from the Democratic Party fundraising apparatus.

Sanders was listed as a co-host at a major Democratic fundraiser in each year between 2011 and 2015."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/sanders-democratic-fundraisers/index.html

[Kajun Gal]

5. Why are y'all obsessed with Hillary?

TIME TO MOVE ON! FORWARD!!!
Geez! That is the past! Gotta look to the future!