Bernie & Hillary Go To Verizon Protests, But One Takes Verizon Money

[4bucksagallon]

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1. K&R.....

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2. That's exactly right. nt

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3. Fabulous Clip!

Fabulous clip, 4bucksagallon! Highlights the fact that Hillary "lives in the land of Wiggleroom" in this campaign.
Her tactics are so apparent to all those paying attention!

Bernie is such a breath of fresh air in this election! GO BERNIE!

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4. Wish Bernie would say this.

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8. He actually did bring up the $12.00/ hr thing and that

he was literally out with the protestors in DC for the $15.00/ hr back when it was barely covered by the media and he wasn't running for anything. Just a Senator standing up for the little guy. No poll testing if it was politically expedient for his campaign. Just standing up, again, on the right side of humanity and history.

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9. Yes, it was one of his

…..strongest moments.

But this point is different—that she takes money from the very corporation whose picket line she's walking on. It shows the opportunism and phoniness of her walk with strikers.

[George II]

13. She takes ZERO from Verizon. How much do you think she took?

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14. 384,000 + from the telco industry 2015-16 opensecrets.org

corporations are people, my friend.

[George II]

15. The "telco" industry is all-encompassing, and that was from EMPLOYEES of the "telco" industry....

...which includes maintenance workers, installers, sales people, floor sweepers, etc.

ZERO from Verizon.

PS - you didn't answer the question.

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16. that's why I added the "corporations are people".

because that's what it is - people in power fucking with the powerless.
how many "floor sweepers" can afford $2700 a plate black tie chicken dinners?

keep drinking the kool-aid, Clinton is not your abuela or your friend.

[George II]

19. Well, if you bothered to look at Sanders' FEC filings and the letters he's received from the FEC....

...you'd see that quite a large number of "people" have contributed more than the legal allowable limit.

Sure, he's gotten an "average" of $27, but how many have contributed that $27 average 100+ times or more?

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20. heh...weak sauce

$hillary is a corporate girlfriend experience. as is her husband AND her daughter.
and I've got 153 million reasons that tell me it's true.

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17. The Daily Standard

".....reports Clinton’s appearance differed from Sanders’ (on the picket line) in a major way — the telecom giant has provided the former secretary of state nearly $500,000 in payments and campaign contributions. They do go on to say, however, that 'Bernie Protests Verizon Despite Being A High-Paying, Loyal Customer'".

So much for "takes ZERO". Wonder why you would even think that, given her history.

[George II]

18. What "reports" say and what is true are completely different. So, I repeat - HOW MUCH???

Still zero unless you can show us how much - REALLY how much.

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22. You mean can I show the bribe on my handy pocket video?

Clinton has accepted $225,000 from Verizon for paid speeches: $100,000 to $250,000 from Verizon for the Clinton Foundation: and has accepted campaign donations from a number of Verizon executives. As reported by Salon.

But I know reports and damn monetary figures mean nothing to you. However, your subjective belief is the aspect of this that is, in fact, based on---- ZERO----to back it up. Maybe you don't understand how influence peddling works. And obviously you're fine having her suddenly act like she's into strike walking, all the while accepting money from their bosses---but that's the whole problem with HRC and the Establishment she represents. It will be window dressing and rhetoric with a tweak here and there to keep us quiet, but all in the service of the status quo business as usual.

But Proof is poof! Facts are ZERO! I get it. Have a nice day.

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5. K & R

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6. Pay to play

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7. If this was not an election year and both of them running

which one would have been more likely to have joined the ranks?

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10. K & R !!! to the Max...

Kyle is very good at ferreting out what candidates actually mean when they speak...

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11. This proves

that Hillary can't be bought.

[George II]

12. An end around the new rules of GD-P posts not making it to the home page, so....

....you post in "Video and Multimedia". Good job!

BUT.....you're incorrect - Clinton doesn't take "Verizon money", corporations are prohibited from contributing to candidate campaigns. Period.

So, how much money has "Verizon" contributed to Clinton? Do you know?

[4bucksagallon]

21. To those that say she did not take money from "Verizon"....

Of course they do not expect anything in return for their "giving" they are just "very generous" that's all. Well generous until it comes time to pay the tax man.....

Verizon has given between $118,000 and $300,000 to the Clinton Foundation in recent years. And as Zaid Jilani reported in Alternet last year, Hillary Clinton is the favored candidate of numerous Verizon executives, many of whom have given the maximum donation to her 2016 effort:

Verizon vice-presidents Lydia Pulley, Kathleen Grillo, and Donna Epps each gave $2,700 to Hillary for America. Verizon senior vice-president Thomas Edwards and vice-president Chris Debosier pitched in $1,000. Leecia Eve, a former Hillary staffer who today is a lobbyist for Verizon gave $2,700. Another Verizon lobbyist, David Lamendola, gave Hillary $1,000.

How much do you think Bernie Sanders got from these highly overpaid executives??????

http://usuncut.com/politics/each-of-the-top-10-corporate-tax-dodgers-donate-to-hillary-clinton/

Hillary Clinton has financial relationships with some of America’s biggest corporate tax dodgers.

Bernie Sanders recently outed the 10 biggest multinational corporations that paid no federal taxes for at least one year between 2008 and 2012. Sanders has made reining in corporate tax dodgers a key point of his presidential platform. In a recent press release, the Sanders campaign laid out the Vermont senator’s plans to force multinational corporations to pay their fair share in taxes: