FUN FACT: Bernie Received $10,000 from Hillary’s PAC to Win Senate Seat

[Cha]

Life is complicated. Politics is messy. And claiming ideological purity always comes back to bite you.

This 2006 AP story contains an interesting little nugget:

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton shared her wealth in March, doling out $190,000 in contributions to Democrats … Clinton’s political action committee, HILLPAC, raised $272,477 and spent $327,484 in March, according to the group’s filing to the Federal Election Commission. Two congressmen trying to make it to the Senate also got boosts from Clinton. Rep. Bernie Sanders, who is running for the seat held by retiring Vermont lawmaker Jim Jeffords, received $10,000, as did Harold Ford Jr., of Tennessee.

http://bluenationreview.com/bernie-received-10000-from-hillarys-pac-to-win-senate-seat/

It’s also worth reminding Bernie of his own reticence to attack Hillary’s speeches:

According to the New York Times, and quoting top aides, Bernie considers the attack on Hillary’s speech transcripts a character assault: “Mr. Sanders, hunched over a U-shaped conference table, rejected it as a personal attack on Mrs. Clinton’s income — the sort of character assault he has long opposed. She has the right to make money, he offered.”

http://bluenationreview.com/if-you-listen-carefully-bernie-is-hillarys-best-defender/

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[font color=blue]Hillary's Group~Mahalo[/font]

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Omg Sander's is such a hypocrite!

Thanks for the post Cha!

I love me some sunlight, let's disinfect away! In 40 hours, we will have New York in the bag which will be a devastating blow to his campaign, his hold out supporters will realize that its over with. Forward!

[Cha]

3. I'm so sick of the BS, Gary, Thank you! "sanders lasting legacy... "

Matt Murphy ‎‎@MattMurph24
Sanders lasting legacy will be turning a large swath of his supporters AGAINST the Democratic Party.
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[Her Sister]

16. Horrible legacy!

Matt Murphy ‎‎@MattMurph24
Sanders lasting legacy will be turning a large swath of his supporters AGAINST the Democratic Party.
7:25 AM - 17 Apr 2016
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[sheshe2]

2. He is a hypocrite.

Thanks Cha!

[Cha]

12. He's a raging hyocrite and he's damaged his legacy in more ways than one..

Matt Murphy ‎‎@MattMurph24
Sanders lasting legacy will be turning a large swath of his supporters AGAINST the Democratic Party.
7:25 AM - 17 Apr 2016
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Mahalo to you, she~

[pnwmom]

4. So what positions did Bernie take because of being influenced by this "dirty" and "corrupt" system?

[TMontoya]

6. Interesting question

I'd like to know as well. But since the rules are different for Saint Bernard we'll never know.

[Cha]

13. Well, we know he's running a holier than thou campaign and he's not. And, he needs to

look in the mirror before he starts pointing his ever pointy finger at anybody.

[uponit7771]

15. Gun man lawsuit exceptions, they helped him.. he helped them with an immoral vote

[Cha]

18. Yes, it was an immoral vote.. I can't believe mr pure guy would do that.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Well I know that Jane Sanders sits/sat

On the board of that nuclear waste removal committee out of Texas, and Bernie Sanders voted for the bill that would've placed nuclear waste on top of the Poor Latino community, but they ended up fighting back and won!

The $4900 on the schedule C of the 2014 tax return I believe is income from the nuclear waste removal committee as payment for her services.

Of course we don't know what's in other prior tax returns in terms of that income, because they haven't provided those returns, although they were promised.

Nuclear Waste vote story
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/28/Sanders-Nuclear-Waste-Votes-Divide-Texas-Activists/

[Thinkingabout]

8. Humm, I wonder how this board position was gained?

We do need to stop corruption.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Something to look into....

[Thinkingabout]

10. Its all that damn influence.

[Cha]

14. Sierra Blanca.. That might have something to do with

why burnie lost Texas so badly.

Thank you the reminder, Frenchie.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Busted! Bwaahaaaa! When is a PAC not a PAC? When the Bern

profits from their largess. Simple as that...

What a bleeding hypocrite. Everyone, including HRC and George Clooney, agree that Citizen's United is an onerous onslaught against democratic politics and that it MUST go. Everyone agrees that US campaign finance is a really expensive, scandalous shambles.

BUT, THOSE ARE THE RULES RIGHT NOW.

How do you change those rules? By guaranteeing a progressive Dem. Congress and Presidency.


Bern's disciples are forking out big money for their chosen savior right now, but for how long? Will they cough up for less "revolutionary" down-ballot candidates? Will they even bother get to the polls to vote in Democrats if Saint Bern isn't on the ballot?


Hey there, Cha...a big "Hi" to Hawaii!

[Cha]

17. bernie's fans don't all vote down ticket.. that's what was reported

on Judge Joanne Kloppenburg in Wisconsin..

21% of Bernie Sanders supporters did not vote for the Wisc. Democratic Supreme Court candidate. What does this say about his ability to influence down-ballot elections?

Sanders got 567k votes. 21% of that was ~110k people. JoAnne Kloppenburg lost by about 95k so there's a decent chance that election flipped if Bernie voters had voted for her at the same clip as Clinton supporters did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/4dnmmj/21_of_bernie_sanders_supporters_did_not_vote_for/

Such a hypocrite.. and his fans just suck it up.. this can't end well.

Mahalo & Aloha from Kauai, Surya~

[pandr32]

19. Do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do Sanders

Mahalo Cha!

[Cha]

20. How Ironic, pandr..

Hillary helped get that ************** started.

Mahalo!

[Cha]

21. KICK

[DesertRat]

22. Wow, thanks for posting this

[Cha]

23. Mahalo to you, DesertRat!

[all american girl]

24. Shhhhh don't tell the bernie folks, they don't like them facts