Cultures clash as Democrats raise money

[FreakinDJ]

Cultures clash as Democrats raise money


In the back of a Concord, New Hampshire, school gymnasium, as Bernie Sanders gave a triumphant speech after winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary, 24-year-old Kenneth Pennington stood staring at his smartphone, watching the numbers climb. Pennington, the campaign’s digital director, saw thousands of people cramming onto the Sanders website at once, frantically trying to donate to his campaign. In one minute alone, 2,689 people had donated an average of $34.

Sanders has no official finance director, but with the help of people like Pennington, who built his first website at age 12, he has created a fundraising juggernaut that has fueled his unexpectedly competitive race for president. The network his team built now threatens the once-daunting Clinton fundraising model, which the family perfected over years of Beverly Hills dinners, Hamptons summer parties, and rewards for donors like nights in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Sanders, the Vermont senator, has raised some $96 million to Hillary Clinton’s $127 million, but he is gaining ground after raising $5 million more than she did last month. His operation is also highly efficient — Sanders simply asks his small donors to give online, and they do, while Clinton has left the campaign trail repeatedly to fly to other cities for receptions with bigger contributors.

But as a result of her reliance on traditional fundraising events, she has been forced to interrupt campaigning to fly off to entertain potential contributors. A trip to an event hosted by an investment firm in Philadelphia just before the Iowa caucuses, for example, played into Sanders’ critique of her as someone who is too cozy with the financial industry and corporate elites.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/02/13/cultures-clash-democrats-raise-money/kD9IEJ3sRc1jDZfAzgBn3N/story.html

[daleanime]

1. K&R.....

[Peace Patriot]

2. I heard some Boston Globe so-called reporter on National Republican Radio today...

..spout every one of the Clinton campaign's recent 'talking points'--quite literally, one after the other--attacking Bernie Sanders. Unicorns and pony rides included.

It was the Warren Olney news show, from which I expect Trump, Trump, Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Trump Trump, Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, Trump, Trump...well, you know the routine--for months and months now, and maybe Hillary as a footnote. I get trapped in a car on a commute in a rural area, so my radio choices are very limited.

Today, however, Warren did Bernie Sanders. It wasn't half bad, to my VERY GREAT AMAZEMENT, but the half that was bad was very bad. The Boston Globe hack. (Didn't catch his name--I live out West so don't read the paper, and don't generally read the Corporate Press anywhere including on the internet unless I have to, like, to read about gravitational waves, or see photos of Pluto, etc.)

Anyhow, I'm glad to see the Boston Globe print this laudable article, which tells it like it is. Clinton is bought and paid for. Bernie isn't. End of story.

After listening to their reporter read the Clinton fax as if it were his opinion, I wondered a little about the Boston Globe. Is it "true blue" or has it been sucked into a black hole of MIC corporatism from which no light can emerge? (Ha! Pun NOT intended.) They did publish this piece, after all, so they can't be all bad.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, FreakinDJ.

[amborin]

4. K&R