Donors to Bernie: Never surrender

[Uncle Joe]

Sanders' wealthiest contributors don't care much about the delegate deficit. What matters to them is the senator's ability to reshape the Democratic Party agenda.

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That won’t come as welcome news to the Clinton campaign and its allies, who point to the nearly insurmountable delegate lead Hillary Clinton has amassed; they’d like to begin the pivot to the general election. But the relatively small group of pro-Sanders millionaires doesn’t care. In their view, it’s crazy to concede now that the Vermont senator is beginning to string together wins in places as varied as Maine, Colorado and Oklahoma.

“What people need to understand is that Bernie started off as an unknown. As more and more people learn about him he gets more and more converts. Just look at the national graph of likely Bernie voters vs. Clinton voters. Momentum is with Bernie and against Hillary. Now they are just about even. Soon Bernie will surpass Hillary,” said Ben Cohen, the millionaire co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. “Clearly the mood of the country for Republicans, Democrats and Independents is anti-the-Washington establishment. That bodes well for Bernie and quite poorly for Hillary.”

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“I think he’s got to stay in it. I think in his position right now he’s shaped the entire conversation. The entire agenda of the 2016 Democratic agenda,” said Meredith Burak, a former executive at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America.

“I certainly hope that he continues, because I think he is making a significant contribution to the rejuvenation of the Democratic Party,” said Deborah Sagner, a New Jersey real estate executive who has maxed out contributions to Sanders. Sagner was an early supporter of President Barack Obama in 2008 and raised money for the effort to get Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president before backing Sanders.

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“Frankly, I think he has given Hillary very soft, gentleman-like treatment. She is somebody who is a very vulnerable candidate and someone who has some really dodgy deals in her past — I mean someone whose net worth has gone from zero to a $100 million,” he said. “The fact that he has not made more of that than he has, perhaps out of fear of injuring Hillary and therefore enabling some horror from the Republican Party. ... I would not have let Hillary get off as easy as he seems to have.”

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“I have a very hopeful nature, and he really inspires me to imagine an America with social, economic and racial justice,” Sagner said.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-donors-220384

[Alfresco]

1. Will Bernie give his leftover primary funds to the Democratic National Committee?

[itsrobert]

2. He's going to give it to the CORPORATE MEDIA

Really ironic that his "small donors" are writing checks that are going to corporations. Talk about the transfer of wealth.

[kristopher]

3. Bernie to the White House. nt

[jillan]

4. #NeverSurrenderBernie

Thanks for the post Uncle Joe!

[pat_k]

5. Sounds like they "get it."

Thoughts on staying in through the convention.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1423882

[Octafish]

6. Never Surrender.

“Frankly, I think he has given Hillary very soft, gentleman-like treatment. She is somebody who is a very vulnerable candidate and someone who has some really dodgy deals in her past — I mean someone whose net worth has gone from zero to a $100 million,” he said. “The fact that he has not made more of that than he has, perhaps out of fear of injuring Hillary and therefore enabling some horror from the Republican Party. ... I would not have let Hillary get off as easy as he seems to have.”