Let's raise $353,000 for Bernie!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Just got this email:

Tonight Hillary Clinton is hosting a fundraiser at the home of a California venture capitalist where couples contributing $353,000 get to sit at a table with George Clooney.

Now, you know where this campaign stands on George Clooney. YUGE fans. But a political contribution of $353,000?!??! That’s just an obscene amount of money.

And while the Clinton campaign repeatedly claims this money to her “Victory Fund” goes toward supporting the DNC, campaign finance records show they’ve spent millions of those dollars to subsidize their own campaign. It is, let’s just say, a very creative way to use enormous checks from people like Alice Walton (yes, Wal-Mart) to cover what would otherwise be campaign expenses.

So, we’ve set another ambitious goal, because that’s what this campaign is about: setting ambitious goals and watching people come together to meet them. Here it is:

Help Bernie raise $353,000 before midnight. Not in a single check, but in small-dollar increments. Add your contribution to the thousands being made right now.

[riversedge]

1. If raising $ for his Rome trip--it is already paid for by those $27 donatins.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. So what? There's lots more where that came from

because Bernie's millions of donors haven't maxed out their donation limits. I'm happy to kick in again and I don't think the trip was a waste at all. It was in furtherance of principles he's advocated throughout his entire career. I'd rather contribute to his doing something principled like that trip than paying for a trip to CA just to suck up to the glitterati for money that's being funneled through a PAC to buy the loyalty of superdelegates.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. furtherance of principles he's advocated throughout his entire career

some do not understand the concept of "principles"

[amborin]

4. KNR