The Great Bernie Sanders Birthday Moneybomb Is Coming Sept 8th

[Omaha Steve]

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http://observer.com/2015/08/the-great-bernie-sanders-birthday-moneybomb-is-coming/

September 8 is Bernie's birthday and the power of small donors will meet the revolution of social media
By Brent Budowsky | 08/14/15 12:05pm



Independent presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) looks on during a “Brunch with Bernie” campaign rally at the National Nurses United offices on August 10, 2015 in Oakland, Calif. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)


While the front pages of The New York Times and the evening broadcasts of the television news are bannering stories of candidates from Hillary Clinton to Jeb Bush raising big dough from big donors and reaping the benefits of giant Super PACs, the legions of grassroots supporters of Bernie Sanders are quietly marching across the playing fields of social media and planning a small donor moneybomb extravaganza to celebrate the birthday of their champion on September 8.

Stay tuned: the Sanders moneybomb will be a big deal that will fuel organizing for other big deals that have already begun from even larger crowds at big rallies and mass organizing for Democratic caucuses.

The concept of the small donor moneybomb was pioneered in earlier campaigns by former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, who like Mr. Sanders was a candidate of conviction and ideas, with a large and devoted following and savvy grassroots activists who believed in the revolutionary potential of social media.

Ron Paul’s moneybombs were brilliantly successful for his campaigns and the Sanders campaign began to pick up the moneybomb torch earlier in the campaign. The September 8 Sanders moneybomb event could well become a seminal moment in presidential politics by bringing together a political cause, an individual candidate, a progressive movement that is in a historical moment of ascendancy, and a social media revolution that has already generated exponentially larger crowds than other candidates and will promote surging turnout at presidential caucuses that will confound insiders.

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[sabrina 1]

1. I just heard about this on Social Media! Thanks for the post, Steve.

Bernie's supporters are the best!

[abelenkpe]

2. Ok

For my birthday I'll help moneybomb Bernie on his....

[panader0]

3. Okay, on the 8th I'll donate again, not much, but what I can afford.

My birthday is on the 7th.

[jwirr]

4. I'll be there for the party. Thanks OS.

[Hatchling]

5. Thank you for the heads up!

It would really be useful if people posted upcoming "money bombs" prior to the first of the month. So many of us get paid on the first or the third and make our budgets correspondingly. Requests after that can't be heeded.

I hear about them usually after my small budget has already been allocated and can rarely join in.

[LWolf]

6. okay