We're Proud To Have Zero Billionaire Donors

[Donkees]

Feb 8, 2020

Pete Buttigieg has 40 billionaire donors. I'm proud to say our campaign has zero. As someone who is from the working class, I apologize to nobody for standing with the working families of this country.

[denem]

1. Sanders returns the donations billionaires make.

It's not as if the the likes of Ben Cohen and others would not donate money to him if they could. Bernie will have to settle for the ice-cream.

[msongs]

10. and what favors is bernie giving in return for the flavors? nt

[betsuni]

2. What evidence does he have that donations from billionaires corrupt candidates?

What does it matter what anyone's class is? FDR wasn't from a working class background. I don't get it.

[pnwmom]

3. How do you know that when Our Revolution is funding Bernie with dark money?

https://apnews.com/345bbd1af529cfb1e41305fa3ab1e604

Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders says he doesn’t want a super PAC. Instead, he has Our Revolution, a nonprofit political organization he founded that functions much the same as one.

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The campaign finance act says groups “directly or indirectly established” by federal officeholders or candidates can’t “solicit, receive, direct, transfer, or spend funds” for federal electoral activity that exceeds the “limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements” of the law. Those limits are currently set at $2,800 for candidates and $5,000 for political action committees.

Our Revolution has taken in nearly $1 million from donors who gave more than the limits and whose identities it hasn’t fully disclosed, according to tax filings for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Much of it came from those who contributed six-figure sums.


It won’t have to publicly reveal its 2019 fundraising until after this year’s presidential election. And money it raises between now and then won’t have to be disclosed until the following year.

“Any entity established by a federal officeholder can only raise and spend money under federal contribution limits for any activities in connection with a federal election,” said Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert and attorney with the good-government group Common Cause. “Our Revolution was undoubtedly established by Sen. Sanders, is subject to these laws — and is seemingly in violation of them.”

[Pachamama]

4. Bloomberg has zero Billionare donors as well

[TwilightZone]

5. Well, technically, he has one.

[Pachamama]

7. Spending your own money on yourself doesn't count - even when you are a Billionaire

He isn’t beholden to anyone else but himself

Can any other of the candidates say that?

[stopbush]

8. What's worse? A billionaire self financing their campaign or a millionaire asking

the Average Joe to finance their campaign?

[Pachamama]

11. The millionaire asking the average Joe to finance their campaign

And who isn’t a Democrat

[Atticus]

6. How many times will you post this nothingburger? How many times do we have to ask---

---SO?

[Dem2]

9. Pete has 6.4% of the billionaires in the US giving him money

40/621 = .0644...

I guess this is an interesting statistic?

[booley]

12. He has no billionaires but the most money

For years we were told we had to play the dirty money game to compete.

I think that's one thing the Democratic donor class hates most of all.

Sanders has proven they don't matter.