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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 01:21 PM Mar 2016

Their Kids Don't Attend Public School

Bill Clinton will be headlining a fundraising event in La Canada Flintridge (north of Glendale) on Tuesday, March 22. I hope you will consider supporting Hillary for America at the following event:

Reception with President Bill Clinton at the Home of Teena Hostovich and Doug Martinet

La Canada Flintridge, California

Address provided upon RSVP
Tuesday, March 22nd
$1,000 - Guest
$2,700 - Champion (Includes photo)
Co-host: Raise $10,000 (Includes photo and host reception with President Clinton)


http://www.flintridgeprep.org/uploaded/images/website/endowment-funds-descriptions.





A minimum gift of $50,000 is required to start a named endowment fund at the school.

Today’s campus features state-of-the-art labs, classrooms, and performing arts spaces, with a two-story library, inviting patios, fields, gym and pool, yet keeps that sense of timelessness, intimacy and peaceful greenery that are hallmarks of our early years.

We’re often described as a community that takes the form of a school. We provide a warm, nurturing learning environment with small class sizes and plenty of attention (the student-teacher ratio is 8:1 and the average class size is 15 students). Our students are excited to learn and grow, and whether they’re interested in arts, athletics or both, our program balances rigor with fun while encouraging students to discover their own bold path to a balanced and responsible life.

....The extensive athletic facilities include the Lowery Swimming Pool, the James Wood Memorial Field, the Crawford Family Gymnasium for basketball and volleyball and the well-equipped Tom Fry Weight Room.

Completed in September 2007, the two-story Chandramohan Library is the academic and social hub of school life. It includes a computer lab, a classroom for seminars, meeting rooms, space for individual and group study and a college counseling suite.

The school's food service facility was also renovated in 2007 and now houses a commercial kitchen and food service center.

Since 2013, the school has undertaken significant remodeling efforts to all its classroom and performance spaces, including a complete refurbishment of the Norris Auditorium in 2015, incorporating flexible learning spaces and environmentally sensitive landscaping.
Flintridge Preparatory School TechnologyTechnology

Computing technology at Flintridge Prep is distributed throughout the campus. All faculty offices and the majority of classrooms are equipped with computers. There are four major centers of computing technology:

The Mathematics Department's Braun Foundation Computer Laboratory, which hosts classes in both applications and programming
The library, which provides computers for general student use both throughout the day and after school
Classrooms, which are equipped with "smart" presentation technology
The Art Department's "dry darkroom" for digital photo editing and printing

To prepare for both college and the world beyond, students use industry-standard, professional-grade software for curricular and extracurricular projects alike.






2015-2016 Board of Trustees

S. Mohan Chandramohan, Chair
Karl I. Swaidan, Vice Chair
Richard B. Webster, Treasurer
David J. Codiga, Secretary

Peter H. Bachmann
John E. Brown ’81
Robert O. Case III
Jeffrey G. Crawford ’86
Andrew E. Crowell
Eva S. Davis
Azhil “Alex” Durairaj, MD ’86
Jorge G. Gonzalez, PhD
Jane R. Herzog
Teena M. Hostovich
Kenneth Liang

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Their Kids Don't Attend Public School (Original Post) amborin Mar 2016 OP
La Canada-Flintridge is a well-to-do area with good LibDemAlways Mar 2016 #1
yes, exactly! they are of and for the elite amborin Mar 2016 #5
School taxes are paid, even when the children don't attend, so how are fewer dollars synergie Mar 2016 #10
School taxes are collected from homeowners, true. LibDemAlways Mar 2016 #25
You do realize, don't you, that Sanders also has the same type of fundraiser with the same dollar Tanuki Mar 2016 #19
I've heard that Bill Clinton was so poor they grew up without indoor plumbing shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #45
obama's kids don't go to public school. stanford is not a public school either. virgin mary msongs Mar 2016 #2
All of that is true. But like I said, children kept LibDemAlways Mar 2016 #7
How? Do you think that the cities in which these poeple live don't collect school taxes and synergie Mar 2016 #18
The fact that they can afford a gated, private school stinks of elitism... Human101948 Mar 2016 #26
President Obama's daughters attend private school. nt cwydro Mar 2016 #28
And they are now part of the elite... Human101948 Mar 2016 #30
But schools receive that funding per pupil. kcr Mar 2016 #29
Having an event for their base. pdsimdars Mar 2016 #3
yes amborin Mar 2016 #4
By their "base" you mean, to raise money for Democrats? Like Bernie was supposed to do synergie Mar 2016 #16
How did "progressives" start despising the wealthy? JaneyVee Mar 2016 #6
guess you missed the point; but, otherwise, why are you defending restricting access to billion amborin Mar 2016 #8
So what was your point, and where is your proof that the poeple you refer to are billionaires? synergie Mar 2016 #15
Real ones don't make such silly and moronic assuptions about parents who choose synergie Mar 2016 #13
Well, I don't. shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #22
^^^ Mathematically challenged PowerToThePeople Mar 2016 #23
The Clintons both attended public school growing up. shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #9
The OIP wasn't saying the Clinton's did, but that these random people who were synergie Mar 2016 #12
I get that this post is supposed to be a smear, since that's pretty much what I've come to expect synergie Mar 2016 #11
It's part of the Gish gallop approach to ... JoePhilly Mar 2016 #24
Post removed Post removed Mar 2016 #14
Let me guess....do all of Bernie's high rolling donors send their kids to public schools? Tanuki Mar 2016 #17
OMG. This so flies in the face of everything BS supporters have preached to us Fla Dem Mar 2016 #36
Beautiful campus. I don't begrudge anyone having the resources to oasis Mar 2016 #20
There's no reason we should begrudge them for it. shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #21
Maybe not begrudge, but people are too quick to dismiss public schools. kcr Mar 2016 #31
Hey kcr, I hear you and respect shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #37
I'm not. kcr Mar 2016 #40
Okay. shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #41
I agree with you. I started with boys in private, different reasons, but supposedly higher academics seabeyond Mar 2016 #42
There are international baccalaureate (IB) katsy Mar 2016 #32
That sounds amazing shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #38
There is that, what Katsy suggested. I also found with my boys that keeping them in the seabeyond Mar 2016 #43
thanks for sharing shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #46
Excellent! katsy Mar 2016 #49
Not very big I'm rural katsy Mar 2016 #47
I had never heard IB schools before shadowandblossom Mar 2016 #39
They are what all our schools should be katsy Mar 2016 #48
I'm going off topic but, oasis Mar 2016 #33
And I bet this town votes for Bernie in June RandySF Mar 2016 #27
So, that has some relevance in what way? MineralMan Mar 2016 #34
So people who send their kids to a fancy school are hosting a Clinton fundraiser? gollygee Mar 2016 #35
They did fundraising for Obama too. Sorry. nt BreakfastClub Mar 2016 #44

LibDemAlways

(15,139 posts)
1. La Canada-Flintridge is a well-to-do area with good
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 01:41 PM
Mar 2016

public schools. School choice, of course, is at the discretion of the parents, but each child kept out of the local schools means fewer dollars funneled into public education.

I detest the $1000 admission requirement and the $2700 photo requirement for these things.The ten grand co-host requirement is simply beyond the pale. Having to pay thousands for access sends the message that ordinary people who don't have that kind of money to throw around aren't welcome to the party. It's the height of elitism, but one would expect nothing less from the Clintons.

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
10. School taxes are paid, even when the children don't attend, so how are fewer dollars
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:17 AM
Mar 2016

being funneled into schools when parents choose a private school for whatever reason?

The money that's raised at these events is to fund the party and the candidates both the presidential and all the ones down ballot all over the country, its what party members are both required to do and which they willingly do, to ensure that all of their party's candidates can have the money to run their campaigns.

Bernie is raking in lots of money, but he's not raised a single penny for anyone other than himself. That is the height of elitism, ALL for ME, and I'll use your resources and connections and donor lists, but I won't do a single thing to help anyone else get elected. That's elitist, it's selfish and it's not the Clintons.

Bernie agreed to raise funds, he gave his word, and the guy everyone thought he was a few months ago seemed to understand that the party needed funds for things like funding local and state level candidates, and GOTV efforts etc. But this new Bernie and his supporters seem to forget that without fundraising even a President Bernie would be toothless, gormless and powerless, and a victim of the GOP controlled everything, the Congress and the state level.

If you wish to be in the party, then come on in and participate, don't just whine about not being able to attend a single event, that just reeks of envy. And keep your word, otherwise it's the height of dishonesty and arrogance, and you all keep telling us what a great, honest guy Bernie is, and how much integrity he has, at what point will he be demonstrating this?

LibDemAlways

(15,139 posts)
25. School taxes are collected from homeowners, true.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:07 AM
Mar 2016

However, in California those funds are distributed to schools based on attendance figures. Every child not attending a neighborhood school means that school is receiving fewer tax dollars. That's just how it works.

As for the fundraisers, I could care less about attending Hillary's high priced events. I wouldn't go if she paid me. The Democratic Party is a dying beast anyway. Shoving a DINO down our throats? No thanks.

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
19. You do realize, don't you, that Sanders also has the same type of fundraiser with the same dollar
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:44 AM
Mar 2016

amounts for co-hosts? If not, please check out post #17 below for an example.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
45. I've heard that Bill Clinton was so poor they grew up without indoor plumbing
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:22 PM
Mar 2016

that, at least, doesn't seem like the height of elitism to me. But yes, times have changed.

msongs

(67,199 posts)
2. obama's kids don't go to public school. stanford is not a public school either. virgin mary
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:54 PM
Mar 2016

full of grace is not a public school nor are hebrew schools or montessori.

LibDemAlways

(15,139 posts)
7. All of that is true. But like I said, children kept
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:39 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Sun Mar 20, 2016, 05:55 PM - Edit history (1)

out of public schools means less government funding for those schools which hurts children whose families can't afford pricey private schools. My daughter attended public school and parents were constantly asked for contributions to fund programs the government couldn't provide.

If parents choose to go the private school route, they are certainly free to do so, but public schools in California anyway are allotted funds based on pupil attendance. Every private school child means less money in public school coffers.

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
18. How? Do you think that the cities in which these poeple live don't collect school taxes and
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:40 AM
Mar 2016

various millages from ALL of their residents? How are children being hurt in any way whatsoever?

That's not the way it works everywhere, and not even in CA, where property taxes are indeed funding schools. The government doesn't provide funds for every program and that's not the fault of your neighbors who chose a private school for their children while they ALSO paid for your children's public schools.

 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
26. The fact that they can afford a gated, private school stinks of elitism...
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:13 AM
Mar 2016

One more way to prove that they are better than the rest of us. Which affects us down the road in many ways.

 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
30. And they are now part of the elite...
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:26 AM
Mar 2016

Are you kidding me? They will have automatic entry into the most elite private universities, doors will open like magic when they decide what career.

Good for them. I hope that their parents have instilled in them an attitude different from that I encounter in gated communities and country clubs. Too many of the children in those places are trained to look down on those less blessed by an accident of birth.

kcr

(15,300 posts)
29. But schools receive that funding per pupil.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:23 AM
Mar 2016

Each pupil in a private school is a source of funding lost for the local public school. That adds up.

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
16. By their "base" you mean, to raise money for Democrats? Like Bernie was supposed to do
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:36 AM
Mar 2016

but forgot for some reason that in order for any progress to be made that Dems must be supported in this election cycle and the GOTV must be funded etc.

Why isn't Bernie doing anything for the base of the party he so newly joined?

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
6. How did "progressives" start despising the wealthy?
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 04:37 PM
Mar 2016

Name any other group of people it would be ok to demonize with such a broad brush.

You want them to pay more taxes? Sure, Im right there with you (as are many wealthy people), but demonizing wealth is a losing message. We're trying to increase peoples access to wealth, not tear everyone down to poverty.

amborin

(16,631 posts)
8. guess you missed the point; but, otherwise, why are you defending restricting access to billion
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:42 PM
Mar 2016

aires? don't you think that's undemocratic?

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
15. So what was your point, and where is your proof that the poeple you refer to are billionaires?
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:34 AM
Mar 2016

What's undemocratic about having a private fundraiser to raise money for the party? Or do you not believe in private anything? Is anyone allowed to functions at your home or at a venue you've hired?

What exactly is your issue here? What is your attack that anyone must defend against? You're upset that some school you found online is nicer than the one you went to, or that your kids go to?

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
13. Real ones don't make such silly and moronic assuptions about parents who choose
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:31 AM
Mar 2016

a private education for their kids. And who says that everyone in the pictures above is wealthy? Other than the OP that is. Many of these posts seem to be all about expressing one's own envy and their misunderstanding of how school taxes work. (You're paying them even if you're also paying a hefty tuition for Jr. elsewhere, and no one is getting robbed.)

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
22. Well, I don't.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 06:24 AM
Mar 2016

Thanks for your comments here, I've seen this attitude a lot too and think we're better without that.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
9. The Clintons both attended public school growing up.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:48 AM
Mar 2016

But if I were them I wouldn't put my kids in public school either.

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
12. The OIP wasn't saying the Clinton's did, but that these random people who were
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:29 AM
Mar 2016

holding a fund raiser, and then for some reason spent the time pasting information from some school for some reason that only she knows.

The presidents kids don't attend public school, that's a silly thing to demand, even Amborin isn't going there, in fact I have no idea what her point is here.

High ranking officals, like the pres and VP etc. require high levels of security. That's why they go to places where that's already in place and where it's easily monitored. It's way more expensive to try to send them to a "public school", that's an insane idea, for the cost, the security and common sense alone.

Chelsea and the Obama girls attended Sidwell Friends, which is a private school in DC and it's got several high profile families who send their kids there.

Apparently if you choose to send your child to a private school, for whatever reason, the OP and several others think you're evil. To them, private school means that you are automatically wealthy, they literally have no idea that many people who do attend these schools are there despite not having wealthy families. There are sports and academic scholarships, the children whose parents are faculty, and the kids whose families work their hearts out and who scrimp and save to ensure that if their kids get in, that they can receive a good education. But again, if you're all about attacking those you imagine to be wealthier than you, then disparaging is your goal and who cares about facts, just post a few pictures from the school's website, and sharpen up the guillotine.

 

synergie

(1,901 posts)
11. I get that this post is supposed to be a smear, since that's pretty much what I've come to expect
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:20 AM
Mar 2016

here, but what exactly is the point of this post? OMG people send their kids to PRIVATE SCHOOLS!! Get out the guillotine!!!

Is that it? OOOOH look they have alumni on their Board of Trustees and teachers and stuff, almost like it's a school or something! And look how opulent, and ritzy almost like it's in California or something! Get out the pitchforks!!!


Seriously, why do you bother with all the cutting and the pasting for literally no reason?

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)
24. It's part of the Gish gallop approach to ...
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:40 AM
Mar 2016

.... supporting Berine.

It's strange how some of his supporters spend all their time trying to manufacture outrage against Clinton.

Response to amborin (Original post)

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
17. Let me guess....do all of Bernie's high rolling donors send their kids to public schools?
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:36 AM
Mar 2016

I'm not talking about the $27 donors Tad Devine likes to tout...or even the high profile Susan Sarandons or Daniel Craigs....I'm talking about the ones like this:
https://secure.berniesanders.com/page/contribute/los-angeles-fundraising-reception

Los Angeles Fundraiser with Bernie Sanders

On Wednesday, October 14, join Bernie Sanders for a fundraising reception at the home of Linda and Syd Leibovitch in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California. Bernie looks forward to talking with you about his campaign for the presidency and his agenda for America. Rock group America will be playing a special performance at the event.

Online tickets for this event are sold out.

Support Levels for this Event:
Attendee: $250 per person
Guest: $500 per person
Supporter: $1000 per person
Maximum donor: $2700 per person*
Co-host: Raise $10,000 per person *
*level includes invitation to pre-event reception

A message from the host:

Please join me in supporting Bernie. I believe that every American has a responsibility to participate in our democracy and that’s why I’m supporting Bernie Sanders. He has consistently stood up against big money in politics and has been unwavering in his commitment to working people. Healthcare, education, clean water and air — these are but a few of our inalienable rights as Americans and rights that Bernie has consistently fought for. Join me as we ignite the revolution that catapults us to greatness.
- Linda

Host List:

Cindy Asner
Benjamin W. Decker
Sherry & Leo Frumkin
Frances Fisher
Peter Fitzer
Joe Green
Judith Lelend
Chris Kantrowitz
Mimi Kennedy
Nancy Koppleman
Jamie McGurk
Jerry & Jan Manpearl
Mark Rassi
Marianne Williamson

Fla Dem

(23,352 posts)
36. OMG. This so flies in the face of everything BS supporters have preached to us
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 11:11 AM
Mar 2016

about Bernie. Imagine hob-nobbling with the well-to-do. Asking for contributions in the $1000's. That saintly halo has certainly been tarnished.

oasis

(49,152 posts)
20. Beautiful campus. I don't begrudge anyone having the resources to
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 05:45 AM
Mar 2016

send their children to such an exceptional school.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
21. There's no reason we should begrudge them for it.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 06:18 AM
Mar 2016

I wish I could do something like that for my kids if I ever have them. I have thought about how I would hire private instructors too if I could, although I'd settle for being able to homeschool. Though, that probably won't be a financially viable option for me either.

kcr

(15,300 posts)
31. Maybe not begrudge, but people are too quick to dismiss public schools.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:34 AM
Mar 2016

Sure, there are areas with bad public schools, and I would not begrudge a parent who lived in such an area from seeking out alternatives. But other than that, I think public schools have an unfair reputation in our country. I think many parents who choose it choose it for the wrong reasons and would be better off sending their kids to public schools. They're misinformed when they pick a private school, wasting their money in the process, their kids miss out on what likely could have been a better education for them, and depriving their local public school of funds to boot. What I begrudge is the general idea that public schools in our country are inferior, when it just isn't true.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
37. Hey kcr, I hear you and respect
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:51 PM
Mar 2016

I don't know how we do funding for public schools. I know we can't compete with an 8 to 1 teacher to student ratio like the poster mentioned, and no doubt they can attract great teachers and keep them too. I know there are good schools out there, but I know I needed different kind of environment than the one available to me and I'd like to give my kids a different choice; I'm not trying to beat up the public education system--most of us wouldn't be able to read without it and that means me too. You sound like maybe you are in education.

kcr

(15,300 posts)
40. I'm not.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:00 PM
Mar 2016

I just support public education because it's so important and believe it's fundamental to a free and equal society. I want to clarify, I don't blanket condemn all private schools or all parents who send their children to them. It's much more nuanced than that, of course. I just think that public schools have been maligned for so long, largely for political reasons, and that perception has caused a lot of damage. I mainly wanted to clear up a misconception about funding upthread.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
41. Okay.
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:10 PM
Mar 2016

I agree with you that it's fundamental to a free and equal society. I can understand why you would react to it's being dismissed or to things that undermine it.

I chose to react to this post in the way I did because it seemed to me it was just trying to demonize people with money because they have access to things the rest of us don't. I wanted to be clear that I don't begrudge them that, and that it doesn't make them bad people. I didn't read the whole post, that's just what it seemed to be going for to me, and I wanted to reject that idea that seemed to be behind it.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
42. I agree with you. I started with boys in private, different reasons, but supposedly higher academics
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:11 PM
Mar 2016

Also because my oldest was the poster child for the little boy that would attract bulllies and also in Texas, I had repeatedly heard how bad the schools were and TAK tests.

By the time my oldest got to fourth grade, youngest first grade, I had experienced enough, researched enough, saw enough to know the better education was public with its diversity and funds and resources and the bullying was worse in private and TAK tests were unfortunate, but both boys could endure just fine. With all that, the private was a waste of money. And I agree, it does take away from public funding. I have always opposed the charter that existence is out of profit, which tends toward greed, at the expense of the consumer taking the needed resources from public and those kids that would be stuck in the poorly funded public system.

katsy

(4,246 posts)
32. There are international baccalaureate (IB)
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:38 AM
Mar 2016

schools that are public. The one my kids go to are public (free) w/avg class of 10:1 and is #37 in great high schools, US News & World Report.

And every student is issued a laptop. It's not as pretty as that campus but it rates right up there with the best.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
38. That sounds amazing
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 03:56 PM
Mar 2016

Do you live in a big city? I grew up in a pretty rural area, my first school was honest-to-god an old country school with six grades in one class and one teacher. It was a little different

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
43. There is that, what Katsy suggested. I also found with my boys that keeping them in the
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:13 PM
Mar 2016

AP program mainstreamed them in tougher academics and stronger focus and a more serious learning environment along with bringing those courses to college level, taking them to a 3 and half year program as opposed to four, saving us money.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
46. thanks for sharing
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 04:30 PM
Mar 2016

I still don't have kids though... just think about this stuff in advance I guess. Interesting to hear all the different thoughts, and all the positive experiences with public schooling.

katsy

(4,246 posts)
48. They are what all our schools should be
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:21 PM
Mar 2016

International standards and small amazing classes

Both my kids love their school.

oasis

(49,152 posts)
33. I'm going off topic but,
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:40 AM
Mar 2016

I read the inspiration for your screen name on another thread yesterday and I applaud you for your sentiment therein. It's always good to see posters doing there part in bringing the discussion at DU to a reasonable level of civility. I'll admit I have sometimes slipped in the civility department although I know how important it is for DUers to come together for the task ahead of us.

Again, thanks for being a breath of fresh air.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
34. So, that has some relevance in what way?
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:47 AM
Mar 2016

Maybe you believe that private schools should be illegal? Perhaps you think that only people with children in public schools should support political candidates?

I'm not sure I understand you completely. Yes, Hillary Clinton is attending a fundraiser. Nobody should be surprised that her supporters are interested in helping to finance her campaign, along with contributing to the Democratic Party and its other candidates. In reality, we should be glad that people contribute to Democratic candidates instead of Republican ones.

But, these are rich people, right? I see that the minimum contribution for this event is $1000. I've been able to donate that amount to a presidential campaign a few times in my life. I can't do that any more, now that I'm on Social Security, but I'm glad others are doing so. If people attending this donate $2700, they get to have a photo taken with the candidate. Once they make that donation, though, they've donated the maximum they can to a candidate's primary campaign. For many people having a photo of themselves standing next to a President is worth that much. It's not worth that much to me, and I don't have that much.

Then, there are those people who get other people to donate and bring those donations to the event. If they collect $10,000 or more, they get to call themselves co-hosts of the event. That's cool with me. Those are people who talk to others they know and convince them to donate to the campaign of a Democratic candidate for President. That's a good thing. If someone can get 100 people to donate $100, they get to call themselves a co-host. Good job, I say, if they can manage to raise that much from people they know.

So, wealthy people send their kids to private schools? How is that surprising? When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I had a job delivering milk from a local dairy. I delivered milk to several homes that had children in private schools. I knew some of those kids, too.

I've been to some of these type of events. I didn't contribute, though. I was a volunteer at them. Sometimes I parked cars. Sometimes I carried around hors d'oeuvre on a tray or did other things. I was glad to do it, because I couldn't afford to donate, and appreciated the fact that people who shared my support for a candidate could afford to. Candidates need funds in our election system. People who donate to Democrats are our friends, folks. Truly they are.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
35. So people who send their kids to a fancy school are hosting a Clinton fundraiser?
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 10:50 AM
Mar 2016

Is that the point of this?

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