WTG Bernie?

He does have a lot of 1%er fans though...

You get what you pay for, and me and millions of others wanted value for our money.

Money well spent.

... bookkeepers and lawyers that can get his FEC paperwork filled accurately and in a timely manner.

Unlike Sanders, Hillary IS raising significant money for the down-ticket races.

On the other hand, that Nurses PAC has been spending money supporting Sanders.

So far the money isn't reaching the candidates. It's promoting the Victory Fund by spending millions with Hillary's logo attached to promote the fund and then taking in less in donations than was spent on the promotion.


When Bernie helps a candidate raise money it goes stright to the candidate no strings attached:

http://mynews4.com/news/local/lucy-flores-reports-windfall-after-help-from-bernie-sanders

Hillary on the other hand is utilizing her Victory Fund to her advantage and the candidates will have to wait to see what's left.

So. Much. Purity.

Kinda like pretend about getting money out of politics, getting funds from corps, banks, wall street and fracking and oil. You know.... All the lies he has campaigned on. Oh Oh.... here is one.

...they are no longer useful to him.

But spends a lot of time on the campaign trail spewing venomous hatred for companies who do the same things.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Bernie.

in essence trying to buy the nomination.

He doesn't establish a ground game. He doesn't build any relationships with the D party or with voters. He holds mega-rallies that are a one-way street when it comes to communicating with voters (a speech is never a conversation), and he floods the airwaves with a volume of TV ads that would make a super pac blush.

And what does he have to show for it? 300+ fewer delegates than Hillary, 3-million fewer votes than Hillary and a war room full of well-paid political consultants living off the hard-to-come-by cash flowing from a bunch of college kids.

Some fucking revolution, no?

after starting with nothing. And running against an entrenched, well-oiled, well financed Corporate Political Machine.

Nothing to sneeze at.

No...indeed.

Sanders has no super pacs. The people are trying to buy our government back by donating what we can, since that's the system we live in. Without money there's no visibility, unless the rich institutions provide the lift, and Bernie isn't accepting support with strings attached. There is no other path, and don't pretend that what Sanders has been railing against is candidates using money donated for the express purpose of promoting their campaigns, because you know damn well what he's objecting to is who they are taking the money from and what that means about who's interests they have at heart.

You are pretending that Washington is different than it is. You can't just "have a conversation" with people who are bought, whether they are only a little bought or are wholly owned subsidiaries. They are working within the system and have a vested interest in maintaining that system. They aren't going to help expose it because either they like it or would be incriminated by it, or would lose the insider status and coalitions that they've worked so hard to establish for the sake of "incremental change."

Yes, if Sanders wants to continue to make changes to things at the edges, this is the way to do it, which is what he's been doing for decades as "the amendment king." He does and has worked with both parties, but the big stuff never changes for the better, and in fact, it's all gotten a whole lot worse.

Given that both parties have buried the issues most important to me, and never talk about money in politics, there is nothing better Bernie could be using the money we've given him for than to make his case, and to do it highly visibly. His is a new way for politicians to talk, and would you look at that, you can actually give an establishment candidate a run for her money while you acknowledge the real illnesses in our society.

You're right, a non-establishment candidate who the media has tried to make illegitimate at every turn has come within 3 million votes of a Clinton, on small $27 dollar contributions at that. But you just keep doing your part to make sure the revolution doesn't happen and that the status quo isn't disrupted, and then laugh at how Bernie isn't the one to usher it in, as if you and those like you ever wanted there to be one.

"according to a Washington Post analysis"
"The Post calculated"
"impossible to determine precisely"
"FEC filings indicate"
"surprising boon for vendors"
"long-shot bid."

Sort of a collection of weasel words. Why do they care? Or do they, really?

Things like this, across the board, are a large part of the reason this is "a long-shot bid"

Let's try another slant...Sanders supporters put up and don't intend to shut up.

It's our money, dude, and if we send what we can afford to Sanders its our business.

Your concern is duly noted.

but when they come to write their story, they don't assert things as facts if they can't nail them down. A bit of info that has been corroborated by only one source may end up being presented through what you call weasel words, especially if that bit of info aligns with the basic narrative of the story being reported.

BTW - the "concern" isn't mine. I didn't write the article, so don't make it about me. I have no problem with you collectively paying Tad Devine $800,000 a month. I'd rather see that money going to him than being spent on a few more ads or GOTV efforts that might have changed some of those close Sanders defeats into wins for him.

Can you believe that? Hillarians criticizing Bernie for spending Berners' money to win an election ... oh, and enrich the already wealthy too by the way.

These people (Hillarians) just can't help themselves. Their authoritarian bent just won't let them be gracious in the face of any challenge whatsoever. To criticize Bernie for spending our money to get elected is the height of hypocrisy -- they all would rather let the wealthy fund elections and keep their hard earned money in their own pockets, much like they've done with Hillary, apparently. Oh, some of them have contributed to her campaign no doubt, but they have absolutely no problem with her SuperPacs and reliance on/buddying up with big money and Wall Street donors. Too much!!!! Lol!!!

I dunno, for a bunch of people who call themselves Democrats, they sure don't seem like it to me.

I'd explain it to you, but if it isn't already apparent, no amount of 'splainin' will help.

the reams of them following the same thread you posted in the Hillary group.

Nice try, but you don't wiggle away that easy. You folks are exactly what you are, you can't escape that.

while taking him down to defeat.

The large profits stem in part from the fact that no one in Sanders’s campaign imagined he would generate such enormous financial support. So unlike Clinton, he did not cap how much his consultants could earn in commissions from what was expected to be a bare-bones operation, according to campaign officials.

That has meant big payouts for the firm of senior strategist Tad Devine, which has produced the bulk of the campaign’s ads; Old Towne Media, a small media placement operation run by two of Devine’s longtime buyers; and Revolution Messaging, a digital firm led by veterans of President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Seems like he got taken to the cleaners, actually:

The large profits stem in part from the fact that no one in Sanders’s campaign imagined he would generate such enormous financial support. So unlike Clinton, he did not cap how much his consultants could earn in commissions from what was expected to be a bare-bones operation, according to campaign officials.

That has meant big payouts for the firm of senior strategist Tad Devine, which has produced the bulk of the campaign’s ads; Old Towne Media, a small media placement operation run by two of Devine’s longtime buyers; and Revolution Messaging, a digital firm led by veterans of President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

She never saw a $250,000 check she didn't like.

If she gets into office, they'll have to set up checkout lanes in the East Room. Everything will be for sale.

That says it all, no surprise, and consistent with Sanders. Do not do what you preach and lecture.

Like Mrs. Clinton does. He has to pay for coverage when he can even get it. Mrs. Clinton have every corporate presstitute banging the drum for her.

Less than a year ago they were convinced that Bernie couldn't raise enough to remain competitive. Now they criticize him for spending it.

who don't know how to husband and grow their sudden wealth and spend it on lavish campaign consultants who take them for a ride. Case study in that in the Sanders campaign.

How much is Mook pulling?

Hillary they say the darnedest things...