I'm appalled and disgusted

They're not -- They're in New York.

Average and mean incomes of Martha's Vineyard and "the Hamptons" are just about equal.

and no, sorry, Martha's Vinyard is wealthy, but it's not in the same league as The Hamptons.

since the Hamptons are in New York :chuckle

Because Martha's Vinyard is slumming it.

You obviously don't know the difference.

What’s the issue with the term: “fucking Sarandon”?

enough said

some figures of speech are best left unsaid.

I get the impression your thought is about the sexual aspect. I don't think the poster meant that tone at all, more like "that disgusting Susan Sarandon", meaning that she is loathsome.

WTF. Think we have got to stop blaming this person or that person for whatever happens. I am the worst example. I blame certain people for not calling for Impeachment day 1.

Believe it or not, I have never watched even a scene from the Rocky Horror Show. Sad and sadly amazing, but true.

and vote for whomever they please.

Manchester, NH is not in the Hamptons

not New Hampshire.

candidate. If we don't start focusing exclusively on MF45 we deserve to lose.

We want people to vote for the Democratic Party. We don't deserve to lose.

of anyone you want to. Every single human being who is registered can decide. To label them "fucking this" or "that" is just plain lame.

Are you confused about what thread you're on? Who you're responding to?

$33,000 per person.

But he is not Democrat.

to be sure.

If he did that makes a bit of a difference than implying he was a beneficiary of that DSCC "retreat". Who else was there?

They're the hook for people like me to come.

Of course, it never hurts to hang out with prospective donors...

money from.

Millionaires get different treatment from Sanders these days.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's the distaste he shows for others who "show up" at those 'canape-filled' events that doesn't hold up considering his own past. Even if it isn't to ask for money directly.

Was he a speaker? It should be easy to answer. What was the event for? As a big donor, you should know.

Why on earth would anyone think that the politician benefiting from the fundraising would pay to attend the fundraiser?



BS began accepting money through the Democratic Party fundraising apparatus in 1996. It continued through 2012.

However, because BS had no joint fundraising agreement with the DNC in February 2016, that big dollar donor event benefited BS, and BS alone.


https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/sanders-democratic-fundraisers/index.html

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/bernie-sanders-regular-luxurious-dscc-fundraising-retreats

...Friday, February 5, 2016, 10:00am...


...Bernie...8-19-2019, 4:25pm

"I don't go to the Hamptons to raise money from billionaires."

...unfair guilt through association?

...is having breakfast 4 years ago with your opposition "..raising money from billionaires."?

" When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” "

...

or is it just the New Testament that's "fucking" disdainable?

breathtaking...

the last time that I read about someone putting someone on the same pedestal as Jesus Christ was John Lennon about John Lennon.

To paraphrase former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, "Bernie, you are no John Lennon."

On the one hand, we have people complaining that Bernie isn't a real Democrat even though the DSCC is happy to have him raise yuge sums for fellow Dem candidates.

On the other hand, he publishes the employment information of his donors to the FEC, as do all candidates. The supposedly hypocritical fundraisers he attended in the Hamptons were party events, raising money for the party.

...cool.

As I stated in my original post, he raises money for other candidates at the DSCC's behest. The DSCC uses big-ticket events. Sanders played his part, as a sitting member of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

Unless he became POTUS, there would be no way for him to change decades of the DSCC's pro forma fundraising methodologies.

But apparently he and his supporters think so.

If he ever became a billionaire, who would be left to slam?

Sid

The OP seems to have mistaken "the Hamptons" for New Hsmpshire.. ..Kind of a rube mistake.

...

If there weren't CANAPES, then it doesn't count as corporate fundraising...because CANAPES.

is it not?! Are there Plotting Canapes?!

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

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.... as holding fundraisers for your own campaign.

It's almost funny watching the Bernie Haters trip over themselves in failed attempts to bring him down.

everyone here knows that. That's why all these attempts to turn that strength upside down, to paint him as dishonest, in it for himself, a hypocrite, etc.

Kind of funny, but definitely counter-productive if the real goal is a unified effort to defeat Trump.

easy to find out that this event was a $33,000 a plate fundraiser for the Democratic party. The same party we are always assured Bernie is not a part of.

Certainly their supporters - especially if they believe the lies, but the candidates who feel that they are exempt from being held to their word are most problematic.

Unfortunately it’s right there in black and white. He said The Hamptons.

How unfortunate.


Read it.

the one everybody loves to say he isn't a part of.

Link to tweet

about your platform, without going around them?

by giving speeches to them.

Got it.

He doesn’t do Big Dollar fundraisers for himself.