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Justice Democrats are a PAC. This is usual. In my opinion, making ordinary Americans fund political campaigns is sort of a tax. The idea that taking money from corporations makes one corrupt is absurd. Ballet companies, orchestras, athletes, scholarships, etc., take money from corporations. Corporate money doesn't have supernatural corrupting powers.

Barack Obama set a record for the amount of Wall Street donations when he ran for president. President Obama wasn't corrupted by donations. Republicans are corrupt.

it leaves the Democrats at a disadvantage having to raise extra money to support a convention rather spending it on the actual nominee, GOTV drives, and other campaign activities, I view it as conceding to our GOP rivals without any offsetting benefits being negotiated. I view the proposal as a poker player betting all of his chips without looking at what cards that were dealt.

His top staff is a who's who of people who were running PAC's with Sanders being the main focus. A group of people who never met dark money they didn't like. People from the Sanders Foundation with extremely limited financial accountability.

Guy is starting to seem like a plant trying to do little more than tie Democrats hands behind their back while he makes bank.

his percentage of electoral support has declined significantly in polls, so if it's his magic he's sharing, kind of a Sanders version of the RW Laffer curve alchemy where less creates more, let's see what he's doing.



But of course his plan unnecessarily puts him at "direct odds" with our party by targeting our 2020 Democratic convention. We've all been waiting for him to reveal his intentions. Anyone surprised that this one is parading as reform that actually ignores our party's own campaign finance reform plans -- which will require us to win a huge battle against the Republicans to pass, and instead has Sanders crusading against our party? I notice Sanders does not mention Warren's very strong reform plan waiting in the senate for 2020.

What will Sanders' message be to his gullible zealots this time? Will we still be so corrupt that the same 24% as last time refuses to vote Democrat? (Actually, researchers say they're already promising to.) Will they protest US in outrage, instead of the intensely corrupt white man's party? Will half of those again vote for Trump as the better choice?

Here's a better plan: Sanders doesn't get 300 delegates to the convention, so his name isn't put into nomination, and so he doesn't get big media attention. And his protesters gather outside in the streets along with Republicans protesters.

Here's a better plan: Sanders doesn't get 300 delegates to the convention, so his name isn't put into nomination, and so he doesn't get big media attention. And his protesters gather outside in the streets along with Republicans protesters.

Not that it matters now. Anything coming from what’s left of his campaign is just noise. He has zero chance of becoming our nominee. The entire conversation would be about his health 24/7.

....as though they're new and HIS idea, and people believe that.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.

Is there anything in his proposal that would do away with "unitemized" contributions, i.e., no disclosure of who contributed, where they reside, how much they gave?

Through June 2019, here are his numbers:

Total individual contributions $36,209,080.47
Itemized individual contributions $8,547,727.00
Unitemized individual contributions $27,661,353.00

76%, more than $27 million, are "unitemized".

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waging war on us through our elections.

burn the Democratic Party to the ground and replace it with what? He shouldn't try to dictate to a party he refuses to join.

As he does on his own “allies”. No wonder the Russian troll machine likes to leave him alone as well as the Cheeto.

So, the “independent”, who only wears our title when it’s beneficial... and even then barely.. thinks he gets to be “king” of our whole party and unilaterally decide DNC convention and financing should he secure the nomination??

God, if the alternative wasn’t so repulsive, I’d have to question my own affiliation if he becomes our “king”..

FTLOG, ANY of our candidates but BS.