Go Amy!

"Normal" is what brought us President Trump. No thanks.

He has repeatedly said there is no going back to "normal" since that's what got us into this mess in the first place.

He wants to change the channel, or turn the page.

That is where he reigned as mayor. That is his main political experience.

Take average family income for example, which is a good yardstick of how well families are doing to provide for their family members. Compare average family income in South Bend versus entire country.

Another thing to look at is how the blacks in South Bend rate the mayor.
Blacks are important democratic voter constituency.

Above information is available on many search web sites.

After the police chief and fire chief incidents, no thanks.

It was unprecedented in pretty much every way, from the GOP primaries onward. The assertion that it represents some kind of norm is laughable.

the most vocal about saying we cannot go back to the old normal. Biden himself has tried to have a go at him over this very thing, by trying to twist up that concept into some imaginary attack on Obama.

smdh

I'm talking about taking Wall St. money vs. voter contributions. Pete is hip deep in billionaire money, and the last 30 years or so indicates that the billionaires get the lion's share of the consideration from the politicians they finance. That's the "normal" I have no interest in getting back to. "You gotta dance with who brung ya."

you said

Buttiegieg, out of 10's of millions of dollars raised, has taken a total 112,000 USD directly from billionaires

you said



these numbers go back to Q3 2019 and before

do the maths, Bernie had 18m in Q2, 25m Q3 (43m), Pete had 25m and 19m (44m)

Warren had 19m and 25m (44m)

BUT 10m USD of that was for a transfer of pre-existing funds and counting all that, only 48% of her total monies before Q3 was from small donors. 10m of Sanders totals has come from transfers of preexisting funds, and when the transfers are added in, even he has only 60% of his total monies from small donors.

Pete was not running in Q1, he officially launched April 14, 2019.

In Q2, when he raised around 25m USD, his average donation was only 84 USD per person, from almost 300,000 individuals, and that was in just his first full quarter of running. His average contribution was 33 USD in Q3.


Big Donors, Small Donors: Pete Buttigieg Has Courted Them All — Successfully

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-fundraising.html

he already had over 400,000 individual donors just from Q2 and before:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-buttigieg-raises-over-24-million-in-second-quarter-of-fundraising/



he uses a well balanced fundraising approach, it is ludicrous to say he only courts or receives money from rich donors


Again

The ultimate irony is counting Warren's 10m in account transfers, only 48% of her total monies before Q3 were from small donors. 49% of Buttigieg's monies have come from small donors. 10m of Sanders' totals has come from transfers of preexisting funds, and when the transfers are added in, even he had only 60% of his total monies from small donors prior to Q3. Prior to Q3, Buttigieg had over 400,000 individual donors, and had well over half a million (580,000) individual donors by Q3. His average Q3 donation was 33 USD (per MSNBC today). For comparison, Sanders had an average donor contribution of 27 USD in Q3 (again per MSNBC today.) But hey!, lets all buy into a far left, TYT, JD, etc.-pushed shit-stir tweet using a chop-quote, that Pete is basically only fundraising from the rich, and shits on small donors, lolol.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/Pete-Buttigieg-fundraising.html




finally

some newer numbers, for Q4




He is tracking to have over 1.3 to 1.5 million individual donors by the time the primaries end, yet you and the Berner social media attack dogs try to slag him off over 40 people, who gave a combined $112K out of well over 100 million USD

pathetic





Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns

https://apnews.com/345bbd1af529cfb1e41305fa3ab1e604

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.

Like a super PAC, which is shorthand for super political action committee, Our Revolution can raise unlimited sums from wealthy patrons that dwarf the limits faced by candidates and conventional PACs. Unlike a super PAC, however, the group doesn’t have to disclose its donors — a stream of revenue commonly referred to as “dark money.”

Now, with less than one month to go before the Iowa caucuses, Our Revolution appears to be skirting campaign finance law, which forbids groups founded by federal candidates and officeholders from using large donations to finance federal election activity, including Sanders’ 2020 bid.

A debate over big money in politics has riven the Democratic primary with Sanders and fellow progressive, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, leading the attack on rivals including former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who have relied on big-dollar donors.

But while Warren has come under fire for courting wealthy financiers in her past Senate campaigns, Sanders and Our Revolution have largely avoided scrutiny during the primary, even as he has accelerated his criticism of others, among them Biden, for relying on super PACs founded by their allies.

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hypocrisy abounds

It's sometimes tough to dig these out. It's very close to what I thought, but I had trouble finding the info to back me up.

That's not the candidate who will bring the party back to it's working class roots.

Not even bernie.

Let's talk about Our Revolution:

https://www.commoncause.org/press-release/common-cause-files-complaint-against-pro-bernie-sanders-group-our-revolution-for-violating-soft-money-ban/

money that they considered to be a violation of the transparency that they believed Sanders stood for.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/fleeing-the-bern-half-of-staff-quit-sanders-legacy-project-before-it-begins

A large portion of which are working class.

So there's that.

Common Cause Files Complaint Against Pro-Bernie Sanders Group Our Revolution for Violating Soft Money Ban



So there's that.

Goddess help us then.

Not voter suppression, Russian hacking and interference, media misogyny and hatred of HRC, Comey, BS voters voting for Dotard, Stein voters.

Just "normal," right?

would have won. Hillary had forward looking policies. Neither Amy, Joe, or Pete are living in the past. Biden, for one, knows considerably more than Bernie about the geo-political situation all over the world, today, and is much more concerned about it.

Pete, though I am not happy with his tenure as mayor or the roll-out of his plan, does have a vision for righting racial inequities in every area from health to business. He needs, however, AA communities and leader’s input. Biden has numerous policies that are sound and invest a great deal of capital in infrastructure, education, health, and addressing climate change. Amy offers plans with a chance of getting done, again to effect positive change and she would also address our deficit which will affect the next generations as well as infrastructure.

True, many Dems would like a stable, powerful, uniting president like Obama again, to restore our alliances in the world, and to take up where we left off in justice reform issues, police department accountability, gun control, immigration reform, addressing violence against women, gay rights, building our economy, expanding healthcare, civil rights...

It is a mindless meme that no candidate but one wearing the progressive label wants progress, is for positive change on the domestic and international front.

She should be arrested for such a travesty.

ate their salad with a comb? Oh well. So many thing are so deeply troubling.

unlike some who have a canned speech over and over again...for several years now. And I am trouble by those who had their kids on their payroll...

Amy is a brilliant Yale undergrad and U of Chicago law school graduate who is progressive on every issue and a consistently huge winner in the Midwest. She has no baggage or weaknesses and can trounce Trump in the General. What more can you ask for - a free lunch I guess - she doesn’t offer any of those but I’m OK with that

Bernie is doing great.

I want to win.

OT but it seems to me Amy is the candidate most ignored by the press. If any of them has a real beef with the coverage it's Amy.

After being ignored for months.

the irony...

After all, this is a campaign.

Listening to Amy, you'd think that the heartland is all that matters.

Then that’s the presidency.

California and the northeast will vote for a wet sock over Trump.

really for the election the heartland is all that matters...now the issue I have with Sanders is not only will he not win in the mid west, he may lose states like Virginia, Delaware and the House. I think Warren with the proper VP and moving to the middle a bit might win...but I still believe Biden is the best candidate and I like Amy for VP...I like Amy period.

up doing, is making that even more possible

When Bloomberg has to debate.

will admit I am wrong about the debates

https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrS_AjGE0Je1hUAUTPBGOd_;_ylu=X3oDMTEyaHFuNjFnBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjg2OTJfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=christie+rubio&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dchristie%2Brubio%26ei%3DUTF-8&fr=ipad&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.WpThFr0YoXYXBEf6HqebLQEsDh%26amp%3Bpid%3DApi%26w%3D144%26h%3D77%26c%3D7&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRzgFq_9ULBg&tit=Rubio+says+he+walked+into+%26%2339%3Btrap%26%2339%3B+laid+by+Christ...&l=216&vid=16bbbabb9be9c3940108afd787b5af5c&sigr=11bhqs1tu&sigb=11pel8h4u&sigt=11qdht7cf&sigi=12o6t0mcr

with being troubled. Many of us are. We will support Bernie but many of us think He will have difficult time in EC. No question He will he get more votes. I think we will cost us House seats too

wrong, the Democratic Party will be associated with that label, and it will also impact the Congressional seats

and vote for her if she gets the nomination.

I don't have a lot against her (other than I wish she were more to the left), but she dismisses a large portion of us that are on the left side of the party, I don't get what her game is. This isn't have you get people to want to vote for you that don't already agree with you. Oh, I'll vote for her if she is the nominee, but this kind of attitude is going to make a lot of people not happy having to vote for her.

She is telling you the truth rather than telling you what you want to hear.

She was the only one honest enough to raise her hand when asked the question.

to be at the top of the ticket.

disregard the smile.

But also ... he's surrounded by a bunch of assholes in his campaign and on his jock ... people like Turner and Jimmy Dore.