Sanders Likens Pro-Hillary Super PAC To Koch Brothers After Attack Email [View all]

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By Caitlin MacNeal PublishedSeptember 15, 2015, 1:59 PM EDT

After a super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton circulated an email criticizing Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator compared them to the Koch brothers.

Correct the Record, a group founded by Clinton ally David Brock to defend her throughout her presidential bid, has been circulating a memo critical of Sanders, the Huffington Post reported on Monday. The email compared Sanders to Jeremy Corbyn, the recently elected leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, after highlighting Corbyn's comments referring to Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends," according to the Huffington Post. The memo also reportedly linked Sanders to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

In an email to supporters on Tuesday, Sanders lamented that he had been "attacked by a Clinton super PAC."

"Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously. They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator," the email from Sanders campaign reads. "It was the kind of onslaught I expected to see from the Koch Brothers or Sheldon Adelson, and it’s the second time a billionaire Super PAC has tried to stop the momentum of the political revolution we’re building together."

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A Pro-Clinton Super PAC Is Going Negative On Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON -- A super PAC backing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is going negative, circulating an email that yokes her chief rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to some of the more controversial remarks made by Jeremy Corbyn, the United Kingdom's new Labour Party leader, including his praise for the late Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader who provided discounted fuel to Vermont in a deal supported by Sanders.

Clinton's camp has long said it has no plans to attack Sanders. But the super PAC, called Correct the Record, departed from its defense of Clinton's record as a former secretary of state in an email Monday that compares Sanders with Corbyn. Correct the Record, led by Clinton ally David Brock, also has sent trackers after Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.

The Democratic candidates have refrained from criticizing each other directly. Sanders has obliquely knocked Clinton for not stating her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, and hasn't made an issue of her use of a private email server and account while at the State Department. Clinton, in turn, almost never mentions Sanders' name and has focused on her Republican rivals.

Monday's Correct the Record email strays from that pattern. The email, sent to a Huffington Post reporter in response to an article about Corbyn and Sanders without any agreement that it would be off the record, was meant to flag Corbyn's "most extreme comments." Among those was the suggestion that the assassination of Osama bin Laden was "a tragedy," since there was no attempt to arrest the former al Qaeda leader and put him on trial. The email also cites Corbyn's comment that he'd invite his "friends" from Hezbollah to come to the U.K. to discuss peace in the Middle East and an editorial in which he said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's "attempt to encircle Russia is one of the big threats of our time."

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