Pinterest Mom posted:

oh
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/769650125358657536

(he's still upset at Roberta Lange and Harry Reid stealing the Nevada caucus)

Pinterest Mom posted:

oh
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/769650125358657536

(he's still upset at Roberta Lange and Harry Reid stealing the Nevada caucus)

Pinterest Mom posted:

oh
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/769650125358657536

(he's still upset at Roberta Lange and Harry Reid stealing the Nevada caucus)

Pinterest Mom posted:

oh
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/769650125358657536

(he's still upset at Roberta Lange and Harry Reid stealing the Nevada caucus)

Karl Barks posted:

gunna have to wait on snopes for this one fellas

Al! posted:

logikv9 posted:

it's the convention center's fault for not zip tying the chairs together, really

Pinterest Mom posted:

Brave Bernie supporter handcuffed himself to a chair to make sure nobody threw it
https://twitter.com/JasGordon/status/769646461634027520

Badger of Basra posted:

you want them to give this bernie a whip made of chairs

Pinterest Mom posted:

oh
https://twitter.com/danrolle/status/769650125358657536

(he's still upset at Roberta Lange and Harry Reid stealing the Nevada caucus)

Wyld Thang posted:

I think this is my neighbor who gets really angry when anyone sprays Round Up in a thirty mile radius.

The Kingfish posted:

DWS's district went like 70% for Hillary. It's not surprising that Bernie would hesitate to stump for a losing campaign. It would make the movement look weak.

Baloogan posted:

Wyld Thang posted:

I think this is my neighbor who gets really angry when anyone sprays Round Up in a thirty mile radius.

Al! posted:

quote:

When Bernie Sanders asked for money to fuel his underdog presidential campaign, Geraldine Bryant didn’t even need to think about it.

“I loved Bernie, and every time he asked for money, I just gave it to him,” Bryant told me in a recent phone interview. A filmmaker in Manhattan, Bryant gave the Sanders campaign 44 separate contributions over a nine-month period between October and June, in amounts ranging from $1 to $2,000. The donations totaled $14,440—more than five times the legal limit that an individual can give to a presidential primary campaign.

Lorraine Grace, an environmentalist and educator who runs a nonprofit organization north of San Francisco, gave the Sanders campaign 17 contributions during the height of the Democratic primary between December and May, in amounts ranging from $15 to $2,000. It added up to $8,625. “I donate almost like automatic,” Grace explained. “Bernie Sanders’ campaign reaches out to me? Bingo. Donation.”

Bryant and Grace epitomize the fund-raising juggernaut that Sanders built virtually from scratch in 2015, allowing a small-state senator with little national following and a non-existent donor base to match Hillary Clinton dollar-for-dollar through much of their hard-fought Democratic primary. Sanders raised $231 million from more than 2.7 million donors, relying on grassroots support rather than the wealthy bundlers who collect large checks for establishment candidates.

quote:

And if the Sanders campaign and its predecessors resembled a casino trying to turn its first-time customers into regulars, then supporters like Bryant and Grace are its slot-machine donors. They responded to the campaign’s pleas nearly every time. And like more than 1,500 other Sanders contributors, they gave not only generously but excessively; their total donations blew past the $2,700 federal limit for a primary campaign. I reported on this phenomenon back in May, pointing out that while most successful campaigns have donors that give too much, the overeager contingent of Sanders supporters appears to be unprecedented in size.

The excessive donations clearly highlight just how devoted some of Sanders’ fans were to his presidential bid. But they also point to flaws in how the Sanders campaign managed and communicated with his most passionate supporters. Many of his donors were simply unaware of the federal limits, or if they were aware, they assumed the Sanders campaign would prevent them from contributing too much. It didn’t. The Sanders website made it incredibly easy to send money online with just a few clicks, but it made little effort to track how much its supporters were giving or inform them of the cap. (This lack of oversight also led to one donor being able to buy more than $10,000 worth of Sanders merchandise and selling it online, as I reported last week.)

quote:

The FEC requires that campaigns send refunds for any donation in excess of the legal limit within 60 days, and according to its federal filings, the Sanders campaign has issued more than $5 million in refunds. But several of the largest “over donors” to Sanders said they never received checks the campaign reported that it sent to them late in the spring, in some cases for several thousand dollars. “Are you kidding me? I barely even received a thank you from the campaign,” said Annamarie Weaver of Chicago when I informed her that, according to records on the FEC website, the Sanders campaign had issued her a refund of $3,617 on May 1 and another one for $500 on May 31. “That’s complete bullshit.”

“I did not expect to receive a check, and I have not received a check,” Weaver said.

(After the publication of this article, Bryant called to say that she received a check for $10,000 on Monday, several days after I forwarded names of donors who said they had no received refunds from the Sanders campaign.)

Donors like Grace, Weaver, and Wurtz gave repeatedly, even compulsively, to the Sanders campaign because they believed in him and because they could. While they said they wouldn’t turn down refunds that are owed to them, the only regrets they offered about their many contributions were that their candidate didn’t win. “I’m glad I donated that much and I would do it again,” Wurtz said. “And I’m upset that Hillary rigged the Democratic primary, because I think all the people that contributed to Bernie were ripped off.”

quote:

This donor, who has several college-age children, asked that her name be withheld because she gets financial assistance from relatives who are conservative and would not be happy to find out she contributed to the Sanders campaign.

Rand alPaul posted:

August 30th and the media still running hit pieces on Bernie. Sad!

Mrit posted:

People like you still get riled up over them and generate clicks. Stop caring, and they won't bother anymore.

exploding mummy posted:

counterpoint

Mrit posted:

People like you still get riled up over them and generate clicks. Stop caring, and they won't bother anymore.

Rand alPaul posted:

But I'm not riled up, it's just recycling a point made months ago about people going over the donation limit.

Bip Roberts posted:

Hmm after months of being all righteous about alleged campaign fraud now you look the other way with the real deal. Don't seem very consistent of you.