Bernie Sanders’s Campaign to Announce It Raised $20 Million in Last Month

[magical thyme]

Source: NYT

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders’s campaign will announce that it has raised $20 million over the last month, an enormous haul that backs up the campaign’s assertion that it will have enough money for a long, hard-fought nominating fight against Hillary Clinton.

To put that January fund-raising figure for the Sanders campaign in perspective, Hillary Clinton’s campaign said it raised $37 million for the last three months of 2015.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/31/bernie-sanderss-campaign-says-it-raised-20-million-in-last-month/

[StrictlyRockers]

1. Um, wow??! :D

Holy fucking shit, Batman!

[FrodosPet]

43. That's a LOT of vacuum pennies!

[brewens]

2. I'll kick in again. Not much but I guess that's how it's getting done. n/t

[magical thyme]

3. I kicked a little extra in beginning of last week....just in time

I bought something from a squirrely place Thursday pm. Friday 1st thing got a call from my Credit Union fraud prevention. Gaaah. No credit card until my replacement arrives!

[lastone]

26. I jumped in for the monthly automatic payment

But I can spare another $20!

[redwitch]

31. got hacked this week.

Our checking account. And no 24 hour bank hotline so we'll be there bright and early tomorrow AM. Whoever did it took the last cash we had. It wasn't much but it was all we had. Found out when my card was declined trying to donate.

Hoping the bank will replace what was stolen and we are able to fix any other damage they may have tried to do.

[magical thyme]

34. oh $%$@!!!!! I'm so sorry...

[Duval]

4. K&R!

Thank you for the OP! It's good news. Just donated a bit more this morning.

[d_b]

5. wish i could afford to throw in another $25

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. No worries. I'll throw it in for you...before the deadline.

[d_b]

41. yay!

[Robbins]

6. What it says

as clinton has stepped up her attacks she has become bernie's biggest fundraiser

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. First victory for him will be dismissed....

First victory for her will be a demand for him to drop out.

[Sunlei]

8. good, he needs more but that is decent $. I think the DU group hit $40,000 in donations.

These days a lot of the campaign contact can be on the internet and that saves a lot of money for a campaign.

[Plucketeer]

16. $44 thousand to be precise!

And that's before the primaries!

[postulater]

9. I did local footwork for McGovern. I have never donated to any candidate.

But I have made 3 small donations to Bernie so far.

[FailureToCommunicate]

37. Congratulations! It gets easier...

[magical thyme]

10. more than 3.25 million donations from more than 1.3 million peeps, per WaPo

and 99.9% have not reached the max!!!!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/31/bernie-sanderss-campaign-brings-in-jaw-dropping-20-million-in-january/?postshare=8681454267070674&tid=ss_tw

Bernie Sanders’s campaign brings in jaw-dropping $20 million in January

Sanders has received more than 3.25 million contributions, including 770,000 in January, the campaign said. Because most were small sums, more than 99.9 percent of his donors have not yet reached the maximum $2,700 they can give to him in the primary. The New York Times first reported Sanders's January fundraising total.

In all, more than 1.3 million individuals have donated to the campaign, according to spokesman Michael Briggs. Hillary Clinton's campaign has said it has received donations from "hundreds of thousands" of people.

[oberliner]

11. A long hard-fought nominating fight is the last thing we need

Especially if they coronate Trump on the other side.

[magical thyme]

12. well maybe Hillary will continue with the spurious attacks and knock herself out early. nt

[oberliner]

15. Maybe

In any case, it would be good for us if whoever ends up being the nominee is chosen relatively quickly and without too much acrimony. Then we can direct our focus on defeating the Republican.

[Sunlei]

19. It is my 'dream team', Mrs. Clinton and Senator Sanders team-up & announce primary vote tally will

decide who is President/VP.

[oberliner]

20. Except I don't think either of them would want to be VP

I don't really see your scenario unfolding.

[Sunlei]

21. They both have said, "Let the voters decide". So, let the primary voters decide who is VP.

Way back when I posted Trump would dominate the republican party, no one thought that would happen either

sometimes our dreams come true

[oberliner]

23. Fair enough

Stranger things have happened (and are happening).

[magical thyme]

25. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that. nt

[Sunlei]

32. Would you agree a Clinton/Sanders team would unite voters & be a benefit for Americans Gov.?

I think they'd work together very well. My Yin & Yang Team

[magical thyme]

35. no, I wouldn't agree. I don't believe for one minute that Sanders would be VP to help Hillary's

best friends fuck us over for another x years. Nor do I believe he'd waste one minute of his life helping HRH Hillary amass and enlarge her fortune.




http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.

[Ferd Berfel]

13. Send Bernie another $25

[Jarqui]

14. Clinton's main Super PAC

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/29/super-pac-backing-hillary-clinton-says-it-is-raising-more-than-it-did-for-obama/?_r=0
has about $47 mil in the bank and $42 more mil in commitments

That's over and above Hillary's campaign

Bernie is going to need every dime he can muster.

[Plucketeer]

17. Clinton's Integrity PAC

is overdrawn.

[Jarqui]

18. For sure.

I'm not sure her competitor has ever had to take a withdrawal. That difference means a lot to me.

[magical thyme]

27. the funny this is that both her ads and her Superpac attacks have a way of backfiring. nt

[erronis]

28. So this just proves that $s are votes? That's a really poor way to promote a candidate.

I realize that both (and all) do it. Sanders tends to talk more about individual contributions and Clinton more about gross receipts.

I really hope that the people of this country realize real soon now that every election from school board to president has become monetized. We The People - Ain't.

[TIME TO PANIC]

22. Excellent!

[ejbr]

24. Which reminds me

I should donate to his campaign again this week.

[SoapBox]

29. I've got some money in that pot...

With my monthly and then I sent some additional yesterday.

And to think...not one Finance Industry Sponsored PRIVATE Fundraiser in sight!

Go Go Bernie and Berners!

[Uncle Joe]

30. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, magical thyme.

[fbc]

33. WOW! and those donors aren't close to being maxed out.

[onehandle]

38. Every dime left after expenses goes to the DNC once he concedes to Hillary. nt

[magical thyme]

39. Since that's not happening, nothing to worry about. :-) nt

[Babel_17]

40. So there will be time to eyeball the candidates

Mac clears Bernie

[ozone_man]

42. Put on the after Berners!

To the future and beyond!