Chuck Todd's wife's company, Maverick Strategies and Mail, got $1,342,293 from Sanders campaign:

[bigtree]

#MadamePresident ?@StudioChira 14h14 hours ago
Anti-Hillary MSNBC Chuck Todd's wife, co-founder Maverick Strategies and Mail, got $1,342,293 from Sanders Campaign: https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/expend.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000528 …

[MADem]

1. Yes, she did--and now all the cheery softball questions on Press The Meat

make sense, don't they?

Link with her details: https://ballotpedia.org/Kristian_Denny_Todd

[brush]

2. H-u-u-u-h. Not good.

[Barack_America]

3. BREAKING: Chuck Todd now 'anti-Hillary'...

...more details to follow once they actually exist.


Is this because he asked her real questions in one interview? This is your "evidence"?

[Bob-o the Clown]

4. *cough* Clinton and her 3 Super-PACs... *cough*

All that is needed to be said. Especially Correct the Record.

[Skwmom]

5. Well it sure hasn't helped Bernie. But since corporations pay Chuckie that's no surprise.

[Bad Thoughts]

6. Sanders hired a political consultant? Yawn.

[MADem]

9. No, the story here is that the consultant's husband has repeatedly given the candidate a platform.

A very cozy platform, too:

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/bernie-sanders-warns-hillary-clinton-running-mate-pick-n582196

[cali]

19. Shocking that a major candidate should appear on meet the press

[MADem]

33. Without the MTP host acknowledging his WIFE works for the guy? Hell YES. nt

[Garrett78]

34. As I wrote below, replace "Sanders" with "Clinton" and this would blow up DU.

There'd be thread after thread after thread about this. Everyone posting in this thread knows damn well that's true.

[MADem]

35. Of course--it would be the Crime of The Century!

But hey....IOKIYABS, I guess!

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. Yes, that should have been made clear for the sake of transparency.

[patsimp]

7. sickening. What does Bernie have to say about this?

This may disqualify him to be president.

[840high]

11. What a sense of humor you have.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. Pssst... Kathleen Matthews

That was a buncha money flushed down the toilet wasn't it. Where did the bulk of her campaign money come from? Did Matthews work for The Foundation?

Political/Journalistic incest.

[MADem]

36. I seem to remember Tweety telling everybody, as a disclaimer, that his wife

was running in the primary. In fact, that's how I found out she was in the race. I remembered her from DC television, where she was one of the anchors.

This is news about Chuckie's wife. I don't recall him ever saying a word about it. If you've got video of him before his Sanders interviews saying "Gee, folks, just so you're aware, my wife does work for this guy's campaign..." I'd love to see it.

It's not like she did just a bit of piece work for him either. Her firm--the firm she CO-founded--has sucked over a million and a quarter out of the Bernie 2016 campaign...and they're not done yet.

If, on top of this obvious breach of journalistic etiquette on the part of the MTP host, we learn that Mrs. Sanders is working for that firm, and getting a payday through them, then we'll REALLY have something to talk about.

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. K

[Tal Vez]

10. Stupid.

Chuck Todd is so thin. Does he think that people don't notice that he can never ask sensible questions about anything more complicated than sex or the latest poll? He's one of those guys who never learned about the history of this country or the background of the issues that separate Americans.

[anotherproletariat]

12. AH...now it makes sense. I thought he was just a bad journalist, but instead he's a corrupt

journalist.

[MADem]

37. He started out as a freakin' BLOGGER. He is the spawn of the early days of the internet, where

all you needed was a keyboard and a lot of ideas to make a mark.

I never understood his appeal--his blog sucked, too.

There's something to be said for a quality J-School education.

[Hoyt]

13. Is Sanders attempting to rig the media and election?

[Armstead]

14. This is fun

Love to see heads exploding about a typical conflict of interest that exists throughout the world of Big Media.

And by gosh by golly, Chuck Todd's little woman should not have an indepentent career.

The funhouse mirror of double standards.....

[msongs]

15. pay to play. no pay no tv shows? nt

[angstlessk]

16. A little perspective-

Bernie Sanders (D)

Summary
Geography
Industries
Contributors
Donor Demographics
Expends
Outside Spending
In the News

Expenditures Breakdown, federal election data
Chart
Top Vendors/Recipients

Vendor/Recipient Total No. of Payments
Old Towne Media $53,550,565 44
Revolution Messaging $23,474,979 44
Old Towne Media Inc $10,612,155 11
ActBlue $6,037,182 233
Convergence Targeted Communications $4,724,699 15
Devine Mulvey Longabaugh $4,043,139 24
Air Charter Team $3,816,188 24
Paychex Inc $3,021,226 40
Tigereye Promotions LLC $2,865,324 10
Solidarity Strategies $2,802,661 26
Tulchin Research $2,567,757 25
Tigereye Design $2,535,987 12
Egencia $2,137,740 62
Tigereye Promotions $2,083,455 17
Production Management One $1,395,541 10
Maverick Strategies & Mail $1,342,293 6
Garner Printing $1,265,547 36
Five Maples $1,156,146 31
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Vermont $955,336 11
Demsign $954,120 11
Haystaq DNA $917,361 8
C3 Presents $837,279 14
Peoples Bank $728,439 67
Mammen Group $721,312 5
Enterprise Rent-A-Car $617,751 63

[Vinca]

17. I can't keep up. Am I supposed to be pissed at Chuck or Bernie or both?

Everyone works somewhere. If his wife owned the company that might seem significant. I bet if you do some digging at all the politics-related companies you'd find all kinds of inbreeding.

[Blue_Adept]

18. just be upset at hillary, it's probably her fault

[Vinca]

21. Well, I bet if you look you'll find plenty of connections between Hillary and the media, too.

It's all a cottage industry of politicians and the people who kiss their asses.

[Blue_Adept]

22. Yup. And I suspect you could find those threads all the way back to George Washington

And in what the British had set up here as well prior to the Revolutionary War.

And elsewhere in the world for centuries. If not millennia on a different scale.

[B Calm]

20. Glad to see you are finally adding links to the source on your copy/paste OP's.

About damn time!

[firebrand80]

23. Corrupt to the core nt

[Garrett78]

24. Replace "Sanders" with "Clinton" and this thread would have blown up, and been repeated ad nauseam.

And everyone posting in this thread damn well knows that's true.

[JoePhilly]

25. +1

[Garrett78]

28. The hypocrisy on display here is overwhelming.

I say that as someone who is not a big fan of either Clinton or Sanders.

[leveymg]

26. This proves that the MSM and Inside the Beltway Politicos are a small tribe and interbred gene pool.

Mary Matlin and James Carville are the most notably interbred couple who play both sides.

[Trust Buster]

27. I thought Sanders was pure as the driven snow......LOL

[Eric J in MN]

29. Chuck Todd treats Bernie Sanders the same

...as the next Sunday morning host.

[riversedge]

30. Rec and thanks for post

[trudyco]

31. I think all MSM types should disclose any perceived conflict of interest

Every time they interview a candidate. Either side. Americans should know how they are intertwined.
Need to get the information out if you don't want low information voters. The voter can decide if they think the interviewer is biased or not.

[hrmjustin]

32. Very interesting information.

It explains is pro-Sanders bias.