Bernie Sanders Clearly In Pocket Of High-Rolling Teacher Who Donated $300 To His Campaign

[smokey nj]

BURLINGTON, VT—After accepting a check sent to his campaign office by a local elementary school teacher, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was roundly criticized Monday as being firmly in the pocket of the high-rolling educator who had donated $300.

http://www.theonion.com/article/bernie-sanders-clearly-pocket-high-rolling-teacher-50990

[AllFieldsRequired]

1. Citizens united was designed just for this donation, with this donation, Mr. Sanders cant lose!

[arcane1]

2. Perfect!

[winter is coming]

3. Oh noes. Now he's committed...

to staying after school to clean the erasers.

[6chars]

4. i won't quote the article but

encourage everyone to click through. awesome

[Motown_Johnny]

17. The last line is the best one n/t

[historylovr]

5. OMG, that's good!

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. He's been bought I tells ya!

[C Moon]

7. :D

[Enthusiast]

8. I hope the teacher influences Bernie.

[zeemike]

9. Well we all knew it would happen eventually.

No one can resist the lure of big money.

[99th_Monkey]

10. K&R - I started to post this an hour ago, but thought better of it

mainly because I was going to include a lead-in line that would have been surely
been alerted, and I do try hard to keep within bounds of DU TOS.

Anyway, it's already funny as hell just the way it is.

[ms liberty]

11. I so love The Onion! n/t

[aggiesal]

12. I'll bet anyone who doesn't know what the Onion does ...

will use this as an actual story in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ...

[SoapBox]

13. Ack! It just goes to show that teachers are way over paid!

They should not have one extra penny, especially when that penny could have been taken by the poor, poor oil companies, big Pharma or donated to the KKKoch Brothers instead.

[Duval]

14. Awww, don't you just get

bummed out when a good man goes down?

[clydefrand]

15. heck, I donated more than that

and no one suggested that I ad BOUGHT Bernie

[Plucketeer]

20. I'm wonderin' what

my $25 bucks is gonna get me!

[bluedigger]

16. Obvious case of quid pro apple.

[truebrit71]

18. LOL!

Bernie is such a hypocrite....kowtowing to his high-roller donors....

[Charles de Gaudless]

19. Bought and paid for!

If elected, he'll demand that blond and redheaded women dye their hair dark! AND cut it short!

[Le Taz Hot]

21. So, what would happen if you post this in GD-P?

Should we take bets on how long it would take the first Clintonista to take it seriously and go off on it?

[smokey nj]

22. Give it a try.

I've been staying away from GD-Pee because the place is a cesspool, but feel free to share it there.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. Nah,

I have the vast majority of them on Ignore so there's not much action in there anymore, at least on my screen.