2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWho Owns Your Presidential Candidate?
Its a new era of American politics. With regard to campaign finance, the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling and the arguably worse McCutcheon v. FEC ruling opened the doors to unrestricted corporate funding of our national elections.
The primary mechanism in place facilitating this flood of private money is the super PAC. Youve probably heard of super PACs and how theyve essentially taken over the role traditionally filled by individual campaign donors in Political Action Committees (PACs). But super PACs arent the end of it. There are puppet political non-profits, business associations, and now, single-candidate dark money outfits that, as of September 21, have already raised $25.1 million five times the amount spent by this time in the 2012 election cycle.
BERNIE SANDERS
One point concerning Bernie Sanders cant be denied: his campaign financing is leagues above the others in terms of ethical sourcing. Sanders has refused super PAC money and continues to reiterate he will not use a super PAC or any shady billionaire money for the 2016 election. His full list of of regular PAC and individual donors, most of which is labor union money, is listed below, courtesy of OpenSecrets.org:
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union $105,000
Teamsters Union $93,700
National Education Assn $89,242
United Auto Workers $79,750
United Food & Commercial Workers Union $72,500
Communications Workers of America $68,000
Laborers Union $64,000
Carpenters & Joiners Union $62,000
National Assn of Letter Carriers $61,000
American Assn for Justice $60,500
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $58,198
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $53,100
United Transportation Union $48,500
Sheet Metal Workers Union $47,000
Operating Engineers Union $46,100
Service Employees International Union $44,014
UNITE HERE $42,875
United Steelworkers $41,750
American Postal Workers Union $37,700
American Federation of Teachers $36,112
A report from October 1st shows that Bernie Sanders has nearly matched Hillary Clintons 3rd quarter campaign donations without using a super PAC.
Bernie Sanders, total funds raised so far: $26 million
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-03/who-owns-your-presidential-candidate
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)I can't believe anyone is claiming that Bernie's supporters are anti-union.
MindfulOne
(227 posts)That was the premise of that OP.
Desperation. Those who haven't gone over to the other site are staying here to spin their Logical Fallacy yarns.
This week: unions and gun violence.
Losing their arguments in marvelous fashion.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)They even dug up dead Ronnie to flog the meme that Bernie is a gun nut.
Pathetic.
neverforget
(9,437 posts)100%.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It's just more desperation from the usual crowd.
Instead of posting positive articles about their candidate they're flinging feces.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...that no one takes seriously. I guess someone has to be the board clown.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Tomorrow red baiting will be the theme of the day, have to keep churning the compost to keep it fresh, you know.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)They don't appear to be very creative, just bitter.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)That was in response to some great pictures of kids who stood out in the cold to see Bernie yesterday.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)corporate funded made up stuff hasn't stopped him one bit.
The best result of all was when Brock, using Hillary's Super Pac, inadvertently helped to raise over one million dollars for Bernie in 24 hours.
Is there a record for the spectacular failure of Dirty Money smear campaigns? I think Brock may have broken the record with that one. Lol!
Keep up the good work David 'Blinded by the Money' Brock! Bernie can make good use of that Dark Money you have to spend.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Brock will do it again.
Another million can't hurt...we'll even give credit to Brock and Camp Weathervane!
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Response to magical thyme (Original post)
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Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)I think it's due to lack of demand.........
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)They left off all the rest of the dem candidates and possibly some of the GOP, although I haven't memorized their clown car so don't know who they skipped over there...