Sanders Campaign Bought 1,950 Tickets to Iowa JJ Dinner

[RandySF]

NOTE: This explains why they all walked out after Bernie's speech.


Candidates worked with the Iowa Democratic Party to buy tickets and get their supporters into the room. The Sanders campaign bought 1,950 tickets-- which will be distributed to their supporters for free -- meaning that almost one third of the room will definitely be cheering for Sanders. The other campaigns did not release the exact numbers of tickets they bought.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jostling-for-support-at-the-jefferson-jackson-dinner/

[WorseBeforeBetter]

1. Sanders and Clinton bought the maximum number of tickets.

Both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns bought the maximum number of tickets available for supporters: about 1,950, mostly bleacher seats at $50 each, and table seating for $120 and up. The O’Malley campaign said it, too, would fill almost all its allotted seats, though tickets were bought by supporters, not by the financially struggling campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/politics/democrats-iowa-dinner-will-have-the-sizzle-of-a-convention.html?_r=0

Doesn't explain anything, but nice try.

[Duckhunter935]

2. Seems Hillary bought

the same amount, nice try at slinging mud.

[jkbRN]

3. Surprised you haven't deleted the thread yet,

Seeing how your narrative was blown in the FIRST comment. How embarrassing, seriously.

[Live and Learn]

4. The Clinton Campaign Bought 1,950 Tickets to JJ Dinner.

The only surprise here is that Hillary wasn't able to limit Bernie supporters like she was at the debates.

[artislife]

19. *chortle nt

[MannyGoldstein]

5. That's the last straw

I'm changing my support from Bernie to Hillary.

[silvershadow]

7. LOL nt.

[merrily]

8. Bernie sent emails to his donors asking them to donate for people who could not afford

to buy their own tickets. Said these things are usually attended by richer people, but he wanted to give others a shot.

What a bad, bad man.

[artislife]

20. Disgusting!!

[merrily]

26. I know, right? The man has no shame!

I only wish I had posted the email in the Bernie Group, as I often have or at least saved it in my email inbox.

[dragonlady]

9. I think this is a common practice for candidates

When my daughter was volunteering for Howard Dean, she was able to go to this dinner with help from the campaign.

[aidbo]

10. Nice shade thrown on O'Malley there too.

On Edit: oops, I mixed up the OP excerpt with the excerpt from this post http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251726152#post1

That's where the O'Malley shade was. carry on

[jfern]

11. Was this supposed to be an attack on Bernie?

[moobu2]

12. No, it's just to point out Bernie Sanders

phoniness factor is near 100%.

[jfern]

13. That doesn't follow, either

[moobu2]

14. Well, Bernie Sanders did the same thing at Bob Jones University

he packed the audience for phony applause when he cued up the phony catch phrases and he did something similar the night of the debate when he bought the top trending topic so his campaign directed followers to online polls to vote so they could distort the poll results then offer the phony polls up as proof he won the debate. That and other stuff like that.

[jfern]

15. Let me guess, he packed the focus groups, too?

[artislife]

21. *snort!

[cui bono]

17. Proof please?

Thanks!

[dreamnightwind]

23. Damn, that sounds almost Hillarian

There are plenty of things you could say about Bernie supporters, but phony isn't one of them. Our enthusiasm is as real and as grass-roots as it gets. Hillary's, on the other hand, eh, I'll go with "not so much".

And the hypocrisy of the OP is incredible, pointing out only Bernie's purchase but not Hillary's equal purchase? WTF?

You have nothing on Bernie, so now you're trying to make him look almost as bad as your own candidate. Good lluck with that!

Try positive advocacy for issues that matter to the people, it feels good and it's the right thing to do.

[Truprogressive85]

25. does this apply

HRC bought the same amount of tickets ? does that make her phony as well ?

[cui bono]

16. But Hillary did the same thing. Bought the same amount.

Please link me to your post calling her at 100% phoniness factor.

Thanks!

[cui bono]

18. Is this supposed to be a hit piece on Sanders? Did you not realize Hillary did the exact same thing?

Both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns bought the maximum number of tickets available for supporters: about 1,950, mostly bleacher seats at $50 each, and table seating for $120 and up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/politics/democrats-iowa-dinner-will-have-the-sizzle-of-a-convention.html?_r=1

So what is your point?

[artislife]

22. Feel a bit dumb, yet? nt

[dreamnightwind]

24. Can't embarrass these people

Reminds me of another group of people who can't be embarrassed. The more "electable" our party becomes, the more it looks like them.

[99Forever]

27. Here's your sign SFRandy:

FAIL