Bernie Sanders Calls George Clooney's Clinton Fundraiser 'Obscene'
Rachel Vorona Cote
Yesterday 11:00pmFiled to: BIRDIE SANDERS
On Sunday, March 27, Bernie Sanders spoke about campaign finance on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, referring to George Clooney’s upcoming fundraiser for Hillary Clinton as “obscene.” Guests at the April 15 event will pay as much as $353,400 for two seats at the event.
Yahoo! Politics reports that “Clinton is asking donors for $353,400 for two seats at the head table with herself, Clooney, and his wife, Amal, at...the event in San Francisco. The next night, the Clooneys will host A $33,400 per person fundraiser for Clinton at the couple’s Los Angeles home.”
Sanders professes to be a fan of Clooney’s acting, but he’s vehemently opposed to lavish fundraising events like these. And he assigns the brunt of the blame to Clinton.
“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big-money people to fund her campaign,” Sanders argues in his interview. “I have a lot of respect for George Clooney. He’s a great actor. I like him...But this is the problem with American politics...Big money is dominating our political system. And [my supporters and I] are trying to move as far away from that as we can.”
Sanders notes that donations to his campaign average around $27 per person. And when he holds events, tickets cost “$15 or $50.” As a “self-described democratic socialist” relying on small donations rather than super-PACs is a fundamental part of his campaign ideology.
“It’s not only this Clooney event,” he explained on CNN. “It is the fact that [Clinton] has now raised well over $15 million from Wall Street for her super-PAC, and millions more from the fossil fuel industry, and from the drug companies.”
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He actually didn't call George Clooney's fundraiser obscene, he called the fact that Clinton keeps going to big moneyed people for her campaign obscene. But yes, I agree, Bernie.
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so true!!! They are scared shitless that they may only have tens of millions of dollars instead of hundred of millions to get by with.
How WILL they survive??!! 
The average voter's focus is SO NOT on the issues:
People willing to pay that kind of $$$ to be proximate to a well-meaning celebrity who stated that FDR dropped the atomic bomb in order to end WWII…
Need I say more?
