Bernie Sanders’s Millions Raised Sans Money Men

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Bernie Sanders loves to talk about the fact that he doesn’t have a super-PAC backing his campaign. But the true state of his fundraising strategy is even more astonishing than that: The Sanders campaign doesn’t have a finance team.

And that’s a big deal.

Every competitive presidential campaign in recent election cycles has had team of people exclusively dedicated to finances: figuring out how much money the campaign needs, putting together a plan to get that money, and then making it all come together.

It’s considered a fundamental part of a modern presidential campaign, right up there with having a team to deal with the press. But Sanders may be changing that.

Call it a reinvention of campaign funding, but the Vermont senator has shown so far that a campaign can operate just fine without a fleet of green-visors counting the cash.

“I’ve never heard of a presidential campaign, even a minor party presidential campaign, that didn’t have a fundraising team,” said one campaign finance attorney. “But, ok if it’s working.”

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/11/bernie-sanders-s-millions-raised-sans-money-men.html

REVOLUTIONARY

[SoapBox]

1. His campaign team is brilliant.

[libdem4life]

2. Guess that only means one thing ... It Can Be Done. He won the internet first. That's a

big part of the word of mouth (internet). "Pass it around" now means literally pass it around the world. An old guy actually got it. Sometimes it even beats knocking on doors. Just post away on Facebook and Twitter.