Invitation for an Elizabeth Warren Senate fundraiser in 2012, and a photo of the venue:

[George II]

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[crazytown]

1. Did the hosts cost taxpayers $364m

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like Craig Hall, of Hall Rutherford Wine Cave fame, file for Bankruptcy the day after being sued for misconduct, then later get his wife appointed Ambassador to Austria?

[George II]

2. I honestly aren't interested in ANY candidate getting into how other candidates raise money....

....and none of them should criticize others' fundraising efforts.

The only reason I posted this is that she went off on Buttigieg's "wine cave" fundraiser, perhaps forgetting that she too was involved in lavish fundraisers.

I just wish they would all let it go and go about their own business of fundraising.

[Bradshaw3]

26. Repubs, the Koch brothers and Adelson wish we would all let it go too

Doesn't matter how they raise their money right? Personally, I didn't like Citizens United and I want to know how campaigns are funded. Obviously you don't care, for obvious reasons. Criticizing how others raise money is eithe rvlaid when it comes to ALL candidates, not just repubs, or it isn't. What is hypocritical is to take on repubs over the issue while saying it's worng for Dems. Money influences politics, and ot say it doesn't is either willfull ignorance or naievete, or thinking it's a good idea.

I look at what candidates are doing now. And that comparison makes her look a world better than Pete or Biden when it comes to who is funding their campaign.

[lame54]

29. That's obviously not true

[Demsrule86]

20. Who knows After all, many who support other candidates than Biden or Buttigieg have pointed out,

that all big donors are looking for a handout...so how would this be any different.

[David__77]

3. More vetting.

...

[crazytown]

4. Bernie's campaign must be loving this.

[George II]

5. He's next. At least neither Buttigieg nor Warren "hide" the identities of the source of 70%....

....of his contributions.

[LongtimeAZDem]

13. Bernie's dark money will be next

[Skya Rhen]

6. Do as I say - not as I did. She was 63 yrs old and doing this but a 37 yr old should "know better"?

The hypocrisy.

[Cha]

7. But it's Not a Wine CAVE!!!!!

I wish she never would have gone down this Sanders road..

Cory Booker didn't like Warren's "wine cave" attack on Buttigieg

Therein lies the risk that Booker identifies for the Democrats, that not only is very little gained from this line of attack, it also might embitter voters toward other candidates who fail the test. And as Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders demonstrated Thursday night, that risk extends to Warren.

Seconds after Warren and Pete finished up, Sanders swooped in to boast that he is “the only candidate up here that doesn’t have any billionaire contributions,” which includes Warren. Her current presidential campaign, not her old pre-pledge Senate campaign, has accepted donations at or near the $2800 individual contribution limit from at least six billionaires.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287388461

**** the purity tests.. they've caused too much Grief already

[George II]

9. It was really a poor choice for an "attack".

[Cha]

10. Especially if you leave yourself

open to an "hypocrisy" charge.. but regardless.. the purity test is tacky, imv.

[BlueMTexpat]

11. Was she running for President then?

[LongtimeAZDem]

12. No, she was running for the United States Senate; what's your point?

[BlueMTexpat]

35. My point is that she was not running for a

post where she would be appointing ambassadors, etc.

[brooklynite]

15. Money she raised here was transferred into her Presidential campaign account.

[George II]

16. No, she was running for Senate. But she gave $10M out of her Senate treasury...

...to her Presidential treasury.

It bothers me more that some of our candidates are bashing others for the way they run their fundraising. The reason I posted this is to show that the criticism on Thursday night was off the mark.

They should just stick to the REAL issues.

[brooklynite]

14. I may have gone to that one...

Hard to be certain but the outside looks familiar and I know some of the co-hosts.

[yardwork]

17. The wine cave attack was a mistake. Democrats need to stop doing this.

It takes a lot of money to run for president. It's not possible to do it without contributions from wealthy people. If we don't like that, we need to elect more Democrats so they can change campaign laws.

[Demsrule86]

21. No they don't...they need to raise lots of money to take back the goverorships, legislatures, more

house seats and the senate majority and of course the presidency. We live in the age of United until we manage to get an amendment passed to the constitution, we are stuck with it...it was a constitutional based ruling...not willing to handicap our folks for the purists who apparently are fine with losing. Too bad the left, greens didn't feel they could support Gore in 2000...which helped elect Bush who's SCOTUS picks gave us United...but now we are stuck with it.

[yardwork]

24. We seem to be in agreement.

[Demsrule86]

30. Feels good! I will be happy when the primary is done and we can all get behind one candidate.

[Demsrule86]

32. Oops sorry misread your post..Mea Culpa...but still like being on the same page.

[BeyondGeography]

18. You wanted a relative unknown to beat Scott Brown with online money?

This is asinine.

[boomer_wv]

19. No...

I want her to stop being disingenuous about everything.

[LongtimeAZDem]

22. You could say the same for Buttigieg; Warren's attack was hypocritical

[BeyondGeography]

23. Maybe if he spent seven years building up his brand

as a national progressive leader before running for President like Warren did he wouldn’t have to depend so heavily on corporate money in order to be competitive.

[Skya Rhen]

25. She spent 7+ years taking big-donor contributions to allow her to elevate herself. It's selfish

and hypocritical for her to deny him the same opportunities that she had, to fundraise.

But some will refuse to see it this way although the double standard is as clear as day. As the saying goes: “There is no one so blind as one who refuses to see.”

[BeyondGeography]

27. Actually, first she became a bankruptcy expert, then she set up the CFPB

which has provided financial relief to 29 million Americans. After that, she beat a very tough moderate Republican opponent and recaptured Ted Kennedy’s seat for the Dems. When she was able to run for the White House on terms that fit her political aims, she went for it. This was EARNED, my friend. She never tried to take any shortcuts to power like Pete Buttigieg, and for that she gets labeled a selfish hypocrite by you. Walk with pride.

[Demsrule86]

31. The point is she availed herself of fundraising opportunities when starting out and should not

call out Mayor Pete for doing the same thing that helped her get her start.

[LongtimeAZDem]

28. Irrelevant; she did exactly what she bashed him for.

[NYMinute]

33. But, to be fair ...

it doesn't have a Swarvoski crystal chandelier!!

[Cha]

34. Ikr..