Veteran Obama fundraiser Louis Susman is backing Joe Biden in bid for president 😎

[Iamaartist]

A longtime fundraiser for President Barack Obama who recently helped former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke in his bid for president is opening his donor network to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Louis Susman, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom under Obama, told CNBC in an interview that he's going to start fundraising for Biden

Go Joe....😎🥁







https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/20/veteran-obama-fundraiser-louis-susman-is-backing-joe-biden-in-bid-for-president.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. K&R

[Iamaartist]

2. K&R. 🎄 🕎

Happy Holidays.....

[Snoopy 7]

3. blue?

The DNC loves this because this means they will start getting the money that the repugs are getting right now. While Bernie and Elizabeth are fighting against the big money political influences. Look up the last Democratic debate and how Biden and Bernie were total opposites about the money in politics. I know if Biden wins the nomination, and the he's better than trump BS, I will vote for him. It's just the he's less corrupt/purchased that trump is supposed to be a selling point it's still the same old BS one is less evil than the other. Where has that gotten us(?) less Democratic Governors, no Democratic Senate, lost Democratic President after Obama "did such a great job". Why did the Electoral College decide who would be the president? Hell trump was on the news telling you where he was going and what he was doing, why didn't the DNC send Hillary there to fight? The monies to be didn't want to change the outcome...

[Iamaartist]

5. Snoopy 7

I am sure all the other Candidates have secrets .....on fund raising.....

[oldsoftie]

6. Man, THAT was all over the place. The Electoral College decides because of the Constitution.

Which is how we do things in the US, like it or not

[Iamaartist]

7. I agree......

[George II]

15. It takes money to win. As long as no laws are violated I don't care how any of them raise money.

[Demsrule86]

18. Are you really attacking Obama? Obama actually didn't want big donors and look where it got us.

Obama had integrity and was the greatest president in my lifetime.

[BannonsLiver]

20. There's that mean old DNC again

If they’d JUSt LeAvE BErNIe AlOnE hE woULd sAVe uS aLL!1!



BTW, Obama DID do a great job. I’m sorry you didn’t get your magic unicorn show pony.

[betsuni]

4. Expect accusations of Susman being diabolical corrupt oligarch receiving perks like ambassadorship

because of big bad billionaire money influence, both-sides-both-sides-both-sides WINE CAVE.

[George II]

8. Bazinga!

[Demsrule86]

13. The ambassador they attacked is a very accomplished woman...ambassadors usually have connections and

money...you have to live a certain way. She did a great deal to support Dems...and the shit they are talking about happened in the 80's...ridiculous. You can't handicap our folks and make them run with no money...they just want to make it so everyone but their candidate loses the nomination/primary...trouble is often such candidates won't win a general.

[RandiFan1290]

9. I'm sure the wealthy are hoping for tax break round 2

Like 2010 when the bush tax cuts were extended

and 2013 when they were made permanent.

[George II]

10. Did you seriously say that?

[RandiFan1290]

11. No

I typed it on a keyboard

[Demsrule86]

17. That is a smear...implying our canddiates are for sale...they are not...suggest you read what

Franken had to say on the subject.

[dware]

12. It sounds like sour grapes from that person. nt

[ehrnst]

25. On the nose. (nt)

[Thekaspervote]

14. As mentioned above... the bashing begins!!

[Demsrule86]

16. The tax cuts are permanent already. And if they wanted more tax cuts, they would support Trump.

I hate to see Democrats demonized...because they have money...allow me to point out that Sanders is a millionaire...and his wife got a hefty bonus when she left the college that shut down...so it sounds silly for him and/or his supporters to be attacking other Democrats who in many cases have funded successful elections for us. My brother is loaded and gives a great deal to Democrats and various causes...and is not doing it for a tax cut either...but because he believes in our Democratic ideology...same as me.

[Cha]

21. Yeah, roll those eyes.. you don't know what you're

talking about.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Many of the richest families in the US are actually Democrats.

"A review of the 20 richest Americans, as listed by Forbes Magazine, found that 60 percent affiliate with the Democratic Party, including the top three individuals: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison. Among the richest families, the Democratic advantage rises even higher, to 75 percent." https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demographics-democrats/ Clearly, it's not correct to assume that holding a fund-raiser aimed at the wealthy is either pointless or downright evil, based on the false assumption that all wealthy people are conservative, or that wealthy Democrats don't exist, or that Democratic candidates are corruptible. They aren't; they do; and they donate to Democrats. Warren Buffett, who voted for Clinton, has stated publicly that he believed it was wrong that rich people like himself could pay less in federal taxes, as a portion of income, than the middle class, and voiced support for increased income taxes on the wealthy.

But I guess some Democratic (or temporarily Democratic) candidates are too pure these days to take donations from those Democrats who can afford to donate.

[Iamaartist]

19. Is this true then....

Is this true.. its up to a person to believe it or not..

Tons of news articles everywhere..its up to the voter to believe it or not.......what they read.

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/09/how-warren-raised-big-money-before-denouncing-big-money/

[George II]

22. It is true somewhat. The article didn't point out any specific "big money" fundraisers, but....

....she did have one in lower Manhattan back in 2012, asking for as much as $5000, as low as $1000, for her Senate election. Then last year she also had a big money fundraiser at, ironically, a winery. But not in a cave! There probably were others last year and over the previous few years.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287389647

Plus, early this year she transferred more than $10.4 M from her Senate campaign. Most likely some of that was raised at those big money fundraisers.

[karynnj]

24. It reflects the difficulty that the big money needed to run a campaign creates

I doubt ANY candidate loves the time he/she must spend raising money to fund the campaign that they want to run. It is true that since 2004, a lot of money is raised in small amounts via the internet. Some candidates are more successful with that than others.

There are limits on how much a candidate can give to any campaign, but many very rich people give large sums to PACs and (in the general election) to the DNC.

The ability of a Senator to move money to and from the Senate account is a huge plus. In fact, in 2006, there were some people angry that in a year we were trying to take back Congress, Clinton, with weak opposition in both the primary and the general election, raised huge amounts - getting people to max out for both the primary and the general election - to legally build up a war chest clearly intended for 2008. I would bet that EVERY Senator with money left in a Senate account does exactly what Warren did.

I think that Warren is a good example of someone who does understand the danger of big money in government. However, I think the easy explanation of why she did the big fundraisers for her two Senate races was that she did not have the platform she later had to try to raise enough money in small donations without fundraisers. This goes to the heart of the difference between her and Mayor Pete. He did not have the ability to raise needed money as she .. and Bernie did.

[karynnj]

23. Susman played a bigger role in the Obama story than being a fundraiser

It was Susman, a Chicagoan who vacationed in Nantucket, who advised John Kerry in 2004 that he should make sure that he should include Obama in an Illinois stop and told him he saw Obama as a future superstar of the party. After taking that advise and also being very impressed by Obama, Kerry offered Obama the opportunity to give that all important convention speech.

[NBachers]

27. Joe

[TexasTowelie]

28. K&R!

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