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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/475622-buttigieg-wine-cave-event-attendee-details-the-fundraiser-in-new-op-edButtigieg "wine cave" event attendee details the fundraiser in new op-ed
By Marty Johnson - 12/21/19 06:19 PM EST
A San Francisco resident who was in attendance at South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg's Napa Valley "wine cave" donor event detailed the gathering in an op-ed published by The Washington Post.
The author, Bill Wehrle, a vice president of a health care company, pushed back against Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) "billionaires in wine caves" comment.
"Of the roughly 50 folks in attendance, plenty were people of means, and certainly all of us who were able to go to an event like that should consider themselves lucky," he said in his op-ed, adding that he's "neither a billionaire nor a millionaire."
He said that during the event, Buttigieg spent an hour taking questions from those in attendance.
To attend the dinner, Wehrle explained, donors were asked to "max out," meaning give the legal limit campaign donation of $2,800.
He also asserted that Warren's claim of people drinking $900 bottles of wine was false.
"The wine, a 2016 cabernet, is the host couples signature bottle and it was very good," he wrote.
"But it is available online for $185 per bottle far more than Ive ever paid in my life for a bottle of wine, but not unusual for wine collector enthusiasts."
"But it is available online for $185 per bottle far more than Ive ever paid in my life for a bottle of wine, but not unusual for wine collector enthusiasts."
Wehrle concludes his op-ed by suggesting that "Democrats can find more important things to debate in the United States of America at this dark hour."
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babylonsister
Dec 2019
OP
"He also asserted that Warren's claim of people drinking $900 bottles of wine was false".
Cha
Dec 2019
#1
He's not among my top few candidates for President, but I really like him....
George II
Dec 2019
#20
"Wine already out of the bottle"? That's ridiculous. So a candidate makes an entirely false claim...
George II
Dec 2019
#5
Who's to say Bill Wehrle necessarily knew everything going on with the wine cave fundraiser?
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2019
#14
He was there, he knows a lot more than someone who wasn't there, Elizabeth Warren.
George II
Dec 2019
#22
Ah, but what went on behind closed doors in the wine cave's secret Oligarch Room?
betsuni
Dec 2019
#37
It's customary to decant good wine before drinking to give it time to breathe.
greatauntoftriplets
Dec 2019
#16
How about "the wine out of the bottle" for THESE events? Both PRIVATE, both $1,000-$5,000 admission
George II
Dec 2019
#70
Pete Buttigieg is not. But his net worth is roughly equal to what Sanders' was before he decided...
George II
Dec 2019
#8
New Rule: Democrats can only hold fundraisers in bus stations and abandoned buildings.
betsuni
Dec 2019
#7
And even if they plan on contributing the maximum of $2800, make sure they break them up....
George II
Dec 2019
#23
i really like banrock station which is usually around $5 on sale at discount liquor.
pansypoo53219
Dec 2019
#67
I wonder where the Vice President of Health Insurance Exchanges at Kaiser
OneCrazyDiamond
Dec 2019
#11
Probably at Kaiser, because only one candidate wants to do away with insurance companies.
George II
Dec 2019
#25
Meh, at a minimum wage of $10/hr it would only take a worker half a week to buy that bottle of wine.
jalan48
Dec 2019
#21
What do minimum wage workers have to do with this? EVERY candidate accepts....
George II
Dec 2019
#28
Yeah, eking out a living on minimum wage is a real butt hurt. The elites are busy working on
jalan48
Dec 2019
#31
No, I don't, and no, we don't, at least not as many as some would like us to believe.
George II
Dec 2019
#32
Seriously!! But imagine if it was Bernie attending a wine cave fundraiser with billionaires!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Dec 2019
#56
If he wanted to deny healthcare, have unregulated insurance companies, he'd be a Republican.
betsuni
Dec 2019
#57
Perhaps you should take that up with Bernie...he didn't seem to have a problem hanging out with...
brooklynite
Dec 2019
#72
AFAIK Mayor Pete was being critized for not having the press at that event after he said "The press
napi21
Dec 2019
#53
The op-ed author (Wehrle) has been a VP at Kaiser Permanente for almost 8 years.
LonePirate
Dec 2019
#77