Just what did Bernie Sanders do with all that money?, he was bring in 25 to 40 million a month. If he’s been spending that amount of money each month, he doesn’t know how to balance a budget. Very poor running of his campaign financially.
When you’ve been constantly repeating the need for a “revolution” and it still hasn’t happened, you are probably not the one who will be leading it.
Bernie just needs to inflate the value of his current assets, inflate the amount of “pledged” donations and then go to the bank and get a huge loan.
He can ask Jane about the finer details of fleecing and fudging.
Sanders reported raising $26.9 million in April through his campaign. Unlike Sanders, Clinton has been fundraising for months in partnership with the Democratic National Committee and state parties. Through that joint fundraising account and her campaign, she raised $26.4 million in April for her primary battle with Sanders, though fundraising expenses sliced off about $1.4 million.
Meanwhile, the DNC and state parties that have benefited from Clinton’s fundraising help have begun investing in likely general election battleground states such as Ohio and Florida
But, but,…Shrillary is untrustworthy and in it for herself! And also CORONATED!
He hired a jet to take him to give a speech in Rome and got a 5 minutes audience with the Pope. His family accompanied him: grand-children, too. Well the campaign paid for that!!
[Meanwhile, the DNC and state parties that have benefited from Clinton’s fundraising help have begun investing in likely general election battleground states such as Ohio and Florida.]
There are so many pivotal political items packed into the above sentence (which nearly ALL who post here are aware of) that it is almost a roadmap of the differences in scope, focus, maturity and perception between the Clinton and Sanders campaign.
The people not attaching importance to the above include those who are (a) extremely immature or (b) extremely unintelligent or © GOP operatives.
I’m thinking that private jet and all expense-paid trip to Italy with the entire Sanders clan in tow isn’t looking like such a good idea right about now.
A bit cash strapped? Get rid of Weaver and stop paying JaneTheDrain.
Now let me head over to Hillary’s site and make yet another donation…
But the state parties don’t matter! Bernie has to get elected to start the Revolution, and THEN we worry about the states and congress! Isn’t that the way it works? His most avid followers seemed to think so, and I’m not sure the campaign didn’t as well. It’s the thinking that won him extra delegates in NV.
Actually, that’s a good summation of the Donald Trump business model. The missing piece, of course, is to default on the loans, leaving creditors holding the bag.
The small donor fundraising really has been impressive, but that $200 million is basically gone. And for what?
The year is still young.
Perhaps he should have spent a little more money on hiring at least one person who could have explained convention rules and voting procedures to his supporters. Hindsight.
From above:
The latest reports showed that Sanders spent about $21 million on media buys and digital consulting. The campaign paid $17.3 million to Old Towne Media Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia, and more than $3.6 million to Revolution Messaging, a Washington advertising firm that concentrates on digital outreach.
Hmmmm…
Biographical information about Barbara Abar found online reveals that both she and Shelli Hutton worked with current Sanders strategist Tad Devine of Devine Mulvey Longabaugh for two years in the 1990s at the ad-buying agency Doak, Shrum & Associates before that firm dissolved. Devine and Shrum subsequently started their own firm, and Abar Hutton was born.
A LexisNexus search also turned up a Roll Call article from 2006 in which then-Representative Sanders’ Republican opponent makes allegations of corruption involving Jane Sanders compensation in previous political campaigns. Abar Hutton is named as the agency with which Jane Sanders placed an ad through. Barbara Abar’s name has also appeared on ad buys for Old Towne Media, LLC this cycle.
The article goes on to say:
Inquiries by journalists into the ownership/management have gone unanswered by both OTM and Bernie 2016. Bernie 2016 does not attempt to hide any of their other major vendors, and it is unclear why OTM exists other than to hide either Shelli Hutton-Hartig and/or Canal Media Partners’ involvement as the primary ad-buyer for Bernie 2016, and those operating OTM appear to have taken steps to confuse and mislead anyone attempting to track them down. Tax evasion doesn’t seem particularly likely, and what Bernie 2016’s motive for concealing information about this specific vendor remains a mystery. Ad buys confirm that OTM collects a 15% commission on ad buys, so the firm has made in excess of 7 million dollars in commission from the Bernie 2016 account since Senator Sanders announced his candidacy.
The exact purpose of this labyrinthine arrangement isn’t immediately apparent, but one thing is clear — there’s an awful lot of money involved.
Oh no!
How are you going to have a revolution, without any dough?
Go away old berns. And don’t forget to pay your employees (before you spend it all on yourself) on the way out!
We know it wasn’t spent on billing charges from the hair stylist.
you’re correct, of course, misterneutron, but this is also what Jane did to the soon to be shuttered Burlington College before she (ahem) “retired” with a $200k severance. BTW, the college’s total annual operating budget was less than $4 million so $200k was a yuuuge deal for them.
I’m right behind you!
I’ve got it…the best way to spend the last 6 MIL:
Buy the LARGEST BLUE DRESS you can get and have it flown overhead behind and airplane all around California for the next 2 weeks. Hell, Trump might even call you up with a deal to put you on HIS ticket. Now that’s a revolution.
Porfirio Diaz was a mestizo–not the more European-looking Mexican the elite would have preferred. But he was a very good tool for the elite.
Methinks that, if Bernie continues his kraziness, he will have a great slot as a “revolutionary” for the Trump-Chump campaign…For if there was ever a “revolution” going on in the United States, there is a Trump revolution now taking place. Not all “revolutions” are to the left. This is what the indescribably stupid people who scream “revolution” miss (not having lived for one nanosecond as a citizen of a country which has been invaded, occupied or controlled politically by another nation.)
The Trump revolution? Look around at the racism which is now mainstreamed. Look at the Tribalization. Look at the hate. Look at the nonsensical willingness to handing over the Nuclear Codes to a madman–because a black man had the audacity to run for President of the United States. Does anyone in his right mind think this is going to go away, whether Trump loses or not? Only a tone-deaf racist could be so dense as to want to weaken (by fomenting discord within the Democratic Party**) the only chance electoral politics has to derail Donald Trump.
** resulting in Bernie Naderites staying home, voting for the Libertarian or voting for Trump