“So what we are going to do is allocate our resources to the 14 contests that remain…”
Good idea!
That’s so much better than allocating resources to contests that have already taken place.
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I thought Bern was rolling in dough.
Tad Devine has never been part of a winning campaign.
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Then why he is laying off people? Did you read the article?
He never explained why he left NYC and moved to the remotest part of Vermont. and never had a job there until he was 44. I thought that was an appropriate question to ask him no one ever did. 15 yrs of ??? Years when all of us were making our way in the world it is a puzzlement.
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He has been spending in a way that puts drunken sailors to shame, but as long as the donations kept coming in, he could do so.
I suspect they started seeing the donations dropping off after NY, and are figuring that drop off rate is only going to accelerate after last night.
But its also an admission to reality. He doesn’t need a campaign staff everywhere, because there will be no general election for him.
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How is he going to win California after underperforming everywhere else with everyone acknowledging that it is over for him? What’s the rallying cry? “Marginally pad my delegates at the convention!” I think he is going to be humiliated in May and June. The flaccid end to his campaign will discredit his movement more than it helps. What an odd strategy. Very surreal. At least he is being honest and upfront about his prospects though rather than banking on that stupid “flip the superdelegates” strategy that Weaver was going on about after NY.
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I doubt he can do that.
His well-earned reputation for having a bad temper, for being humorless, for being difficult to work for, and for his cheese-paring parsimony will prevent him from doing what he should.
And as a result, he’ll have no leverage on the platform, and will get no plum Senate committee assignments,let alone any chairmanships.
He’s shown us who he is, and as Maya Angelou said, we should believe him.
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You were pro-Sanders until recently? Can you give us links to posts you’ve made urging people to vote for him?
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The one thing I’ve seen consistently from Bernie this campaign has been that utterly joyless humorlessness that seems to be such a common–though not all-pervasive–feature of so many of the socialists of my acquaintance over the years. The Scandinavian and German social democrats I’ve known have been a fairly jolly lot by and large, but damn, particularly among homegrowns, the more fluent they were in the class struggle dialectic word salad, the less likely they were to get the punch line of an innocent joke.
Humorless socialists make me very uneasy. Much the same kind of uneasy I experience around theocrats, really.
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Bernie’s campaign is fine financially. In fact, he has been outspending Hillary everywhere where he has bothered to compete, including all 4 contests last night…usually by an outrageously large margin (2:1+).
He is laying people off because they are no longer needed. He won’t be campaigning or running any further operations in NY or PA, for example…so there is no need to pay staffers to be there. If he realistically thought he had a chance at winning the nomination, then he could justify keeping them on…they become the nucleus of his fall general election campaign.
But that’s not happening.
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Yeah, I read the article. If he’s out of money it’s because he’s been spending it like a drunk at a strip club after he just got out of jail and found $1000.
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Bernie Sanders has said that he moved to Vermont because he likes the woods and could afford land in Vermont.
He worked jobs in Vermont such as assistant carpenter and documentary producer before becoming mayor of Burlington at age 39.
I don’t disagree in the least. I’m just saying those are the things he needs to do if he’s serious about the issues he claims are so dear to him, if he’s serious about the revolution. If he doesn’t do those things, if he gives some half-assed endorsement and puts in only a Tuesday’s effort into shepherding his voters to Clinton, it’s all been bullshit and there’ll be no question about it.
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I guess you haven’t seen the latest piece in Salon.
Or maybe Trumps comments last night, lifting attacks on Hillary directly from Bernie’s playbook, that he reemphasized this morning that he plans to continue to use even more of Bernie’s playbook to attack Hillary.
The genie is so far out of the bottle now, that even if Bernie wanted to, he can’t get it to go back in.
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I don’t know who you are to demand proof of such a thing but everybody’s posting history is just a click away.
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Candidates can’t put campaign money into retirement accounts.
Sanders could put leftover money into a Senate re-election campaign, but I doubt he’s worried about his re-election chances.
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la la la read that its no answer “he likes the woods”? the documentary producer is really funny strange no one ever showed clips or has information nope you don’t leave a thriving NYC at his young age and not work for all those years at a ya know CAREER??? Please Rural Vermont lol
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You need to fine tune your reading comprehension capabilities.
Point me to where I said I was pro-Sanders please.
I’ve been getting his email news letter for well over twelve years. That in no way equates to supporting him this election season.
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You are right that Devine had never been part of a winning campaign. Carter lost his re-election, Mondale lost. Dukakis lost, Bob Kerry down in flames, Al Gore and John Kerry - didn’t make it. And now Bernie. His track record for P races leaves a little to be desired. But in fairness he was not always the top dog. This time he was and msybe his star will not shine so brightly any more.
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