Breakfasting with oligarchs.

[Skidmore]

[leftofcool]

1. The hypocrisy is amusing.

[artyteacher]

2. Only Bernie is allowed to do that. eom

[BooScout]

3. Oh my, my, my, my, myyyyyyyy!

How very interesting!

[MichaelSoE]

4. as did Hillary

http://www.anselm.edu/News/Hillary-Clinton-Roundup.htm

[Skidmore]

6. So?

Hillary has never claimed to not interact with people in the business and financial sectors. Sanders has maintained that he is above it all. I'm sorry, but he does the same things every other politician does. He is a career politician.

[Historic NY]

9. Don't you belong somewhere else????????????

this is a protected group.

[Fla Dem]

45. While he/she doesn't have a Bernie icon, probably so they can do these quick hits,

Bernie Sanders is their favorite group.

[fleabiscuit]

12. Thank you!

It's a perfect example of how BS is a long string of illogical fallacies. BS has believers, not supporters.

[cosmicone]

13. You are in the HRC group

GD-P is down the hall to the extreme left.

[William769]

20. Not anymore they aren't

[Iliyah]

5. Oh my, mingling with the 1%ers, only evil HRC does that huh

[stonecutter357]

7. K&R!

[Mika]

8. How much did they pay Bernie for that appearance?

Some people say that Bernie got a discount Velcro watchband from this speech.




The outrage!!!

[berniepdx420]

26. +1

[BlueMTexpat]

30. Has he provided a transcript of his speech?

[Iliyah]

10. They have the whole DU board to constantly spew garbage on HRC

Anywho, hypocritical is thy name when to come down to it.

Go Hillary!

[misterhighwasted]

16. Wheels off the bus..We've been expecting them.

Well, enjoy NH.
When the bus falls to pieces in the middle of the Nevada desert & there's no friends left to call for a lifeline...they'll always have NH...
maybe

[kjones]

22. "I haven't seen this much spin since the wheels on the bus went round and round"

Sanders...
The more you know!

[misterhighwasted]

23. Lol. Drove that bus right into the very ditch he dug for Hillary

OOPS!

[cosmicone]

11. Our oligarchs are better than Hillary's oligarchs

[Iliyah]

14. Must have hit a nerve

But I guess they can't help themselves - LOL

[misterhighwasted]

15. Well well now, some one hasn't been completely TRUTHFUL. Demand the TRANSCRIPTS

Yes, transcripts of all Bernie said, who he spoke to, who he sat next to, what his conversations were about, did he make deals, what were the speakers speaking about, who did he applaud, WHY WAS HE INVITED??
Were there texts, emails?
Demand he turn over all emails & texts pertaining to this Breakfast with the Oligarchs.

This smells like someone in that campaign's speech writers have been presenting a false image for donors & voters.

Buyer Beware

Great OP Skidmore

"Lies & the Lying Liars that tell them "
Al Franken

[Thinkingabout]

18. Yes, let's get the transcipts, might be hiding something. When one makes the rules, he

needs to be prepared to live by those rules, seems like he forgot about his actions. Now he has painted himself in the corner with his progressive and establishment rules, he will have to find his way out of the corner.

[Gothmog]

17. For Sanders, campaign finance purity not always possible

This is a good article http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sanders-campaign-finance-purity-not-always-possible

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) holds a fundraiser on the tony Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard every summer, which Sanders has attended several times to help raise funds for the campaign arm of Senate Democrats. Sanders is an independent who caucuses with the party.

Previously unreported are details about who exactly attended those fundraisers. A guest list shared with MSNBC from the 2007 event – the first year Sanders was in the Senate – shows the fundraiser featured 20 Democratic senators and their spouses, along with more than 100 lobbyists and wealthy donors who had donated the then-maximum $28,500 to the DSCC.

A Sanders campaign aide said the senator attended these events reluctantly and noted that New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has warmer relations with Wall Street, was leading the DSCC at the time and that Sanders and Schumer don’t agree on everything.

“The people who financially support the Democratic Party need to hear the message that Bernie is delivering and that is resonating all over the country. It is also important that the Democrats take back the Senate,” said spokesperson Michael Briggs.

The 2007 Martha’s Vineyard fundraiser guest list included professional lobbyists, corporate executives, trade association heads, labor union brass and wealthy individual donors.

Some are government relations executives directly employed by corporations such as the financial firms Blackrock and Prudential Financial, or the defense contractor Raytheon. Others represent large Washington law and lobbying firms, such as DLA Piper, Patton Boggs, and Akin Gump.

Some names stand out, like John Breaux, the former Democratic senator from Louisiana turned mega-lobbyist who has worked for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wal-Mart, Chevron, ExxonMobil and more. Then there’s former Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, who has represented many petrochemical and pipeline companies as well as Stanford Financial, the now defunct financial firm felled by an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Other guests included a lobbyist for the private equity firm Blackstone Group as well as those who have represented pipeline company Kinder Morgan, the American Petroleum Institute, pharmaceutical giants such as Merck and Allergan (now involved in a controversial inversion deal), and the pharmaceutical trade association, among others.

Sanders met with lobbyists from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks.

[William769]

19. Nuff said.

[misterhighwasted]

21. This is already being circulated in Nevada & SCarolina.

He has some puresplaining to do when he steps outside his corner of America.
What say you bern? Huh? What was that?

[asuhornets]

24. Say it ain't so Bernie!!! n/t

[asuhornets]

25. Can you

please, please, pretty please post this in GD: P?

[berniepdx420]

27. Are facts allowed in Hillary Group ??? How bout these facts....

From OpenSecrets.org

Hillary's Career Top Contributors

Citigroup Inc $824,402 $816,402 $8,000
Goldman Sachs $760,740 $750,740 $10,000
DLA Piper $700,530 $673,530 $27,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co $696,456 $693,456 $3,000
Morgan Stanley $636,564 $631,564 $5,000
EMILY's List $609,684 $605,764 $3,920
Time Warner $501,831 $476,831 $25,000
Skadden, Arps et al $469,290 $464,790 $4,500
University of California $417,327 $417,327 $0
Sullivan & Cromwell $369,150 $369,150 $0
Akin, Gump et al $364,478 $360,978 $3,500
Lehman Brothers $362,853 $359,853 $3,000
21st Century Fox $340,936 $340,936 $0
Cablevision Systems $336,613 $307,225 $29,388
Kirkland & Ellis $329,141 $312,141 $17,000
National Amusements Inc $328,312 $325,312 $3,000
Squire Patton Boggs $328,306 $322,868 $5,438
Greenberg Traurig LLP $327,890 $319,790 $8,100
Corning Inc $322,450 $304,450 $18,000
Credit Suisse Group $318,120 $308,120 $10,000


Bernie's Career Top Contributors


Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union $105,000 $0 $105,000
Teamsters Union $93,700 $700 $93,000
National Education Assn $89,242 $8,242 $81,000
United Auto Workers $79,750 $850 $78,900
United Food & Commercial Workers Union $72,500 $0 $72,500
Communications Workers of America $68,000 $1,500 $66,500
Laborers Union $64,000 $0 $64,000
Carpenters & Joiners Union $62,000 $0 $62,000
National Assn of Letter Carriers $61,000 $0 $61,000
American Assn for Justice $60,500 $500 $60,000
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $58,198 $1,200 $56,998
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $53,100 $100 $53,000
United Transportation Union $48,500 $0 $48,500
Sheet Metal Workers Union $47,000 $0 $47,000
Operating Engineers Union $46,100 $0 $46,100
Service Employees International Union $44,014 $5,750 $38,264
UNITE HERE $42,875 $3,250 $39,625
United Steelworkers $41,750 $750 $41,000
American Postal Workers Union $37,700 $0 $37,700
American Federation of Teachers $36,112 $745 $35,367

[wysi]

29. Facts are...

... but you're probably not.

[wysi]

28. That's going to leave a mark...

[NurseJackie]

31. Oh my-y-y-y-y!

[BlueMTexpat]

32. Skidmore -

one of our intruders just went over to the BS group to post about his/her experiences in this thread.

See, e.g., http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280113686

Not only do they come to dump. They then go on to gloat about it.

Such silliness!

[72DejaVu]

33. They are talking about a Banned From the Hillary Group Group

I think it's a great idea. It will make it much easier to know who to boot off the site after Hillary gets the nomination.

[still_one]

38. yup

[BlueMTexpat]

39. +1! eom

[Treant]

34. Should I respond?

I still don't have the chops of being banned from the Bernie group...should we see how few words it takes to get banned?

I'm thinking six--and that includes the title.

[BlueMTexpat]

37. LOL - I got banned

simply for requesting - politely - that they stop using GOPer memes to describe Hillary, so I am not one to ask.

But you're probably right about six being the limit.

[Treant]

40. I'm disinclined

to do so just because (unlike them) I don't go invading other candidates' groups, particularly when I don't like or approve of the candidate in question. It's supposed to be a space for supporters to build positive feelings and not have to deal with any crap.

But the li'l devil on my left shoulder is telling me to tweak some noses before the polls close at 7 PM. They'll be insufferable from around 8 PM through Nevada and South Carolina.

[BlueMTexpat]

42. I only happened on the thread by

happenstance because I generally avoid the BS toxicity. But as I had clicked on that OP and had just recently seen Skidmore's post, I couldn't resist bringing the OP back with me.

My devil has now hopped to your shoulder, I'm afraid! Perhaps you can be a better person than I!

[Treant]

43. There's nothing wrong with reading

if you want (I avoid it just for my blood pressure and sanity). I just won't post.

[fleabiscuit]

41. I bet you could do it with four letters in the title only. :-) nt

[Treant]

44. Oh, I could.

I try to avoid the classical "four letter words" except when critical, though. But I only need three letters, actually.

[72DejaVu]

35. The worst part?

Bernie asked for Egg Beaters!

[still_one]

36. I cannot help myself. It seems some are upset with this OP. I mean they have to

"sneak into the Hillary" group to obtain this super secret information... (much drama)

so I "sneaked into that other group", and:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280113686

but of course I cannot post in that OTHER GROUP, so I could not do the same amount of "sneaking" that they were able to do

[Fla Dem]

46. Let's see where Bernie will get the millions he needs if he becomes the nominee.

Obama raised $778.6 Million for the general election in 2008 and spent $760.4 million. Bernie while popular, doesn't have the ground swell Obama had. Where the heck is he going to get the money with no super-pacs, or moneyed donors. Surely his college and young adult fans won't be able to fund his campaign. It will be interesting to see from whom he accepts contributions. However I'm hoping we never have to find out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_for_the_2008_United_States_presidential_election