It's Hypocritical Of Sanders To Denounce PAC's & Yet Profit From Them

[KittyWampus]

Let it be noted, he only stopped denouncing them in his campaign shortly after receiving benefits from them.

That's the truth neither he nor his supporters can refute.

All they can do is change the subject.

When you are as sanctimonious as Sanders it's inevitable that your hypocrisy will start showing.

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Yup. Bernie is now the largest recipient of Super PAC money

Bernie in May 2015:

Bernie Sanders pledges not to accept super PAC support

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday reiterated his pledge not to accept super PAC support but stopped short of knocking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s decision to court allied super PAC donors.

“I understand where she is coming from. But I will not have a super PAC,” Sanders, who last month launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “...I don't think we're going to outspend Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush or anybody else, but I think we are going to raise the kinds of money that we need to run a strong and winning campaign.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/10/bernie-sanders-pledges-not-to-accept-super-pac-support/

Bernie in 2016:

Bernie Sanders Tops His Rivals in Use of Outside Money

DES MOINES — As he swung through Iowa this week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont rarely passed up a chance to bash the rising tide of money in politics, a system he said on Tuesday was “corrupt and undermining American democracy.”

At many of these stops, he was accompanied by members of National Nurses United, a seven-year-old union, fanning out from a bright-red bus in matching red scrubs to corral potential Sanders votes.

But the union is not just busing nurses into Iowa. The union’s “super PAC” has spent close to $1 million on ads and other support for Mr. Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has inspired liberal voters with his calls to eradicate such outside groups. In fact, more super PAC money has been spent so far in express support of Mr. Sanders than for either of his Democratic rivals, including Hillary Clinton, according to Federal Election Commission records.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-is-democrats-top-beneficiary-of-outside-spending-like-it-or-not.html?_r=0

[KittyWampus]

3. If Clinton wants to go for his jugular she should have someone find out the last time

Sanders denounced them and see how soon before he got money from one.

[Iliyah]

2. Yep

[Jefferson23]

4. lol

Carry on.

[angrychair]

5. No affiliated SuperPAC. None.

Read and learn:
"The difference between unaffiliated and affiliated super PACs "gets to the core issue of coordination and non-coordination in the post-Citizens United era," said Robert McGuire, a research analyst with the Center for Responsive Politics.

Affiliated super PACs are often created or staffed by the candidate's political allies and act as extensions of the official campaigns. Though these independent groups are not allowed to donate directly to or coordinate with campaigns, they’ve have found ways to toe the
line...Unaffiliated super PACs are different. The two pro-Sanders super PACs --have no ties to Sanders or his campaign."
Politifact states that he does not have an affiliated SuperPAC associated with the Sanders campaign:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/30/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-only-presidential-candidates-withou/

It's not like he has 24 affiliated SuperPACs and is using loopholes in the law to coordinate directly with their SuperPAC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/12/01/super-pacs-dark-money-and-the-hillary-clinton-campaign-part-1/

[99th_Monkey]

8. Don't confuse us with FACTS! How rude & sexist of you! n/t

[last1standing]

6. This OP is a lie. Bernie has never denounced PACs.

He has denounced super PACs and has never coordinated with one or supported their actions. If you can prove otherwise, please post your evidence.

[hobbit709]

7. Must be today's memo. How many OPs today about this?

[99th_Monkey]

9. This started yesterday actually There's nothing new today, cuz that's all they got.

[NurseJackie]

10. YES.