2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBarbara Boxer's net worth is $3.2 million
http://members-of-congress.insidegov.com/l/27/Barbara-BoxerNo wonder why she can defiantly support Hillary...
Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)That said she does seem to be a liberal - but where do Congress people get all this money - one just has to ask.
.99center
(1,237 posts)She's the most liberal woman in America, next to Clinton! Ignore all fair criticism's you've read about her over the years on DU. She's liberal compared to a lot of elected officials but that's not saying much.
dchill
(38,505 posts)AND she's a Clinton superdelegate. Other than that, completely impartial.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)And who are you quoting the authoritarian meme?
Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)to provide tax returns. What a sneaking and lying way to try to change the subject.
AgerolanAmerican
(1,000 posts)My understanding is that it's tradition but not a law.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,747 posts)to the public. It has been customary since the '70s but it is not required. The only requirement is the same one that applies to everybody, which is to file tax returns with the IRS. Which he did.
riversedge
(70,245 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,747 posts)which is not correct.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)requirements, and has failed to disclose those facts required. That means he was never serious about running for President.
Here is the requirement in plain English, Sanders has failed to file by May 15.
Forms to be filed by:
Senators who were Members for 61 days or more in the previous year are required to file an annual report by May 15 of each year.
Candidates for Senate who must file within 30 days of becoming a candidate or by May 15th, whichever is later, but in no event later than 30 days prior to any election.
Officers and employees who received compensation for more than 60 days during the previous year at an annual rate of pay in excess of 120% of basic pay in effect for the GS-15 rate, which in 2014 was $120,749.
Employees designated as a principal assistant by a Member (who does not have an employee compensated at an annual rate of pay in excess of 120% of GS-15).
Employees designated to handle political funds under Rule 41.
Other individuals, pursuant to Rule 41, whose salary is at or above 120% of GS-15 level which include:
A reemployed annuitant (whose annuity is treated as disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate).
An officer or employee of the federal government on assignment to a committee of the Senate or to a joint entity of Congress on a reimbursable basis.
An individual who performs full-time services for any committee or office and whose salary is not paid by the United States government.
Individuals include, if the salary and period of employment thresholds are met, temporary or part-time employees, consultants, educational fellows and other temporary assistants paid from non-governmental funds.
Employees who commence employment in 2015 who expect to be compensated for greater than 60 days at an annual rate of compensation equal to or in excess of 120% the rate of annual pay in effect in 2015 for GS-15 ($121,956) file within 30 days of commencing employment.
Employees are identified above, and Senators, shall file on or before the thirtieth day after termination of employment/retirement of such position, a report covering the preceding calendar year and covering the portion of the calendar year in which the termination/retirement occurs, up to the date the individual left such office or position, unless the individual has accepted employment in another position which would necessitate the May 15, 2015 filing.
Periodic Transaction Report Forms
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (STOCK Act) require Senators and senior staff (earning $121,956 or more in CY 2015) to periodically disclose certain financial transactions. Filers must promptly report any purchase, sale, or exchange of any stock, bond, commodities future, and other securities if the transaction exceeds $1,000.
Reports should be filed with:
Senate Office of Public Records
232 Hart Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-7116
202-224-0322
Or electronically at https://efd.senate.gov
For further information contact:
Select Committee on Ethics
220 Hart Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-6425
202-224-2981
There is no exception for "democratic" socialist senators, but Sanders took one anyway, like a common republican taking a whole pocketful of mints on the way out of a restaurant. Socialism: you can take what is not yours to take.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)As he filed them also
She going to release her transcripts?
snort
(2,334 posts)Perhaps you're just not paying attention.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)Except for your high post count,I would have thought you are a Republican troll. Are you going to vote for Trump after Shanders loses?
dchill
(38,505 posts)And "Shanders?" Is that a typo, a smear, or what?
And we DO still have secret ballot. But here's a hint: NO creep is getting my vote.
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)And its only a historical fact in YOUR dreams. But if you want you dreams to come true badly enough, you will eventually end up believing they are true.
Example, think of all of the people on DU, perhaps you included, who were absolutely convinced Sanders would win the nomination, not a question in their minds. Think of people who still seem convinced that he has a good chance of making their dreams/beliefs come true.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)But easier to carp about years not included. I guess those are the ones where he made and spent $31 million making speeches but doesn't want anyone to know. Or maybe that year he made a killing on oil stocks and stashed it away in secret real estate investments.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)annavictorious
(934 posts)Sanders berned $1,000,000 IN ONE DAY chartering a Delta 767 jet for an overnight "pretend meeting with the Pope" junket to Rome for his family and friends.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/04/17/menu-on-bernie-sanders-private-flight-to-rome-should-have-his-donors-vomiting-329915
DrDan
(20,411 posts)jamese777
(546 posts)39 in the House and 2 in the Senate. 37 of them have endorsed Hillary Clinton and none have endorsed Bernie Sanders.
4 members of the House have not endorsed anyone including Nancy Pelosi who says she won't be endorsing anyone because she is Minority Leader.
Response to jamese777 (Reply #12)
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BootinUp
(47,165 posts)under that Bern Bus with ya.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Zynx
(21,328 posts)Susan Sarandon has a good deal more than that. So does Michael Moore.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Zynx
(21,328 posts)They've done well, but that's hardly a stratospheric amount of cash.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)$3.2 Million? And from California? She could have been raking in a lot more
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Plus she has incentive to support Hillary due to her family ties.
jamese777
(546 posts)She has a lifetime 3% conservative voting record from the American Conservative Union.
Americans For Democratics Action gave her a 100% rating.
The AFL-CIO gives her a lifetime 97% pro-labor rating.
http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/53274/barbara-boxer#.Vzj_Xrx-yrU
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)She has obviously been a better money manager than Bernie. What's he done with all that money?
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Response to itsrobert (Reply #15)
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jamese777
(546 posts)all have wealthy husbands whose earnings count toward their net worth.
Boxer's husband, Stewart, a prominent attorney in Oakland, represents injured workers in worker's compensation cases, keeping a very low political profile. In 2006, the Boxers sold their house in Greenbrae, where they had lived for many years, and moved to Rancho Mirage.
Senator Boxer is number 44 in net worth among the 100 senators. By way of contrast, Republican California Congressman Darrell Issa has a net worth of $437 million, Nancy Pelosi is at $101 million and Diane Feinstein is at $94 million
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Probably a whole lot more than that considering that he raised millions and millions in this campaign. That's millions that Jane Sanders has received in pay, because we all know that he has paid her for working on his campaigns. Open your eyes.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)And was poor for much of his life.
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silvershadow
(10,336 posts)decades upon decades. Their current net worth is modest, and most importantly, was all gained from ordinary income.
jamese777
(546 posts)$174,000 a year in salary and when he was in the House of Representatives starting in 1991 he made $125,000 and when he left the House in 2007 he was making $165,000. He's made good money in the federal government for the last 25 years.
Bernie's wife made $160,000 a year as President of Burlington College and she got a $200,000 severance package when she left.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Values
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)he makes less in a year than she makes in one speech to Wall Street?? Wow!
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)jamese777
(546 posts)If he's saved any money at all after working at good paying jobs for the last 50 years or more and having a gainfully employed wife and only 1 child to support, he should be worth well over a million. His home alone, with the mortage paid off by now should be worth at least $400,000.
His jobs in Congress for 25 years pay well over $100,000 a year plus benefits.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)doc03
(35,349 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Does anyone pass the purity test anymore??
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)out of touch with the rest of Americans on economic issues.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)that alone would give her a net worth of $3 million dollars. It's simple economics regarding Bay Area property values. It doesn't mean anything. I know people who have had similar home values that have escalated like that. The problem is that they love the area they live in and can't bring themselves to leave. They will move away once they retire and try to cash in, but by the time they fix it up and sell it and pay capital gains taxes on it, they won't have netted that much, particularly when they go house hunting in any other desirable part of the country.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Pretty amazing, huh?
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)the bus because they did not support Sanders. Establishment, I tell you. Corporatist.
Sanders walks into the Dem party, owns it, and dumps all party members to hold the title, that he has bashed for five decades.
What a man.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)Policy matters more than personality.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)Bernie would be worth that if he didn't use #berniemath in his financial decisions.
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)and live off the government teet.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)That wording sounds like it could've been from FreeRepublic.
beaglelover
(3,486 posts)We do exist on this website you know.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)You react the same way as Republicans and just proves what I've been saying before, that you guys are just moderate Republicans that lean left on social issues.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)There is an anti success attitude among BSS that accuses anyone who has done well of being a Republican. You BSS think anyone besides Sanders supporters that has had success is evil. It's just plain ignorance.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Even though part of that prosperity was likely from the massive postwar boom that was made possible by both the aftermath of World War II and FDR's GI Bill.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)beaglelover
(3,486 posts)education in something marketable and work hard. This is America baby!!
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Then you indirectly benefited from it too.
Anyone else that had jobs during the postwar era also benefited due to the purchasing power of Americans during that time stimulating a lot of job growth.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)bigtree
(85,999 posts)...piss off California by attacking this popular legislator before their primary.
Winning!
anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)account should be near this much. Everything I've read says that a couple should save at least one million in retirement accounts, and houses in California are expensive. I don't really think she's all that wealthy.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)If you're not with us, you're against us.
If you don't follow our one path, you're doing the devil's work.
This tells you why Socialism can't work in this country without it being a totalitarian dictatorship. We are a melting pot that doesn't easily melt -- we divide, subdivide, and divide even further. Unless we get to the point of unity -- where we reach OUT to each other and form cohesion -- the ideals people like Sanders and his supporters espouse will never become reality... not even a step closer.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)You guys don't give a shit that much of us are suffering, and act like economic issues are petty and can be ignored.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)I know that's difficult, but try it.
Maybe we care as much (or -- gasp! -- MORE) about people who are suffering. Maybe even more Clinton supporters are AMONG the suffering, and maybe they aren't stupid. Maybe economic issues are the top priority involved.
Can you imagine that? Or are you just right all the time about everything?
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)yet its much harder to actually prove it. Words are cheap, actions and behavior are much more telling.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)Just because you say so doesn't mean it's so.
My point is about being open to the possibility that maybe -- just maybe -- you are wrong, especially when you are characterizing what's inside other people's hearts and minds.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)opposed to an ax? I want a cleaner cut.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)However the economic issues are more important to me.
As MLK Said:
''What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can't buy a hamburger?''
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)blue neen
(12,322 posts)And FDR was dirt poor, right?
Beacool
(30,250 posts)spin
(17,493 posts)definitely don't want to see that happen.
Norrin Radd
(4,959 posts)back?
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Norrin Radd
(4,959 posts)remembered.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"Barbara Boxer's net worth is $3.2 million
No wonder why she can defiantly support Hillary..."
Anyone know what Weaver is worth? How about Silverman? Killer Mike?
I could do this all day. The argument you put forth is mentally bankrupt at best. That is giving you benefit of the doubt.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)"Both Clintons declined to be interviewed or comment for this article."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I wonder if she paid her fair share of taxes... just like Bernie does (so we're told.)
blue neen
(12,322 posts)While we're on the subject, what was LBJ worth?
Here's another good Democrat who was wealthy, JFK. What was he worth?
What's Alan Grayson worth? Who is he supporting in the primaries?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Run with it!!
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)That's what powers DC.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)Boxer, nor Hillary are even close to an FDR. he may have had money but he didn't earn it by graft, trading votes for gold, like most of the Corporate Dems do today.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)etc. I can go on in some detail cherry-picking his actions.
He also ran on a platform of balancing the budget and cutting public expenditures in 1932.
He was also born into extreme wealth and privilege. I thought that was the ultimate sin. Boxer has never done anything sordid in her rise in wealth. She has simply been a public servant and her husband is a lawyer.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)he was one bad dude for sure. It's taken your camp how many decades to try and undo the damage he accomplished for the middle class? And you're not completely done yet. God speed to you....time is running out.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)The family of JFK and Bobby Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)Grayson is supporting Bernie Sanders.