Bernie Sanders’ Biggest Donors
Bernie Sanders’ Biggest Donors
Olivia Nuzzi
The Daily Beast
On May 21, George Yntema, an 89 year-old retired neurosurgeon from Tolland, Connecticut, mailed Bernie Sanders a check for $10,000. He didn’t know at the time, he told me, that it was well over the legal limit for a campaign contribution, which is $2,700, but he doesn’t much care now that he does know.
“I’m not worried about it,” he said. He expects that soon the campaign will send the bulk of it back, but “in the meantime, I hope they’re putting it to good use.”
Sanders’ 29 Big Money (again, for Sanders) Donors are largely older—many in their 70s and 80s—and retired, though some are in tech or in one case, wine. They are sprawled across the country, from Washington to Connecticut (and two from Vermont). And they tend to have one thing in common: they believe that Sanders, despite having spent 24 of his 74 years on Earth in Washington, is the outsider voice the country needs.
Victor Martino, 69, a retired former consultant from Washington who “worked a lot with Native American tribes in the Northwest” told me he likes Sanders, to the tune of $5,000, “because he looks like a real progressive and he’s acted like a real progressive for his Congressional career. There’s not much of an alternative right now.”
For Martino, Sanders’ greatest attribute is that he is not Clinton—who, he said is “too mainstream, neoliberal.”
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