Press Release: "Sanders Accepts Clinton’s Challenge on Wall Street Speeches"

[Mufaddal]

February 19, 2016

ELKO, Nev. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign on Friday urged Hillary Clinton to keep her word and release the transcripts of speeches she gave to Wall Street firms “when everybody else does.”

“Sen. Sanders accepts Clinton’s challenge. He will release all of the transcripts of all of his Wall Street speeches. That’s easy. The fact is, there weren’t any. Bernie gave no speeches to Wall Street firms. He wasn’t paid anything while Secretary Clinton made millions, including $675,000 for three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs,” said Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs.

“So now we hope Secretary Clinton keeps her word and releases the transcripts of her speeches. We hope she agrees that the American people deserve to know what she told Wall Street behind closed doors,” Briggs added.

Clinton was paid $21.7 million in fees for speeches to groups including Wall Street firms, big corporations and trade associations for 92 talks she delivered from 2013 through last April in the run-up to formally launching her second presidential bid.

A question about what she said in those speeches was raised on Thursday during an MSNBC-Telemundo town hall in Las Vegas. A questioner in the audience asked her about why she won’t release the transcripts. Clinton said she would hand over her speech transcripts if other public officials did the same. “I’m happy to release anything I have when everybody else does the same,” Clinton said. Sanders is “everybody else” in the Democratic presidential field of candidates.

During a Feb. 4 Democratic presidential debate, Clinton was asked if she would release the transcripts of all her paid speeches. “I will look into it. I don’t know the status, but I will certainly look into it,” she said at the time.

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-accepts-clintons-challenge-on-wall-street-speeches/

[seaotter]

1. Since he has nothing to share, Hillary will not , either.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Oh Bernie, you are a master campaigner!

I love how he outwits Clinton at every turn. It's not that difficult--just be honest, be forthright and call her out on her bullshit.

So glad that Bernie is not only a candidate with the best policies and ideas for our country--but that he is also very clever, savvy and smart when it comes to politics and campaigning.

He really does know how to make HRC look like an idiot.

[libdem4life]

3. That gave me a chuckle, but it's getting almost...not quite...embarrassing for her. She never

had momentum ever, just assumption and starting out on top with high name recognition.

I so often think of The Rabbit and the Hare children's story when I look back over the past few months.

[Politicalboi]

4. The Rabbit and the Hare?

LOL!

[CoffeeCat]

5. That is a great analysis

So true. She never had any momentum. And most of her "support" was people who had been told that she ws going to be our nominee. PERIOD. Just accept it.

Her support has always been weak. It's always been based on the media shoving her down our throats.

Like you said--"assumption" and "name recognition."

That only works as a strategy when you have no worthy opponents, which she never dreamed would be the case.

<snicker>

[libdem4life]

6. Lo and behold, rumbling out of the tundra of Vermont, one who was raised in NY,

Brooklyn accent and all, came a Big Surprise. A Gomer Pyle type of Surprise .

[malokvale77]

10. It reminds me of a saying from my WV hillbilly friend.

Something new just popped out of the toaster.

[libdem4life]

11. Oh lord, I remember that. That's a Midwestern oldie but goodie.

[malokvale77]

12. He did spend some time in Michigan.

He has another saying I love. Whenever we start conversing philosophically, he stops me with "too many windows".

[libdem4life]

13. Never heard that one, but it reminded me of one of my Dad's favorite which may be relevant here...

Nobody can git yer goat if ya don't have a goat to git. Tweaked the spelling to Southern.

[malokvale77]

14. Too many windows...

comes from his time in prison (marijuana possession). They were teaching him how to use a computer. He often times got ahead of the computer's capabilities.

For sure, he's never had a goat to git.

[libdem4life]

15. No kidding. MJ possession...Grrrrr.

[malokvale77]

16. Yup

Sadly he is in custody of the TDCJ again for the same damned thing (7 years as a repeat offender).

Our criminal justice system has nothing to do with criminality or justice.

[FlatBaroque]

7. There is an interesting exhibit that I saw (can't find it right now)

which showed that in all of her elections, she has never gained ground. She always starts off with a huge lead (name recognition) and then as she campaigns her numbers drop until the election.

[libdem4life]

9. I only know of her national campaigns. During her New York campaign, I wasn't into politics much.

Just a bit aghast at how it happened...it seemed awfully fast.

[Punkingal]

8. Now if the MSM would just run with this. The bastards won't, though.

[eridani]

17. He did show one of his $500 speeches

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/19/calling-clintons-bluff-sanders-reveals-what-his-paid-speeches-look

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said during a town hall on Thursday evening she will release transcripts of paid, closed-door speeches she gave to Wall Street firms "when everyone else does."

That may be sooner than she thinks.

On Friday morning, rival Bernie Sanders appeared to throw down the gauntlet by posting a video of one of the speeches he was paid to give in 2011—and how much he was paid for it.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/700528013746655232

The above was a $500 speech.