Bernie Sanders Raises $3 Million In Four Days - Sam Stein/HuffPo

[WillyT]

Bernie Sanders Raises $3 Million In Four Days
Sam Stein - HuffPo
Posted: 05/06/2015 1:59 pm EDT Updated: 27 minutes ago

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With the help of a crew of former aides to President Barack Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) campaign has raised $3 million in four days for his presidential campaign -- a dramatic indication that he won’t be confined simply to a long-shot role in the Democratic primary.

Sanders, who is running for president as a Democrat, announced on Wednesday that he has retained the services of the firm Revolution Messaging to run digital ads and online fundraising. The staffers with the firm who will be working on Sanders’ campaign include Revolution Messaging’s founder, Scott Goodstein, who ran the 2008 Obama campaign's social media and mobile programs; Arun Chaudhary, who was the first official White House videographer; Shauna Daly, who served as deputy research director on Obama’s 2008 campaign; and Walker Hamilton, who was a lead programmer for that campaign.

"Like a lot of Obama supporters, we were looking for a candidate with a track record of doing the right thing -- even if it meant taking on Wall Street billionaires and other powerful interests. A candidate who could inspire a movement," said Goodstein. "Bernie Sanders is that candidate."

Due to his long-standing criticism of the influence of big-money interests on government, Sanders has strong online and grassroots appeal, which he hopes to leverage to raise the money needed to fund a presidential campaign. And so far, the strategy looks savvy. The campaign has received roughly 75,000 contributions, and the average amount is $43. According to a campaign adviser, 99.4 percent of the donations have been $250 or less, and 185,000 supporters have signed up on the website BernieSanders.com.

Bringing on former Obama aides to help amplify that momentum...

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Link (w/Video): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/06/bernie-sanders-campaign_n_7224630.html

[liberal_at_heart]

1. Watch out. The dark horse is coming. Go Bernie!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. It could be something. And there is NO reason for ANY Hillary supporter to be bothered

by this.

How does WAKING up the sleepy be bad for anybody but the criminals.

The criminals are all republicans, all teaparty.

Think about the people who are going to register to vote, who wouldnt otherwise.

Many will still be voting in November no matter who is on the ballot.

This is win win for anybody who isnt a rightwing merchant of death

[cali]

6. agreed

[NBachers]

49. I'm a Hillary supporter, but I'm also over the moon about Bernie- he'll get action from me.

I love watching the Bernie phenomenon happen. We can only all be better for it.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

52. I am blown away by the first few days of his candidacy.

Remind people that many financial experts predict a MAJOR DISASTER very soon.

Thom Hartmann all but guarantees it, and it is the banksters who will do it, of course.

[lewebley3]

18. How much has come for the GOP, Rush is telling people to fund Bernie!

I am sticking with Hillary, we cannot afford the GOP in the white house, they
will send this country into war!

Not only is she the Dem's best hope, she is the most quailed.

[Vincardog]

21. That is sooo cute. On the one hand fund raising success is due to the GOP, OTOH HRC is the only one

who can win. Epic fail on both points.

you are free to cast your vote any way you please but please don't preach the RW crap.

[arcane1]

31. Hillary would NEVER agree to send the country to war!

[Vincardog]

58. Except that one time... And every time she had a voice in the matter.

[lewebley3]

68. Bush sent the Country to War, Alone, He said So!!

He didn't even call his mortal Dad!!

[progressoid]

92. After 373 members of congress gave him approval.

[betterdemsonly]

98. Not just once. She brags of wanting to commit troops to Libya and Syria

and she brags of their being no daylight between herself and Netanyahu on Iran, so there too.

[betterdemsonly]

97. Excepting for Libya, Syria and Iraq, and Iran. n/t

[imnew]

22. Yup it's important to keep the wheels of war going

[uppityperson]

23. Well, drones do cost money.

[imnew]

25. Yes they do

I thought it funny the posters main concern was to prevent war and the choice obviously to him or her is Hillary.

[lewebley3]

24. It is for the GOP: they make money from War: Greed comes first with them!

They watched Cheney loot the treasury for years with no bid contracts.

They wants some of that for themselves, the want this Iran war, Cotton says
American can take Iran in 7 days. ( 70million people In Iran)

He is crazy and dangerous.


The GOP must be stopped in 2016!!

[imnew]

26. Maybe then think about voting for an anti war person in the primary

Just a thought...

[lewebley3]

28. Hillary is anti-war: no one is pro war: Like no one is pro Abortion

Hillary is the anti war candidate, and she is qualified to be President!

[F4lconF16]

32. I am pro-abortion. nt

[haikugal]

79. I'm pro-abortion, too.

[bravenak]

110. Me too.nt

[Alittleliberal]

117. Me too nt

[arcane1]

34. The "anti-war candidate" voted to invade Iraq? What does that make the one who voted "no"?

[lewebley3]

45. Bush made the Decision to go to war Alone! He said so!

She voted to support the President, there was no vote on the Iraqi
war: and war was not declared, and just because you might have to vote
for war doesn't make one pro war: Just like having an abortion doesn't make
pro abortion. It's hard choice, but the sometimes necessary, and sadly
a correct decision.

Hillary is not pro war: far from it! and her vote was neither here nor there as we
all learned, the GOP planned this war before they were elected. Bush had all
the votes for the before he was elected.


Bernie's vote was easy one, it had no consequences, he has only 600,000 people in
his state almost all liberal.

Hillary, had the state of New York, over 8 million people: New Yorker were in favor
of the vote. \

[uncleverusername]

41. Hillary is anti-war?

This says otherwise:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237#top

[betterdemsonly]

99. Her record as Secretary of State says otherwise too

She nagged Obama to commit troops to Syria and Libya. She also brags of being one with Netenyahu on Iran. Nobody can mistake her for a peacenik.

[think]

29. The 200,000 volunteers who signed up to help Bernie must all be from the GOP too

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-06/bernie-sanders-says-more-than-200-000-people-have-signed-up-to-help-his-white-house-bid

[lewebley3]

46. No, but some of the GOP will be happy to help Bernie!

[frylock]

93. trololololo

[Fairgo]

112. Lo Lo, Lo, Lo

Tis the season, I guess.

[betterdemsonly]

101. Some Gop will be happy to help Hillary too, if you count wall street firms, and walmart heirs. n/t

[totodeinhere]

119. Actually I think that's true, but it's a good thing.

A lot of Republicans are yearning for a candidate who tells the truth and cannot be bought just like we are. I think there's a good chance that Bernie would get more Republican votes than Hillary would. And there's nothing wrong with nominating a candidate who would attract Republican votes in the general election. It's called winning.

[Exilednight]

33. If you heard it on Rush, it must be true.

Tou believe what Rush has to say and are supporting Hillary. You just made my choice easier.

[billhicks76]

38. Hilarious

Hillary is a war supporter. A hawk. Her actions support this. Obviously Candidate Hillary will tone it down to get elected but she is in the pocket of the military surveillance industrial complex.

[INdemo]

42. Bernie is a not a Ross Perot

He is not a spoiler.As was mentioned Bernie will bring out the voters to register that otherwise would not.
Bernie can win. Now ask me what I think about all this after Iowa or NH and I might back down but Bernie Sanders is going to surprise one hell-of-a-lot-of Hillary supporters. ..He is the Cinderella team we can believe in.

[lewebley3]

47. If he got the nomination, he would go down the Nader, and Denis Kucinh have!

And he would drag down the Party and lose the white house!

[arcane1]

53. You're embarrassing yourself n/t

[lewebley3]

55. Sadly: its just the Facts! You Dream of Bernie being a wizard to solve counties problems.

Politics is game best played in the real world!

[Vincardog]

60. Having a democratic candidate who wants to lead us in the direction we need to go is bad, how?

[lewebley3]

64. Leading the to Party lose, is the wrong direction: That puts the GOP in Charge!

That is what happen to Gore: his lost got us Bush!!

[Vincardog]

69. Who writes your stuff? You manage to be wrong on every point you make. If you are not being paid yo

should be. It takes a special kind of stupid to actually believe so many lies.

[lewebley3]

74. No just disagree with Sanders supporters!

[lewebley3]

124. No, just disagree with you! I know that must surprise a Bernie supporter.

It must shock to you to no, that their liberals whom are not in love with
Sanders. He is a politician too!!

[kenfrequed]

127. "he is a politician too"

I would stack Bernie Sanders record against any sitting congressperson and probably a lot of historic ones as well. The only Senators that match him are Franken and Warren these days and Teddy Kennedy and Paul Wellstone of old.

We all know who you seem to be standing for, my question is "what" you are standing for.

[Alittleliberal]

118. Please go educate yourself on the historic events you are posting about.

Until then you're just making yourself look bad.

[BrotherIvan]

63. That's not a new phenomenon

[INdemo]

95. So what you are saying is...In order for any candidate to win

they must be a Republican or a Republican lite. Or put another way,its Wall Streets choice or the corporate mafia's choice who occupies the White House because real Democrats (liberals) need not apply.??

I disagree about the Nader/Kucinich theory. If Bernie wins the nomination the voter turn out would set records because liberals would vote...

[betterdemsonly]

100. Neither Nader nor Kucinich got the nomination

If he lost the general you Hillary dems would be playing the role of Naderites because you won't vote for the nominee, no matter what, and don't care that the gop way more evil.

[INdemo]

113. What party? or Which Party?

Except for a very few Democrats...The Democratic Party is nothing more that a Republican Party II. Republican lites (I call them)
or Corporarats. Oh yes they go on those Sunday talk shows and pretend they are really defending the middle class interests but in reality their rhetoric goes just as far as what their corporate mafia bosses will allow.
Hillary is a good example of that..She wont come right out and state her position on the TPP because her Wall St funding partners are for it..Oh she says she would have to read it but hey she helped to write the damn thing.

Bernie Sanders is the Democrat of what the Democratic Party use to stand for until they were taken over by likes of the corporate mafia.
You should do some research about the Democratic Party of FDR or Harry Truman or Hubert Humphrey.
That's the Democratic Party I'm talking about.
I get really tired of hearing " One must be in the middle or middle right in order to win" Guess that statement came after the Democratic Party was bought by Wall St interests.

So NO Bernie Sanders will not bring down the Democratic Party he is reminding voters what the Democratic Party stood fpr before they were bought. Bernie Sanders will bring out the liberal voters that have sat out the last two elections.
If you truly disagree with Bernie Sanders supporters as you have stated then you are not a Democrat.

[Nay]

115. Lew, your nonsensical sentence structure, bad spelling and atrocious grammar are outing you.

Not to mention your hilarious political comments.

[cali]

43. link or? prove it. put up or, well, you know.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

56. It's true,

she may be the most "quailed," but certainly not the most qualified. That's what happens when you listen to Rush.

[lewebley3]

62. Rush hates Clinton, she is the threat not Bernie! She is the threat to the GOP

As, for qualified , its a fact that she is: Bernie is nice man right on issues with no accomplishments,
(Hillary and Him are the same on almost everything)

I have learned it over the years of watching her work in the pubic eye for the public.

I can count the office alone she was worked in, that have given her the experiences and
knowledge needed to lead this country. On top of all that she has been a loyal Dem!!!

[WillyT]

80. "... a loyal Dem." - That Used To Mean Something Different, A Few Decades Ago.

[lewebley3]

82. A loyal Dem is what Hillary is, she help lead the party since her Thirties.

She and Obama will be leading the party again 2016.


Warren and Sanders, should be the leaders in the Senate!

[WillyT]

85. A "Loyal" Dem Does Not "Triangulate" Pitting Dem Against Dem...

A "Loyal" Dem does not adopt/support Republican policies in order to accomplish that goal...

A "Loyal" Dem does not abandon the polices that held the DEMs in Congress for 40+ years...

A "Loyal" Dem does NOT entertain cutting back on Social Security benefits...

Or joining with Pete Peterson to do so...

Or Expanding the Police State...

Or agreeing with "Free" Trade Deals that kill of the Middle Class...

A "Loyal" Dem fights against ALL of those things...

A "Loyal" Dem does not vote for a war they probably knew were based on a lie... getting millions killed or injured...

[erronis]

86. Excellent. I'll copy this onwards.

[elzenmahn]

94. AMEN!!!!!!!!

This is PRECISELY why there is so much interest in Bernie's campaign.

"Loyal Dems" are NOT Third Wayers. They're like Bernie!

[Go Vols]

90. +1

[hedda_foil]

107. Who was in the office alone you can count her for?

[chknltl]

57. How does one become "most quailed"?

Are you alluding to something that right wing strategists are planning on springing on us in October about Hillary and Dan's ...um.... private lives? Does Bill even know about this yet?

[smokey nj]

59. One hunts with Dick Cheney?

[arcane1]

65. .

[chknltl]

72. I thought he only hunted 'kwazy wabbits' and friends.

[smokey nj]

76. If one can make it through a hunt with Dick Cheney without getting shot in the face,

one becomes automatically "most quailed."

[chknltl]

77. You sure that wouldn't make one 'most nimble'?

I'm leaning to 'most quailed' as being something kinky. Kids these days are into lotsa stuff with funny sounding names like this that we old fellers are simply clueless about.

[cyberswede]

81. Who cares? Their money spends just as well as anyone else's. nt

[lewebley3]

83. The is from people bash the Clinton's about money!!

[cyberswede]

84. Where have I bashed the Clintons about money?

[dreamnightwind]

106. I love your posts!

she is the most quailed, DUZY nomination.

Don't ever stop what you are doing, comedy gold.

[Rockyj]

108. Isn't Bernie JUST running against Hillary for President in a DEMOCRATIC primary?

SO if Hillary wins the Primary Bernie can't RUN as a Democratic PRESIDENT candidate?
SO WTF are you Hillary fanatics worried about?
Especially since if Bernie looses the Primary and his supporters will vote for her anyway?

CALM the F DOWN!

[lewebley3]

123. I am worried about Sanders doing a Hatched job on Hillary,

We have a chance to have a liberal court for almost 35 years if the Dem's are
successful. Sanders followers are hurting that effort, there seem to
value there pet ideologue issues.
Sanders is already dividing the party, the Sanders seem to have a nasty streak
toward bashing Hillary, the should be bashing the GOP, they are responsible
for most of the damage to this country starting with Regan.

Sanders people seem to want to date Sanders, not see him as Presidential candidate,
and he is a nice man: however he can only do harm to the party by dividing and leaving scars.

I think Hillary has earned the nomination a long time ago, and should run as almost
a stilling President with Obama's help. The electable rate is very high for sitting Presidents,
because there parties are already behind their candidate. Carter lost mostly because of
Ted Kennedy, a figure just like Sanders. Kennedy, did a hatchet job, and Carter never recovered:
so America was stuck with Regan, whom destroyed this country just like Bush in his
way. Remember, Bush was the result of Nader, Nader was not the linch pin to Gore's
loss, but Nader help Gore lose.
Lets learn from history, Dem can only when if they work as a team: Dem's would be head of
the game if they started out as a team. Hillary would sign any bill Warren or Sanders
would craft, Hillary is not an Ideologue she is a loyal Dem that wants to get things done!

Primaries do matter!!

[lewebley3]

126. What Bernie can do is help the GOP: and Hurt the Dem's chances!

Read the front page of the NY times, granted a bit of a rag,
but they are claiming that Jeb's , right wing rising pact is funding
the Sanders campaign, and is hiring people to pretend to
be Sanders supporters to attack Hillary.

[totodeinhere]

120. I don't care what in the fuck Rush says.

Bernie all the way.

[lewebley3]

125. I was right the Jeb's, right rising pact is using the Sanders Campaign!!

Read the story on the front a page of the DU, the GOP plan to use
Bernie Sanders supports take down the Hillary's numbers.


Sanders, is doing nothing but helping the GOP.

[hifiguy]

2. Wow! I yam both flabbergasked and thrilled

[Autumn]

4. Awesome WillyT. Will you post this in the Bernie Sanders group please?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1280

[WillyT]

13. Will Do !!!

[cali]

5. great news

Now we have to keep it up. Hey, he's already about 18% of the way to his goal of $50 million for the primaries- if you count what he already has in his Senate war chest

[AtomicKitten]

7. Damn good start.

[City Lights]

8. This is excellent news!

I plan on donating soon.

[Enthusiast]

9. Bernie for President! Really!

[BrotherIvan]

66. Perfect

[lewebley3]

71. Hillary is the rightway! 1st way, not the third way!

[arcane1]

10. He'll be getting even more on payday!

[one_voice]

11. Is that good? I don't pay attention...

to who raises what in what amount of time. I remember Obama being a especially good at raising money--only because they talked about it on the telly all the time.

Is what Bernie raised a good/above average amount to be raised?

I want all our guys/gals to do great. I want to decimate the pukes.

[cali]

15. yes, it's good

And unlike ALL other candidates it's only small donations, no corporate money, no bundling, no super pac

[one_voice]

37. oh! well then yes, it's very good...

thanks!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

73. while it is great that we're not dealing with Corp PAC money

the problem is that even if he continues to raise money at the current rate he will only raise $250million come primary time... Hillary will likely be close to $1billion. A 4/1 spending advantage for HRC will be hard to overcome.

sP

[JDPriestly]

91. Buy Hillary's big donors are corporations.

Over the years, Bernie's biggest donors have been unions.

If we want to change Citizens United, we need to vote for Bernie. He is putting his money where his mouth is. Hillary says she opposed big corporate donations, but she raised a lot of her money from big corporations.

Bernie means real change with regard to campaign finance, while Hillary, regardless of what she claims, means more of the same big corporate money funding campaigns.

[betterdemsonly]

102. He'll have a big gotv advantage over her and a long time to develope it. n/t

[KoKo]

12. Great News...

's.

[Cosmic Kitten]

14. Cha ching! Go Bernie!

[AllyCat]

16. I contributed a drop to that bucket!

[BeanMusical]

17. Kick and R.

WOOT!

[bigwillq]

19. Cool (nt)

[Divernan]

20. Someone tweet Diogenes -at last we've found an honest man!

Sanders offers an implicit challenge to the current system of national electoral politics. With rare exceptions, campaign season is a time when the backroom favorites of financial interests are marketed to the population. Weighed down by highly regressive policy intentions, these candidates need huge laboratories of focus groups and image consultants to guide them as they grope around for a few lines they can use to sell themselves to regular working people. (Divernan's comment: ya know, how to triangulate for power & humongous profits!)

Sanders on the other hand has no constituency among the monied crowd. "Billionaires do not flock to my campaign," he quipped. So what his race is about is the reverse of the usual process: he'll be marketing the interests of regular people to the gatekeeping Washington press, in the hope that they will give his ideas a fair shot.

It's a little-known fact, but we reporters could successfully sell Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or any other populist candidate as a serious contender for the White House if we wanted to. Hell, we told Americans it was okay to vote for George Bush, a man who moves his lips when he reads.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/give-em-hell-bernie-20150429#ixzz3ZOgsiKcE
Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

[hifiguy]

27. That last paragraph of Taibbi's is very telling.

Thanks to the media sycophants who refuse to ask tough questions, which Bernie can handle in his sleep, this country had to suffer through two terms of a coke-addled idiot drunk monkey who was goofier than a left-handed football bat and who could, left to his own devices, fuck up a two car funeral on a one way street even if you spotted him the hearse.

[smokey nj]

35. Awesome response.

[orpupilofnature57]

36. + 1000 !!!

[orpupilofnature57]

30. He's an easy sell, Integrity & Altruism is a Rare commodity in the Dome. n/t

[PasadenaTrudy]

39. I'm donating monthly now

Just signed up today

[arcane1]

40. I'm (im)patiently waiting for payday.

In two days!

[cantbeserious]

44. Great News

eom

[Rafale]

48. Dreams

Who gave the cash? He's the country's only hope, but Goldman, Citigroup, et al. typically give money to all. The Senator may need a billion dollars at least. Wouldn't be crazy (good) though if he could pull it off without a billion bucks? I have a dream, a new dream.

I regret my realpolitik comments sometimes.

[Rafale]

50. FYI.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/sanders-plays-small-ball-on-fundraising-still-racks-up-big-totals/

[KamaAina]

51. How much of that came from Wall Street?

[donnasgirl]

61. None of it

LOL, it is refreshing to know that there are still some with integrity.

[TBF]

87. I gave $100 - hopefully the unions will be able

to do more. I plan to give that monthly. The corporations will give a lot more to their candidates, but there are many more of us. Even if each only gives $5 a month (or $2 - whatever we can) it adds up when it is millions of people. We can do this!

[liberal_at_heart]

103. I'm giving a monthly donation. I too hope labor and teacher unions will send some

support and money his way.

[andrewgerst]

54. wow

$3 million in 4 days? wow good for him!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

67. It's so great

that this much money is coming in this early. It will enable the campaign to plan formidable advertising to get his message and name out in plenty of time. I hope millions of people sign up for monthly donations to keep the momentum going.

K&R

[BrotherIvan]

70. Oooh yeah

[FlatBaroque]

75. Reality check

Another 1000 days like this and he will raise half of what the heir apparent will have to spend.

[cali]

78. His goal is $50 million for the primary. nt

[NYC_SKP]

96. I hope we can get the DNC and HRC to agree to a few more debates, they're free!

Which is why the DNC and HRC want them limited, IMHO.

[TBF]

89. True but he is smart about getting his message out

via social media & with some money he can buy ads. He's talking seriously about class and we won't get that from other candidates. It will resonate with folks. You're not the only one who is "Flat Baroque".

[DirkGently]

88. KNR

[Rex]

104. SCARY SCARY!!!!

nt

[frylock]

109. And The Very Sensible People are losing their collective shit

[Suji to Seoul]

111. Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

[turbinetree]

114. Its really nice

to have some of this discussion going on about Bernie and Clinton.............but

The big question to ask is,
Who will be on / in the respective staff-----look at the campaign contribution lists
And the possible four U.S. Supreme Court justices that are over the age of 75 and 80 years old

Who do you trust to appoint staff members to help you and me.
And who is going to nominate a U.S. Supreme court justice that is going to help you and me

I support Mr. Sanders on the above two issues and I was part of the 3 million plus donors of time and money--------------yeah

Why don't a corporation come out and do the same with Clinton?
Just asking...................

[L0oniX]

116. K & R

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

121. They may think it's a MOVEMENT

And can you imagine fifty people a day? I said FIFTY people a day . . .
Walkin' in, singin' a bar of "Alice's Restaurant" and walkin' out? Friends,
They may think it's a MOVEMENT, and that's what it is: THE ALICE'S
RESTAURANT ANTI-MASSACREE MOVEMENT! . . . and all you gotta do to join is to
Sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.

Arlo Guthrie

[WillyT]

122. LOL !!!