Hillary Clinton slam dunks Bernie Sanders after he falsely accuses her of fundraising violations

[Her Sister]

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http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/hillary-clinton-slam-dunks-bernie-sanders-after-he-falsely-accuses-her-of-fundraising-violations/24525/

Excerpts:

Sanders is suddenly insisting that the fundraising Hillary Clinton has been doing for congressional democratic candidates, including a recent $15 million event hosted by George Clooney, is merely being funneled back into the Clinton campaign itself. Strangely, while Sanders is filing this complaint of supposed “fundraising violations” with the Democratic National Committee, no such complaint has apparently been filed with the Federal Election Commission, which would be protocol for any actual violations.

The move, which comes off as obvious grandstanding and an attempt at distracting from the fact that Sanders has done virtually no congressional fundraising of his own (apart from three fringe candidates who endorsed him), has prompted the Clinton campaign to fire back publicly: “As Senator Sanders faces nearly insurmountable odds, he is resorting to baseless accusations of illegal actions and poisoning the well for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. It is shameful that Senator Sanders has resorted to irresponsible and misleading attacks just to raise money for himself.”

Edit:
This has to do with this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1107106183
BREAKING: BS camp is accusing the Clinton camp & DNC of colluding to violate campaign finan (HRC GP)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. +1000

Smackdown!!!

[LoveMyCali]

2. Ouch

“As Senator Sanders faces nearly insurmountable odds, he is resorting to baseless accusations of illegal actions and poisoning the well for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. It is shameful that Senator Sanders has resorted to irresponsible and misleading attacks just to raise money for himself.”

That will leave a mark.

[DesertFlower]

8. i agree. he's hurting other

democrats too.

[liberal N proud]

3. Another fail.

[Cha]

4. "It is shameful that Senator Sanders has resorted to irresponsible and misleading attacks just to

raise money for himself.”

This is nothing new for BS.. he did it off of President Obama, too.

There are no words I can use right now to express my loathing for this despicable ******.

[MBS]

7. +1 n/t

[displacedtexan]

5. I just finished reading ALL of the comments on this crap at TPM.

Out of all of the comments, there was one lone BS defender, whose entire argument was, "you people are just alienating all of the new Bernie supporters!"

That's the extent of the defense: we'll take our votes and go home.

To which I say, "There's the door."

[Cha]

6. Yeah, those kind of threats from a BSr always crack me up.. they come in here and

do that, too.

My answer: We don't care. We'll do it without you.

[SunSeeker]

18. We did it without them in 2012.

They all stayed home because they were so disappointed in Obama. Obama won regardless. Decisively.

[ismnotwasm]

9. The Conspiracy theorists are out with "money laundering" charges and other assorted nonsense

A lot of verbiage and babble, based on one article from what I can tell. Hillary's campaign numbers are all on open secrets. There is no "there" there.

[politicaljunkie41910]

10. "Honest" Bernie said (I believe it was the NY Debate) when he was accused of not fundraising for

other members of the Democratic Party, that he had written letters for others in previous years which amounted to millions of dollars raised. He doesn't say whether he personally raised millions of dollars for candidates from his personal letters to constituents, or whether those candidates raised millions from his and other members of congress sending letters.

Well he tried to pull that same speech on "This Week with George Stephanapolis's' show and George asked him specifically about that comment. Bernie was forced to backpeddle when asked had he raised any money for other Dems or written ANY letters on behalf of fellow Dems, and stated that he HAD NOT raised any money for Dems during this campaign cycle, but had written letters in previous election campaigns.

Personally, I don't consider writing letters to be fundraising in the same sense that you would consider when someone has a Fundraising Event like George Clooney hosted for Hillary and those others in the Democratic Party. I you just write a letter, a person can respond to that request or not, but you really haven't done much. Those of us who have been on the recipient side of those emails or letters, know that these mass mailing are done by others. If it's an email, you just attach a donors list and push a button. It's not really any sweat off your back to have done so.

[stopbush]

12. Normal response rate on direct mail appeals

is .5% - 3% if you're lucky. And the letters are written by someone else. The candidate doesn't even sign them. You either have the person's signature on file as a graphic element or you use an autopen.

Sanders has done less than nothing.

[stopbush]

11. Sanders disgusts me.

I'll be so happy when he is gone.

[Iliyah]

13. Sounds like his campaign is imploding.

[LiberalFighter]

14. Didn't Sanders say he wasn't going to use negative campaigning?

[Tanuki]

15. Swiftboating at its finest. Bernie is taking a strength and virtue of Hillary's, raising money for

other Democrats (something he has for the most part never bothered to do), and tries to distort it into something negative and a liability. Tad Devine apparently learned a lesson or two from Jerome Corsi during the Kerry campaign.

[Rose Siding]

16. Once upon a time, it was only Republicans who employed this strategy against her

[pandr32]

17. I am convinced these baseless attacks are meant to rile his supporters

It is a code. They get riled up and then make trouble at the primary voting sites. If they protest or swarm it intimidates Hillary supporters who don't behave the same way. It might give Sanders an advantage (even a little bit helps) with the final numbers and he is keeping his base engaged, albeit in a negative way. It is a revolution after all.

[Cha]

19. Oh yeah.. it's goplaybook 101.. BS thinks he's hurting the Dem party but

I think he's only hurting himself.

And, when the gop play these ads of BS slamming Hillary on Everything in the GE.. no one will give a shite because.. BS.

pandr

[pandr32]

23. I so hope today HC knocks BS off his sanctimonious feet for good

Aloha Cha!

[Cha]

24. Aloha, pandr!

BS has lost his credibility.. no one pays attention to such a sore loser.

[SunSeeker]

20. Love the comments at TPM over this.

One of my favorites:

truthiness

Bernie signed the same agreement Hillary did. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-2016-fundraising-dnc-21555916 So not only is this guy a.) not raising funds for downticket Dems despite b.) having signed a joint fundraising agreement to do so c.) he's attacking Hillary for actually raising money to help downticket Dems d.) lying about this e.) suing the DNC over this like f.) fundraising off this lie --but only for himself of course, because screw helping downticket Dems.

Oh and I forgot the part where he thinks he's going to get the Party's establishment to over turn the will of the people by overriding the pledged delegate. You know? the Party he's crapping on...again. And btw, so the DNC will have to spend money/time on this crap lawsuit rather than say, defeating Repubs across the country.

I mean of course Bernie doesn't need a Dem Senate to actually pass any of his unicorn policies. Nope, of course not! He'll have The Revolution! and three million people outside Mitch McConnell's office. Which would be so much more effective than say, working with Majority Whip Schumer to get the rest of the Senate to pass things.

I keep on thinking Bernie will stop sucking, and making me hate him more, but I guess not.

http://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/discussion-clinton-sanders-campaigns-trade-barbs-over-clinton-dnc-fundraising/36470

[Lucinda]

21. KNR

[Surya Gayatri]

22. BS and his bros are losing credibility every time they open their twitter accounts.

Deceitful, disingenuous, and just thoroughly disgusting.

The sooner they ride off into the sunset, on the quixotic steed they rode in on, the better.