Is Bernie Holding Out for $10-15 Million In Charity for Debate? Or, Is This Trump's Condition?
I am reading some posts in this thread proudly noting how the debate will raise money for women's health issues. My question then is Bernie also participating in demands that networks pay millions as a fee to host the debate?
If so, that sounds like a terrible precedent for elected leaders to insist that companies make pledges to "charities" of their choice in order to host a debate. This reminds of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush who was convicted of pressuring insurance companies to donate moneys to charities of his choice. The fact that the money was not paid to him was not a defense.
Yet, we have Bernie and Don the Douche suddenly turning a political debate into some sort of cage match where the media has to pay money to host it. Then, at the end, both claim credit for the millions raised while claiming that they were not actually being paid for the spectacle.
http://abc7.com/archive/5992745/
Quackenbush has won the statewide race for insurance commissioner in 1994 and 1998, and was considered a possible Republican gubernatorial candidate. But his rising star was tarnished in 2000 when he admitted that insurance companies had secretly paid into two charitable foundations he controlled and were given permission to evade paying what they owed to victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Evidence showed that the Republican official had channeled more than $500,000 into a sports foundation for a league in which his children played. Other evidence showed he accepted a $1 million contribution for his charities from an insurance company at the same time he was deciding to it off the hook for in settlement due to quake victims.
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