Write a $10,000 CHECK And You Can PARTY With Hillary!

[Segami]

"...Just received this invite to a Hillary bash, it was sent out today by Michigan Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. I immediately hit the ‘unsubscribe’ button on her email and gave her an earful. You would think that with Bernie Sanders raising substantial campaign funds at $20 bucks a pop, the Clinton team would conclude that a big fancy expensive bash isn’t the best message to send. And in Detroit of all places, a city that has suffered terribly as a consequence of NAFTA and other neoliberal economic policies. The optics here are terrible, but maybe the HRC people are living in their own bubble of arrogance and just don’t get it.

For $2,700, those in attendance get a photo-op with Hillary, and for $10,000 they are offered the opportunity to attend a reception with HRC and pose with her for a photo, yippee! I hope this thing bombs and is a complete embarrassment. This is everything that is wrong with American politics in a nutshell...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/07/1466797/-Write-a-10-000-check-and-you-can-party-with-Hillary

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. LOL Michael Bolton.

That will bring the college kids out.

[Segami]

3. LOL..+1

I was thinking the same........Michael Bolton, a youth magnet!...

[hibbing]

12. hehehehe

I didn't think I would be the only one cracking up at that.

Peace

[bobbobbins01]

15. Maybe if he dresses like Jack Sparrow.

Kids these days.

[neverforget]

19. I think of Office Space everytime I hear his name

I've never seen this Funny or Die footage of the real Michael Bolton playing the Office Space character Michael Bolton

[Marty McGraw]

30. Very in-touch

( '-')

[INdemo]

40. Ya ????The youth will camp out to hear Michael Bolton no doubt

and for the young Hillary supporters that missed this fundraiser she will have Tony Bennett at next week's event.
LOL

[brooklynite]

2. I'll repeat the comment I posted on the DK thread: You CANNOT "write a $10,000 check"

The invitation says "RAISE $10,000". That means cajoling your friends, family and aquaintances to contribute on your behalf. That COULD mean ten $1,000 contributions, or it COULD mean getting 200 people to contribute $50 each.

[rhett o rick]

6. You obviously missed the point. nm

[anigbrowl]

29. OP clearly wanted to emphasize the CHECK part by helpfully putting it in caps

Good thing you're around to 'explain' the real meaning.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. OK, so change the title of this OP to

"Shake your friends and family down for 10 grand and you can party with Hillary"

[CoffeeCat]

22. LOL!!

I am lying in bed, reading this thread and laughing so hard!!

Your "shake-down" comment about did me in!

Shhh...Trying not to wake up hubby.

[onehandle]

4. I've met her more than once for free. This most be a fundraiser.

Not that hard to meet our next President, really.

[madokie]

8. You're shitt'n me

our next President LOL

if she's the nominee we'll have a republi'CON in the white house come next january

Hillary won't make it past july 4th

[Luminous Animal]

9. Gotta picture?

[Agschmid]

18. I do... And I certainly didn't pay $2,700 for it, though I could if I wanted to.

But I don't.

[bvf]

24. ^ THIS!

Anyone for anagrams?

[JonLeibowitz]

26. Exactly. Just travel coach on Southwest and you are bound to meet him eventually.

[underthematrix]

5. President Obama did these kind events as well. I want

her to do as many as she can because I want her to win. BTW, this is not about money this is about relationships.

[slipslidingaway]

10. Gosh I thought this was/should be about people winning, she does not represent my interests ...

in the GE she might very well lose to Trump. Several people I know who are affiliated with the other party will never vote for Clinton, but they have an open to Sanders and Warren if she would accept.

[underthematrix]

13. Of course not but you'll have health insurance, social security amd medicare when you need it

and gun control so you go to a restaurant and eat in peace.

[slipslidingaway]

17. Health insurance only teases you when there is a serious event, so please do not assume that all ...

is perfect. About 60% of those filing for medical bankruptcy have 'good insurance.' I just happened to glance at our medical claims today, I knew there were a lot of tests a few weeks ago, but what I saw was a 26K claim for 'something' I estimated it to be an 11k day with the labs and biopsy.

The 26K did not even cover all the tests that day. And the 3K per month drug, we are balancing who we owe this money to, our HC system is a nightmare. We are fortunate to have HC as many do not, even so it does not preclude bankruptcy and places undo stress stress when trying to heal. Never assume that all is well, there are so many factors! We have been on the phone the with the insurance company for the past four days, do they charge our CC over 3K for the drug or not? Will they ship the drug from the speciality pharmacy or not?

Never assume that all is guaranteed!

Sorry, bad month, year or 6 years here, but never never assume that all is well.

[underthematrix]

20. I had Obamacare in a BLUE state and loved it. I

had to switch to medicare when I turned 65. Part A $104.00 is deducted. I pay $150 for Part B (the Rolls Royce version which means there's no deductible and no copay for anything, nothing) and $15.85 for Part D. I wish I could pay one monthly fee for everything which was what I liked about Obamacare.

[slipslidingaway]

23. You are lucky then and congrats that you have not had a serious illness ...

but if you do, you are lucky to have Medicare. If you add up roughly 9K per year out of pocket maximums in addition to premiums of 7K + it can place a large strain on the budget, not to mention lost wages. If you do that for a few years you will see why over 60% of medical bankruptcies are those who had HC insurance.

Something has to change if we want our country to survive. We can speak of external threats, but we need a strong, and open minded base to combat threats from others and our middle class is shrinking. That is not a good thing.

[INdemo]

43. What was your deductables for Obama care

[840high]

11. Yeah - right lol

[slipslidingaway]

7. Where are the Sanders invitations to raise 10k, surely I've missed them ...

although I do remember the large sign on Library Place in Princeton for Obama and undoubtedly the admission price was not cheap!

Sanders needs to step up his game or rely on smaller contributions, over and over again.

One day at a time and small steps, that is how the people win.

[onenote]

41. Apparently you have missed them. See post 38.

And I have absolutely no problem with Bernie holding such a fundraising event. The goal is raise money. If someone can get $10K from a group of donors and give it Bernie, why should we think that's a bad thing?

[WillyT]

16. I'm So Weary Of The Obvious Bullshit...

& Rec !!!

[onenote]

42. I'm guessing you don't mean the bullshit in the OP title

which suggests that the price to attend the event is $10K (it's not) and that an individual must donate $10K to attend the pre-event reception (it's raise $10K, not donate). And since Bernie does the same thing, and I'm supporting Bernie, I hate this kind of bullshit too, just in a different way than you.

[hobbit709]

21. For starters, that's about $9,950 more than I got

and it's about $20,000 more than I'd give her.

[JI7]

25. you can make fun of Michael Bolton's music, but he actually DOES have a good record of supporting

causes to help people . poverty, sexism, racism, . he is a supporter of unions and performed for union members .

[bvf]

34. And more power to him for all those things.

But I don't think the poke was at his music as much as at his demographic appeal.

At the same time, I can see that a $300 minimum isn't going to go down easy with your average college kid, either, so there's that.

[JI7]

35. i think she gets Katy Perry and similar types to get the younger crowd

i wouldn't have been surprised if Bolton had endorsed Sanders since much of his activism is on helping unions/working class.

of the celeb endorsements i'm more impressed by bolton than some of the others she has gotten .

[GoneOffShore]

27. Come join the party inside the bubble.

[LibDemAlways]

28. A $300 contribution to be a "guest"?

A "guest" at one of these fundraisers gets nowhere near the candidate. Notice that guests have to cough up an additional $700 in order to become "supporters" and get "preferred" viewing. A mere "guest" gets the equivalent of a nosebleed seat behind a pillar at a concert while supporters are slightly further forward in the balcony.

I despise this type of segregation by the the size of one's wallet. We live with it at sporting events, concerts, live theatre, and on airplanes. But no one should be treated like a second class citizen at a political event. The idea that a person can buy access is sleazy.

[pnwmom]

32. Not true. I was a $200 guest at an Obama event and got a good seat.

The friend who invited me invited 8 other people, so it added up to a $2K table, and no one begrudged her her photo with Obama.

There is no such thing as a "nose bleed" seat in these smaller fundraisers.

[Divernan]

36. Clintons' prices dropping like firesale. Only $250 in Seattle this month!

Yes, you too can be in the same hotel conference room as "A Clinton!" for the low, Low, LOW price of only $250!!! I'm tellin' ya, Hillary. You need to start offering free Ginzu knives!!!. I'm series! I confess, I would consider going to one of her events - when the admission price drops to zero and she comps me $20.00 for downtown parking. Oh, plus about a buck/fifty for gas. And the aforementioned Ginzu knife of course!

So class, let us review. Last year, she held one of her $2700 "conversations with hillary" soirees in the elitist enclave of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. There were no discount prices for any guests. (July 21, 2015)

GROSSE POINTE, MI (July 21, 2015) -- Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a $2,700-a-ticket fundraiser in Grosse Pointe on Tuesday afternoon.
Democratic political strategist Jill Alper and her husband, David Katz, hosted Clinton from 3-5 p.m. at their Grosse Pointe home.
Police officers blocked anyone who didn't buy a ticket to see the likely 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, including media members.

But that very same month Clintons' prices started dropping. Here in Fox Chapel, PA, you got admission but no photo for $1,000.

"The event called "Conversations with Hillary" lists contribution levels of $1,000 for a "friend" on up to $27,000 which qualifies one as an "event host."

By last December, when Hill started sending an emaciated looking, quadruple by-pass heart patient, husband Bill out in winter weather to do 20 fundraisers in one month, the minimum admission had dropped to $500. She actually had him scheduled to do THREE fundraisers in ONE day, across the state from Pittsburgh to Bethlehem to Scranton. Turnout at Pittsburgh was low by all reports of those attending - so they spun it for the press as an "intimate" gathering, and the Bethlehem fundraiser was canceled the day before with no explanation and no future date.

Currently you can get it for only $250!!!

Former President Clinton is set to headline a fundraiser Friday in Seattle to raise money for the campaign of his wife, Democratic presidential front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The reception is scheduled from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Century Ballroom on Capitol Hill.

Tickets will cost $250 for a limited number of “young professional” spots, up to $2,700 for “champion” seats including a photo with the former president, according to the invitation.

Friday’s event will be closed to the media, a spokesman for President Clinton said in an email. No public events have been announced.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/president-clinton-to-raise-funds-in-seattle-friday-for-hillary-clintons-campaign/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_politics

Now I understand that Bill's health is so fragile that the only way he can travel is by a very luxurious private jet, but still! Scheduling him for 3 events in one day, or having to handle repeated changes in time zones??? When it comes to politics, he's like a race horse who will run his heart out (literally).

[pnwmom]

31. Because of events like this she was able to donate $18M in 2015 to help other Dems

get elected to Congress -- which is critical if a Democratic President is to pass progressive legislation .

Bernie-so-pure gave nothing last year to help other Dems, though his manager says he "plans" to.

[Marty McGraw]

33. Time to break out

all those gold & champagne HRC sig logos we were all seeing a few days back!

[Sunlei]

37. very nice, can be a guest at the event for only $300

[Alfresco]

38. Bernie's very own 10k fundraiser

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/15/bernie-sanders-has-fund-raiser-at-fancy-hollywood-home/?_r=3

Senator Bernie Sanders has repeatedly denounced campaigns that he says are built around their candidates attending fund-raisers. He has insisted he will not “go out hustling money from the wealthiest people in the country,” and declared at the first Democratic debate that he is “not raising money from millionaires and billionaires.”

Yet Mr. Sanders was cheered at a fancy campaign fund-raiser at the Hollywood home of Syd Leibovitch, a high-end real estate agent, and his wife, Linda, on Wednesday night.

Tickets for the event sold for a minimum of $250. Those who spent the maximum, $2,700, or who raised $10,000, were invited to a “pre-event reception,” according to the invitation.

The 14 co-hosts included Cindy Asner, the former wife of the actor Ed Asner, the actress Mimi Kennedy, and Benjamin W. Decker, whose website notes that he was once called the “legendary Hollywood P.R. maven” by Forbes magazine, and used to produce “celebrity-driven red-carpet movie premieres.”

[sufrommich]

39. Yep and the article reports it was his 9th such event.

[JoePhilly]

44. Its only bad when Hillary does it.