Naomi Klein: I don't trust Hillary Clinton

[JDPriestly]

50. These problems can easily be dealt with. It's just a matter of accounting.

Money will be returned. It won't be a matter of huge amounts of money.

I don't think Bernie ever expected the kind of response that his campaign has met up with.

No one in their right mind would think that these discrepancies are due to any malice or even carelessness on the part of Bernie's campaign. He is just overwhelmed by a response to his candidacy that is way beyond his expectation.

He is going to win by good margins in the Western states, especially those of us who border on the Pacific ocean I think.

He has plenty of money to be able to deal with these minor questions about his financial reports. It is just a matter of taking care of details he never expected to have to deal with.

Campaign finance law and regulation is important but quite cumbersome. I think we need publicly financed campaigns so we don't have this kind of reporting to deal with.

Bernie is a wonderful human being.

Hillary has much bigger problems. I thought originally that the e-mail controversy was just another Republican "scandal" with no there there, but now I am reading about the problems with the classified information sent to Sidney Blumenthal. What a mess. A much worse scandal than Bernie's overly zealous and uninformed donors.

Bernie will work this contribution problem out. It should not be difficult.

A lot of people are like us. We send small amounts of money to Bernie as often as we can, anything from $3 to $25 or so. We don't have any idea how much the total we have sent is. A lot of people are sending money to Bernie in the way we are. We are a couple. My husband sends the money in his name, but it is from both of us. When he reaches the limit (which he probably won't), then I can send the money in my name.

If you look at the crowds Bernie attracts, maybe 30,000 in Seattle alone tonight, you see that what he is raising in terms of money represents small donations from many, many people for the most part.

He has no real superpac unless you count the nurses association and other groups of working people. No superpac.

Compare the small donors who give to Bernie to the big wags who give to Hillary and have their accountants and lawyers make sure they adhere to campaign finance law. It's a very different ball game.


The errors in Bernie's accounts are not intentional failings but rather the result of being overwhelmed with small donations that are hard to track.