Democratic 2020 hopefuls pay lip service to the left. Don't be fooled..$$$$$$$

[George II]

3. The author of this article (don't see a link to the source) has a weak knowledge and understanding..

..of campaign finance laws and what he says is fraught with inaccuracies.

Let's take Cory Booker, for example. I won't go all the way back to 2014, but here in 2018/2019, below are some numbers that are inconsistent with what the author uses to smear Booker. Could it be that he didn't use current numbers because they didn't confirm the premise that he was trying to attribute to Booker?

REAL numbers:

22% of his contributions come from small donors
4% of his contributions come from retired donors
4% of his contributions come from "not employed" donors
3% of his contributions come from "homemaker" donors

And there are other categories.

That's a far cry from only 7% that is being portrayed as being from other than the "securities and investment industry". I wonder if he realized that any contributions from maintenance and housekeeping departments of a "securities company" are lumped into that big bad category of "securities and investment industry". Same thing for tellers, bookkeepers, secretarial, and clerical workers.

What is GOOD about Booker's contributions is that the state from which the most contributions come is his home state, and more than half were from his state and his neighboring state (NY) - Newark is less than six miles from NYC.

I don't know why this author feels the need to skew and misrepresent the finances of candidates to discredit their "progressiveness". I wonder what he would say if he learned that one of the politicians he mentioned in this hit piece received only 1% of contributions from within it's own district, and only 23% from it's own state.