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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)"The lobbyists who love Bernie Sanders" [View all]
Nearly two-dozen professional influencers have donated to anti-lobbyist candidate
Sanders has painted himself as a different kind of politician, running a different kind of campaign.
When he launched his presidential bid last May, he proclaimed: Today, we stand here and say loudly and clearly that enough is enough. This great nation and its government belong to all of the people, and not to a handful of billionaires, their super PACs and their lobbyists.
Its a theme Sanders has revisited time and again on the campaign trail, in advertisements and during debates against front-runner Hillary Clinton.
But unlike President Barack Obama, who refused campaign contributions from registered lobbyists, Sanders campaign confirmed it does not ban lobbyists from making contributions even as Sanders has called on the Democratic Party to maintain a ban, implemented by Obama, on lobbyists giving to the Democratic National Committee.
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/03/09/19405/lobbyists-who-love-bernie-sanders
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You rag on the Hillary camp wchich has nothing to do with the OP. Stay focused on the OP
riversedge
Mar 2016
#40
We know there is interaction between lobbyists and congressional members,
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#14
The ones he's voted to ban for decades? You're not very good at this:
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#27
Voted against the Brady Bill 5 times. Voted to allow guns in national parks. nt
LexVegas
Mar 2016
#32
And yet the NRA gave him F grades 5 years in a row and a lifetime D minus rating.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#37
And yet you're the one who just brought up the bill he signed into law. Oops.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#43