2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Does anyone know how much Senator Sanders pays his campaign workers. [View all]99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)"Mrs. Clinton [has] spent nearly $3.7 million on campaign salaries; Mr. Sanders, $112,000."
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/07/17/in-this-money-race-bernie-sanders-wins/
Sanders' campaign is topsy-turvy as in "bottom-heavy", i.e. much more benefiting from
volunteer and/or people working for stipend-wages, not because Bernie's a cheap-skate, b
ut because they are genuinely excited and willing to make the dollars they have stretch
as far as possible.
Rather like I did with my first wife, in 1968 Primary, we walked into the Robert Kennedy
headquarters in Portland OR and said, "I quit school & my wife quit her job. We're here
for the duration of the campaign to do whatever we can. You guys can either pay our
rent or we'll sleep on the headquarters floor as needed."
The Kennedy staffer said, "well, let's see what you can do" I set up their phone bank from
scratch and my wife worked on op-eds and press relations. We never slept on the campaign
floor. After Bobby narrowly lost, the campaign flew us to LA expenses paid, to work the
home stretch of the Calif. primary, where he won.
My point is, some things money can't buy (or shouldn't have to), and loyal dedicated
campaign workers -- in the kind of race Bernie's running -- tend to fall in that category.