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2016 Postmortem

Jim Lane

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13. Just read the damn post!

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #12)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 05:58 PM

Nov 2015

Total contributions: $12.4 million.
Total to current members: $8.1 million.

The amounts listed for the two current Vermont members (other than Sanders) don't add up to $8.1 million. You ask, "Where did the rest go?" I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it went to current members from one of the 49 other states.

And as for the difference between $12.4 million and $8.1 million, obviously it went to people who were in Congress at the time but who have since left office.

I just don't understand how you can keep insinuating that maybe some of this money went to Sanders when the post and the linked article state expressly that the amount going to Sanders was zero, nada, zilch.

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Quid pro quo? [View all] hedgehog Nov 2015 OP

Quid pro quo, like NRA donation to defeat Sanders opponent? Sanders might play this game and since Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #1

Bernie's quid pro -- Nothing except possibility of jobs for Vermonters. Armstead Nov 2015 #4

Good admission, so now we know it happens with Sanders also. How much of the $12.4 million went to Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #6

You are flat-out wrong. Just read the post you were answering. Jim Lane Nov 2015 #11

The post stated the money went to current members, Sanders is a current member. The amounts listed Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #12

Just read the damn post! Jim Lane Nov 2015 #13

I read your post, it stated $8.1M went to locals, Leahy got $12,000 and Peter Welch got $5200. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #14

No! No! No! Jim Lane Nov 2015 #18

Refresh yourself again on post #4. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #19

This poster has little if any floriduck Nov 2015 #20

Not only can I read but I am quiet efficient with math. It did not add up. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #21

I'm sorry ms. You are lost floriduck Nov 2015 #22

Not in the dark and not a mushroom. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #23

Reading comprehension... Armstead Nov 2015 #17

So...the MIC are morons? jeff47 Nov 2015 #5

The OP was about the Clinton Foundation and Hillary doing her job, this opens up the spouses for Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #7

So hypocrisy is OK if "someone else does it first". jeff47 Nov 2015 #8

I did not say anything about Jill Sanders, don't know who she is. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #9

Oops, Jane Sanders. jeff47 Nov 2015 #10

Let them have their day... DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2015 #16

But they UglyGreed Nov 2015 #2

Coincidence! Doctor_J Nov 2015 #3

Just like Presidents UglyGreed Nov 2015 #15

Do they think we are blind? Stupid? What? A Republican, and Trump himself verified this, sabrina 1 Nov 2015 #24