Elizabeth Warren's finance director leaving campaign

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19. Again... the original point WAS about personal wealth NOT being as important as donations.

I am disgusted with how candidates depend on half a dozen mega donors to keep their campaigns competitive.

Your disgust clearly isn't shared by Senator Sanders or Senator Warren.

Perriello snags big endorsement in Bernie Sanders

The campaign quickly added an event with Sanders to its schedule, moving things around so it could hold a rally Thursday night at George Mason University with Sanders, who called Tom Perriello "a committed progressive who will stand up for working families."

https://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/shad-plank-blog/dp-perriello-snags-big-endorsement-bernie-sanders-20170404-post.html

Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Perriello in Democratic primary for Va. gov

He’s the kind of guy who says, ‘I am going to make change and I’m going to make change not for the richest, not for the most powerful, not for what’s politically expedient. I want to make change for hard-working families,’” Warren said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/sen-elizabeth-warren-endorses-perriello-in-democratic-primary-for-va-gov/2017/04/24/dfe1792c-2940-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html


Perriello’s Va. governor bid boosted by several big donors, including George Soros

He launched his campaign Jan. 5 with $500,000 from Sonjia Smith, a Charlottesville resident who is a major donor to Democrats in Virginia and nationwide, and $200,000 from Avaaz, an international nonprofit group that funds progressive activists and was co-founded by Perriello a decade ago. Perriello’s haul was buoyed by several massive campaign contributions, with half of his money coming from four donors.

Philanthropist and liberal activist George Soros was Perriello’s second-most-generous contributor, at $250,000, and Soros’s son Alexander chipped in $125,000. New York financier Courtney Smith gave $75,000, while California philanthropist Stephen Silberstein donated $50,000. Overall, 57 percent of Perriello’s money came from outside Virginia, compared with 11 percent out-of-state donations for Northam, according to VPAP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/northam-has-financial-edge-in-virginia-governors-race-gillespie-leads-gop-field/2017/04/18/a44452f0-23a4-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html