Bernie stumbles

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104. I think you're mixed up a bit. Campaign person complained because Sanders wanted private jets

instead of flying commercial.

You wrote “former Hillary campaign people complaining that Sanders flew commercial while campaigning for Hillary.”

That’s incorrect

Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights
The Vermont senator’s 2016 travel as a Clinton surrogate became ‘a running joke in the office.’
By DANIEL LIPPMAN 02/25/2019 05:02 AM EST

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-private-jet-flights-1182793

In his campaign launch video last week, Bernie Sanders singled out the fossil fuel industry for criticism, listing it among the special interests he planned to take on. But in the final months of the 2016 campaign, Sanders repeatedly requested and received the use of a carbon-spewing private jet for himself and his traveling staff when he served as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary Clinton.

In the two years following the presidential election, Sanders continued his frequent private jet travel, spending at least $342,000 on the flights.

Increased scrutiny of his travel practices, which are at odds with his positions on wealth inequality and climate change, are among the challenges Sanders will face as he makes his second White House run.

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The Clinton campaign, however, viewed the private jet flights as a needless extravagance and wanted the senator to mostly fly commercial.

The senator ended up flying private on three separate multi-day trips in the last two months of the campaign.

Sanders’ flights — usually on a Gulfstream plane — cost the Clinton-Kaine campaign at least $100,000 in total, according to three people familiar with the cost of the air travel.

“We would try to fight it as much as possible because of cost and availability of planes, but they would request [a jet] every time,” one of those sources said. “We would always try to push for commercial. ... At the campaign, you’re constantly trying to save like 25 cents.”

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It’s Politico though, they like to stir up shit between Democrats.