Sanders Senate campaign committee registered as independent for 2018 Senate campaign Oct 10, 2015
According to this document filed on behalf of Bernie Sanders official 2018 Senate campaign from October 10 2015, Sanders registered his campaign organization as an affiliated Independent.
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/344/201510160200258344/201510160200258344.pdf
To be clear; Friends of Bernie Sanders, was a Senate campaign committee during the 2012 election based in Vermont. As of December 31, 2012, the committee raised a total of $6.27M and spent a total of $2.65M.uring the 2012 election based in Vermont.
http://us-campaign-committees.insidegov.com/l/12205/Friends-of-Bernie-Sanders
The person signing, Lora Haggard, was Chief Financial Officer for the 2016 Sanders presidential campaign. Ms Haggard is also the Treasurer for Friends of Bernie Sanders, the PAC supporting Bernie’s previous senatorial campaigns.
The PAC has to date $4,852,006.00 on hand
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4VT00033/
Sanders has previously said that he only ran as a Democrat in the presidential election for 'media coverage
Bernie Sanders on Monday told NBC’s Chuck Todd that he ran as a Democrat to get more media coverage.
During a town hall-style event in Columbus, Ohio, the independent Vermont senator said, “In terms of media coverage, you have to run within the Democratic Party.” He then took a dig at MNSBC, telling Todd, the network “would not have me on his program” if he ran as an independent. Money also played a role in his decision to run as a Democrat, Sanders added.
“To run as an independent, you need — you could be a billionaire," he said. "If you're a billionaire, you can do that. I'm not a billionaire. So the structure of American politics today is such that I thought the right ethic was to run within the Democratic Party.
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/bernie-sanders-independent-media-coverage-220747
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