Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBernie is now the largest recipient of Super PAC money after pledging to never accept Super PAC cash
Bernie in May 2015:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday reiterated his pledge not to accept super PAC support but stopped short of knocking Democratic front-runner Hillary Clintons decision to court allied super PAC donors.
I understand where she is coming from. But I will not have a super PAC, Sanders, who last month launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on Face the Nation on Sunday. ...I don't think we're going to outspend Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush or anybody else, but I think we are going to raise the kinds of money that we need to run a strong and winning campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/10/bernie-sanders-pledges-not-to-accept-super-pac-support/
Bernie in 2016:
DES MOINES As he swung through Iowa this week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont rarely passed up a chance to bash the rising tide of money in politics, a system he said on Tuesday was corrupt and undermining American democracy.
At many of these stops, he was accompanied by members of National Nurses United, a seven-year-old union, fanning out from a bright-red bus in matching red scrubs to corral potential Sanders votes.
But the union is not just busing nurses into Iowa. The unions super PAC has spent close to $1 million on ads and other support for Mr. Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate who has inspired liberal voters with his calls to eradicate such outside groups. In fact, more super PAC money has been spent so far in express support of Mr. Sanders than for either of his Democratic rivals, including Hillary Clinton, according to Federal Election Commission records.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-is-democrats-top-beneficiary-of-outside-spending-like-it-or-not.html?_r=0
Bernie has evolved!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,143 posts)politician much longer than Hillary. His image is much better than his reality.
BooScout
(10,406 posts)I am just totally shocked I say!
Cha
(297,123 posts)stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I would drop the part of my speech which rants about big money in politics. He claims not to be controlled by the PACs but he sure responded to the NRA with his votes.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,232 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Lots of firsts - all of the sudden!
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Molusko
(26 posts)wow. Who would have thought.
pandr32
(11,574 posts)I really don't think people do know what Sanders is really all about. One of the things I have disliked about him was that in spite of how his Senate colleagues considered him a bit-player before he jumped on the national podium (interesting to me because they have seen him and worked with him on a day-to-day basis), he started grabbing the microphone as he left the floor and brought attention to himself by playing the press. Why does he like to overshadow his colleagues (certainly not by his work)? He rarely ever gives kudos to anyone else.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)seems Bernie lies, like BS flies.
William769
(55,144 posts)jmowreader
(50,552 posts)He said he wouldn't launch his OWN superPAC. This he hasn't done.
I did a little checking into National Nurses United. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nurses_United
NNU supports a Wall Street tax on financial transactions, which the organization says could raise at least $350 billion a year.[5]
Which is very close to being a mirror image of Sanders' campaign platform.
Then check http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/vote-nurses-values. This is a large part of their website, and it's a Sanders campaign site. A lot of the rest of their website is a Bernie Sanders love fest.
As a trained intelligence professional, I assess National Nurses United as a Sanders front group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_organization
Dear BernieBros: If your chosen candidate isn't really a communist, WHY IS HE ACTING LIKE ONE?