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Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumSanders uses padded data to back up his claim - Cross Post GDP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511678754Sen. Bernie Sanders uses padded data to back up his claim that Hillary Clinton received $4.5 million from the fossil fuel industry.
The figure relies on a tortured definition of fossil fuel money. It includes contributions donated by lobbyists who represent many clients other than oil or gas companies. It also includes money those lobbyists raised from other donors who have nothing to do with the oil and gas industry.
And most of the $4.5 million total is tied to donations made to a super PAC supporting Clinton which Clinton does not control by two people who run investment funds that include investments in oil and gas companies. But those investments represent a fraction of the overall investment portfolio.
The issue of fossil fuel money going to the Clinton campaign reemerged when a Greenpeace activist questioned Clinton at a campaign rally in New York on March 31 about whether she would act on your word to reject fossil fuel money in the future in your campaign?
Clinton responded, I do not have I have money from people who work for fossil fuel companies. I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me! Im sick of it!
As we wrote back in December, Clinton has received relatively little in contributions from oil and gas company employees (and nothing from the companies themselves, as that would be illegal). That hasnt changed. According to more recent data cited by Sanders, contributions from oil and gas industry employees accounts for 0.2 percent of the nearly $160 million raised by the Clinton campaign so far.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/04/clintons-fossil-fuel-money-revisited/
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Sanders uses padded data to back up his claim - Cross Post GDP (Original Post)
liberal N proud
Apr 2016
OP
He could go out and shoot someone in the middle of Third Street and not lose any voters.
NuclearDem
Apr 2016
#3
MADem
(135,425 posts)1. WAPO already pinocchioed the living bejesus out of him on that one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/02/fact-checking-the-clinton-sanders-spat-over-big-oil-contributions/
The Pinocchio Test
The Sanders campaign is exaggerating the contributions that Clinton has received from the oil and gas industry. In the context of her overall campaign, the contributions are hardly significant. Its especially misleading to count all of the funds raised by lobbyists with multiple clients as money given by the fossil-fuel industry.
Three Pinocchios
The Pinocchio Test
The Sanders campaign is exaggerating the contributions that Clinton has received from the oil and gas industry. In the context of her overall campaign, the contributions are hardly significant. Its especially misleading to count all of the funds raised by lobbyists with multiple clients as money given by the fossil-fuel industry.
Three Pinocchios
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)2. The BSers forgive him
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)3. He could go out and shoot someone in the middle of Third Street and not lose any voters.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)7. There is one other demographic that does that
We call them Republicans.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. I realize Greenpeace was attempting to do Sanders dirty work when they
Approached Hillary and it is the same group who used fossil fuel in daily basis. Very hypocritical besides poking a lie.
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)5. Is BS full of BS? The initials fit the man.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)6. They have become synonymous of late
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)8. That's been on a lot of our minds!
LOL!
pandr32
(11,611 posts)9. True..rather self-fullfilling prophecy
...like Lorena Bobbitt for example