Bernie doesn't have a finance team- and that's extraordinary

[cali]

Bernie Sanders loves to talk about the fact that he doesn’t have a super-PAC backing his campaign. But the true state of his fundraising strategy is even more astonishing than that: The Sanders campaign doesn’t have a finance team.

And that’s a big deal.

Every competitive presidential campaign in recent election cycles has had team of people exclusively dedicated to finances: figuring out how much money the campaign needs, putting together a plan to get that money, and then making it all come together.

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That’s why candidates like Clinton (and Bush, and Rubio, and Cruz) pony up big bucks to hire fundraising professionals who have connections to open-handed would-be contributors. And getting that money costs a lot of money.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/11/bernie-sanders-s-millions-raised-sans-money-men.html

[beam me up scottie]

1. K & R!

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Bernie does have a super-PAC backing his campaign

Bernie is lying when he says he doesn't have a super-PAC backing his campaign.

[cali]

3. Which he has no control over. It is as disingenuous as could be to call it his

Unlike your candidate he isn't coordinating with it. hill supporters attacking him on this doesn't pass the smell test.

Not to mention that it has nothing to do with the op. Pitiful attempt at deflection.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. ...

[cali]

5. Lol. Wow. That was a brilliant rejoinder.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. The very first sentence in your OP is a lie

There entire post falls apart on the first sentence.

[cali]

9. What is the lie? And it's a quote from the article.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. Reading is fundamental

Follow along, my dear....

Bernie Sanders pledges not to accept super PAC support

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 Clinton’s 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 Sanders benefits from $569,000 in super PAC support from nurses union

Bernie Sanders can often be heard on the campaign trail decrying the role of money in politics. Sanders has stated many times he does not have a super PAC, and even dedicated a page on his website entitled “I don’t have a super PAC.” But it seems he's getting super PAC support — whether he wants it or not.

National Nurses United endorsed Sanders on Aug. 11, and to date the group's affiliated super PAC has spent a little more than $569,000 in support of him. The spending ranges from print and online ads to printing materials, with significant buys in key states like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. As of the last super PAC filing on June 30, the group had about $250,000 cash on hand.


National Nurses United for Patient Protection is a super PAC whose primary donor is National Nurses United, a union of more than 185,000 registered nurses across all 50 states. The super PAC also has another donor from its filing earlier this year, a 527 group called Progressive Kick, which runs donor-matching programs for progressive causes.

https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/11/18/bernie-sanders-benefits-from-566000-in-super-pac-support-from-nurses-union/

Union super PAC helps Sanders and he won't tell them to stop

(CNN)Bernie Sanders declined to disavow a super PAC spending money on his behalf in an interview with CNN on Monday and contradicted a statement his campaign made about the political entities he has long spoken out against.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/23/politics/bernie-sanders-super-pac-nurses/

[cali]

12. Grasping at straws, my dear. Particularly funny considering the unsavory

Coordination of camp hilly with superpacs and her endless big money fundraising.

[bvf]

6. So who figures out how many $2,700 seats

there should be at Sanders events?

Oh, wait...

[riversedge]

7. Three Pinocchios -->Bernie Sanders’s claim that Glass-Steagall banned commercial bank loans to ‘shad

Bernie needs some expert advice in finance......

Three Pinocchios -->Bernie Sanders’s claim that Glass-Steagall banned commercial bank loans to ‘shadow banks’ -http://demu.gr/1251994159 #p2

[cali]

10. And what does that have to do with the op?

Where's hilly today? Off at one of her fundraisers chasing fat cat $$$$. Big money corrupts. Hillary is up to her neck in it.

[riversedge]

13. It is very much related to finances.

[JDPriestly]

17. Intelligent people understand very well what Bernie meant by that.

[JDPriestly]

18. Desperation is evident in the Hillary camp.

Voters trust Bernie. We understand what he is talking about even if Hillary fans can't.

[Marty McGraw]

21. Confidence and Conviction

and it is apparent. A wonderful thing to see on our side of the aisle.

[Sheepshank]

14. Yes, there is a SUPER PAC associated with Bernie

....and Bernie hired it's Treasurer to work in his campaign.

Which was entirely stupid to build his campaign with people that don't know enough about campaign laws to avoid late filing and getting fined. Nice choice Bernie. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's a good thing to surrounds one'self with people who don't have the knowledge to play within campaign rules.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/bernie-sanders-2016-campaign-staff-power-players-118282
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/04/bernie-sanders-campaign-finance_n_7724766.html

I find it highly amusing that Bernie supporters attempt so many times to alighn every other candidate with PACs and try so very hard to pretend that Bernie isn't involved and doesnt have PACs. Oh yeah, I know they talking point today is that He doesn "have" them, but it doesn't stop attempting to pretend there isn't any at all, while pressing the point that the Evil Hillary "has" super PACs.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/30/bernie-s/bernie-sanders-only-presidential-candidates-withou/

"Unlike virtually every other campaign, we don't have a super PAC which collects money from billionaires and corporations," he tweeted.
<SNIP>
But he and Trump both have unaffiliated super PACs backing them.

[PyaarRevolution]

15. Asking Thom.

I'll ask Thom about this. There's got to be more going on in this than we know.

[Sheepshank]

26. What did Thom tell you? n/t

[NCTraveler]

16. Yes he does.

"Bernie Sanders loves to talk about the fact that he doesn’t have a super-PAC backing his campaign."

"figuring out how much money the campaign needs, putting together a plan to get that money, and then making it all come together."

then it would appear his campaign is the only entity in the country that doesn't discuss a budget. This is so very strange. The first sentence is a lie and Sanders is so goo we're going to tell you he doesn't even budget. Some of the math he has presented, or hasn't, is making more sense now.

[nolabear]

19. I can't figure out how not having a finance team is a good thing.

Having a good organization to mesh with and carry out the needs of your people seems like a precursor to creating them once elected.

[PyaarRevolution]

22. Maybe...

Yanis Varoufakis could recommend someone?

[George II]

20. About $40 million collected and he doesn't have a finance team? Who does the FEC filings?

[Skidmore]

23. Kinda disconcerting that he wants to manage

the world's largest executive office and he practices voodo bookkeeping with his campaign.

[Omaha Steve]

24. Act Blue does most of the work for him including his store sales

I know because I now run nine Act Blue links for Democrats on two sites with 1,233 donations since May first so far.

http://support.actblue.com/tutorial#donor-data

[Sheepshank]

25. Finance team or fundraising team?

I'd think some internal accounting would be necessary to pay for property rentals, light bills and advertising and track money for necessary campaign filing laws? If he doesn't have any accounting going on, I find that frightening.