The Women Behind Dine With The 99 Dish On Why Feminists Should Back Bernie Sanders

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If you dream of sharing a table with Amal Clooney and her trophy husband George, you can make that dream come true at an upcoming celebrity Hillary Clinton campaign dinner. But it will cost you $353,400 — or, as Politico points out, four times the average income in San Francisco. The April 15 fundraiser, which Bernie Sanders called “obscene,” will take place at a private home in the aptly named Golden City. Contrast that to Dine With the 99, a grassroots potluck effort taking place in homes across the nation to help more American feel the Bern. Oh, and it just happens to be the same weekend as Clinton's Clooney fundraiser.

Organized to be held April 14 to 17, the Dine With the 99 potlucks are not exactly fundraisers, though guests may make campaign donations on their phones or laptops during the event. There is no minimum contribution, and hosts are explicitly prohibited from collecting money. Instead, guests eat and talk about the Sanders campaign. The events are about discussing issues, spreading awareness, and, to use the event's website's words, helping people "plan for the Revolution!"

Natasha Losada, one of the event organizers, tells Bustle that Dine With the 99 was birthed only last month. Sarah Griffith of Annapolis, Maryland posted the idea on the public Facebook group Bernie Sanders Activists. From there, Losada created a Facebook event to get the potlucks rolling. Katharine Kennedy Coburn of Hopatcong, New Jersey messaged Griffith to offer assistance. Then, Molly Grover of Ithaca, New York lent her hand as outreach coordinator for Women for Bernie 2016, a grassroots group that provided all of the graphics for the Dine With the 99 website.

When I speak to Losada on the morning of April 5 (the day Sanders won the Wisconsin primary), 110 Dine With the 99 potlucks had been registered. As of April 11, less than a week later, that has nearly doubled to 215 events across the United States — and the group is just starting to track international events, due to what Losada cites as a "growing interest from Americans abroad."

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[Major Hogwash]

1. Do you think New Yorkers will care if 4 days before the primary Hillary goes to this fundraiser . .

. . . and charges $353,400 to eat at the same table with her and George Clooney?

Do you think the average New York voter simply adores a penthouse view like Millionaires and Billionaires?
Do New York voters really prefer Park Avenue?

Do you think New York voters will ignore this fundraiser?
Do you think most of New York's voters will support the 1% rather than the 99%?

I just can't see it myself.
I can't see the reasoning behind scheduling a fancy, schmancy "members only" fundraiser like this just a few days before the primary, just how she can expect to win.