Sanders' campaign raises over $2 million for coronavirus charities

[progressoid]

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Bernie Sanders campaign is focusing its resources on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, and his supporters appear to be following suit. In the last 48 hours, the Sanders campaign said they’ve raised more than $2 million from 50,000 donations for select charities.

The charities were selected by the Sanders campaign to help those suffering from the outbreak: Meals on Wheels, No Kid Hungry, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, One Fair Wage Emergency Fund and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

In addition to using his campaign to funnel money to charities, Sanders also released a $2 trillion proposal to fight this virus, which would include the U.S. government covering all medical bills accrued during this time period, speeding up testing, invoking emergency powers to scale up production of supplies like surgical masks and ventilators and providing substantial unemployment insurance to those who lose jobs as a result of the outbreak.

The campaign says the last two days are just the start, and they intend to raise money for other charities over the coming days.

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. Congrats to Bernie and his followers for doing this. Bravo.

[redstateblues]

2. Awesome!

[delisen]

3. Bold and compassionate

[William769]

4. Just think if he were only in D.C. he could help raise 2 trillion!

[mcar]

12. This!

[msongs]

5. and what slice is taken out for processing etc. just give directly to the charity of your choice nt

[Turin_C3PO]

6. Very nice.

[NCProgressive]

7. That's it?

Someone with an email list of donors that raised $380 million should be able to raise at least a tenth of that.

[NurseJackie]

8. You'd think. But then again... think again...

... and that's all I'll say about that for obvious reasons. You can arrive at your own conclusions.



PS: Stay safe!

[USALiberal]

15. I assumed some bernie haters would insult the donations. I was right! Nt

[NurseJackie]

19. Nobody is doing that.

[George II]

9. Instead he could have given everyone the addresses of the five charities so they could contribute...

....directly and avoid the 3.95% ActBlue service charge.

The article is incorrect, too - the Sanders campaign didn't "funnel money to charities", that would be illegal.

Plus, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and others have spent all weekend trying to hammer out a deal with McCarthy and McConnell, but he's up in Vermont concocting his OWN deal. When did he become Minority Leader or any position of authority to come up with such a deal?

This is entirely inappropriate and presumptuous on his part.

[beastie boy]

10. Good for Bernie! Now he can drop all pretense of running in the primaries and raise money for

a good cause instead! Just change the name of his official campaign site to "Not me, Joe", and start a charitable foundation. If there is anything Bernie has proven himself to be good at, it's raise money.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. The anti-Bernie swarm even has to get their punches in for this.

They absolutely disgust me.

[beastie boy]

13. Imagine Trump raising money for charities of his choice as part of his re-election campaign.

Like gun-rights groups and anti-abortion groups, and, yes, meals on wheels thrown in the mix. They are all affected by the health crisis, and they are not exactly well off financially. Oh, and most of them are working people, who just happen to be Trump's political base.

I am fine with raising money for charities. I am fine with raising money for a presidential campaign (well, sort of). But I am not fine with mixing the two together. Smacks of cheating, somehow.

I guess we have different ideas of what's disgusting...

[NCProgressive]

17. ++++++

[ucrdem]

18. It also smacks of misuse of campaign funds.

Which has very serious consequences. I don't think this is a good idea at all.

[progressoid]

14. Yeah,

it seems even good things can't be appreciated.

[USALiberal]

16. I agree! Nt

[Celerity]

20. good move, now drop out

[qwlauren35]

21. I would like to donate.

Does anyone have a link?