More Sanders layoffs may be coming

[Gothmog]

A good friend had been working for Sanders since last fall. She was in several states and she just went to California a week or so ago and now is back looking for work. I wonder if there is another mass Sanders layoff coming

[Trenzalore]

1. Donations have to be drying up

Also those big rallies are expensive. They feed his ego but do nothing really more. If he has to sacrifice staff to keep pretending he is a rock star I expect him to do it.

[fleabiscuit]

2. Perhaps some acknowledge the math.

[Gothmog]

8. My friend is professional field organizer and she is good at her job

The fact that she is no longer with the Sanders campaign means that they are really cutting people

[Thinkingabout]

3. Soon there will not be a need for campaign workers, nothing to do.

[msongs]

4. now that trump is using sander's words against hillary bernie can cut back a bit and

save a few Tubmans (thanks Obama lol)

[LannyDeVaney]

5. He has spent a lot in the last few primaries ...

he was trying to win, and he had the money, so I don't blame him. He went all-in the last month.

Now?

[BlueMTexpat]

6. If so, I hope that he has the

cojones and the class to tell them himself. He didn't with his earlier layoffs.

[IamMab]

7. Bernie Sanders is a coward on multiple levels. It's no surprise that he...

...would dodge facing the supporters he was firing after their usefulness to him was over. He dodged Vermont's black community leaders, he dodged the diversification of NYC in the late 60s, he's dodged being responsible for anything by voting against everything.

Bernie Sanders is unqualified to be POTUS.

[Gothmog]

9. I think that his funding has dried up

My friend is a good field organizer and if you want a ground game, she is the type of person you hire. It sounds like Sanders is giving up on California

[IamMab]

11. As usual, what he says on TV is not what he's doing in reality.

Lately he's been all about, "We're going to win in California," but we heard that about NY too.

This is a good sign then for Democrats, and thanks for sharing it. There's still a month to go, roughly, and his fund-raising already fell by 40%. Reading some of the articles out lately about how his team handled the overflow of cash as it was coming in, I think his spending operation will be severely over-extended based on a lower level of donations.

I'm curious to see how a month of some "garbage-time touchdowns" (i.e. the remaining primaries yet to vote, which will change nothing) affects his ability to attract more money, though. Those could really confuse some of the more gullible donors.

[Fla Dem]

13. If he's giving up on California, that's big. Ca has half the delegates that are left.

There are 1197 delegates left. California has 546. He'll still get the committed voters, but not the ones sitting on the fence. I would have thought he'd put all his efforts there, and bypass some of the small delegate states. But then again Ca is probably the most expensive place to campaign, between renting office space, campaign ads, paying salaries, renting big venues for those large rallies he likes.

Oh well, it had to end sometime.

[Haveadream]

10. You know his costly advisors will abandon him if they don't get paid

You would think they would earn their paychecks by crafting a legacy-saving narrative for him instead of the ridiculous money laundering attacks. He is looking increasingly small in every way. Several Bernie supporters I know in real life no longer do.

[IamMab]

12. Doesn't it look more like HIS campaign was laundering money, from small donors to consultants?

They claim they didn't cap consulting fees because they never expected to do this well, but that doesn't pass the smell test for me. I think Devine knew exactly what he was doing by encouraging a "progressive revolution," and the no-cap fees were part of his whole get-rich-quick scheme when he convinced Bernie to run in the first place.

[Haveadream]

14. The FEC certainly thinks so

So many of Bernie's attacks feel like a way to distract from what he is doing. That is his pattern. Case in point: the data breach and his subsequent lawsuit. When he does something underhanded, he immediately accuses Hillary of doing it. He has no answers for his unexplained campaign contributions but is on the offensive with HRC. He accuses her of taking money in return for legislation but can point to no evidence. Meanwhile, because of his VOTES, he is on the payroll for Sierra Blanca, NRA campaign funding, shipping in laborers for the VT dairy industry who live in isolation, poverty and squalor, just to name a few.

[skylucy]

15. Yes! I have noticed that too.

[Koinos]

16. FEC penalties are going to negate a lot of what he has collected in the last month.

It would be foolish of him not to include those refunds of illicit donations in his spending plans. And the Roman holiday may take $600k out of his own personal funds.

Whoever was behind the lousy bookkeeping (his campaign treasurer or someone else) should have been replaced the first time irregularities were found.