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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Someone should remind Bernie that it takes money to run a presidential campaign. We're just in [View all]Jarqui
(10,122 posts)21. "Clinton took large sums of money for speeches"
She did. But the speeches that were listed showed her take was $10.5 mil/yr - not for the campaign and not for the Clinton Foundation.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/06/09/hillary_clinton_we_came_out_of_the_white_house_dead_broke.html
DIANE SAWYER, ABC NEWS: It has been reported you've made $5 million making speeches, the president's made more than $100 million.
HILLARY CLINTON: Well, if you -- you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education, you know, it was not easy. Bill has worked really hard and it's been amazing to me. He's worked very hard, first of all, we had to pay off all our debts which was, you know, we had to make double the money because of obviously taxes, and pay you have at debts, and get us houses and take care of family members.
SAWYER: But do you think Americans will understand five times the median income in this country for one speech?
CLINTON: Well, let me put it this way, I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company as so many people who leave public life do.
So Hillary and Bill were in the hole according to her in 2000.
Their combined net worth now roughly $111,000,000
http://moneynation.com/hillary-clinton-net-worth/
- largely from speeches
Bernie Sanders net worth $528,014
http://moneynation.com/bernie-sanders-net-worth/
Clinton Foundation had $283 million in assets end of 2014 fiscal year
And she's raised over $100 million for her campaign - mostly from big donors.
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Someone should remind Bernie that it takes money to run a presidential campaign. We're just in [View all]
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
OP
So how are Bernie supporters different from the bankers. Everyone wants something from
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#17
The Reps have spent 80 million in ad buys in NH alone - just for the primaries. 6 Million more
Lucinda
Feb 2016
#20
and about that revolution.....I thought Barak was the previous leader for us....
a kennedy
Feb 2016
#7
I notice lots of Bernie's supporters have posts in the thousands. When do you have time to work.
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#22
Work? What is that? I am 68 and a lot of the Bernie supporters I know have been laid off.
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#26
Someone should remind you it takes millions & millions of people for a political revolution
99th_Monkey
Feb 2016
#9
Let's just say his exclamation point is looking more like an underscore. n/t
winter is coming
Feb 2016
#27
It's a legit question, but I think there's quite a lot more where that came from.
Gregorian
Feb 2016
#24