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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "The lobbyists who love Bernie Sanders" [View all]Jarqui
(10,123 posts)9. Did you read this?
http://time.com/4261350/bernie-sanders-super-pac-alaska-millenials/
This no a big money PAc - it's a handful of folks registering people to vote.
This isn't the tens of millions funneled by bundlers for Hillary buying positions on legislation. Neither is the $3,200 from lobbyists spread over several people.
What the article more likely is: a contracted Clinton piece for suckers of false equivalence who can't join enough brain cells together to get past the headline.
This no a big money PAc - it's a handful of folks registering people to vote.
This isn't the tens of millions funneled by bundlers for Hillary buying positions on legislation. Neither is the $3,200 from lobbyists spread over several people.
What the article more likely is: a contracted Clinton piece for suckers of false equivalence who can't join enough brain cells together to get past the headline.
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You rag on the Hillary camp wchich has nothing to do with the OP. Stay focused on the OP
riversedge
Mar 2016
#40
We know there is interaction between lobbyists and congressional members,
Thinkingabout
Mar 2016
#14
The ones he's voted to ban for decades? You're not very good at this:
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#27
Voted against the Brady Bill 5 times. Voted to allow guns in national parks. nt
LexVegas
Mar 2016
#32
And yet the NRA gave him F grades 5 years in a row and a lifetime D minus rating.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#37
And yet you're the one who just brought up the bill he signed into law. Oops.
beam me up scottie
Mar 2016
#43