Bernie Sanders’ campaign raises $5.2M in the 18 hours

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By Nik DeCosta-Klipa Boston.com

(Feb. 10, 2016) — In his victory speech Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders asked supporters across the country to donate to his presidential campaign.

“I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America,” he said before a nationally televised crowd in Concord, New Hampshire. “My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute.”

And contribute, they did.

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New Hampshire primary election results (100% Reporting)

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(Feb 10, 2016 14:45) — The New Hampshire primaries are Feb. 9. Delegates at stake: 23 bound for Republicans, 24 pledged for Democrats.

This page on the Washington Post’s website looks like a good tool to use to get detailed breakdowns of the past and upcoming primary election results.

What happened in New Hampshire

Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire presidential primary, embarrassing Hillary Clinton in a state she won eight years ago and upending the Democratic nominating contest.

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New Hampshire primary election results (Approx 90% Reporting)

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by WashingtonPost.com (Feb. 10, 2016 02:15 EST)

What happened in New Hampshire?

Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire presidential primary, embarrassing Hillary Clinton in a state she won eight years ago and upending the Democratic nominating contest.

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Fundraising site struggles after Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire win

20160209_0053 Fundraising site struggles after Bernie win.jpgFundraising site struggles after Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire win By Tom LoBianco, CNN
(Feb. 10, 2016 12:53 AM ET) — Washington (CNN)In the midst of his New Hampshire victory speech, Bernie Sanders held an impromptu, one-minute fundraiser and apparently jammed up one of the pillars of Democratic online fundraising, ActBlue.

“I’m not going to New York City to host a fundraiser on Wall Street. Instead I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America. My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute,” Sanders said Tuesday night, as his speech was carried live.

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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Win the New Hampshire Primaries (NYT)

20160209_2100 Trump and Sanders Win New Hampshire in Routs (NYT).jpg Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Win the New Hampshire Primaries By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTINT of the New York times

MANCHESTER, N.H. (Feb. 9, 2016) — Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont harnessed working-class fury on Tuesday to surge to commanding victories in a New Hampshire primary that drew a huge turnout across the state.

The success by two outsider candidates dealt a remarkable rebuke to the political establishment, and all but guaranteed protracted, bruising races for each party’s presidential nomination.

Highlights of this article:

“Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California,” Mr. Sanders said. “And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their ‘super PACs.’ ”

“While Mr. Sanders led New Hampshire polls for the last month, and Mr. Trump was ahead here since July, the wave of support for both men was nonetheless stunning to leaders of both parties who believed that in the end, voters would embrace more experienced candidates like Mrs. Clinton or one of the Republican governors in the race. Yet the two men won significant support from voters who felt betrayed by their parties and were dissatisfied or angry with the federal government.”

“Clinton advisers gritted their teeth Tuesday night as they dissected exit polls and other data to try to fathom the depth of Mrs. Clinton’s political vulnerabilities. One troubling sign: Mr. Sanders was the choice, nearly unanimously, among voters who said it was most important to have a candidate who is “honest and trustworthy.”Several advisers to Mrs. Clinton said they were especially concerned about her shakier-than-expected support among women — the group that provided her margin for victory in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. The Clinton strategy depends on her beating Mr. Sanders among women and attracting large numbers of minority voters, like Hispanics in Nevada and African-Americans in South Carolina. Those states hold the next Democratic contests, later this month.”

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Hillary Clinton’s $675,000 Goldman Sachs Paid Speech Transcripts Requests Evidence Lack of Credibility

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(Feb. 7, 2016) — Hillary Clinton’s tendency to omit and obfuscate historical information has been an ongoing problem for her even more so now as the presumptive 2016 democratic nominee for president.  In light of the latest debacle, the requests for the transcripts of her paid speeches with Goldman Sachs where she was paid $675,000 are not appearing to go away.

The speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs, and in light of the amount of fees she was paid, have spawned questions about her ability to not beholden to Wall Street if she were to be elected president and in light of the heated debate over campaign finance reform.

The request for actual transcripts of what Clinton said during those talks at Goldman Sachs is indicative of the lack of credibility she has to be able to be taken at her word.

Creating personalized historical time-lines appear to be a tendency of Clinton’s as noted by Carl Bernstein, known for his investigative Watergate reporting leading to the downfall of former president Richard Nixon.

Bernstein’s investigative reporting of Nixon also involved the acquisition of transcripts of audio recordings made of Nixon’s conversations inside the White House.

“Hillary has never wanted anyone else to tell her story except herself,” Bernstein said in a 2007 interview with CNN when discussing his book on the former first lady “A Woman in Charge,” released that same year.

“The former first lady’s 2003 autobiography ‘Living History’ was full of ‘omissions (and) obfuscation,'” Bernstein told CNN.

During Thursday night’s New Hampshire one-on-one debate with her 2016 presidential bid opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton was asked by MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches.

“I will look into it,” Clinton said. “I don’t know the status, but I would surely look into it.”

Clinton has already begun digging a hole around herself related to the speeches by characterizing the talks as being little more than a discussion of “issues that had to do with world affairs.”

Meanwhile, the matter has not gone away.

Powerhouse investigative journalists have already committed to uncovering the truth behind Clinton’s Goldman Sachs paid speeches.

Lee Fang, a reporter for the “The Intercept” has previously written about the transcripts in his article released Thursday, “Hillary Clinton Won’t Say if She’ll Release Transcripts of Goldman Sachs Speeches.”

Fang said when he asked Clinton about the transcripts two weeks before Thursday’s debate she, “Simply laughed and turned away.”

It appears the issues is not going away for the former first lady where leading investigative journalists are right on her heals.

Given Clinton’s ongoing lack of credibility to be taken at her own word, it appears the only way this matter can be resolved is if she releases the transcripts.

All 435 seats up for election come November (MyCityConnected)

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(Feb. 7, 2016) — According to the political information website MyCityconnected.us all, “435 seats will be up for election this November.”

MyCityConnected provides the website visitor a number of useful tools to include blogs, events, forums, groups, polls, and albums. The website also has a useful search feature to find out more information about elected representatives.

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Bernie Sanders Knocks Donald Trump’s Scapegoating Strategy

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By Rachel Maddow, YouTube, MSNBC

(Dec. 9, 2015) — Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president, talks with Rachel Maddow about Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s extreme views on Muslims in America, and what Trump’s supporters are attracted to in him as a candidate.

“Ever since Donald Trump has been opening his mouth, you’re seeing all these bitter people, demagogues, latent racists become emboldened. You’re seeing some ugly stuff happening around this country. I know you`re angry. And you know what? You should be angry because you`re working longer hours for low wages.

We’ve got millions of people who are in trouble today. People are hurting. They’re struggling. They’re fearful and confused. They are anxious on a number of levels. We have people with two or three jobs, worried to death about their children, worried about their own retirement. The cost of everything, from college tuition to prescription drugs, has gone up and people aren’t getting paid a living wage.

What’s the cause of their problems? Who is their enemy? Is it Wall Street? Is it Big Money? Or Big Pharma? Is it massive inequality in terms of wealth and income?
Why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college?

Because they pick out a victim whether it`s Blacks, whether it`s gays, whether it`s women, whether it`s immigrants, whether it`s Muslims who we can pick on. We can’t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

Don’t go to the dark side. Don’t take it out on the Muslims or Latinos. Don’t go bashing immigrants or refugees or African-Americans. We’ve got to stand with the people who are being attacked today. We’ve got to stand up to the people who are so angry, so hateful.

Try to help us work together to create a country where your kids and you can have a decent standard of living. We’re going to fight to give you that. It has to be a bold and radical agenda, a political movement that will make your life better, not just other people’s lives worse.”
– Bernie Sanders

FOR PEOPLE WHO KEEP CRITICIZING AND ASKING WHAT HE HAS ACHIEVED IN LIFE-

~Elected by the state of Vermont 8 times to serve in the House of Representatives.
~The longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history.
~He was dubbed the “amendment king” in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress.
~Ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
~Former student organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
~Led the first ever civil rights sit-in in Chicago history to protest segregated housing.
~In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC.
~Former professor of political science at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at Hamilton College.
~Former mayor of Burlington, VT. In a stunning upset in 1981, Sanders won the mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont’s largest city. He shocked the city’s political establishment by defeating a six-term, local machine mayor.
Burlington is now reported to be one of the most livable cities in the nation.
~Co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and chaired the group for its first 8 years.
~Both the NAACP and the NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) have given Sanders 100% voting scores during his tenure in the Senate. Earns a D- from the NRA.

1984: Mayor Sanders established the Burlington Community Land Trust, the first municipal housing land trust in the country for affordable housing. The project becomes a model emulated throughout the world. It later wins an award from Jack Kemp-led HUD.

1991: one of a handful in Congress to vote against authorizing US military force in Iraq. “I have a real fear that the region is not going to be more peaceful or more stable after the war,” he said at the time.

1992: Congress passes Sanders’ first signed piece of legislation to create the National Program of Cancer Registries. A Reader’s Digest article calls the law “the cancer weapon America needs most.” All 50 states now run registries to help cancer researchers gain important insights.

November 1993: Sanders votes against the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement. Returning from a tour of factories in Mexico, Sanders says: “If NAFTA passes, corporate profits will soar because it will be even easier than now for American companies to flee to Mexico and hire workers there for starvation wages.”

July 1996: Sanders is one of only 67 (out of 435, 15%) votes against the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to same-sex couples legally married. Sanders urged the Supreme Court to throw out the law, which it did in a landmark 2013 ruling – some 17 years later.

July 1999: Standing up against the major pharmaceutical companies, Sanders becomes the first member of Congress to personally take seniors across the border to Canada to buy lower-cost prescription drugs. The congressman continues his bus trips to Canada with a group of breast cancer patients the following April. These brave women are able to purchase their medications in Canada for almost one-tenth the price charged in the States.
But that didn’t change the discourse about the price of pharmaceuticals in.

August 1999: An overflow crowd of Vermonters packs a St. Michael’s College town hall meeting hosted by Sanders to protest an IBM plan to cut older workers’ pensions by as much as 50 percent. CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and The New York Times cover the event. After IBM enacts the plan, Sanders works to reverse the cuts, passing a pair of amendments to prohibit the federal government from acting to overturn a federal district court decision that ruled that IBM’s plan violated pension age discrimination laws. Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, IBM agreed to a $320 million legal settlement with some 130,000 IBM workers and retirees.

November 1999: About 10 years before the 2008 Wall Street crash spins the world economy into a massive recession, Sanders votes “no” on a bill to undo decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. “This legislation,” he predicts at the time, “will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers, increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses, diminished credit for rural America and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers, a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry and further concentration of power in our country.” The House passed the bill 362-57 over Sanders’ objection.

October 2001: Sanders votes against the USA Patriot Act. “All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks, but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms,” Sanders says at the time. He subsequently votes against reauthorizing the law in 2006 and 2011.

October 2002: Sanders votes against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. He warns at the time that an invasion could “result in anti-Americanism, instability and more terrorism.” Hillary Clinton votes in favor of it.
(But hey, Hillary has said she’s sorry, what’s the big deal? It’s not like the US invasion of Iraq caused anything for us to worry about. It was just a vote. And now Hillary has all that experience traveling in airplanes around the world.)

November 2006: Sanders defeats Vermont’s richest man, Rich Tarrant, to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders, running as an Independent, is endorsed by the Vermont Democratic Party and supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

December 2007: Sanders’ authored energy efficiency and conservation grant program passes into law. He later secures $3.2 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the grant program.

September 2008: Thanks to Sanders’ efforts, funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funding doubles, helping millions of low-income Americans heat their homes in winter.

February 2009: Sanders works with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley to pass an amendment to an economic recovery bill preventing Wall Street banks that take taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.

December 2009: Sanders passes language in the Affordable Care Act to allow states to apply for waivers to implement pilot health care systems by 2017. The legislation allows states to adopt more comprehensive systems to cover more people at lower costs.

March 2010: President Barack Obama signs into law the Affordable Care Act with a major Sanders provision to expand federally qualified community health centers. Sanders secures $12.5 billion in funding for the program which now serves more than 25 million Americans. Another $1.5 billion from a Sanders provision went to the National Health Service Corps for scholarships and loan repayment for doctors and nurses who practice in under-served communities.

July 2010: Sanders works with Republican Congressman Ron Paul in the House to pass a measure as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill to audit the Federal Reserve, revealing how the independent agency gave $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans to big banks and businesses after the 2008 economic collapse.

March 2013: Sanders, now chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and backed by seniors, women, veterans, labor unions and disabled Americans, leads a successful effort to stop a “chained-CPI” proposal supported by Congressional Republicans and the Administration to cut Social Security and disabled veterans’ benefits.

April 2013: Sanders introduces legislation to break up major Wall Street banks so large that the collapse of one could send the overall economy into a downward spiral.

August 2014: A bipartisan $16.5 billion veterans bill written by Sen. Sanders, Sen. John McCain and Rep. Jeff Miller is signed into law by President Barack Obama. The measure includes $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and health professionals to meet growing demand for care.

January 2015: Sanders takes over as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, using the platform to fight for his economic agenda for the American middle class.

January 2015: Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

March 2015: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to expand benefits and strengthen the retirement program for generations to come.
The Social Security Expansion Act was filed on the same day Sanders and other senators received the petitions signed by 2 million Americans, gathered by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

September 2015: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) today introduced bills to ban private prisons, reinstate the federal parole system and eliminate quotas for the number of immigrants held in detention.

January 2016: Sanders Places Hold on FDA Nominee Dr. Robert Califf because of his close ties to the pharmaceutical industry and lack of commitment to lowering drug prices. There is no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies.

THE ISSUES THAT MATTER & HOW BERNIE WILL PAY FOR HIS PROPOSALS-

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