Presidential Campaign 2016

Bernie Sanders Is Still Raising Too Much Money

July 11, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Is Still Raising Too Much Money
By Andrew McGill, The Atlantic

(July 11, 2016 06:00 p.m.) — It appears Bernie Sanders, he of the famed $27 donation, is still struggling to rein in over-eager donors. On Sunday, the Federal Elections Commission sent the Sanders campaign a list of contributors who may have donated more than $2,700, the maximum amount allowed for a primary campaign. It runs on for more than 1,000 pages.

This is the fifth time Sanders has been put on notice, and each time, the list of flagged contributions has grown. In February, the FEC’s letter was just 95 pages long. By April, it had hit 650 pages, and the FEC’s letter for May—which was also filed Sunday, a bit late—reached 778. While it’s hard to pin down exactly how much money Sanders might have to return, a rough calculation—the total amount donated by the cited contributors minus the legal limit for each—indicates it could be in the neighborhood of $500,000, a relatively small sum for a campaign that’s raised nearly $230 million.

Bernie Sanders Won by Waiting to Endorse Hillary Clinton

July 11, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Won by Waiting to Endorse Hillary Clinton
By Sam Frizell, Time

(July 11, 2016 3:00 p.m.) — When Bernie Sanders arrives in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday to endorse his bitter rival Hillary Clinton after overwhelmingly losing the Democratic primary, he will be holding a handful of policy victories.

From free college to a tax on carbon emissions, Sanders has managed to finesse some of his liberal policies into the Democratic Party’s platform and cajole Clinton’s campaign into accepting some of his most liberal proposals. Weeks of backroom and telephone negotiations resulted in Sanders-backed policy ideas landing on Clinton’s platform and in the Democratic Party’s blueprint, outlined in a hefty platform draft that was finished last weekend in Orlando.

Democrats Adopt Many Bernie Sanders Demands in Party’s New Platform

July 10, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

$Democrats Adopt Many Bernie Sanders Demands in Party’s New Platform By CNN Wire (July 10, 2016 10:39 a.m.) -- Bernie Sanders’ campaign is declaring victory after striking deals with Hillary Clinton’s allies over climate change, health care and a $15-an-hour minimum wage as Democrats finalized the party’s 2016 platform.The primary rivals’ negotiators never found common ground on trade — with Clinton’s supporters voting down the Sanders backers’ language to specifically reject the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sanders supporters were also frustrated to see their proposals denouncing Israeli settlements and banning fracking rejected. https://publicskeleton.com/media/2016/07/10/democrats-adopt-many-bernie-sanders-demands-in-partys-new-platform/$ Democrats Adopt Many Bernie Sanders Demands in Party’s New Platform
By CNN Wire

(July 10, 2016 10:39 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign is declaring victory after striking deals with Hillary Clinton’s allies over climate change, health care and a $15-an-hour minimum wage as Democrats finalized the party’s 2016 platform.

The primary rivals’ negotiators never found common ground on trade — with Clinton’s supporters voting down the Sanders backers’ language to specifically reject the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership. Sanders supporters were also frustrated to see their proposals denouncing Israeli settlements and banning fracking rejected.

Bernie Sanders earns $15 minimum wage amendment to Democratic platform

July 9, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders earns $15 minimum wage amendment to Democratic platform
By the Associated Press

(July 9, 2016 9:12 a.m.) — ORLANDO, Fla. – Bernie Sanders’ crusade to shape the Democratic party platform scored a win late Friday night, with the approval of an amendment calling for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 over time.

The fight to get more explicit platform language around wages showed the Vermont senator’s campaign still fighting for the liberal issues that made up his “political revolution” even as his clout fades.

Green Party Candidate Invites Bernie Sanders To Take Over Ticket

July 8, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Green Party Candidate Invites Bernie Sanders To Take Over Ticket
By Kerry Picket

(July 8, 2016 3:28 p.m.) — Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton may not have seen the last of Bernie Sanders this election cycle.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has offered to step aside from running as the party nominee and allow Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to take over the ticket, The Guardian reports.

Bernie Sanders Expected To Endorse Hillary Clinton On Tuesday

July 7, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Expected To Endorse Hillary Clinton On Tuesday
By Jessica Taylor & Amita Kelly, NPR.org

(July 7, 2016 4:27 p.m. ET) — Bernie Sanders is expected to endorse Hillary Clinton on Tuesday at an event in New Hampshire, a Democratic source with knowledge of discussions between the two campaigns tell NPR’s Tamara Keith.

Clinton secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination just over a month ago, but Sanders has stayed in the campaign — though he kept a lower profile.

Vice President Biden told NPR last week that he was confident Sanders would endorse Clinton, but at that time Sanders said he wasn’t quite ready.

Sanders Files Permit Request for Huge Rally on Eve of Democratic

July 6, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Sanders Files Permit Request for Huge Rally on Eve of Democratic Convention
By Nadia Prupis, staff writer

(July 6, 2016 6:00 p.m.) — Bernie Sanders’ next signature rally may take place in Philadelphia—the night before the Democratic National Convention.

The Vermont senator’s campaign has applied for a permit to hold an event that will reportedly host between 15,000 to 40,000 people on July 24 at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park. It is one of 10 such pro-Sanders events requesting permission from the Philadelphia mayor’s office, the Burlington Free Press reports.

Sanders spokesperson Michael Briggs said last month that the senator was planning to deliver a “victory statement” in Philadelphia, but said on Wednesday that plans for the rally are still being finalized

Sanders booed by House Democrats

July 6, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Sanders booed by House Democrats
By Heather Caygle and Seung Min Kim

(July 6, 2016 10:49 a.m.) — Lawmakers press Sanders during a tense question-and-answer session on whether he would ultimately endorse Clinton and help foster party unity.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is still talking like a guy who’s running for president. But frustrated House Democrats — who booed him at one point during a morning meeting — say it’s time to stop.

With the Democratic convention just weeks away, Sanders still hasn’t endorsed one-time rival Hillary Clinton and dodged questions about when he would during a tense meeting Wednesday morning with House Democrats.

Bernie Sanders’ Reaction To The Clinton Email Findings Was Predictably Muted

July 5, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders’ Reaction To The Clinton Email Findings Was Predictably Muted
By Becky Bracken, Romper.com

(July 5, 2016 3:00 p.m.) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has always tried to stay out of the scandal surrounding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, even famously saying he was “tired” of hearing about her “damn emails” in an early debate between the two Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination. But what is Bernie Sanders’ reaction to the FBI’s recommendation on Clinton’s email scandal just released today? He says it has no impact on his candidacy.

Sanders is in a weird spot. He’s no longer actively campaigning for president, but his campaign is still active. Sanders hasn’t suspended his campaign, but has said in interviews he will vote for and support Clinton and is willing to do whatever it takes to help defend Donald Trump, adding “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee,” during an interview with CSPAN, The Hill reported.

End Citizens United aggressively seeks campaign finance reform

July 4, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

End Citizens United aggressively seeks campaign finance reform
By Joe Garofoli, San Fransisco Chronicle

(July 4, 2016 07:12 pm) — In one of his earliest moments of raw candor during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that when big donors like him give politicians money, they “do whatever the hell you want them to do.”

“That’s a broken system,” Trump said during a Republican debate back in August. He piled on by mocking his opponents who pandered to the Koch brothers as “puppets” of the billionaire conservative businessmen.

Yet even as the political polar opposites Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent the past year railing on about a “rigged” political system that allows wealthy donors outsize influence, campaign finance reform isn’t the kind of sexy issue that drives voters to the polls.

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