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Sanders Demands Democrats Ban Super PAC Spending in Primaries After AIPAC Blitz (truthout.org)
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called on Democratic leaders to ban super PAC spending from the party’s primaries after AIPAC poured $32 million in the Michigan Senate primary race to defeat pro-Palestine Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — and is now poised to support his Republican opponent. Sanders made the demand in a mock letter, posted on social media on Sunday, addressed to Senate Minority…

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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's worth reading Sander's one page memo. He makes a good, practical point.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He always does. The problem is the establishment doesn’t give a rats ass what he says. If fact they actively try to undermine him, which is how we ended up with Hillary in 2016.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The problem is the establishment doesn’t give a rats ass what he says.

    He should try bribing the establishment to the tune of billions of dollars in campaign contributions, kickbacks, and sinecures. So many of these assholes have one foot out the door to become Silicon Valley Defense Sector board members and O&G lobbyists.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    But half the party relies on that money for their reelection. How will they win without it? It wouldn't be "fair".

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like only banning it in primaries just lets them save up and über-bribe whoever makes it to the general.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    First of all, fuck off Zionist.

    Second off, this is more a matter of, "why are the Democrats letting AIPAC influence the primaries when the same donor is generally opposing our candidates?"

    And to actually address your comment of "they go low, we go high" - literally if you read the first paragraph of the article you'd see he was only referring to primaries. Just as a heads up, Republicans* don't participate in Democratic primaries.

    *Except for Centrist Democrats, and especially sex offender Cuomo.

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