Forward! Hope!
Nope. Now we are headed backward.
Our Party is headed back to the bad old days, ditching change FTW!!!
It will come as no surprise to some that Hillary is following the coaching and orchestration of corpadems who see big money as the be all end all.
Billionaire class? Hell yeah, bring 'em on, hell, lets go get them!
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Times A-Changin'
Obama's No-Money-From-Lobbyists Policy? Democratic Party Says Fuggedaboutit
Jul 23, 2015 6:21 PM CDT
The Democratic National Committee is reversing its Obama-era ban on fundraising from lobbyists and political action committees – at least when it comes to building a massive war chest for its 2016 convention and in taking in cash raised by primary candidates for joint fundraising accounts.
The change, announced Thursday, brings the party's fundraising policies back in line with its practices in most cycles beforeBarack Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, a campaign in which he contrasted his refusal to take lobbyist money with Hillary Clinton's position. When he bested Clinton in the race for the nomination, Obama aligned the DNC's fundraising rules with his campaign's, barring lobbyists and PACs from giving to the party's accounts, including the 2008 and 2012 conventions.
Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, has chosen to accept lobbyist and PAC money for her campaign accounts. Concerned about being able to compete with Republican National Committee's fundraising rules and with the massive super PACs backing GOP candidates, her allies privately encouraged the DNC to revert to its pre-2008 standards.
Contrast that with Sanders' ideas and actions
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http://www.salon.com/...
On the other side of the political spectrum, Bernie Sanders doesn’t need the money of billionaires, since most likely they’d be “wasting” money on donating to his campaign. After all, Sanders is quoted in The Washington Post as saying things that no other politician in America would dare utter during an election cycle:
The American people do not want an economy dominated by a handful of gigantic Wall Street firms who live in their own world… These guys have engaged in a whole lot of illegal activity and highly complicated financial tools designed to enrich themselves. That has gotta be broken…
Let me give you some interesting news. I announced yesterday. In 24 hours, 100,000 people have signed up to join the campaign. We have received 35,000 donations. You know what the average donation was? $43. We raised a million and a half dollars in 24 hours with an average donation of $43.
That is where most of our money is going to come from…I will not be part of any Super PAC.
Throughout my career I have not taken any corporate PAC money. That will remain for this race as well.
Can I raise a billion dollars? Probably not. But the question is, can I raise enough money to run a grass roots campaign and utilize millions of people? I think we can raise that kind of money.
For swing voters in swing states like Ohio or Florida, the trustworthiness of our future president will be partially linked to how they finance their campaigns. It’s 480 days from Election Day.Sanders’ refusal to accept money from people like Donald Trump will continue to help him, especially in swing states. It might also set an invaluable precedent.
We have a clear choice.