BERNIE SANDERS: NOT FOR SALE! HILLARY???? SHE HAS TO PROVE SHE ISN'T 16APR16

hillary clinton hosted a fundraiser on Friday night at george clooney's house. Couples attending had to pay, I mean donate to,  hillary's victory fund $353,000 for a seat at the table. One of hillary's friends who has donated to her campaign and associated super pacs is alice walton of the wal-mart waltons. Feature this, hillary is accepting campaign contributions from the likes of the waltons, employer of tens of thousands who make so little they qualify for government assistance and yet hillary claimed at Thursday's Democratic presidential debate she supports raising the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour! I can't come up with that kind of money to get hillary to listen to me about ANYTHING! Fortunately I don't have to, Bernie Sanders isn't checking to see if I donated to his campaign before acting on my behalf because he has been working for the 99% all his political career. We need to elect Bernie Sanders our next president, and we can only do that if we support his campaign by registering to vote and then actually voting, with our donations of whatever one can afford, and volunteering for the campaign whenever we can. This is our chance to restore American Democracy, CARPE DIEM!!! Click Bernie 2016 below to go to the campaign website and click the link below to donate whatever you can afford.

Tonight Hillary Clinton is hosting a fundraiser at the home of a California venture capitalist where couples contributing $353,000 get to sit at a table with George Clooney.

Now, you know where this campaign stands on George Clooney. YUGE fans.But a political contribution of $353,000?!??! That’s just an obscene amount of money.

And while the Clinton campaign repeatedly claims this money to her “Victory Fund” goes toward supporting the DNC, campaign finance records show they’ve spent millions of those dollars to subsidize their own campaign. It is, let’s just say, a very creative way to use enormous checks from people like Alice Walton (yes, Wal-Mart) to cover what would otherwise be campaign expenses.

So, we’ve set another ambitious goal, because that’s what this campaign is about: setting ambitious goals and watching people come together to meet them. Here it is:

Help Bernie raise $353,000 before midnight. Not in a single check, but in $78 increments. Add your contribution to the thousands being made right now.

New York votes in just three days, and we have a chance to shock the world right in Hillary Clinton’s backyard. Over 19,000 people came to see Bernie at a rally in the Bronx. Then 27,000 joined him at Washington Square Park. And last night chants of Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! echoed through the debate venue after Bernie’s closing remarks. We can do this. Maybe not in $353,000 chunks, but $78 at a time.

In solidarity,

Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016

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Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders 'has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA' 14APR16

hillary clinton is lying about +Senator Bernie Sanders on his relationship with and support of the nra. Go to his campaign website for his position on guns and gun control, check out his statement on gun violence and check this out from +PolitiFact ......

Says Bernie Sanders "has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA."

— Hillary Clinton on Thursday, April 14th, 2016 in the Democratic debate in New York

Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders 'has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA'

By Linda Qiu on Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 11:07 p.m.

Reeling from attacks over her ties to Wall Street, Hillary Clinton blasted Bernie Sanders over his own connections to a target of liberal ire: the gun lobby.

"He’s been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA. He kept his word to the NRA. He voted against the Brady Bill five times," Clinton said during the April 14 Democratic primary debate in New York.

She’s right about his votes against background checks and waiting periods, which took place from 1991 to 1993. But what about her attack that Sanders has consistently supported the gun lobby?

That’s a lot less accurate. Sanders has a mixed record when it comes to bills on guns and has actually received low marks from the National Rifle Association over his decades-long legislative career.

Sanders’ gun votes

In addition to Sanders’ Brady Bill votes, the Clinton campaign referred us to Sanders’ votes against funding for gun research, twice for prohibiting lawsuitsagainst firearms manufacturers ("what the head of the NRA called the most significant piece of pro-gun legislation in the last 20 years," said Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin), for increasing the burden of proof to prosecute law-breaking gun dealers, and for allowing firearms on Amtrak trains and in national parks.

Schwerin also noted that Sanders voted for an amendment in the Brady Bill that allows prospective gun owners to buy a firearm if their background checks are not completed in three days. This is the amendment that facilitated Dylann Roof to purchase his .45 caliber Glock pistol, which he used to kill nine people in a historically black church in Charleston in 2015.

But on the flip side, Sanders also voted against the NRA’s wishes and in favor ofbanning assault weapons, closing the gun show loophole, regulating high capacity magazines, and expanding background checks in the wake of the Newtown elementary school massacre.

We pulled together his votes on key gun bills over his 25 years in Congress (votes in bold reflect a pro-gun position):

Year	Legislation	Sanders’ Vote	Result
1993	Imposes a five-day waiting period and background checks on firearm purchases, part of the Brady Bill	Nay	Passed
1993	Imposes instant background checks instead for firearm purchases, part of amendment to Brady Bill	Yea	Passed
1993	Imposes an interim five-day waiting period while while waiting to put a instant background check system in place, part of Brady Bill conference report	Nay	Passed
1994	Bans semiautomatic assault weapons	Yea	Passed
1996	Increase funding for the Centers on Disease Control and Prevention by $2.6 million to research firearm-related injuries	Nay	Failed
1996	Repeals the semiautomatic weapon ban	Nay	Passed
1998	Increases minimum sentencing for gun crimes	Yea	Passed
1999	Creates "instant check registrants" and narrowly defines "gun shows," part of Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act,	Nay	Failed
1999	Imposes three day waiting period for guns purchased at gun shows, part of amendment to gun show act	Yea	Failed
2002	Allows pilots and flight personnel to carry firearms in the cockpit	Yea	Passed
2003	Prohibits lawsuits against firearm makers for unlawful misuse of a firearm	Yea	Passed
2005	Prohibits lawsuits against firearm makers for unlawful misuse of a firearm	Yea	Passed
2006	Prohibits funds from being used to enforce trigger lockson guns	Nay	Passed
2006	Increases the burden of proof for the AFT to penalize law-breaking gun dealers, as part of theBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms reform bill	Yea	Passed
2007	Prohibits foreign aid funding restrictions on U.S. gun ownership, as an amendment to the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008	Yea	Passed
2008	Prevents the use of funds for anti-gun programs as an amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act	Yea	Passed
2009	Gives the District of Columbia seats in the House of Representatives and repeals district’s ban on semi-automatics	Yea	Passed
2009	Allows the use of firearms in National Parks	Yea	Passed
2009	Allows concealed and carry across state lines	Nay	Failed
2009	Allows firearms in checked baggage on Amtrak trains, as an amendment to congressional budget	Yea	Passed
2009	Prohibits higher insurance premiums for gun owners, as part of an amendment to the Affordable Care Act	Yea	Passed
2013	Prevents the U.S. from entering the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, as an amendment to congressional budget	Nay	Passed
2013	Allows concealed and carry across state lines in states where the practice is not prohibited	Nay	Failed
2013	Lists all people prohibited buying a firearm in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System	Yea	Failed
2013	Bans high-capacity ammunition magazinescarrying more than 10 rounds	Yea	Failed
2013	Bans assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines	Yea	Failed

 

Neither a ‘gun-lobby lapdog’ nor an ‘anti-gunner’

The Clinton campaign also noted that the NRA helped elect Sanders to the House of Representatives in 1990. While it’s true that Sanders and the gun lobby were on the same side in that election, their alignment was temporary.

The NRA backed Republican incumbent Peter Smith in his 1988 race against Sanders. But Smith didn’t stick to his guns and came out in favor of an assault weapons ban after he won.

Feeling betrayed, the gun group spent $18,000 attacking the incumbent in 1990 and issued bumper stickers emblazoned with images of Smith as Pinocchio and "Dump Pete Smith," Garrison Nelson, a professor of state politics at the University of Vermont previously told PolitiFact.

Paul Blackman, a former NRA research associate, told us in 2015 that while Sanders wasn’t exactly pro-gun and the NRA wasn’t explicitly pro-Sanders, he seemed like the lesser of two evils.

"I don't remember whether we ever made a pro-Sanders statement, but we certainly made it clear that Vermonters should vote against Rep. Smith, and everyone understood that to mean we were supporting, directly or indirectly, the election of Sanders," he said. "Our people were satisfied that he was less bad than -- not equally bad as -- Smith."

"It was an awkward situation for Bernie. Sort of like the enemy of my enemy is my friend," said Chris Graff, the former Vermont AP bureau chief. "The NRA did not campaign for him but Bernie did oppose the Brady Bill. ... I do believe that Bernie ‘owed’ the NRA when he first went to Congress."

Since 1990, however, Sanders and the NRA seemed to part ways. Brady Campaign president Dan Gross said Sanders has shown suppleness and evolution since his first days in Congress, adding he isn’t a "gun lobby lapdog."

Blackman, the former NRA researcher, said the group doesn’t consider Sanders "an anti-gunner."

Warren Gunnels, Sanders’ policy director, noted that Sanders’ latest grade from the NRA was a D. In fact, Sanders has earned failing grades from the NRA for the past two decades. His highest mark was a C-, a barely passing grade that doesn’t amount to full-throated support. (The group has not graded Sanders in 2016.)

Year	Grade
1992	D
1994	F
1996	F
1998	F
2000	F
2002	F
2004	D+
2006	C-
2012	D-

 

Our ruling

Clinton said Sanders "has been largely a very reliable supporter of the NRA."

This is a stretch. Sanders won his congressional bid about 25 years ago thanks at least in part to the NRA, and has voted against major pieces of gun control legislation. However, he has also cast votes for gun control and has received low marks from the NRA for the past 20 years.

Neither the gun lobby nor gun control advocates claim Sanders as their own.

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Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 at 11:07 p.m.

Researched by: Linda Qiu, Katie Sanders

Edited by: Katie Sanders

Subjects: Candidate Biography, Guns

Sources:

CNN, Democratic debate in New York, March 14, 2016

Email interview with Josh Schwerin, spokesman for Hillary Clinton, March 14, 2016

Email interview with Warren Gunnels, policy director for Bernie Sanders, March 14, 2016

PolitiFact, "Did Bernie Sanders vote against background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases?", July 10, 2015

PolitiFact, "Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders voted against Brady bill five times," Oct. 13, 2016

PolitiFact, "Bernie Sanders’ NRA report card: D-minus is most recent grade," Jan. 20, 2016

Email and phone interviews with Garrison Nelson, professor of political science at the University of Vermont, July 7-8, 2015

Email interviews with Paul Blackman, former research coordinator at the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, July 7, 2015

Email interviews with Chris Graff, former Vermont Associated Press bureau chief, July 7-8, 2015

Interview with Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, July 9, 2015