We did it! Over $42 Million for February in small donations for Bernie:
Lifted by more than 1.4 million contributions averaging $30 a piece, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign on Tuesday announced it raised more than $42 million in the month of February. The total is the most raised in a single month by any candidate running for president in 2016.
Sanders hauled in more than $6 million on the final day of the month alone, nearly matching the amount he raised in the 24 hours after a 22-point victory in the New Hampshire primary.
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Hillary finished the month fundraising at high-dollar events in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Bernie asked us to step up, and we did.
Campaign Manger Jeff Weaver talked about Bernie’s firewall — us!
“Working Americans chipping in a few dollars every week are changing the way campaigns in our country are financed,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “Not only are we going to smash Secretary Clinton’s personal goal of raising $50 million in the first quarter of 2016, our supporters are putting Bernie on the path to win the nomination.”
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“Our supporters are a firewall protecting Bernie from the Clinton campaign’s wealthiest donors and super PACs,” Weaver said. “But with the amount of high-dollar fundraisers she’s held this month, it’s hard to see how we possibly raised more than Secretary Clinton in February.”
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More than 99.9 percent of Bernie’s donors can give again. That means if he needs us, many of us can give $10, $20, or $30. And with lots of small donations, it adds up to $42 Million!
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
www.rfksafilm.org/...(Robert F. Kennedy, 1966)
1.4 million “ripples of hope” building a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
In contrast, the majority of the money given to Hillary Clinton came from donors who already have given her the maximum allowed by law. She is running out of wealthy people who can legally donate to her campaign. Yes, the PACs can hoover up billionaire cash. Of course, that just reveals even more which side she is on.
We are the firewall. We are the ripples of hope.