2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)....you should browse the FEC regulations regarding donor limits AND while you're at it check out Sanders' FEC filings.
On the surface it looks like "Wall Shtreet*" makes huge donations, but those are actually a huge number of small donations from average people who happen to work for banks (any idea how many people in NY work for banks????)
Then, there's a limit of $2700 per person and $5400 per couple on donations. THAT'S it! No one, regardless of where they work or how much they have can donate more. Period. There are no "big donations".
Next, check Sanders' FEC filings, there have been thousands upon thousands of violations due to overruns of contributions. Some single people have donated way more than the limit, some couples even further over the limit. Sure, they gave "$27 donations", but some gave a huge number of them, exceeding the FEC limits.
Not only that, his campaign accepted many donations from foreign donors, again violations.
So, you can go on about "Wall Shtreet money", but that's just an easy catch phrase to throw out to criticize someone you obviously wasn't interested in supporting.
Finally, there was no more ""you lost-know your place" than there was "you won, but we still won't support you or vote for you".
*it's not a speech impediment, it's a mispronunciation!