I just think he is too progressive and is a threat to the establishment (one reason I think his shyt is being sabotaged). I prefer dude to any of these clowns but I know he doesn't have a shot.
Did black people forget Hilary Clinton's husband was President during the Rwandan genocide?
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I just think he is too progressive and is a threat to the establishment (one reason I think his shyt is being sabotaged). I prefer dude to any of these clowns but I know he doesn't have a shot.
Soros helps pro-Clinton Super PACs to $24 million haul
American Bridge 21st Century, an opposition research super PAC founded by Clinton enforcer David Brock, raised $7.7 million — including $1 million from Soros — an official with the group said Wednesday. A linked non-profit group called American Bridge 21st Century Foundation – which is not required to disclose its donors – raised an additional $1 million, the official said.
The super PAC numbers are an encouraging development for Clinton, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination announced Wednesday that it had raised $45 million during her first three months in the race.
Clinton is a fundraiser par excellence, and her ability to raise money for her own campaign was never in doubt.
The fundraising ability of the pro-Clinton super PACs, however, was less clear.
Clinton’s allies early this year had privately fretted that supportive super PACs were struggling to raise money amidst internecine squabbling and reluctance among some of the Democratic Party’swealthiest backers.
But the early fundraising details from Priorities and American Bridge — which will be fleshed out more completely in mandatory reports due at the Federal Election Commission before a July 15 deadline — suggest some of the party’s core mega-donors are stepping up to the plate.
According to sources in Democratic finance ciricles, Priorities collected big checks from Democratic Hollywood stalwarts including DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and producer J.J. Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath, and cause donors like California investor Herb Sandler and Boston philanthropist Barbara Lee. It got some organized labor cash as well, with a check coming from the union representing plumbers and pipefitters.
Soros’s checks in particular send an important signal. The Hungarian-born investor is one of the few Democratic donors who has shown a willingness to drop eight-figures in an election cycle, having donated more than $20 million in 2004 to groups that tried to oust then-President George W. Bush. After the failure of that effort, Soros dialed back his big-money political spending, but he is still closely watched by other rich Democrats as a bellwether donor.
An adviser to Soros said his boss also gave $1 million this year to America Votes, a liberal non-profit group that mobilizes voters around issue and election campaigns. But Soros has not decided how much to donate overall in 2016, or how to divvy up his big political checks among groups, the adviser said.
The $7.7-million super PAC haul for American Bridge — which has played a key role in defending Clinton against GOP attacks — marks its largest six-month fundraising haul since the group was formed in 2011. The cash came from 55 donors, for an average contribution of $140,000, and it came at an important time in the preliminary stages of the big-money cash race.
Guy Cecil, Priorities’ chief strategist, wrote supporters Thursday morning stressing the importance of raising big money more than six months before the first nominating contests.
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“It may seem early to many of us, but with the amount of money pouring in from the far right wing, the time has come for our side to kick things into high gear,” Cecil wrote in an email first reported by The New York Times. “We have a lot of work to do in the months ahead, but we are starting to see some real momentum.”
The super PACs supporting Clinton’s prospective GOP rivals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are raking in huge checks or commitments from their side’s billionaires. New York hedge fund manager Bob Mercer is the leading backer behind a network of pro-Cruz super PACs that boasted of raising $31 million while Miami businessman Norman Braman is considering donating as much as $25 million to a super PAC backing Rubio. Mega-donor cultivation is shaping up an essential aspect of the 2016 presidential campaign because super PACs have begun assuming some of the roles traditionally played by campaigns.
Unlike campaigns – which are limited to maximum donations of $5,400 this election cycle – super PACs can accept checks of unlimited amounts, thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling and a subsequent lower court decision that struck down key political spending restrictions.
While super PACs are still barred from coordinating their spending strategies with the campaigns they’re trying to help, operatives in recent years have pioneered techniques for ensuring complementary efforts.
American Bridge 21st Century, for instance, in 2013 launched a project called Correct the Record, that has been filling many of the functions of a traditional campaign rapid-response operation, providing real-time push-back against GOP attacks on its website and via email for use by Clinton’s defenders. The group became a stand-alone super PAC in May, splitting off from American Bridge, and hinting at plans to work even more closely with Clinton’s campaign.
Read more: Soros helps pro-Clinton Super PACs to $24 million haul
American Bridge 21st Century, an opposition research super PAC founded by Clinton enforcer David Brock, raised $7.7 million — including $1 million from Soros — an official with the group said Wednesday. A linked non-profit group called American Bridge 21st Century Foundation – which is not required to disclose its donors – raised an additional $1 million, the official said.
The super PAC numbers are an encouraging development for Clinton, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination announced Wednesday that it had raised $45 million during her first three months in the race.
Clinton is a fundraiser par excellence, and her ability to raise money for her own campaign was never in doubt.
The fundraising ability of the pro-Clinton super PACs, however, was less clear.
Clinton’s allies early this year had privately fretted that supportive super PACs were struggling to raise money amidst internecine squabbling and reluctance among some of the Democratic Party’swealthiest backers.
But the early fundraising details from Priorities and American Bridge — which will be fleshed out more completely in mandatory reports due at the Federal Election Commission before a July 15 deadline — suggest some of the party’s core mega-donors are stepping up to the plate.
According to sources in Democratic finance ciricles, Priorities collected big checks from Democratic Hollywood stalwarts including DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and producer J.J. Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath, and cause donors like California investor Herb Sandler and Boston philanthropist Barbara Lee. It got some organized labor cash as well, with a check coming from the union representing plumbers and pipefitters.
Soros’s checks in particular send an important signal. The Hungarian-born investor is one of the few Democratic donors who has shown a willingness to drop eight-figures in an election cycle, having donated more than $20 million in 2004 to groups that tried to oust then-President George W. Bush. After the failure of that effort, Soros dialed back his big-money political spending, but he is still closely watched by other rich Democrats as a bellwether donor.
An adviser to Soros said his boss also gave $1 million this year to America Votes, a liberal non-profit group that mobilizes voters around issue and election campaigns. But Soros has not decided how much to donate overall in 2016, or how to divvy up his big political checks among groups, the adviser said.
The $7.7-million super PAC haul for American Bridge — which has played a key role in defending Clinton against GOP attacks — marks its largest six-month fundraising haul since the group was formed in 2011. The cash came from 55 donors, for an average contribution of $140,000, and it came at an important time in the preliminary stages of the big-money cash race.
Guy Cecil, Priorities’ chief strategist, wrote supporters Thursday morning stressing the importance of raising big money more than six months before the first nominating contests.
ON POLITICO MAGAZINE
Hillary Wins Again
JACK SHAFER
“It may seem early to many of us, but with the amount of money pouring in from the far right wing, the time has come for our side to kick things into high gear,” Cecil wrote in an email first reported by The New York Times. “We have a lot of work to do in the months ahead, but we are starting to see some real momentum.”
The super PACs supporting Clinton’s prospective GOP rivals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are raking in huge checks or commitments from their side’s billionaires. New York hedge fund manager Bob Mercer is the leading backer behind a network of pro-Cruz super PACs that boasted of raising $31 million while Miami businessman Norman Braman is considering donating as much as $25 million to a super PAC backing Rubio. Mega-donor cultivation is shaping up an essential aspect of the 2016 presidential campaign because super PACs have begun assuming some of the roles traditionally played by campaigns.
Unlike campaigns – which are limited to maximum donations of $5,400 this election cycle – super PACs can accept checks of unlimited amounts, thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling and a subsequent lower court decision that struck down key political spending restrictions.
While super PACs are still barred from coordinating their spending strategies with the campaigns they’re trying to help, operatives in recent years have pioneered techniques for ensuring complementary efforts.
American Bridge 21st Century, for instance, in 2013 launched a project called Correct the Record, that has been filling many of the functions of a traditional campaign rapid-response operation, providing real-time push-back against GOP attacks on its website and via email for use by Clinton’s defenders. The group became a stand-alone super PAC in May, splitting off from American Bridge, and hinting at plans to work even more closely with Clinton’s campaign.
Read more: Soros helps pro-Clinton Super PACs to $24 million haul
White America made Obama president with a black population of 14% so why can't Sanders win?
Has nothing to do with white or black. I just believe that he is too progressive. Folks on both sides will do anything to prevent him from getting into office
Activists from Boston’s #BlackLivesMatter chapter plan to disrupt a Hillary Clinton event in Keene, New Hampshire, on Tuesday afternoon, asking her questions specifically about her platform on drug enforcement. The event, which was scheduled to begin at2:30pm ET, is a community forum on substance abuse. Keene is one of many New England towns being affected by a heroin crisis.
A small group of activists, led by Black Lives Matter Boston founder Daunasia Yancey, shared their talking points and planned questions exclusively with the New Republic while en route to the protest. They mention Clinton’s previous support of policies “which instituted draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse at the same time they funnel money away from anti-poverty programs and into hyper-militarization of urban police forces and the institution of white supremacist police profiling policies.”
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has faced criticism stemming from two protests of presidential candidates: a July disruption of a Netroots Nation event featuring two Democratic hopefuls, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley and current U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. O'Malley subsequently released a criminal justice reform plan that responded to many of the protesters' concerns. Sanders was interrupted again on Saturday at an event in Seattle. Sanders's supporters have been vocal in print and online articles, as well as social media, about their consternation that their candidate, a vocal supporter of civil rights for decades, was the target of #BlackLivesMatter protests. Many openly wondered why Clinton was not herself a target. Activists and journalists, including me, have levied criticisms in return.
The activists said they plan to ask several questions including, "Can you give at least one tangible example of how you expect to reverse the health and human services disaster you orchestrated in impoverished, urban, non-white communities through the domsetic [War on Drugs] policy you've championed as FLOTUS & Senator?" and "Is it your plan, as POTUS, to finally put an end to the International War on Drugs ... you waged as Sec. of State or is your intention to continue to oversee its horrendous expansion?"
Yancey was called the “new face of Boston’s civil rights movement” in a February Boston magazine profile. An activist since the age of 13, Yancey was trained largely in local LGBT youth organizations. She has led marches and rallies in Boston, including one in November shortly after the announcement that no charges would be filed in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Fifty-one protesters were arrested.
Clinton gave a major speech at Columbia University in April regarding criminal justice reform, calling for an end to mass incarceration. The former Secretary of State also noted that of a large percentage of the more than two million Americans currently in prison are low-level offenders, many of them simply waiting for trial. In late May, she not only signaled her intention to make substance abuse a key issue in her campaign, but as the Huffington Post reported,began drafting policy solutions. “The drug epidemic, meth, pills in Iowa, and then I got to New Hampshire and at my very first coffee shop meeting I heard about the heroin epidemic in New Hampshire,” Clinton said in a Google Hangout organized by her campaign. “This is tearing families apart, but it is below the surface. People aren’t talking about it, because it’s something that is hard to deal with,” she said.
We will update this story as events transpire.
#BlackLivesMatter Activists to Disrupt Hillary Clinton Event | The New Republic
A small group of activists, led by Black Lives Matter Boston founder Daunasia Yancey, shared their talking points and planned questions exclusively with the New Republic while en route to the protest. They mention Clinton’s previous support of policies “which instituted draconian penalties for drug possession and abuse at the same time they funnel money away from anti-poverty programs and into hyper-militarization of urban police forces and the institution of white supremacist police profiling policies.”
The #BlackLivesMatter movement has faced criticism stemming from two protests of presidential candidates: a July disruption of a Netroots Nation event featuring two Democratic hopefuls, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley and current U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. O'Malley subsequently released a criminal justice reform plan that responded to many of the protesters' concerns. Sanders was interrupted again on Saturday at an event in Seattle. Sanders's supporters have been vocal in print and online articles, as well as social media, about their consternation that their candidate, a vocal supporter of civil rights for decades, was the target of #BlackLivesMatter protests. Many openly wondered why Clinton was not herself a target. Activists and journalists, including me, have levied criticisms in return.
The activists said they plan to ask several questions including, "Can you give at least one tangible example of how you expect to reverse the health and human services disaster you orchestrated in impoverished, urban, non-white communities through the domsetic [War on Drugs] policy you've championed as FLOTUS & Senator?" and "Is it your plan, as POTUS, to finally put an end to the International War on Drugs ... you waged as Sec. of State or is your intention to continue to oversee its horrendous expansion?"
Yancey was called the “new face of Boston’s civil rights movement” in a February Boston magazine profile. An activist since the age of 13, Yancey was trained largely in local LGBT youth organizations. She has led marches and rallies in Boston, including one in November shortly after the announcement that no charges would be filed in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Fifty-one protesters were arrested.
Clinton gave a major speech at Columbia University in April regarding criminal justice reform, calling for an end to mass incarceration. The former Secretary of State also noted that of a large percentage of the more than two million Americans currently in prison are low-level offenders, many of them simply waiting for trial. In late May, she not only signaled her intention to make substance abuse a key issue in her campaign, but as the Huffington Post reported,began drafting policy solutions. “The drug epidemic, meth, pills in Iowa, and then I got to New Hampshire and at my very first coffee shop meeting I heard about the heroin epidemic in New Hampshire,” Clinton said in a Google Hangout organized by her campaign. “This is tearing families apart, but it is below the surface. People aren’t talking about it, because it’s something that is hard to deal with,” she said.
We will update this story as events transpire.
#BlackLivesMatter Activists to Disrupt Hillary Clinton Event | The New Republic
feelosofer
#ninergang
Because most of these posters weren't born or were very young when Clinton was president and go by what their parents/grandparents said. A lot of Black americans could give a fukk about Africa as long as their money isn't affected and that's a sad truth more so in the mid 90's.
Self_Born7
SUN OF MAN
#nobody2016
Self_Born7
SUN OF MAN
that clinton body count though
Bill just sat back and let a million Africans slaughter each other in 3 months for nothing.
Also didn't the prison industrial complex rise to new levels of fukkery under Clinton?
#blacklivesmatter is trying to sabotage Bernie Sanders and not Hilary Clinton?
Is black America under a complete spell of media manipulation? honestly....
Bernie Sanders the only candidate trying to bring socialism which with help black people.
Do black people not understand that capitalism is white supremacy?
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^If you don't believe me just look at the forbes top 100 billionaires list.
White people are white supremacy. It doesnt matter what system of government they are claiming to represent. Bernie sanders is trash and socialism is garbage. All a nation needs is an acceptable standard of living (food clothing and shelter) for the poorest people of their population and programs in place to give them the opportunity to make a respectable wage or start a business. THere is no drive for those among us who bring us to the next level in these systems. They are mundane and are not inspirational.
There are elements of socialism that are appealing, like free healthcare and safety nets for the populace but, private ownership is a must for advancement.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
He's 75 and a socialist. He also refuses to take large (corporate) donations which means that if he got into the general election he'd be outspent 10 to 1. Let's say Hillary goes down in flames due to scandal...I'd bet all my Coli money that the democrat party will step in and have someone else run to make sure Sanders doesn't win. Whether it's Biden, John Kerry, whoever, they won't let him win.