The "Dirty Games" have just begun.
The strong showing by Bernie Sanders will be a wake up call to the
Clinton camp.
After listening to some of the last couple of Republican "Debates",
and taking a look at some of the people attaching themselves to Cruz
and Trump, I am beginning to waffle on my vow to never vote for
Hillary Clinton.
If Sanders fails in his bid for the nomination, and Clinton is the
Democrats choice, I had planned to simply vote for Stein. But even
considering that Clinton is all schmooze and no substance, and
understanding that under her guiding hand it would be business as
usual, the thought of losing so many of our hard earned gains under
Cruz or Trump, is unbearable.
As I say, I'm having second thoughts, but still...
Carl Jarvis
On 2/2/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday, I felt like I wanted to give a small donation to Sanders, just
to
encourage the campaign or to show the Democratic Party establishment that
they do have a fight on their hands. But I found Bernie's website too
difficult to deal with in terms of donating. I did see a phone number
listed
on the website. It was a phone number for a hot line. I wrote it down,
thinking that if these websites were giving me a problem, I'd donate $10 by
phone. Then I saw that Move On was also collecting money for Bernie. I
donated money to them a few months ago for an anti Trump ad and it was easy
to use their website so I thought that perhaps I could use their website to
donate money to Bernie. It did seem easier to use. But them I saw a
statement that half of the money I donate through that website goes to Move
On Action and half to Bernie. I didn't want to do that. I wanted all the
money to go to the Sanders campaign. So I called the phone number that I'd
gotten from Bernie's website. The representative to answered the phone said
"Socially United". I asked what she'd said and who was the group. The group
is Americans Socially United. She really didn't know anything about what
she
was doing, who the group is, what it does, etc. But when I asked about if
they were collecting money for the Bernie Sanders campaign, she checked and
said yes. I asked if all of the money goes to his campaign. She said that
most of it did, but some goes for administrative costs. Because I'd found
the number on his campaign website and because it was easy, I donated the
money. Then I googled the group. The first thing I found was a slur from
one
of the dark money groups that I'd just finished reading about in Jane
mayer's book. It was one of these groups with a very respectable sounding
name but I recognized it as a right wing front group. There was a quote
from
its website which said something like, "who is the shadowy group,
Americans
Socially United who is behind..." So I realized that Americans Socially
United must be a political action fund that has been formed on Bernie's
behalf. He's certainly not hiding it because the phone number is right
there
on his website. and I did remember seeing the name and address of the
group, located in Las Vegas, at the bottom of the website. But I don't
understand if it is just the fund raising arm of the campaign or a
political
action group or what.
Miriam
