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Okay, leave your post up because I'm about to blow you out of the water. You say the Bernster isn't a "sell-out" " never took corporate money"????? REALLY!? okay shorty, it's time the adults came to the table to educate you (again). Read it & weep:
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00000528&cycle=CAREER
AND THIS:
https://www.politifact.com/factchec...-sanders-has-taken-corporate-lobbyist-money-/
OUCH!
During the 2016 presidential campaign, when Sanders finished as runner-up to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, it was
reported that Sanders had received money from nearly two dozen registered federal lobbyists, including one from the National Mining Association.
And
figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks federal campaign contributions, show Sanders has received $3.35 million from "lawyers and lobbyists" since 1989.
"Corporate lobbyist" isn’t a precise term. But we can check Ocasio-Cortez’s claim based on whether Sanders has ever taken contributions from lobbyists who represent corporations, even if they amount to only a tiny percentage of all his campaign money.
In fact, there have been a number of such instances, dating back more than a decade.
In his current campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sanders has received contributions from at least two federally registered lobbyists. They include $100 from
EY lobbyist Dave Koshgarian, whose clients
include Boeing Co., MetLife Inc. and New York Life Insurance; and $27 from Netflix
lobbyist Josh Korn.
The center told us it has not done a more complete analysis of lobbyist contributions to Sanders.
But we found that some larger donations were made in previous campaigns.