Yet Another Sign of the Broken Nature of Money in Politics: Mark Warner (D-VA) coming to Los Angeles?!
Submitted by Dhyerwolf on Tue, 04/26/2016 - 4:02pm
I got an email this morning that I found odd. Mark Warner, one of the remaining conservadem Senators and one of the few to escape the 2014 bloodbath, is coming to Los Angeles in order to raise money. A lot of money. For the cut rate price of $1,000, I could see one of my least favorite Democratic Senators who has literally no real reason for being here; if I'm feeling opulent, I can spend $5,400 to be a host. He's not even up for re-election until 2020, but thanks to the Supreme Court, Senators literally have to spend hours each day on the phone fundraising.
I wonder what they'll be saying at the event that will make people fork over $1,000 to Senator who they've probably never heard of before this.
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Shades of Bulworth
"Obscenity?/
I'm a Senator/
I gotta raise $10,000 a day every day I'm in Washington/
I ain't getting it in South Central/
I'm gettin it in Beverly Hills/
So I'm votin for them in the Senate the way they want me to/
and-and-and I'm sending them my bills/
But we got babies in South Central dying as young as they do in Peru/
We got public schools that are nightmares/
We got a Congress that ain't got a clue"
It's a big club...and you ain't in it!
floated as a Clinton VP candidate
It makes perfect sense in that context.
I vote in Virginia. My disgust with Clinton was presaged by my distaste for Warner.
Warner as VP?!!!!
Her VP list must be pretty bad given on the little we know so far. I mean, I guess Warner is better-ish than Julian Castro, but both of them would make liberals even less likely to vote for Hillary.
Wow - Warner as VP might be the only thing worse
Than Hillary as is. For her sake, I hope she has the sense to pick a progressive VP. But she is so arrogant she probably won't and I hope she doesn't, as she'll be more likely to lose.