No, not like she does the total is a whopping $3,200 and all from progressive causes and individuals, unlike her and NOT CORPORATE large scale bundles and dark money to PACs in the millions of dollars like her.
“One of the many messages our campaign has effectively sent to the political establishment of this country is that the American people have had enough of the billionaire class buying elections,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told the Center for Public Integrity.
Added Mike Casca, Sanders’s rapid-response director: "Bernie’s campaign is fueled by individual contributions averaging under $30—not lobbyists bundling six figures at private events."
A Clinton campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
To be sure, lobbyist donations—about $3,200 overall—represent a tiny fraction of the more than $96 million Sanders has raised for his underdog presidential bid. About 70 percent of that sum comes from small-dollar donors who have given Sanders $200 or less.
Sanders’s anti–big money, anti–special interest mantra has resonated with many voters, who have lifted him to victory against Clinton in several primary and caucus contests.
The lobbyist cash the Sanders campaign has collected has come from traditionally left-leaning causes: labor unions, environmentalists, the American Civil Liberties Union.
For instance, John M. Walsh, a lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, contributed $500 to Sanders last year.
Other labor lobbyists giving Sanders money include Ian Hoffmann, a lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees, who contributed $235, and Michael Dolan, a lobbyist for the Teamsters, who gave $100.
Each lobbyist declined to comment.
Lobbyist Michael Correia of the National Cannabis Industry Association also donated $500 to Sanders last year. That’s tied for the largest amount among Sanders’s lobbyist contributors to date.
Correia, who also gave $500 to Republican Rand Paul, told the Center for Public Integrity he contributed to both presidential campaigns because it was an “opportunity to reward somebody” for being a leader on cannabis policy.
In November, Sanders introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana.
“I can understand when he uses the rhetoric about lobbyists or the power of corporations—I get that,” Correia continued, adding that lobbying the government is a constitutionally protected right. “I can proudly say that I’m a lobbyist.… I’m doing something that I think is right and on the right side of history.”
That sentiment was reiterated by other lobbyists contacted by the Center for Public Integrity.
One Sanders-supporting lobbyist who refused to be quoted by name said, “I’m a good lobbyist,” and insisted that “not all lobbyists are unethical.”
Most lobbyists who’ve contributed to Sanders’s campaign simply didn’t want to discuss their donations.
“Unfortunately, I can’t discuss my personal political affiliations on the record,” said Ian Thompson, a lobbyist at the American Civil Liberties Union who has given $170 to Sanders.
“I respectfully decline comment,” echoed Robert Henson, a lobbyist at Credit Union National Association who has donated $100 to Sanders.
Likewise, Amanda Aspatore, a lobbyist at the National Mining Association who has given Sanders $250, declined to discuss her contribution. “I’m not going to comment on that,” she said.
http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-hillary-clinton-democrats-bernie-lobbyists-cannabis-brotherhood-436080
They like to leave out the important stuff and act like kids that say, "but my sister eats cookies too!" after getting caught sealing hundreds of boxes of girl scout cookies from the garage, it is not the same when the sister got "caught" eating a cookie put in her lunchbox by mom, but they gotta' justify the bad action somehow.
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