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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders rejects donation from ‘poster boy for drug company greed’ Martin Shkreli [View all]Response to artislife (Reply #2)
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Bernie Sanders rejects donation from ‘poster boy for drug company greed’ Martin Shkreli [View all]
arcane1
Oct 2015
OP
Shkreli's personality software seems to have a bug in the self-restraint firewalls
aidbo
Oct 2015
#1
So I expect Hillary will be returning the $$$$$ she received from Wall St. & Private Prisons Industry
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
#4
She needs that big Wall Street money in order to... defeat big Wall Street money...
arcane1
Oct 2015
#5
Because she believes we have to get big money out of politics (and can't raise it from individuals)!
merrily
Oct 2015
#14
All she's ever going to do to Wall Street is to yell at them to "cut it out"! Then do nothing.
reformist2
Oct 2015
#41
Remember when Bush said he'd lower gas prices by telling OPEC to "open the spigot"? n/t
arcane1
Oct 2015
#44
He could have sent the money back to the sociopath but decided to do something good with it instead.
beam me up scottie
Oct 2015
#12
K&R. Bernie can't be bought! That is exactly why we need him to be President.
liberal_at_heart
Oct 2015
#20
Hillary should follow his principled stand and refuse that money she is accepting from the vile
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#22
I think they're saying Bernie took that guy's ill-gotten money and turned it into a good deed n/t
arcane1
Oct 2015
#45
It's extremely relevant since it reflects his resolve to helping the victims of greed.
beam me up scottie
Oct 2015
#82
How dare he?!!? That's downright unAmerican for politicians not to take payoffs!!
Tierra_y_Libertad
Oct 2015
#78
Talking the talk, walking the walk and being the best damn person in the world!
Feeling the Bern
Oct 2015
#81
I agree. Principles are so rare that they can appear "weird" when seen for the first time n/t
arcane1
Oct 2015
#93
"He also said that he would ask the senator what prices he would consider fair."
Unknown Beatle
Oct 2015
#105
"the $2,700 Shkreli donated...will be given to the Whitman-Walker health clinic in Washington"
arcane1
Oct 2015
#113
Right. How could the campaign committee give the donation to the clinic if they didn't accept it?
George II
Oct 2015
#115
No, I'm pointing out how the FEC (and most state) campaign finance laws work...
George II
Oct 2015
#117
Good. Greedy @$$hole needs to have more of this kind of thing happen to him. nt.
Persondem
Oct 2015
#111