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    FlamingTelepathBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:36pm

    He received almost $105,000 from the five largest tech firms in the last three months of 2015.

    From the tech firms or from individual employees of those tech firms? There’s a big difference and you should clarify this.

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      thewholetownscuteFlamingTelepath
      2/09/16 10:42pm

      It’s only individuals. Sanders has not taken a dollar from a SuperPAC or corporation. The only organizations he’s taken money from are unions.

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      FlamingTelepaththewholetownscute
      2/09/16 10:49pm

      I know, and I knew before reading, but not everyone knows.

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    CaptainButtersBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:26pm

    Trust me. With the amount of money we pay in taxes in Silicon Valley, the Bay Area and California, we like Bernie cause we want the rest of the country to catch up. Looking at you Texas! NY gets a pass.

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      SohrabCaptainButters
      2/09/16 10:35pm

      Silicon Valley loves the idea of a universal income. It is being tested out in small scale. As more and more jobs become automated, they will need the universal income to keep society going. Bernie is probably the most inline with them on that.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeSohrab
      2/09/16 10:59pm

      Plus single-payer healthcare provided by the government will save them tons for those few humans that will have jobs, while keeping the rest of us barely alive.

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    Book AkiBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:23pm

    What about all the middle-aged dudes with cell phone belt clips and blue tooth headsets? Any idea who they are voting for?

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      Desi_RelafordBook Aki
      2/09/16 10:28pm

      Romney.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeBook Aki
      2/09/16 10:29pm

      Trump.

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    BlancoYoBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:58pm

    With the kind of money being made in Silicon Valley, how is $105,000 in tech firm donations to Bernie Sanders newsworthy? Also, as noted by @FlamingTelepath, important to clarify; are those donations coming from individuals or companies? If they’re from Silicon Valley co.s, $105k is a proportionally insignificant figure, a rounding error. If they’re from workers in Silicon Valley, that gets a little more interesting.

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      HenryKillingerBlancoYo
      2/10/16 4:40am

      It’s from individuals who work for those companies. All of Sanders’ fundraising has come from individual contributions (other than the initial war chest he brought from past Senate campaigns, though that money was also from individual contributions). Corporations can’t drop that kind of cash into a campaign directly; it would have to go through a PAC, which Sanders doesn’t have.

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      EvanrudeJohnsonBlancoYo
      2/10/16 7:30am

      It really isn’t newsworthy to most people because as part of the whole political process, it is a drop in the bucket as far as campaign money goes. However, it might be news to a lot of delusional people around here who think that Silicon Valley employees are only nerdy, white, librotarians. It might also be news to some here that quite a few very wealthy people are very liberal and very douchey.(Look at the d bags that Bill Clinton regularly hangs with)

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    WTFmechanicsBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:51pm

    So roughly half of a Hillary Goldman Sachs speech? Am I right? $675,000 divided by 3 speeches ...

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      GoLikeHellMachineWTFmechanics
      2/10/16 12:41am

      You’d totally have a point if her speech had gone to her campaign. Try again.

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      WTFmechanicsGoLikeHellMachine
      2/10/16 12:59am

      Whatever Hill Shill ... you don’t think you’d remember and take stock of where 675k came from, or where her son in law worked and got his startup capital from. Besides, anyone who thinks she wasn’t going to run again is 4 years old or as naive as someone that is ...

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBrendan O'Connor
    2/09/16 10:34pm

    Meanwhile, Trump is killing it in the tourist mecca of the Redneck Riviera.

    #FeelTheBurnWhenYouPee

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      gramercypoliceBrendan O'Connor
      2/09/16 10:47pm

      Where’s Valleywag when you really need it?

      GIF
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        violentglitterorgy3gramercypolice
        2/09/16 11:49pm

        Extraordinary.

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      jimbojoebobBrendan O'Connor
      2/09/16 11:04pm

      “More super PAC money has been spent in express support of Sen. Bernie Sanders than for either of his Democratic rivals, including Hillary Clinton, according to Federal Election Commission records.”

      Seattle Times: January 28, 2016

      http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/s…

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        Bolivia Newton JohnBrendan O'Connor
        2/09/16 10:35pm

        So basically, what you’re telling me is that we’re caught in the middle of an American Gladiators style Q-Tip fight between old money and new money.

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          potahhhtoBrendan O'Connor
          2/09/16 10:26pm

          In before: $hillary; Kasich’s not that bad; Sanders is unelectable; Hillary is unlikable; Repubs will vote for Sanders; $27 average donation; fuck it, I’m beat. Can it be 2017 already?

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