{"id":6252,"date":"2020-09-10T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:23:52","slug":"thats-ridiculous-says-billionaire-after-sanders-campaign-returns-her-470-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"'That's Ridiculous,' Says Billionaire After Sanders Campaign Returns Her $470 Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Bernie Sanders has made principled opposition to billionaire campaign donations a centerpiece of his 2020 presidential bid. So when the Vermont senator’s campaign learned recently that it received a $470 contribution from Marta Thoma Hall, it immediately vowed to return every dollar.<\/p>\n

Hall, wife of billionaire inventor David Hall and head of business development at Velodyne, was not happy with Sanders’ refusal to accept her money.<\/p>\n

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“I think it’s disappointing,” Hall told Forbes<\/em> on Monday. “I don’t understand why they would do that. That’s ridiculous.”<\/p>\n

Grassroots group People for Bernie tweeted in response to Hall:<\/p>\n

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After reviewing federal filings, Forbes <\/em>reported that it “could not find any other billionaire or spouse of a billionaire who has donated to the Sanders’ campaign” aside from Hall, who also gave $505 to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and $685 to Beto O’Rourke, who dropped out of the race earlier this month.<\/p>\n

When Forbes<\/em> notified the Sanders campaign of Hall’s contributions, a Sanders spokesperson responded: “Thanks. We are returning Ms. Hall’s contributions.”<\/p>\n

Prior to Hall’s $470 check, Sanders stood alone in the 2020 Democratic field as the only major candidate who had not received any campaign contributions from billionaires.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that billionaires should exist,” Sanders told the New York Times <\/em>in September. “Enough is enough. We are going to take on the billionaire class, substantially reduce wealth inequality in America, and stop our democracy from turning into a corrupt oligarchy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sen. Bernie Sanders has made principled opposition to billionaire campaign donations a centerpiece of his 2020 presidential bid. So when the Vermont senator’s campaign learned recently that it received a $470 contribution from Marta Thoma Hall, it immediately vowed to return every dollar. Hall, wife of billionaire inventor David Hall and head of business development…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}