Bernie Sanders argued Sunday that Hillary Clinton supporting campaign finance reform while raising millions from big donors fails “the laugh test.”
Sanders said that by contrast he is practicing what he preached on campaign finance reform by basing his campaign on small donations.
“How do you revitalize American democracy? I don’t think you do that by raising money from the top 1 percent and say to working class people, and middle class people, ‘I’m here to represent you,'” Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. “That kind of doesn’t pass the laugh test.”
“People see that,” Sanders continued. “That’s why so many people don’t vote — why they understand that Congress ends up working for the people on top, rather than their interests.”
Clinton supporters like George Clooney take a slightly different line. Clooney, who last week hosted a high profile fundraiser with his wife said that money in politics to this extent is “obscene.”
“It’s an obscene amount of money. We had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they’re right to protest, they’re absolutely right. It is an obscene amount of money,” Clooney told NBC Saturday.
