Bernie Sanders Uses Tucson in Fundraising Pitch

Bernie Sanders, Tea Party Express use Tucson Shooting to Raise Money
Political polar opposites have found common ground - using the Tucson Shooting as an opportunity to raise money. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who touts himself officially as an Independent, but describes himself as a Socialist, sent a Fundraising e-mail out Tuesday afternoon. “Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country.” Sande...

Sen. Sanders uses Arizona massacre in fundraising pitch
There has been no shortage of individuals and institutions that have sought to capitalize on the shootings in Tucson. Add Vermont senator Bernie Sanders to that list. This afternoon Sanders sent out a Fundraising appeal, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other “right-wing reactionaries” responsible for the climate that led to the shooting. Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few word...

Bernie Sanders fundraising off Tucson shooting
Bernie Sanders Fundraising off Tucson shooting Just like Jonathan Alter and Newsweek said. Don’t let the Tucson shooting crisis go to waste. Bernie Sanders, the Far Left nut and admitted Socialist from Vermont is following the advice. Weekly Standard rep0rts that Sanders sent out a Fundraising e-mail to supporters, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other “right-wing reactionaries” responsible for the climate that led to the shooting. Sanders writes: Given the recent tra...

Sanders fundraising e-mail: Is Ariz. safe for non-Republicans?
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is sharing his thoughts on the tragedy in Arizona through a Fundraising e-mail, skating on a thin political line. The self-described Socialist even goes as far as to question whether Arizona welcomes political dialogue from those outside the Republican Party. "Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the count...

Senator explains pitch citing Giffords shooting
A spokesman for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Tuesday "it would have been absurd" not to mention the Arizona Shooting Spree that gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a recently mailed newsletter to constituents. Michael Briggs, a Sanders spokesman, said one line in the four-page newsletter regularly sent to supporters in Vermont and across the USA was devoted to a request for "future support." The rest of the newsletter, described in a Weekly Standard report earlier today as a fundraisi...

Sanders puts Tucson attack in fundraising crosshairs.
Senator Bernie Sanders - the Socialist Senator from Vermont who we’re supposed to pretend isn’t a Socialist because the Democrats get upset about us bringing up the entire ’socialism’ thing - has decided that the best way to handle last weekend’s attempted Assassination of a Congresswoman (and the Murder of six people, including a nine-year-old girl) is to send out a Fundraising letter blaming the whole thing on the Right Wing. Given the recent tragedy in Arizona,...

Bernie Sanders (D-Socialist) Uses AZ Shootings as Fund Raiser
Ghoul’s Gold. (ABC News) — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, today sent out a Fundraising email to supporters in which he includes his analysis of the Arizona shootings that ties the tragedy to “right-wing reactionaries.” “This horrendous act of violence is not some kind of strange aberration for this area where, it appears, threats and acts of violence are part of the political climate ,” Sanders said in his letter. “ Nobody can honestly express surprise that ...

Sanders Office Defends Reference To Giffords Shooting In Fundraising Newsletter
WASHINGTON -- A spokesman for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is defending the Senator's decision to reference the shootings in Arizona as part of a newsletter and Fundraising appeal he sent to constituents on Tuesday. The Vermont Independent took some heat on Tuesday for including his reflections on the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the context of raising money to fight Republicans and other "right-wing reactionaries." In an email to the Huffington Post, Michael Briggs, a spokesman for t...

Bernie Sanders on the shooting of Rep. Giffords, the new Congress
The following email was sent to supporters of independent Senator Bernie Sanders, from Vermont: Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country.  I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 Reelection campaign at  www.bernie.org .   There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money

Bernie Sanders: Send me money or more people will die [Reader Post]
There’s always one. Following a tragedy it can be expected that the left will take advantage of it to further a political agenda and that is exactly what happened. In the wake of the event in Tucson member of both parties in Congress put a stop to their political activities out of respect for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Lawmakers had scheduled various Fundraisers and meet-and-greet events with Lobbyists and other Donors this week, but those were canceled as Democrats and Republicans ...

Sanders Fundraises Off Arizona Murders
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. There has been no shortage of individuals and institutions that have sought to capitalize on the shootings in Tucson. Add Vermont senator Bernie Sanders to that list. This afternoon Sanders sent out a Fundraising appeal, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other “right-wing reactionaries” responsible for the climate that led to the shooting. Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new...

Tea Party & Bernie Sanders Using Tucson Tragedy For Fundraising
I bet you never thought you’d see those two in the same headline. I’m a bit surprised myself. Bernie should know better. From The Weekly Standard comes the text of the email from Sanders… Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 reel...

Citing shootings, Sen. Sanders solicits campaign donations
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) issued a Fundraising plea Tuesday in which he cited the Tucson shooting and accused "right-wing reactionaries" of contributing to a threatening political climate. "Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country," he wrote at the opening of the lengthy plea for campaign donations. Sanders, who is up for Reelection i...

Sarah Palin self-destructs. Bernie Sanders should withdraw his fundraising letter.
You want balance? Here it is. Sarah Palin first went into hiding after the Arizona shooting, then emerged with her same old attacks and defenses. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) emerged to use the shooting in a Fundraising e-mail. Both are wrong. Both should be ashamed. In my view Palin will not run for president anytime soon, and her conduct since the Arizona shooting further destroys her credibility nationally. What Palin should have done is say she did not intend any harm with her target talk, ...

Fmr. Vt. chair: Sanders e-mail disrespects Ariz. victims
Former Vermont Republican chairman Jim Barnett says Sen. Bernie Sanders' Fundraising e-mail commenting on the Arizona tragedy is both "ironic and hypocritical." Barnett, who now serves as a GOP operative in Connecticut, told Politico "no one in the country is more steeped in the incendiary, us-versus-them radical Rhetoric than Sen. Sanders." "This is not the first time Mr. Sanders has shown poor taste and disrespect to Victims of tragedy. In 2005, he held a party boat,...

Mixing fundraising and tragedy
Senator Bernie Sanders mixed a Fundraising appeal with his analysis of the Arizona shootings in an email to supporters today, a mixture most public figures have been avoiding: Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank th...

TRENDING: Politically charged e-mail on Arizona shootings draws fundraising scrutiny
Washington (CNN) - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told political supporters Tuesday that there needs to be a concerted effort by Arizona Republicans to help create a safe environment for people with opposing political ideologies, following the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona. Sanders, an independent who aligns himself with the Democratic Party, went as far as to specifically call on his colleague, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, to lead the effort. “First, this horr...

Politically charged fundraising e-mail on Arizona shootings draws scrutiny
Washington (CNN) - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told political supporters Tuesday that there needs to be a concerted effort by Arizona Republicans to help create a safe environment for people with opposing political ideologies, following the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona. Sanders, an independent who aligns himself with the Democratic Party, went as far as to specifically call on his colleague, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, to lead the effort. “First, this horr...

McCain returns for Ariz. memorial
TUCSON — As Arizona mourns what many here are calling the greatest tragedy in state history, one very familiar face has been missing from the scene: Sen. John McCain. McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential nominee and Arizona’s most prominent politician, has been on a congressional fact finding trip in South America since Friday. He announced he would come home two days early from the planned week-long trip to attend a memorial service in Tucson Wednesday — his first stateside pub...

Sarah Palin, David Wynn Miller, and the Ministry of Truth
The conservative/Republican version of Orwell’s Ministry of “Truth” is at it again, hijacking and corrupting yet another set of words — this time it’s “blood Libel”. As DailyKos diarist HeidiEight notes, it’s not just Sarah Palin doing it, but also John Hayward of the rabidly right-wing mag Human Events (see screen shot above), right-wing blogger and now Wall Street Journal writer Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds, and right-wing blogger And...

Vt. senator cites shootings in fundraising letter
MONTPELIER, Vt. — An independent U.S. senator from Vermont drew criticism Tuesday from Republicans for citing this past weekend's shootings in Arizona in a Fundraising letter for his 2012 re-election campaign. The e-mail that Sen. Bernie Sanders sent Tuesday begins by mentioning the Shooting Spree in Tucson that killed six people and left Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others wounded. The letter also mentions issues such as Health Care, Social Security and taxes. In his d...

Vt. senator cites shootings in fundraising letter
An independent U.S. senator from Vermont is being criticized by national Republicans for citing this past weekend's shootings in Arizona in a Fundraising letter. The letter that Sen. Bernie Sanders sent out on Tuesday begins by mentioning the Shooting Spree in Tucson that killed six people and left Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others wounded. The letter also mentions issues such as Health Care, Social Security and taxes. Sanders is up for re-election in 2012. Brian Walsh of the...

Vt. senator cites shootings in fundraising letter
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — An independent U.S. senator from Vermont is being criticized by national Republicans for citing this past weekend’s shootings in Arizona in a Fundraising letter. The letter that Sen. Bernie Sanders sent out on Tuesday begins by mentioning the Shooting Spree in Tucson that killed six people and left Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others wounded. The letter also mentions issues such as health care, Social Security and taxes. Sanders is up for re-e...

Bernanke Defends Crisis Lending in Letter to Senator
Yahoo! Buzz U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke , in a letter to Sen. Bernard Sanders , defended emergency actions the Fed took to stem the Financial Crisis and disputed allegations of conflict-of-interest issues at the Fed. (Read the full letter.) Sanders, an independent from Vermont and a vocal critic of the Fed, had argued in a recent letter that companies such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. received low-cost loans from the Fed while senior executives from the company served on the Fed...

911 tapes log harrowing chronicle of Tucson shootings
Tucson, Ariz (Reuters) - A calm male voice surrounded by haunting cries of pain tells a 911 dispatcher of multiple Shooting Victims outside a Tucson Supermarket and of wounds to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. "There was a shooting at Safeway at Ina and Oracle where Gabrielle Giffords was, I do believe Gaby Giffords was hit," the male voice says, with almost animal cries and groans of pain in the background. "At the Safeway sir? ... Was somebody shot there sir?" "It looks like a guy had a sem...