Bernie Sanders Tells Corporate America That He Can’t Be Bought

While campaigning in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders told corporations that he does not want their money, and made it clear that he is not for sale.

Senator Sanders described the growth of his campaign and made it clear that he can’t be bought:
We started off our campaign by holding rallies where a few hundred people were coming out. We thought that was pretty good. But over a short period of time that few hundred expanded to a few thousand and in some cases to tens of thousands of people who are coming out.

We started off this campaign with a few volunteers from the state of Vermont, and now we’ve got a hundred thousand volunteers in fifty states in this country who are passing out literature and making phone calls.

We started off this campaign with very little money, and now we have more individual contributors than any other campaign out there. Now, you’re looking at a candidate, let me be honest with you on this, we’re going to be outspent on this campaign. I do not have a super PAC. I do not want a super PAC.

I have never taken campaign contributions from corporations. I don’t want their money because I don’t represent their interests.

I am very proud to tell you that although we don’t have a super PAC, we don’t have big money billionaires putting money into our campaign, we do have $400,000 Americans making individual contributions, and I am honestly very proud to tell you that that average contribution is only all of $31.20.

The reason Bernie Sanders is so dangerous to the Koch brothers and corporations is that he is not for sale. Sanders is speaking out on behalf of people who had their voices silenced under a tidal wave of Citizens United powered billionaire campaign contributions.

One of the reasons why the early success of the Bernie Sanders campaign has been so amazing is that he is succeeding without a super PAC or a billionaire backer.

Bernie Sanders is running a grassroots campaign that is being funded by the support of ordinary Americans, and at a time with most politicians worry about raising big money, Senator Sanders is not for sale.