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Bernie Leads 2020 Field in Private Jet Spending
Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 1,2020 | BRENT SCHER

Posted on 02/02/2020 8:25:14 AM PST by Hojczyk

The Bernie Sanders campaign spent just under $1.2 million on private jet travel last quarter, outpacing the entire 2020 Democratic presidential primary field.

The most recent filing from Sanders reveals $1,199,579 in spending during the final three months of 2019 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a "luxury private jet charter service." The campaign spent an additional $23,941 for transportation to Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team.

The candidate who comes closest to matching Sanders in private jet spending was former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign spent $1,040,698 to Advanced Aviation Team last quarter.

Traveling by private jet is estimated to produce roughly eight times the amount of carbon per passenger as traveling by commercial airliner.

"Global climate change is real, it is caused mainly by emissions released from burning fossil fuels and it poses a catastrophic threat to the long-term longevity of our planet," he writes on his campaign website. "The transportation sector accounts for about 26 percent of carbon pollution emissions."

Alternatively, Amtrak offers service from D.C. to Iowa, which would cost Sanders $149 using the senior discount.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aviation; bernie; spending
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1 posted on 02/02/2020 8:25:14 AM PST by Hojczyk
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All of congress should be required to take AMTRACK..then they might get rid of it...or fit it


2 posted on 02/02/2020 8:26:30 AM PST by Hojczyk
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>>>Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service.”<<<

Does that separate them from those Minimum Wage Blue Collar Irredeemable Deplorable Hillbilly Single Wide Trailer U + a picture of an actual Crane private Jet charter companies?


3 posted on 02/02/2020 8:30:27 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Hojczyk

Impossible.

Comrade Sanders dreams of working side-by-side with his fellow comrades pulling turnips at Turnip Commune #34.


4 posted on 02/02/2020 8:31:56 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Bernie Leads 2020 Field in Private Jet Spending...

which of course you and I are paying for.

Why would anyone in their right mind not want to LOWER TAXES to limit these bums from wasting OUR money.

5 posted on 02/02/2020 8:35:13 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: blueunicorn6

rofl!

Communism for thee but not for me.

“But this time we’re gonna do it right and it will work!”


6 posted on 02/02/2020 8:35:45 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point do you at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: Hojczyk

Socialists love two-tiered systems of healthcare, travel and justice.


7 posted on 02/02/2020 8:41:18 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: Hojczyk

What’s Bolshevik Bernie doing?? Trying to kill the Earth with all that carbon??


8 posted on 02/02/2020 8:50:07 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Hojczyk

All of congress should be required to take AMTRACK..then they might get rid of it...or fit it


I never understood the purpose of it?

Is there any line that is still profitable without government subsidies? If so, spin them off into a private company and get rid of the rest that isn’t.

Honestly, AmTrack makes zero sense in a world with air planes.


9 posted on 02/02/2020 8:52:23 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Hojczyk

How dare you!


10 posted on 02/02/2020 9:16:36 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Hojczyk

No wonder Bernie never gets angry when the DNC screws him over.
He likes the perks and payoffs that comes with running...but not seriously
running.


11 posted on 02/02/2020 9:23:02 AM PST by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Amtrack and other rail is used high frequency the DC to Boston corridor

I used to take it a lot when I was in Manhattan

The non stop metroliner used to be now it’s something else

2 and a half hours at 120 bucks

It’s quicker than going to Newark or la Guardia from midtown and then from national into downtown dc

God forbid Dulles or BWI

but beyond selected use areas it’s not in high demand


12 posted on 02/02/2020 9:25:43 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy

Acela.

I’ve ridden Acela.

You’re correct about speed/convenience if you’re going city center—>city center. It beats planes like a rented mule.


13 posted on 02/02/2020 9:27:05 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: blueunicorn6

Nomenklatura.


14 posted on 02/02/2020 9:27:39 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: Hojczyk

Under socialism we will all have three houses and private jet planes. Just don’t ask Bernie how much it will cost.


15 posted on 02/02/2020 9:31:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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To: Hojczyk

“Feel the Burn!”


16 posted on 02/02/2020 9:40:12 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!c)
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To: Big Red Badger

Indeed. Just what his paid “organizers” prescribe.


17 posted on 02/02/2020 9:45:58 AM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: Hojczyk

Does this not trouble Ms. GREEN NEW DEAL herself— AOC?

She tells us that we have less than 12 years before environmental armageddon comes, yet, she endorses the biggest fossil fuel emitter to be President...


18 posted on 02/02/2020 10:01:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Hojczyk

Bernie proclaims his support for the “Green New Deal”, then pollutes the atmosphere by flying private jets to sell his Bolshevism propaganda.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”


19 posted on 02/02/2020 11:03:51 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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Total hypocrites-—ALL of them.

NO MORE FOSSIL FUEL...and they are flying & holding S”UV caravans everywhere.

They all are nuts-—purely nuts.


20 posted on 02/02/2020 11:18:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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