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Candidates weighing using private jets to get to Iowa
The Hill ^ | 01 25 2020 | Tal Axelrod

Posted on 01/25/2020 7:50:35 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Several senators running for president are reportedly mulling using private jets to campaign in Iowa as they try to balance their White House bids with the ongoing impeachment trial in Washington.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are both thought to be considering chartering flights to Iowa after Saturday’s impeachment proceedings wrap up, while Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has also not made her travel plans clear, The Associated Press reported.

The three senators are facing a unique dilemma in the leadup to the Feb. 3 caucuses in Iowa as the impeachment trial keeps them tied to Washington six days a week, leaving little time to campaign in early states.

Private flights could pose risks for Sanders and Warren, the AP noted, as the two leading progressives have railed against privileges afforded to the elite and eschewed contacts with high-dollar donors.

The two senators have also touted themselves as advocates for intensified efforts to combat climate change, while the use of private jets has been criticized as environmentally unfriendly.

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KEYWORDS: 2020; klobuchar; sanders; warren
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1 posted on 01/25/2020 7:50:35 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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2 posted on 01/25/2020 7:54:45 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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Candidates! Please come to Iowa. It will motivate Des Moines and suburbs to actually remove the snow built up from indifferent removal!


3 posted on 01/25/2020 7:56:01 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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“Private flights could pose risks for Sanders and Warren”

BS, they would love use the cover of the impeachment so they could fly private.


4 posted on 01/25/2020 7:56:29 AM PST by gibsonguy
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“Choke on carbon, proles! Your DNC overlords and betters are on the wing again!”


5 posted on 01/25/2020 7:58:31 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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It’s almost like this whole impeachment cluster was intentionally scheduled to prevent the socialist senators from campaigning during the primaries. But that’s too paranoid to believe.


6 posted on 01/25/2020 8:01:10 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Accelerating “GLOBAL WARMING” to increase their totalitarian power.


7 posted on 01/25/2020 8:01:28 AM PST by Retvet (Retvet)
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But D Erf!!!

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8 posted on 01/25/2020 8:01:42 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Private flights could pose risks for Sanders and Warren, the AP noted, as the two leading progressives have railed against privileges afforded to the elite and eschewed contacts with high-dollar donors.

If their crappy voters actually cared about "privileges afforded the elite" -- they would've been out of office years ago over a hundred other things. The fact is, Leftists only care about what conservatives do and say, even if they have to make up some "offense" to complain about it.

9 posted on 01/25/2020 8:05:17 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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Perhaps they will “share” one chartered plane and have the lapdog media report it as a huge win.


10 posted on 01/25/2020 8:05:44 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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Good grief. Private jets cause more pollution than the Greyhound, but so what?

Is there anyone left in Iowa that doesn’t know the Dem mantra of “Do as we say, not as we do.”?


11 posted on 01/25/2020 8:07:35 AM PST by oldplayer
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Here's an idea


12 posted on 01/25/2020 8:07:44 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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I have no problem with any Presidential candidate flying private...But, Alinsky Rule 4 explicitly states “Make the Enemy live up to their own book of rules.”

Thus, the hypocrites must be loudly called out for their hypocrisy


13 posted on 01/25/2020 8:09:42 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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They HAVE to use private jets, because they need to get elected so they can save the world from climate change.


14 posted on 01/25/2020 8:10:55 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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Hoist on their own petard!


15 posted on 01/25/2020 8:13:16 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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Candidates weighing using private jets to get to Iowa.

They have to hurry and get to Iowa for an important speech on climate change.

16 posted on 01/25/2020 8:28:15 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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Have the Democrats finally admitted that the sun warms our globe?


17 posted on 01/25/2020 8:28:54 AM PST by abclily
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Stalin Claus is coming to town.

Not on a Sled, but on a G5.


18 posted on 01/25/2020 8:30:26 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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I don’t have a problem with them using jets to get there. I have a problem with them landing and or with the use of parachutes.

I will vote for the one that bounces the highest.


19 posted on 01/25/2020 8:38:19 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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the use of so-called “carbon offsets” simply reinforces the elitism of these hypocrites because only the elite an afford private jet flight AND the added expense of pretend reduction of their so-called “carbon footprint” ...


20 posted on 01/25/2020 8:43:23 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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