Bernie Leads 2020 Field in Private Jet Spending

Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 1,2020 | BRENT SCHER

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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.

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This contradicts his claim that he is against income inequality and that he is against global warming.

[Big Red Badger]

Just left a Trump Rally
Here in Poway and
All the “Opposition”
Left Exactly at 12 noon!
Hilarious!