Posted on 02/05/2020 1:29:08 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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No candidate spent more on private flights last quarter than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who paid roughly $1.2 million to Apollo Jets LLC, a luxury charter service based in New York. That’s more than three times what he spent on private flights in the second and third quarters of the year combined.
He paid $23,200 to the Vermont-based carbon offsets provider Native Energy, keeping in line with a pledge his campaign made last year to offset all travel-related carbon emissions.
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Not far behind him was former Vice President Joe Biden, who spent more than $1 million on private flights in the same period, up from $924,000 in the third quarter of the year, according to FEC filings. Biden has also purchased carbon offsets for his private flights.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), meanwhile, dropped about $720,500 on charter flights — more than five times what she spent in the third quarter. A spokesperson for the Massachusetts senator pointed to a $16,758 donation her campaign also paid to Native Energy for carbon offsets.
Andrew Yang, the former tech executive, spent nearly $117,000 on private air travel, up from about $26,000. A spokesperson for his campaign declined to comment on the spending.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who’s self-funding his presidential campaign, dropped about $646,000 on a private plane between late November, when he announced his candidacy, and the end of the year.
And Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) spent just under $85,000 on charter flights in the fourth quarter, a nearly 270 percent increase over the roughly $23,000 she spent in the third quarter, her latest federal filings show. Her campaign did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
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Quick! Somebody post the picture of Greta Thunberg saying, “How dare you!”
“....He paid $23,200 to the Vermont-based carbon offsets provider Native Energy, keeping in line with a pledge his campaign made last year to offset all travel-related carbon emissions....”
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So not sure how this BS scam of carbon offsets work. ...is it like sinning, then going to confession, priest orders you to 20 hail Mary’s , then you are absolved from sin? .... Just curious
“....He paid $23,200 to the Vermont-based carbon offsets provider Native Energy, keeping in line with a pledge his campaign made last year to offset all travel-related carbon emissions...”
Carbon offsets are a crock and a racket. At least Bernie is a worthy fool to give up his money.
It’s like the old Catholic indulgences.
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