The $353,400 price tag attached to a Hollywood-Hillary Clinton fundraiser is raising eyebrows. The event, at which George Clooney and his wife, human rights attorney Amal Clooney, will sit at the head table, is raising money for the Hillary Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee involving Hillary for America, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic committees of 32 states and Puerto Rico.
The Bernie Sanders campaign was among those raising concerns.
“Now, most of us can agree that is an obscene amount of money,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver wrote in an email to supporters on Friday afternoon. “It’s a sum that would require an employee making the federal minimum wage to work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for more than 5 years.”
“Here is the truth: while tens of millions of Americans are struggling to put dinner on the table, the wealthiest people in this country have never had it so good,” read the email from Weaver. “And the great question of this campaign is will we restore a vibrant democracy in this country, or will we slide into an oligarchy in which the economic and political life is controlled by a handful of billionaires?”
— source commondreams.org