Socialist Bernie Spent $1.2 Million on Private Jet Travel in the Last Three Months of 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is campaigning to be the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee on a progressive, socialist agenda, but his campaign’s spending is more in line with the “one percent” than the working class.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Sanders’ campaign spent an astounding $1.2 million on private jets during the last quarter of 2019 — more, even, than former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire presidential candidate, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Sanders’ Federal Election Commission filings reveal that the “Democratic socialist” shelled out $1,199,579 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service,” per the Free Beacon, even though his own campaign views private air travel as one of the top contributors to climate change (and as a luxury of the rich, to boot). The campaign paid an additional $23,941 to a Virginia-based private pilot service.
“An analysis of private jet spending in filings from other top candidates found that Elizabeth Warren’s campaign spent $720,518 and Pete Buttigieg’s campaign spent $323,518,” the Free Beacon reports. “Michael Bloomberg, who pumped a whopping $200 million of his personal fortune into his campaign’s opening weeks, spent about $646,000 on private jet travel, about half of what Sanders spent.”
Apollo Jets does not advertise prices on its website, instead asking potential clients to contact them personally to get a quote, making it difficult to quantify how Sanders’ campaign spent the money. Presumably, though, the campaign has been shuttling Sanders back and forth from Washington, D.C., to campaign stops in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and other early primary states. (Read more from “Socialist Bernie Spent $1.2 Million on Private Jet Travel in the Last Three Months of 2019” HERE)
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