REPORT: Green New Deal update: Dems spend BIG money on private flights

October 18, 2019

As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News App offers the following information published by BREITBART.COM:

The Democratic Party’s presidential candidates may support the “Green New Deal,” and an end to fossil fuels, but all of the frontrunners are spending large amounts of money on private flights as they jet around the campaign trail.

The Hill reported Friday:

The article goes on to state the following:

SPENDING ON PRIVATE FLIGHTS BY DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SOARED OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, FROM ROUGHLY $680,000 IN THE SECOND QUARTER TO MORE THAN $2.2 MILLION IN THE THIRD FUNDRAISING PERIOD OF THE YEAR.

TOPPING THE SPENDING LIST WAS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, WHO DROPPED ABOUT $924,000 ON PRIVATE AIR TRAVEL …

SOUTH BEND, IND., MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG SPENT NEARLY $479,000 ON PRIVATE FLIGHTS OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, UP FROM ROUGHLY $300,000 IN THE SECOND QUARTER. AND SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CALIF.) USED ABOUT $253,000 IN CAMPAIGN CASH TO CHARTER FLIGHTS, SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN THE $17,000 SHE SPENT IN THE SECOND QUARTER.

THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FIELD’S LEADING PROGRESSIVES, SENS. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT.) AND ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MASS.), ALSO SAW THEIR PRIVATE AIR TRAVEL SPENDING SWELL IN THE THREE-MONTH FUNDRAISING PERIOD.

OTHER CANDIDATES WHO DROPPED CAMPAIGN CASH ON PRIVATE FLIGHTS INCLUDE MONTANA GOV. STEVE BULLOCK, WHO SPENT ABOUT $40,500; SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MINN.), WHO SPENT ABOUT $23,000; AND FORMER TECH EXECUTIVE ANDREW YANG, WHO SPENT JUST UNDER $26,000.