As Twitchy reported, sparks flew at the most recent Democratic debate when Elizabeth Warren called out Pete Buttigieg for holding a fundraiser at a Napa Valley wine cave where wine went for $900 a bottle. Buttigieg shot back, accusing Warren of proposing a purity test she could not herself pass, having done plenty of high-dollar fundraisers for her Senate campaign.
Ever since the debate, more and more has been written about Warren’s fundraising for the Senate campaign before she decided to run for president, demonize banks and billionaires, and promise to accept only small donations. Things got really awkward when it was discovered that in 2012, Warren had held a fundraiser in the exact same wine cave where Buttigieg staged his event.
The Washington Post has a piece Tuesday about the difference between Warren’s approach to fundraising as a candidate for senator and now for president, revealing that Warren, queen of the free selfie who wants to break up the banks, had a photo op in a bank vault just a couple of years ago.
Ouch! Just a couple years ago Warren held a high-dollar fundraiser in a bank vault. So much for the wine cave attack line…. https://t.co/J24g75NVTV
— amy walter (@amyewalter) December 24, 2019
Warren supporters aren’t happy about it, but the Washington Post reports:
Chase Williams grinned broadly as he stood for a photo next to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, chatting briefly with the senator from Massachusetts before moving on so someone else could have their turn.
It was the kind of moment that has become a ubiquitous part of Warren’s presidential campaign and its long “selfie lines,” where supporters wait for hours to pose with her at no charge.
But this shot, taken in October 2017, was at an entirely different kind of event: an exclusive “backstage” reception that took place in the vault of a former Cleveland bank. And that was the day’s low-rent affair — donors who agreed to pay more attended an even more exclusive shindig with Warren that day, according to two people familiar with her schedule.
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“I am frustrated because she said, ‘I don’t do this. This isn’t something I do.’ And two years ago she very much did do that, and I was in the room,” said Williams, who had a photo taken after writing a $500 check.
But she doesn’t do wine caves or bank vaults anymore or charge for selfies now that she’s pure and untainted by big campaign cash.
She was for it before she was against it. Instead of allowing other candidates to run their campaigns how they see fit she wants to impose her standards on them. Since Pete DGAF about her rules she accuses him of being corruptible. Does that mean she herself was corruptible.
— Maria ? MFPeteSupporter ? (@Dreamwrecker16) December 24, 2019
And brought $10 mil she raised from these high dollar events with her to the primary. What a straight white millionaire hypocrite.
— Kevin (@FlockofPorgs) December 24, 2019
I like Warren but this is one of the dumbest self inflicted wounds by a major candidate this election cycle. Inexplicable really.
— American Times Film (@ExportedFromMI) December 24, 2019
Unfortunately not her first unforced error. Ugh, and I like her as well.
— Leonard Go (@LeonardGo) December 24, 2019
She needs to fire ALL the political consultants around her. They are failing her MISERABLY ??♂️
— Vader (@vaderbaiter) December 24, 2019
Her and Bernie Sanders want to impose these purity rules to make sure that other candidates can’t raise the same amount of money that they can. In my opinion they are both trash.
— Maria ? MFPeteSupporter ? (@Dreamwrecker16) December 24, 2019
The circular firing squad of Bernie, Liz and Pete is the entertainment I didn't know I needed.
— Konrad Heiden's Soul (@TrumpMuv2Russia) December 24, 2019
The hypocrisy just doesn’t stop with Warren…
— bennett (@lvromance) December 24, 2019
Yeah, but she has now seen the light. She can now rail on other Dems who seek big money in caves, vaults or other places. Hypocrisy runs amok in Dem party
— JohnFlat (@johnflat) December 24, 2019
But were there crystals in the vault, or just cash?
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) December 24, 2019
Too cute by half. Again.
— David V. Iannelli (@DVIannelli) December 24, 2019
It's different when Warren does it.
— Mo Syed (@mosyednyc) December 24, 2019
I mean, come on. Doesn't her staff research this stuff before they script her with an attack like that? That's just incompetent.
— Peter O'Connor has left the South End (@BostonMassMark) December 24, 2019
Warren thought her many lies would never catch up to her.
— Damian Ranger (@DamianRanger1) December 24, 2019
Do these people think these things won’t come out?
— JulieVA (@juliegwilf) December 24, 2019
Related:
‘What’s the Massachusetts word for hypocrite?’ Elizabeth Warren shaming Pete Buttigieg for ‘wine cave’ fundraiser just got REALLY awkward https://t.co/OAT5SIItqJ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 21, 2019
