{"id":2454817,"date":"2020-02-20T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321270"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:11:02","slug":"sanders-targets-bloomberg-spending-at-colorado-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sanders-targets-bloomberg-spending-at-colorado-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders targets Bloomberg spending at Colorado rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-1024x710.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/AP20048098892190-2048x1421.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles during a campaign stop late Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, in Denver.<\/strong><br \/><em>AP Photo\/David Zalubowski<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he wants to bring an end to a system in which billionaires can buy elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders referred to rival Michael Bloomberg in his speech Sunday night in Denver,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/02\/16\/bernie-sanders-denver-colorado-2020-rally\/\">The Denver Post reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to end a corrupt political system in which billionaires buy elections,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cDemocracy, to me, means one person, one vote. Not Bloomberg or anybody else spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy an election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg has focused his campaign on Colorado and other Super Tuesday states, spending more than $417 million of his own money so far.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is seeking to keep his momentum after strong showings in Iowa and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say about 11,000 people attended the rally for Sanders at the Colorado Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and Democratic candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren are also scheduled to make campaign appearances in Colorado this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/election\/national-election\/sanders-targets-bloomberg-spending-at-colorado-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles during a campaign stop late Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, in Denver.AP Photo\/David Zalubowski DENVER \u2014 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he wants to bring an end to a system in which billionaires can buy elections. Sanders referred to rival Michael Bloomberg in his speech Sunday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 14:30:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}