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* Sanders does not have a Super PAC specific so he is not beholden to large donors. If this guy thinks 2,700 bucks is enough to buy one on one time with him he is sorely mistaken. BTW that 2,700 dollars would buy ONE Cancer or Aids patient the medicine the need to live for all of 4 weeks under the parasitic profiteering Shkreli's prices. Honestly it's nothing to him or to Sanders and I do not see why the media is allowing this #$%$ sucker to publicize his political donations that he made with money extorted from the sick and dying.
* well done bernie...finally we have someone who isnt a profession political prostitute....we really need to get the rest of then politicians to tell us when they take the donations/bribes what they promised to get the money. it would save alot of lying and charades of acting like they really care about a issue when they have already auctioned off there vote/self respect and country.
* I love that he didn't return the money, but instead turned around and gave it to a health clinic. lol
* No matter where your political ideals are it's easy to respect someone with the integrity of Bernie Sanders. He says what he means and backs it up with his actions. Most politicians can't do any of that.
* “He’ll take my money, but he won’t engage with me for five minutes to understand this issue better." Why does he have to meet with you? Start talking, Sanders can read. Explain to us all how the pharmaceutical companies have to jack up their prices further because they aren't making enough money.
* “He’ll take my money, but he won’t engage with me for five minutes to understand this issue better." What better way to say "I'm trying to buy influence!"
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Here's what happened when controversial pharma CEO Martin Shkreli tried to get Bernie Sanders to talk with him about drug pricing
By Lydia Ramsey, October 16, 2015
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said at Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate that he counts pharmaceutical companies as one of enemies he's most proud of battling.
Sanders has been investigating Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company that recently came under fire for suddenly jacking up the price of a critical drug called Daraprim by more than 5,000%.
Sanders and Sen. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote a letter more than three weeks ago requesting more information from Turing about the price hike. They've still not officially heard back.
But, in an amusing twist of events, Turing's CEO Martin Shkreli recently announced over Twitter that he donated to Sanders' presidential campaign:
Damn @BernieSanders is my boy with that Kosovo reference. Gets my full endorsement. I did donate to him...Shkreli told Stat News that he donated $2,700, the maximum amount allowed, to Sanders on September 28.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) October 14, 2015
Shkreli told Stat he made the donation in part because he agrees with Sanders' views, but mostly to get Sanders' attention so the two could have a meeting to discuss drug pricing.
"I think it’s cheap to use one person’s action as a platform without kind of talking to that person,” Shkreli said in the interview with Stat. “He’ll take my money, but he won’t engage with me for five minutes to understand this issue better."
When we chatted with Shkreli on Tuesday, just ahead of the 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate, he also mentioned trying to get the Democratic candidates' attention. "I want the candidates to debate me, even for 10 minutes. I doubt they could," he told Business Insider.
The strategy doesn't appear to be working. According to Stat, the Sanders campaign has flatly rejected Shkreli's donation.
"We are not keeping the money from this poster boy for drug company greed," Michael Briggs, Sanders' campaign manager, told Stat. Instead, Briggs said, the money will go to a health clinic.
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