WaPo: An expensive reminder that Sanders still hasn’t dropped out: His Secret Service detail (HRCGP)

[Her Sister]

BURLINGTON, Vt. — When Sen. Bernie Sanders, the now-vanquished Democratic presidential candidate, returns to Capitol Hill to vote on Monday, he is expected to be accompanied by his constant traveling companions from the campaign trail: the U.S. Secret Service.

Though Hillary Clinton has clinched the party’s nomination, Sanders retains one of the trappings of a top-notch candidate. A team of agents still guards him at his home, where they’ve constructed a small watch station on the property. They travel with him on commercial and charter flights and use a motorcade to whisk him through cities he visits. And they recently marched alongside him during a gay pride event here in his hometown after the Orlando shootings.

Such round-the-clock protection can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day. And with the potential for the Secret Service to be watching over Sanders through the Democratic convention in Philadelphia five weeks from now, the taxpayers may get stuck with a big security bill long after his campaign receded from the daily cable news cycle.

The continued security presence also reflects a larger reality of Sanders’s muddled standing in the Democratic race. He has virtually no chance of becoming the party’s nominee, and he is no longer pressing his case to Democratic leaders that he should. Yet Sanders remains an active candidate because he has not “suspended” his campaign or taken any other steps that would alter his official status.

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders arrives at the Capital Hilton last week, his Secret Service detail in tow, to meet with rival and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

[Metric System]

1. As if Sanders gives a shit.

[Fla Dem]

16. +1000

[MFM008]

2. Is he paying for it?

[Koinos]

6. Taxpayers are paying for it.

It's explained pretty well in the article.

[MattP]

3. This is why we can't have nice things

Stupid shit like this and people say it's a drop in the bucket, it all counts

[CrowCityDem]

4. Bernie loves living that 1%er life.

[yallerdawg]

5. Give this up?

Sanders’s protective detail was on full display Tuesday in Washington — the day of the final Democratic primary, in the District — as his motorcade sped from Capitol Hill to the Capital Hilton, near the White House, for the much-anticipated meeting with Clinton, which started shortly after the polls closed.

Sirens from a D.C. police SUV blared as the cars sped to a stop in the driveway, and a half-dozen Secret Service agents in dark suits exited the vehicles. A handful of them glanced around, keeping a protective circle around the gold-colored SUV that Sanders sat in. Another whispered into a microphone on his sleeve. A moment later, the agent guardedly opened the door, and Sanders and his wife, Jane, emerged.

As Sanders and his entourage breezed through the lobby, they were greeted by a large crowd of onlookers who clapped and yelled, “Bernie!”

“There’s no denying that some of the accoutrements that come with campaigns can be intoxicating,” said Jim Manley, a longtime Democratic operative who is supporting Clinton.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. He loves the celebraty status.

[Iamaartist]

7. Secret Service

I read that this morning he doesn't care where our tax dollars are going been saying that for a while...why does he still have the secret service yet...and
some people make 38,000 a year.....

I also heard read an article some of Bernie's supporters are practicing how to get arrested in Philly. Why “ practice” how to get arrested? If you break the law you are arrested, unreal..

[Thinkingabout]

8. A waste of tax payers money, want to know why there is not free college tuition, one day would

Pay for someone's college tuition. Bad judgement.

[sheshe2]

9. He is also still collecting his Senate salary.

Thanks for the update, Her Sister.

[Her Sister]

12. The article mentions Ben Carson

Who did not wait long to get rid of the escort because did not want to waste tax payermoney.

[sheshe2]

18. A Republicon caring more about tax waste...

Say it ain't so!

[DemonGoddess]

10. Every. little. thing.

says it's all about Bernie

[pandr32]

11. So when does this end?

He can no longer become the nominee already

[wysi]

13. Live like a rock star

You're a real man of the people, Bernie.

[Fla Dem]

14. Bernie just got too used to the perks. What a let down it's going to be. Bummer.

[Native]

15. You know, given the obscene scope of campaign financing, this is peanuts.

I was more upset over the whole Vatican visit.

[Walk away]

20. The rules of the FEC say he will have to reimburse his campaign for that personally.

Bernie & Jane are legally responsible for a minimum of $600,000.00 in travel for themselves and their entire family!!!

[NurseJackie]

17. Expensive!

[Walk away]

19. Socialists love to spend other people's money.

Tax $$$ flow freely through their hands!

[Cha]

22. There's NO More Primaries.. why the Hell hasn't he dropped out and Still Using Tax Payers

$$$$$$ on his dead end detail?

Thank you for this, HS.. something I didn't think about.

Finally.. "Virtually NO Chance".. I remember when it was "all but over".. I wanted it to be OVER .. and now it is.