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Jane Lynchis weighing in onPete Buttigieg‘s controversial wine cave fundraiser thatElizabeth Warrendiscounted at the Democratic debate on Thursday night.
Lynch — a Buttigieg donor — told Warrenon Twitteron Friday that “class warfare is ugly,” adding that “billionaires in wine caves have as much right to say who gets to be president as waitresses in diners and plumbers in my bathroom.”
“Hello everyone. Billionaires in wine caves have as much right to say who gets to be president as waitresses in diners and plumbers in my bathroom. Class warfare is ugly, @ewarren Thanks for listening everyone,” Lynch’s full tweet read.
One Twitter userrespondedthat Lynch’s take on the subject “minimizes the corrupting influence of money in politics.”
“When waitresses & plumbers can buy access to people running for president, then we can discuss how class warfare is unfair to the wealthy,”another said.
“One billionaire shouldn’t have more say than all the plumbers in the whole country,” another userchimed in.
“The mayor just recently had a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900-a-bottle wine,” Warrensaid on the debate stageon Thursday, according to theLos Angeles Times. “Think about who comes to that. He had promised that every fundraiser he would do would be open-door, but this one was closed-door. We made the decision years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States.”
Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren.
Warren added, “Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States.”
“This is the problem with issuing purity tests that you yourself cannot pass,” the South Bend, Indiana mayor responded, noting that he was the only non-millionaire or billionaire on the stage.
Lynch has donated at least $2,500 to Buttigieg’s campaign, according to theLos Angeles Times, and has also hosted fundraising events for the mayor, asVarietyreportedin April.
A rep for Lynch did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
