Posted on 10/12/2016 10:13:04 AM PDT by maggief
A former Democratic Party official advised the Clinton campaign several months before the Democratic National Convention on one simple, patronizing trick to fool Bernie supporters into throwing their support behind Clinton, according to a new set of emails released by WikiLeaks.
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“So here’s my idea,” Siegel wrote. “Bernie and his people have been bitching about super delegates and the huge percentage that have come out for Hillary. Since the original idea was to bring our elected officials to the convention ex-officio (because of the offices and the constituencies they represent), why not throw Bernie a bone and reduce the super delegates in the future to the original draft of members of the House and Senate, governors and big city mayors, eliminating the DNC members who are not State chairs or vice-Chairs. (Frankly, DNC members don’t really represent constituencies anyway. I should know. I served on the DNC first as Executive Director and then as an elected member for 10 years.)”
“So if we “give” Bernie this in the Convention’s rules committee, his people will think they’ve “won” something from the Party Establishment,” he added. “And it functionally doesn’t make any difference anyway. They win. We don’t lose. Everyone is happy. Anyway, I don’t know if Robbie is focusing on the convention at this point but the Bernie people have a lot of passion and we should try to keep them marginally on board. Just saying..”
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If it’s ok with bernie it’s ok with his drinkers of the kook-aid.
ha ha ha ..... Democrap big-wigs boasting they can fool Bernie supporters and string them along..... I love it!!
How do you like that, Bernie-bots??? You have all been played for fools....
Hey Bernie! How’s your beach house trinket they tossed you?
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