Posted on 01/28/2020 8:58:16 AM PST by Magnatron
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders' White House bid and some Democratic National Committee members are frustrated with some initial appointments made by DNC Chairman Tom Perez to the crucial committees that will oversee the rules and party platform at this summer’s presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee, Wis.
Their frustration comes after Perez named former Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts – who was a surrogate for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign -- as co-chair of the convention’s Rules Committee. And Perez picked John Podesta – who served as Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager – to have a seat on the committee.
The populist independent Vermont senator lost a long and divisive primary nomination battle to Clinton four years ago, in which Sanders supporters felt the DNC was stacked against their candidate’s outsider run for the White House. Four years later, many Sanders allies and supporters remain suspicious of the DNC.
While the Sanders campaign didn’t respond for comment, national co-chair Nina Turner slammed the appointments as “an embarrassment” and a “slap in the face” in an interview with the progressive online news channel Status Coup.
And DNC committee member Yasmine Taeb – who backed Sanders in 2016 but remains neutral this cycle – told The Hill that “there's a very small number of appointments of allies to Sen. Sanders.”
“The appointments also include individuals that are outright hostile to Bernie Sanders and his supporters," she added. "It's not the message the DNC should be sending to the grassroots right now when we're all working aggressively to defeat the racist in the White House.”
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I am sure the leaders and key financial backers of the Democratic Party view it as “their” party—and view Sanders as trying to steal “their” nomination.
“Democracy” is just talking points for the bow tied professors on CSPAN—the real party lives in the trenches where deals get done and nominees get picked.
This should be fun to watch—grab the popcorn!
You can take to bank when the Hag gets inducted to run for the WH this time that a fair election will have nothing to do with her winning. That will come about by MASSIVE cheating and threats to the people in charge of the state’s election integrity.
hillary is running
RUN, HILLARY, RUN!
“She spent 1.4 billion dollars and still lost a rigged election to a political nobody.”
This.
x2, because nobody wants to risk a net $3B just to watch her lose again.
Sorry Bernie you are an Independent. They should not even allow you into the primaries.
Hillary is stacking the deck.
See tagline.
That is why I exclusively refer to them as the Democrat Party.
For there is absolutely nothing democratic about them.
They’re getting ready to “take Bernie out”.. AGAIN!
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