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Below is a recent post from Robert Reich, fellow Bernie supporter and former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton.
"Apparently Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, doesn’t care if she alienates Bernie followers. The Sanders campaign had been hoping for a significant role at the Democratic convention, but Wasserman Schultz has picked 75 members of the convention’s key committees -- rules, credentials and platform – and accepted only 3 of Bernie’s choices, failing to acknowledge the proportion of the vote Bernie has won in the primaries and caucuses. Negotiations with the DNC have failed to add any additional Bernie picks to any of the standing committees. Worse yet, she’s named as chairs Hillary backers known for their harsh criticism of Bernie (among them Barnie Frank, as co-chair of the influential Rules Committee).
This is insider politics run amok, at the very time and in the very election that insider politics is disdained – and at the very moment it’s vitally important to unite the Democratic Party. How Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC be so obtuse?
What do you think?"
If we thought the Nevada Democratic Convention was bad imagine what's going to go down at the National Convention with staunch Bernie opponents like Barnie Frank running something as crucial as the rules committee. The deck is stacked against us. What do we plan to do if the National Convention ends up as big of a corrupt shit show as Nevada? No way we will be voting for Hillary and it doesn't even look like we will get influence on the platform... so what's next?
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1218005498212044
Below is a recent post from Robert Reich, fellow Bernie supporter and former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton.
"Apparently Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, doesn’t care if she alienates Bernie followers. The Sanders campaign had been hoping for a significant role at the Democratic convention, but Wasserman Schultz has picked 75 members of the convention’s key committees -- rules, credentials and platform – and accepted only 3 of Bernie’s choices, failing to acknowledge the proportion of the vote Bernie has won in the primaries and caucuses. Negotiations with the DNC have failed to add any additional Bernie picks to any of the standing committees. Worse yet, she’s named as chairs Hillary backers known for their harsh criticism of Bernie (among them Barnie Frank, as co-chair of the influential Rules Committee).
This is insider politics run amok, at the very time and in the very election that insider politics is disdained – and at the very moment it’s vitally important to unite the Democratic Party. How Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC be so obtuse?
What do you think?"
If we thought the Nevada Democratic Convention was bad imagine what's going to go down at the National Convention with staunch Bernie opponents like Barnie Frank running something as crucial as the rules committee. The deck is stacked against us. What do we plan to do if the National Convention ends up as big of a corrupt shit show as Nevada? No way we will be voting for Hillary and it doesn't even look like we will get influence on the platform... so what's next?
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1218005498212044
