I have a request for Senator Sanders. Stop insination of corruption at every turn and brand everyone that you disagree with as CORRUPT. You are harming your own cause & the cause of progressives
Today, you released a statement 'accussing' DNC of 'tipping convention'. This is how the media is covering it:
- http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-democratic-national-committee-222895
- thehill.com/…
I was flabbergasted. I went and read your letter. This is from the second para:
That was why I was so disappointed to learn that of the over forty people our campaign submitted at your request you chose to select only three of my recommendations for the three standing committees.
I thought you had a point but then this is from para 4:
In our conversation, you told me with respect to the platform Drafting Committee that you would consider allowing each campaign to submit ten names from which you would choose four from each and then you would add an additional seven.
So, DNC said that you will get 4 and allocated 3 and i don’t know what the issue on the fourth candidate is. In addition, most of the nominations made by DNC chairwoman was made in January. Why raise it only now & today? If you want to shed transparency, why not give dates & release all notes from all discussions.
Seriously, can we get back to ideas, policies and a positive campaign that you promised at the beginning of your run
Friday, May 6, 2016 · 6:03:56 PM +00:00 · InfiniteThoughts
Update 2:
Here is one of the committee members — Mary Kay Henry from SEIU. SEIU endorsed Hillary in Nov 2015. But here is an interesting titbit from her profile
Mary Kay Henry, the international president of the two-million member Service Employees International Union, is also on Malloy’s committee. Henry traveled to Hartford last year to push state legislators in an eventually unsuccessful effort to pass a first-in-the-nation bill that would place fines on large employers with more than 500 workers who fail to pay wages of at least $15 per hour. The fine would have been $1 per hour per employee and was expected to raise as much as $305 million for the state in the 2017 fiscal year that would then be used for child care and for home care for the elderly.
So, Sen Sanders supports $15 min wage but opposes a committee member who is committed to the same progressive cause. And he is fighting for a revolution. Sorry for being caustic but he is as much as a politician as Hillary & his revolution seems to be for 1 person, 1 post …
UPDATE 3: Here is the press release from DNC in January. The Sanders campaign raises an issue that is over 4 months old.
www.fionama.com/...
More importantly, these 75 members serve along with 160 pledged delegates and somehow Sen Sanders’ press release misses this point. Can they explain why?