The System Is Corrupt

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Tuesday September 06, 2016 · 5:09 AM PDT

2016/09/06 · 05:09

There is a very unhealthy hatred for Senator Bernie Sanders within the leadership of the Asotin County Democrats. The hatred is so bad that the mere posting on the Asotin County Democratic Committee Facebook page of anything to do with Senator Sanders is grounds to try and have your election to PCO revoked. It apparently doesn’t matter if the post was a photo of Senator Sanders urging people to vote for a democratic House of Representatives and to unify the democratic party. I learned of this when I was shown two emails that were sent by Chairman Nick Fiore whereas Nick asks a party official, can an elected PCO be removed and have their access to Vote Builder revoked? The reasons for this was the Facebook posts. The problem for Chairman Nick Fiore is he sent his email to the wrong address and after learning this Nick emailed another letter asking the recipient not to disclose the contents to the person he was trying to remove. Fortunately the recipient forwarded this email to the person subjected to this attempted ouster otherwise we would have never know of this. I wrote an email in response to all of this to all PCO and leadership questioning this type unethical behavior and called for the resignation of our Chairman Nick Fiore. Soon I started receiving aggressive phone calls and texts from a committee person threatening me and stating it was,”quite inappropriate that you continue working on our party Facebook page.” This was in respond to my email exposing this unethical behavior. I even made a point in my email questioning if I would be next for raising these questions and sure enough I was. A recorded phone call from this person also will show just how aggressive, mean spirited and one sided this conversation was.

We were very honored to have Joe Pakootas who is running for Congress against Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jennifer Goulet who is running for State Representative against Mary Dye to speak at our August 25th meeting. It should be known that the Asotin County Democrats supports both of these candidates. Both candidates mentioned Senator Bernie Sanders in their speeches and the importance of getting Bernie supporters involved and to elect democrats to congress. This so enraged one of our committee persons that it was characterized when Senator Sanders name was mentioned there were eye rolls and heavy sighs from the audience. I was there and that DID NOT happen. Pakootas and Goulet’s appearances and speeches were well received by the audience. This same person who so badly characterized our guest speakers then had the nerve to disrupt a parade in Walla Walla that Joe Pakootas was walking in, even to the point of getting angry with Joe Pakootas’s staff. The anger was again over Senator Sanders who isn’t even in the race anymore. All of this behavior is so childish and destructive to our candidates and is extremely embarrassing and humiliating to us volunteers. This will probably be my last post regarding the Asotin County Democrats as it’s very hard to volunteer in such a hostile environment. One thing is for sure is Senator Bernie Sanders was right, the system is corrupt.

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