In 2016, many of us objected to the concerted effect of the Democratic establishment and the Democratic National Committee to rig the primary for Hillary Clinton. Later it was revealed that the Clintons have largely taken over the DNC by taking over its debt and the DNC openly harassed and hampered Sanders at every stage. Despite this effort, Sanders came close to beating Clinton, who has never forgiven him for contesting a primary that she literally bought and paid for with the DNC. The simmering rage was still evident recently in Clinton’s attack on Sanders and suggestion that she might not support him if he were the nominee (a suggestion that she later took back). She continued her attacks this week and it has served to remind voters, particularly younger voters, of the DNC interference with the primary election. After the scandal, the DNC pledged to reform itself and reduce the power of establishment figures and superdelegates at the convention. Now, however, Politico is reporting that DNC members are again discussing changing the rules to stop Sanders. This follows the selection of Clinton allies to control the convention and a shocking level of anti-Sanders bias shown by CNN at the last debate. In the meantime, the DNC has been criticized for clearing the way for Michael Bloomberg by changing its rules to help him make the debates.
Reportedly, a group of Democratic National Committee members are discussing ways to undermine Sanders and allow for a convention stop on his candidacy. The plan centers around the superdelegates to reverse reforms and allow them to vote on the first ballot. In other words, the supers would be brought back in to keep Sanders out.
William Owen, a Tennessee DNC member, acknowledged the discussion and said that he does not support the effort. He noted that they agreed it could be “tough.” One would hope so. The plan would make a mockery of all of the prior statements of regret and reform after the rigged primary for Clinton. It would confirm in the mind of critics that the DNC is only interested in creating the appearance of democratic choice and only to the extent that the voters do what the establishment expects.
In fairness to the DNC, the report only refers to a small group and it is unlikely to succeed. However, the fact that it is being discussed is alarming after the Clinton attack and the selection of Clinton allies to head the convention. The fear is that Sanders could win Iowa and come to the convention with the most votes. It would challenge the view that Biden is the unassailable nominee — just as he challenged the same view with Clinton.
These moves are likely to only strengthen the resolve of the surging Sanders supporters. Sanders is receiving the most support among young voters — an extraordinary accomplishment given his age and mainstream opposition. The Democratic Party is clearly not willing to move beyond the control and fealty extended to the Clintons. That could easily force a final reckoning at the convention over who controls the Democratic party.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Saturday expressed regret for booing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s name at a Bernie Sanders campaign event in Iowa, saying that his supporters “deserve better.”
“In this instance, I allowed my disappointment with Secretary Clinton’s latest comments about Senator Sanders and his supporters get the best of me. You all, my sisters-in-service on stage, and our movement deserve better,” she said in a statement.
when I wrote about this last year that the dems are going to do to sanders what they did in 2016 the liberals said it would never happen again. they do not know how low the todays democrats really are until now.
As long as their crook is in office, most people blindly allow the corruption to continue.
Correct. It’s right if it helps Democrats. It’s wrong if it hurts Democrats. There is no moral high ground. It’s about grabbing and holding onto power. It’s about win or lose — by any means necessary — for Democrats.
Just look at the Democrat antics for the past 3 years since they lost the election. That’s what it means to ‘lose by any means necessary.’ On election day some Dems were screaming, “Impeach the MF’er!” and he hadn’t even been sworn it yet! Get him out by any means necessary. That is the Dem/Media playbook.
To repeat, this is a nothing story intended to get right wingers and Bernie Bros in a lather.It is about nothing – unnamed people allegedly plotting something he notes is unlikely to suceed – and makes completely false claims about history. Sanders did not come close to beating Hillary. He got his butt kicked worse than TruMp did 55% – 43%, 4 million votes. JT can’t name one instance of harassment or hampering.
Bernie didn’t have the votes last time, no matter how uncrupulous was Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ DNC. What they’re worried about is that he will have the votes the next time.
Off topic but, this is my latest pic for Penelope’s Twitter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPtCrBCXsAEsBqJ?format=jpg
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
That’s a very good question.
In a sensible world, delegates to both party conventions would be elected over two Saturdays in June and the conventions held over a three week period in August. Delegates would be elected from single-member constituencies.
States wishing to hold caucuses would hold precinct caucuses one week to elect delegates who would attend district caucuses the following week (which caucuses would elect the convention delegate). State parties which wished to used primaries would hold an ordinal or ranked-choice ballot one week, which would be tabulated according to the ‘condorcet’ method. Local elected officials would have advantages (from name recognition) in such a system, so there would be no point to having ‘superdelegates’ (which were created in 1981 to provide for more of a voice for elected officials to balance activists).
The conventions would break into state caucuses to elect the national committees, would elect some other officers on the floor, would deliberate over and approve a platform, and then would choose the presidential nominee.
On the first ballot, the votes of the pledged delegates who registered for floor passes would be recorded for their candidate and the unpledged and released delegates would cast a ballot. On subsequent ballots, everyone votes for who they care to among the remaining candidates. The candidates on the 2d ballot would be those who made the cut per one of three methods: the elimination of the caboose candidate, or the elimination of all candidates who failed to get 2% of the votes of the body of delegates on the 1st ballot, or the elimination of all candidates who scored lower than a certain candidate ‘n’. (If you rank-order your candidates by votes 1st to Xth, and can locate a candidate ‘n’ whose votes exceed the sum of votes which went to candidates ‘n+1’ to Xth, you eliminate n+1 to Xth). You test all three methods, and the one which is most selective is the one which determines which candidates survive to the second ballot. On all subsequent ballots, you apply the same method (which will generally mean you eliminate the caboose candidate each time). Eventually, you have your nominee. At any point, a given candidate might address the convention, withdraw his candidacy, and yield his position to some other person, on the line up or no. It would seldom if ever take more than (say) eight ballots to produce a nominee.
The newly elected national committee could then meet a month later to choose the VP nominee (or, more likely, ratify the presidential nominee’s selection).
Queen Hillary still wants the White House….To be written in history as a legend
Like Helen of Troy, Queen Cleopatra & Queen of Sheba
In fairness to the DNC, the report only refers to a small group and it is unlikely to succeed.
Yeah, small groups within the DNC have never being able to control the party? Have you not heard of The Squad?
Why does no-one (especially Bernie supporters) discuss the fact that Bernie isn’t a Democrat? He’s an independent who’s realized he needs to be tied with one of the major parties to run for president.
Every time he runs for the senate, he runs his own campaign separate from the Democrats. His fundraising doesn’t go to the democratic war chest. He’s an independent. No shit the DNC doesn’t want to support the guy who just chooses to run every four years as a democrat but then runs as an independent any time he can.
That’s right. Regular Democratic politicians are so scuzzy they get bested by a man whose party affiliations over the years have been with a local organization in Burlington he himself founded and with the old Liberty Union Party. You might improve the quality of people you recruit and advance, so then you won’t have to rely on Bernie.
You might improve the quality of people you recruit and advance, so then you won’t have to rely on Bernie.
Absolutely. They keep trotting out Chevy Citations and Vegas and wonder why there is so much interest in the Yugo.
DSS, most of the Democratic candidates are competing and following Bernie socialism. Can we consider them Democrats? The Democratic party is famous for identity politics and with Bernie have picked up a lot of young voters who are going to be very disapointed. What do disappointed voters do especially when they are maturing. Hopefully the Democratic Party is destroying itself for it seems that is the only way for them to get back on track.
“Back on Track”?
Great Shades of Animal Farm! I guess some delegates are more equal than others!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Jared and Elizabeth Beck sued the Democratic Party for rigging the primary against Bernie in 2016. That case will now be argued in the SC. If you read what the Democratic Party claimed in the lawsuit, you will see that they do not have any intention of holding a unfixed primary. It’s just plain as day. I have no idea why anyone 1. stays in that corrupt party and 2. why anyone would support Bernays Sanders, a man who has never once stepped up to help his donors recover the money the DNC stole from them in the prior election, people who skipped meals to support him.
To read about the suit go to Jared Beck, AI Bot on twitter or look up either Beck on FB.
Jill, the case has been thrown out by every court they got to look at it and it’s not going to the SC. Jared was even thrown off of Twitter, thus “al bot”. There’s about 4 posts under that name and none recent.
bythebook
If you believe that don’t go to the sites to get accurate information!
Yes, Jared was thrown off Twitter. OMG, that must mean he is evil, right? Well, no it doesn’t mean that!
Many people, left and right are being thrown off twitter. You need to evaluate the person independently of whether twitter throws them off their site. Go look at the sites I mentioned. Read the information, then use your own mind to make evaluations! Twitter isn’t the arbiter of good/bad or right/wrong or accurate/false. Evidence and character are what determines these qualities.
People seem to want short cuts to doing research. Instead, you must look into things and make evaluations based on gathering facts. If you are terrified of facts then there is literally nothing that will reach you except propaganda talking points.
Just to add: Coverage of SCOTUS* Certiorari Petition.
https://youtu.be/YLHvM-j9Xjk
Jill, I read news reports of their case. It’s been thrown out of state and federal courts. You are wrong to say it is going to be heard by the SC.
You must not have gotten to the latest information. You can listen to the interview w/Elizabeth Beck (which I linked to above) and she tells you how to search the SC website to find this case: https://supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/DocketFiles/html/Public/19A809.html
Alternatively, you can see information about the case on Jan. 25 at Jared Beck, AI Bot. First go to google and search for: “jared beck and the supreme court docket”. The link to Jan. 25 at AI Bot comes right up. There you will find the link to the Supreme Court website. Good luck!
More Dim shenanigans exposed:
“Even so, Strzok and Pientka wound up finding “no indication” that Flynn had lied to them. But then FBI lawyer Lisa Page (Strzok’s mistress at the time) instructed them to alter their official writeup of the conversation to say otherwise. And that’s the entire basis of the charges against him.”
https://nypost.com/2020/01/31/the-flynn-prosecution-now-stands-exposed-as-massive-fbi-and-doj-abuse-of-power/
mespo – I hope withdrawing his plea works. They have screwed him over.
Translation: DNC: “Elections are too important to allow the rank and file to choose our candidate, or the general public to choose the President. So we have contingency plans for both cases…”
What a joke of a column by JT. It is about nothing – unnamed people allegedly plotting something he notes is unlikely to suceed – and make completely false claims about history. Sanders did not come close to beating Hillary. He got his butt kicked worse than TruMp did 55% – 43%, 4 million votes. He can’t name one instance of harassment or hampering.
Disgraceful trolling and pandering aimed not at fairness, but RNC propaganda.
“It is about nothing – unnamed people allegedly plotting something he notes is unlikely to suceed.”
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Sounds like the cases against Trump for Russian “collusion.”
Anon is reaching the point of hysteria. Everyone of his aliases demonstrates infatuation with Clinton so Anon makes up all sorts of stories. He constantly makes up stories about Hillary’s crimes and loss to Trump. I think without those stories it would be hard for Anon to survive.
It’s another indication, in case you needed one, that partisan Democrats have no procedural principles. It’s about whatever scheme gets them what they want.
The fallibility of logic affected by emotion.That must be what Benjamin Franklin was thinking.
Shame on the Dems for undermining our faith in democracy.
After spending three years claiming that Trump’s election was fraudulent because of foreign interference; after trying to overturn the 2016 election by mostly underhanded maneuverings; they are trying to make the 2020 Democratic nomination fraudulent.
The Dems are corrupt, worse they are inept at what they do.
Hopefully, they will pay an electoral price.
Agree completely. Have you ever looked at that rag tag bunch of not-very-bright misfits when the Democrats stand up there together in front of the cameras? OMG. Please let us not mistake THOSE people for our “leaders”….they are not. They are corrupt, power hungry players of a game that they are all trying to win and squeeze as much out of for THEMSELVES as they can get away with. Democrats are disgusting sleezebags for the most part. Shame on anyone who gives thier vote to one of those corrupt, conniving imbeciles.
KGB…CIA… Be eye biki eye bye o we…
Vickie eye Vicki oh boo boo!
DNC is like KGB.
Bernie is screwed again by the Elite/Clintons/Obama and the so called leaders of the Dem Party. But, if you watch/listen to Project Viratas reporting and undercover cideos of Sanders supporters and field workers and leaders they are not going to stand for it this time which will make the Dem’s convention very interesting and it is reported Bernis’s supporters say they are going to stay home or they are going to vote for Trump if Bernie is screwed again
Not at all surprising that Hillary expects a return on her money, is it? And she can only do that with establishment “players.”
The Dims are wonderful, tolerant people filled with fair play and seek only what is best for the country. The Dims are wonderful, tolerant people filled with fair play and seek only what is best for the country. The Dims are wonderful, tolerant people filled with fair play and seek only what is best for the country. The Dims are wonderful, tolerant people filled with fair play and seek only what is best for the country.
Keep that up until you believe.