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Bernie Sanders endorses Tim Canova (Debbie Wasserman Schultz's opponent)
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StopMakingSense
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Title is wrong?
Title seems incorrect. He's not endorsing him to be chair of the DNC.
Cesare Borgia
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Finally Sanders does something I can support.
He's endorsing him in the house race against DWS, changed the title to reflect that.
Edit: anyway, on the subject, I think DWS is pretty bad at her job, but I'm not sure going after like that is all that productive, but whatever, he was answering a question.
p.s.
Bernie opdray est.
Yeah, I don't know Latin.
Edit: anyway, on the subject, I think DWS is pretty bad at her job, but I'm not sure going after like that is all that productive, but whatever, he was answering a question.
p.s.
Bernie opdray est.
Yeah, I don't know Latin.
Let me preface this by saying I voted for Bernie in the Ohio primary. Here goes:
Why should anyone at the DNC care what a member by convenience thinks? His camp have had loads to say about being persecuted by the DNC, some of it fairly, but again he's not even a real democrat so he shouldn't be surprised at the lack of support coming from the Chair. That said, it's nice to see him thinking about someone else's campaign for a change. If that's what this was about.
No shit.
Also, I dislike Schultz but his stance here seems like a tantrum, or a threat.
Why should anyone at the DNC care what a member by convenience thinks? His camp have had loads to say about being persecuted by the DNC, some of it fairly, but again he's not even a real democrat so he shouldn't be surprised at the lack of support coming from the Chair. That said, it's nice to see him thinking about someone else's campaign for a change. If that's what this was about.
No shit.
Also, I dislike Schultz but his stance here seems like a tantrum, or a threat.
StopMakingSense
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Canova is her opponent in the primary for her house seat.
He also doesn't want her as DNC chair. Separate ideas. He is not endorsing him for DNC chair.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, sounded like he would have sided with any warm body that was running against her
Ah, okay. So to be chairperson of the DNC do you have to be an active member (IE: an active elected official)?
Knocking DWS out of the House isn't going to make her not in charge of the DNC. At least I don't think so.
StopMakingSense
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No.
damn shame
StopMakingSense
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Huh? That in of itself isn't a problem.
Megadragon15
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Colonel Sanders is so salty.
It's a shame that she might keep the seat, she is not a good person.
It's better to have a non-elected official like Reince Priebus. Being a representative is a demanding job by itself.
kittenbreath
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Not that I have any particular love for DWS, but continuing to openly pick fights with the DNC does not bode well for his whole "convince the superdelegates to give me the nomination, for some reason" strategy.
DWS is terrible
StopMakingSense
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Yeah, see what Howard Dean was able to get done.
It is down-ticket support.
StopMakingSense
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He was probably referring to the previous, very incorrect, thread title.
I don't think so, there are members of the DNC which are not members of congress.
Also it's worth noting that Bernie said - "If [I am] elected president, she would not be re-appointed chairwoman of the DNC."
And yeah, that's not how it works, the president don't get to appoint the chair of the DNC, the DNC does.
Not that I have any particular love for DWS, but continuing to openly pick fights with the DNC does not bode well for his whole "convince the superdelegates to give me the nomination, for some reason" strategy.
"All I need is for the delegate members of the party I can't stand to go against their preferred candidate and support me while I spit vitriol and my supporters harass them. I CAN'T LOSE!"
I think it meant he would actively campaign against her and as a president that has a lot more sway?
Wafflecakes
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Yup. Bernie showing that it isn't his movement that is toxic. HE is the toxic one.
googleplex
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Al Franken been saying this for years now.
jack_package_200
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Ether_Snake
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Yeah you can imagine what would happen to the party if he won. He'd go on a witch hunt, any failure would be blamed on his own party first unless they all rallied behind him.
The left tends to be self-destructive when it comes to politics. Good thing the GOP are idiots.
The left tends to be self-destructive when it comes to politics. Good thing the GOP are idiots.
Cesare Borgia
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Getting her out of congress is enough for me. I don't want democrats in congress who have more loyalty to their local republican friends than to local democrats.
KingDonkeykong
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Doesn't matter Tim Canova is still going to lose his primary.
Byakuya769
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Meh, I support this. She's terrible.
jack_package_200
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Same but I don't want that through the Bernie Sanders progressive inquisition
brianmcdoogle
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If Wasserman Schultz loses her seat, that doesn't mean she magically stops being the Chair of the DNC. So, is the issue that she's a terrible U.S. Representative for her district or that she's a terrible Chair for the DNC?
Her predatory loan ideas and general campaigning is very disturbing. She's on record saying she would change her stance on marijuana if someone would publicly support her. Like wtf
BlastProcessing
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Because that's exactly what it is.
People have been calling for Bernie to do his part for the party and support down-ticket since the start of this thing. And when he finally throws some high profile support behind someone, it's to the guy running against the chair of the DNC who he thinks has it out for him.
This is the ultimate "Get out your feelings, Bernie" moment.
HIllary Clinton won Wasserman Schultz's district by nearly 40 points in the Florida primary and the upcoming redrawn district by slightly more than that.
All Sanders is doing now is burning bridges as his support in this particular district is not going to help anyone. It is an older district full of hard Ds who actually like both Clinton and Wasserman Schultz.
Once again showing that he's all about purity testing those on the same ideological side of the partisan divide more than effecting any real change. Barney Frank's 1991 description of Bernie Sanders rings more true every day.
All Sanders is doing now is burning bridges as his support in this particular district is not going to help anyone. It is an older district full of hard Ds who actually like both Clinton and Wasserman Schultz.
Once again showing that he's all about purity testing those on the same ideological side of the partisan divide more than effecting any real change. Barney Frank's 1991 description of Bernie Sanders rings more true every day.
He should have thought it through. Party lines are childishly tribalistic, so even if DWS is incompetent and pretty bad in the eyes of her critics, she will get a defense force.
In American politics, the major political parties are a coalition. Everybody is a member by convenience.
So I actually read this for the first time the other day, but yeah... Frank called this over 20 years ago.
Incompetent or not, she is the current chairperson. He seems to be thinking little through at this point.
excelsiorlef
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Jesus. Based on what?
ArkhamFantasy
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Judging by some of these responses you would think he was endorsing a republican.
DirtyManos
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Not that he can't appoint who he wants in his administration if he becomes president (lol), but actively railing against the DNC and saying things like these....it just begs the question:
What coalition is Sanders exactly planning on forming to influence or pass legislation if he were to get the office?
It just seems he and his campaign have not made much friends outside his purity test bubble.
What coalition is Sanders exactly planning on forming to influence or pass legislation if he were to get the office?
It just seems he and his campaign have not made much friends outside his purity test bubble.
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