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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSadly, today I felt the "burn" of Bernie Sanders. Not voting. Not that woulda mattered.
It's just the point of it.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)... that wouldnt have mattered.
Yeah. No.
The howling would have been epic (not that it wasnt).
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)By Gregory Krieg and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 6:03 PM EST, Wed January 16, 2019
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/16/politics/bernie-sanders-sexual-harassment-campaign-meeting-2020/
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The source said Sanders participated in the midday session with the former campaign workers and outside "facilitators" drafted in to lead a series of conversations and workshops. The letter, which was leaked to Politico late last year, described his presence at the proposed meeting as a "critically important" to the process of creating a "'gold standard' harassment policy" complete with "tangible next steps."
A former staffer for the Sanders campaign, who asked her name not be revealed so she could discuss the private meeting, told CNN Sanders was present for "about an hour" and described him as "conciliatory." She said he opened his remarks with an "honest apology."
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More at link
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Apollyonus
(812 posts)There was plenty of time for him to go and vote
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)In fact, the meetings took place last night and this morning at breakfast, before the Senate vote. Surely he could have fit in his hour with the group to allow for him to go to the Senate chamber to vote:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/16/politics/bernie-sanders-sexual-harassment-campaign-meeting-2020/
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Funny the hour he was at the meeting perfectly coincided with the vote.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)But the result still represented a symbolic rebuke of the Treasury Department's decision in December to lift the sanctions on the companies tied to Deripaska, a Kremlin ally. Eleven Republicans joined with Democrats to support Schumer's resolution, arguing that the Trump administration erred in deciding to lift sanctions on Rusal, the world's second-largest aluminum producer, as well as EN+ Group and JSC EuroSibEnergo.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/senate-democrats-sanctions-russia/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/senate-democrats-vote-to-block-trump-from-lifting-russia-sanctions-fails.html
Link to tweet
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)Or given them a different small section of his day. Using women as an excuse is why he should have spent more than an hour with them in the first place.
Dolly123Jimmy
(26 posts)He should go away...
Too old...Sexual stuff all over him...
Im a fan but he had his 15 minuets
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)I support his participation in our political system. I don't like that he didn't vote.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)I also take age into consideration when voting. But that is in conjunction with a lot of other things. He is clearly not too old for his job. In any way.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)I voted for Bernie in the primaries.
But I supported HRC in the General election 100%
And yes, my vote mattered.
Beakybird
(3,329 posts)But I regret it. I hated Tad Devine's divisiveness (or was it Jeff Weaver?), and Sanders did not help Clinton nearly as much as he could have.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)All the poisonous memes started by the Sanders camp:
Hillary is corrupt
Hillary is unlikable
Hillary is a corporate puppet
Hillary is for private prisons
Hillary does pay for play through the Clinton Foundation
They have left a bad taste in my mouth
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)StarryNite
(9,366 posts)Saying it wouldn't have mattered would be like saying the ones of us who live in the red states shouldn't bother voting because it won't matter. That's so wrong!
Cha
(295,929 posts)with a "Symbolic Rebuke" at Russia.
Senate Democrats' effort to block Trump move on Russia sanctions fails
But the result still represented a symbolic rebuke of the Treasury Department's decision in December to lift the sanctions on the companies tied to Deripaska, a Kremlin ally. Eleven Republicans joined with Democrats to support Schumer's resolution, arguing that the Trump administration erred in deciding to lift sanctions on Rusal, the world's second-largest aluminum producer, as well as EN+ Group and JSC EuroSibEnergo.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/senate-democrats-sanctions-russia/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/senate-democrats-vote-to-block-trump-from-lifting-russia-sanctions-fails.html
Link to tweet