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TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:13 PM Aug 2018

Sanders challenger files complaint over election tactic

Folasade Adeluola said she’s running to stop Sen. Bernie Sanders from “waging war” with the Democratic Party.

The newcomer to politics is a self-described “Obamacrat activist” and is facing Sanders in Tuesday’s the Vermont Democratic primary. She’s a single mother who is self-employed in accounting and lives in Burlington.

Adeluola, 55, is originally from Nigeria and became a U.S. citizen in the 1990s.

If he wins the primary, Sanders has said he will continue his practice of declining the nomination and running as an independent in the general election — a traditional Adeluola aims to stop.

Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2018/08/14/sanders-challenger-files-complaint-election-tactic/

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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
4. Fresh face, challenging the established incumbant. This is 2018 alright!
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:41 PM
Aug 2018

We need all the Dems we can get to gain the majority & take our place in those coveted committees.

Best wishes in the fight for the Dem majority.



 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
14. I remember calling it 'anti-disestablishmentarianism'
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 08:21 PM
Aug 2018

I even knew what it meant as a 12 yr old.

Waaaay back..

I think it was used by a pot smokin comedian ..or someone.

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Brief simple definition: A movement formed to dismantle an establishment or organization that is about to destroy a society.


Trump & Putun's Red Wave, for instance.



underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
5. Someone help me understand. Wht does Sanders run as a Democrat in the primary?
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 06:46 PM
Aug 2018

Isn't he allowed to run in the general without running in a party affiliated primary?

Maven

(10,533 posts)
8. The VT Democratic Party should put a stop to this chicanery by Sanders
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 07:00 PM
Aug 2018

by requiring all primary candidates to sign a written pledge to run as a Democrat during the general.

George II

(67,782 posts)
17. A couple of weeks ago there was a debate scheduled between her and Sanders.
Tue Aug 14, 2018, 08:40 PM
Aug 2018

Adeluola showed up, Sanders didn't. He was in the Midwest campaigning.

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