Yesterday Party leaders blamed budget cuts for closing P.R. polling places. Today they blame Bernie:

[Cheese Sandwich]

To cut costs, voting was scheduled for the same day as local elections. In April, as the elections commission and treasury department tussled over the $3m tab of printing and counting papers, the ballot was at risk of not happening at all.

Now, further austerity cuts have slashed polling stations to fewer than one-third of the 1,115 sites originally announced last month, sparking accusations from supporters of Bernie Sanders of voter suppression.

The frustration is understandable given that Puerto Rico’s 67 delegates, 60 of them uncommitted, are crucial to Sanders’ fast-dwindling hopes of catching Hillary Clinton and becoming the Democratic nominee for November’s general election.

But party leaders in the US territory insist the decision to reduce polling stations to 432 was a simple matter of resources, based on the island electoral commission’s inability to fund and handle the extra workload of simultaneous local elections at so many sites.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/05/puerto-rico-democratic-primary-debt-crisis

[think]

1. And now everyone is talking about the lies rather than the blatant closing of 1000 polling places.

Brilliant!

[Mnpaul]

2. austerity cuts

brought to you by friends of Hillary

In the midst of this massive human suffering, it is morally repugnant that billionaire hedge fund managers on Wall Street are demanding that Puerto Rico fire teachers, close schools, cut pensions, and abolish the minimum wage so that they can reap huge profits off the suffering and misery of the children and the people of Puerto Rico. We cannot allow that to happen. You cannot get blood out of a stone.

We have got to understand that Puerto Rico’s $70 billion in debt is unsustainable.

And the reason it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds.

These vulture funds are getting interest rates of 34 percent on tax-exempt bonds that they purchased for 29 cents on the dollar. It has been estimated that as much as half of Puerto Rico’s debt is owned by these vulture funds.

We have got to make it clear to these billionaire hedge fund managers that they cannot have it all. They cannot receive a 100 percent return on their investment while children in Puerto Rico go hungry.
https://berniesanders.com/prepared-remarks-puerto-rico/

[nc4bo]

3. It's always about the 1%ers getting their blood money even from the poorest of the poor.

When the suck all the life out of even the poorest, they'll take out an insurance policy on your ass so they'll get a pay out as your loved ones struggle to bury you and do what they can to avoid homelessness.

Dead Peasants Insurance: http://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-a-dead-peasant-life-insurance-policy-out-on-you-2011-11

Fuck these greedy blood sucking fuckers and the politicians that enable them!