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silvershadow's JournalBernie: Calling the Hillary NY Cheating "Disgraceful" is Not Enough, It Was Illegal. Do Something.
As the major media, once again, parrots Hillary's "win" in a primary without even a hint of the anger boiling beneath the headlines, due to what can only be called blatant voter suppression tactics, Senator Sanders stumbles but can recover. No, Senator Sanders, what has been happening is not "a disgrace," as you have remarked previously about Arizona and now New York. It is illegal. That is a big difference.
No less a personage than the NYC Comptroller, whose job it is to crunch numbers when something looks fishy, has called into question, by implication, the New York primary results. Comptroller Scott Stringer has "confirmed" that "more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn were removed from voter rolls." Brooklyn is one of five NY Boroughs. Multiply that by five and you get 625,000 voters. And that's just the city. 1.7 million voters officially turned out for the NY Democratic primary. It takes no genius to see that's a game changer, and a big one.
Comptroller Stringer said in a scathing press release: “There is nothing more sacred in our nation than the right to vote, yet election after election, reports come in of people who were inexplicably purged from the polls, told to vote at the wrong location or unable to get in to their polling site,” Comptroller Stringer said. “The people of New York City have lost confidence that the Board of Elections..."
Stringer is a Hillary superdelegate. And even he says it stinks. You can't get politically covered any better than that.
more: http://hubpages.com/politics/Bernie-Saying-the-Hillary-Cheating-is-Disgraceful-is-Not-Enough
True story about the primaries: Remember last Spring or Summer when Sec. Clinton
was playing coy with her announcement and all that? Then for awhile she was the only person presumed to be running. Well, I am one of those many thousands of people who, at a certain point, because so nauseated at it being her instead of Bernie, whom I had listened to with awe for literally years on CSPAN and on cable news. Leading up to this cycle it really seemed he was hitting a very real stride...A very astute and Presidential stride.
And I keep thinking to myself, man, I *wish this guy would run! He would win in a landslide. And the longer it went on with her and Trump dominating the news, I got more antsy. One day, I googled Bernie's office telephone number in Burlington and called them. I don't even know who I might have talked to, but when that poor guy answered the phone I gave him an earful of effusive praise, and I insisted he *HAD to run.
The young man thanked me, took a couple of moments to say they were getting many calls like mine from all over the country, and were taking it under advisement. I only had about 30 seconds I suppose with him, but managed to tell him why he needed to run.
I've been all in since. I was urging him on when he was driving that little red compact car around stopping at curbsides and diners. Just him and a driver in that little car (Jane? Not sure). Lovely, genuine, caring people. Kind people. Real people. Not in it for money, or fame, or power. People with a very real understanding of how people should treat other people, and what the proper role of government actually is by the Constitution, and what it is now and what it could and should be.I have been all-in ever since.
Their STRONG support for Unions is quite in evidence, and not just lip service.
PS: I desperately NEED that Social Security expansion.
Just a reminder:
I am a 50+ year Democrat. I haven't changed. But the party has. Bernie is trying to take us back to our solid foundations. FDR. The New Deal. Hell, an even NEWER deal.
The right-wing forces on the other side who took over during the first Great Triangulation in 92 are at it again.
Can we do this? Bernie: Yes, We Can. Hillary: No, we can't.
Fact: The embarrassing situation we shall not mention (evidently) remains. I cannot vote for her under any circumstances. I may well vote against her, as I have stated over and over. I simply cannot let you embarrass me in this manner, and will not let you do so. The day she is nominated is the day you made your choice. I will have to forcefully and publicly disavow myself from the Democratic Party until they recover. I will have to re-register during the Great Political Tribulation, so that the public records do not associate me with the taint. And I will only vote for candidates who share my values. Then the party can whine about low voter turn-out some more while the elites continue to put on a political casino every cycle and beg for voters to come on in and spin the lever just one more time.
If that is the case, it will be prima fascia evidence to whomever is left to pick up the pieces of just exactly where we as a party went wrong. It is that simple.
ON EDIT: I guess this is where I'm sticking my flag. Bernie or Bust isn't accurate. Bernie or else it already Busted is accurate. I should be safe until Skinner pulls the trigger on the much-anticipated Great Purge. Good luck with THAT plan. That should help unite us. Not.
Election 2016: Plenty at stake for Republican, Democratic presidential candidates in Indiana primary
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Clinton could lose momentum if Sanders gets a big primary victory in Indiana that could further extend their primary battle. Sanders is a long shot to get the upset win for the Democratic nomination, but both candidates are taking Indiana seriously and have opened campaign offices throughout the state.
http://www.elkharttruth.com/news/politics/Elections/2016/04/15/Election-2016-Plenty-at-stake-for-Republican-Democratic-presidential-candidates-in-Indiana-primary.html
Meet the Democratic women fighting for Sanders
Hillary Clinton is already closer than anyone in history to being the nation's first woman president. But that doesn't mean all female Democratic officeholders are on her side.
Two of Bernie Sanders' biggest surrogates on the campaign trail are Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is campaigning for him in Pennsylvania on Friday, and former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner. And they say going against the Clinton grain has not been easy.
Turner distinctly remembers what happened a few days after she publicly endorsed Sanders. She was set to be the keynote speaker at Planned Parenthood event. The organization, which has now endorsed Hillary Clinton, was still unaffiliated with either campaign. Yet when she arrived folks who organized the fundraiser told her that they were working to "ease tensions" in order to make sure she was treated with respect.
Turner was confused by what they meant. She soon found out.
more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-democratic-women-fighting-for-sanders/
FOX NEWS POLL: Trump leads in California, Clinton-Sanders in close race
Republican Donald Trump holds a big lead in California, in a new Fox News Poll, while Hillary Clinton has a razor-thin edge over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race.
Trump captures 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters. That’s more than the combined support for his two remaining competitors: Ted Cruz receives 22 percent and John Kasich 20 percent.
The mogul leads his rivals by a wide margin among every demographic group, including those he sometimes has trouble capturing: women, young voters, college graduates, and very conservatives.
Clinton is up by just two points over Sanders among California likely Democratic primary voters (48-46 percent).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/22/trump-leads-in-california-clinton-sanders-in-close-race.html?intcmp=hpbt2
FOX NEWS POLL: Trump leads in California, Clinton-Sanders in close race
Republican Donald Trump holds a big lead in California, in a new Fox News Poll, while Hillary Clinton has a razor-thin edge over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race.
Trump captures 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters. That’s more than the combined support for his two remaining competitors: Ted Cruz receives 22 percent and John Kasich 20 percent.
The mogul leads his rivals by a wide margin among every demographic group, including those he sometimes has trouble capturing: women, young voters, college graduates, and very conservatives.
Clinton is up by just two points over Sanders among California likely Democratic primary voters (48-46 percent).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/22/trump-leads-in-california-clinton-sanders-in-close-race.html?intcmp=hpbt2
When Hillary Was a Republican
As a young girl, Hillary Clinton followed in the footsteps of her Republican father, Hugh Rodham, in his support of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/when-hillary-was-a-republican-671953987662
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