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In reply to the discussion: New head of Our Revolution Nina Turner on Unity with DEMS!! [View all]ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)to try and figure out the answer to that same question. I still don't know. Nina Turner's comments have blurred the mission statement, for me at least. It seems like she has her own agenda and her own party. Oh how quickly Bernie's revolution went down the tubes!
Edit: I was looking around for background on her and came across the WaPo article from a couple days ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/29/nina-turner-a-democratic-party-critic-takes-reins-of-sanders-founded-group/?utm_term=.279b02ab9233
I think this is the most relevant quote:
But the stylistic differences between Weaver and Turner are vast, symptomatic of the divisions within a left thats locked out of power and arguing about how to get it back. Turner, who made a splash in 2015 by jumping from Hillary Clintons presidential campaign to Sanderss, has become a superstar among left-wing activists who think the Democrats have become so corporate as to raise questions about whether theyre worth saving.
In 2016, despite her time as a Clinton booster, Turner was among the Sanders surrogates most resistant to party unity. After Sanderss Democratic primary bid ended, she speculated whether a young, new, burgeoning party would be a better vessel for progressive energy. During the Democratic National Convention, after hackers released a trove of emails from the Democratic National Committee, Turner gave a rousing speech to the left-wing Peoples Convention attacking staffers who had been revealed as critics of Sanders.
In the less polite circles that I sometimes dwell in, we would say "She's swinging from Bernie's balls".