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riversedge

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14. Your fausx Outrage is misplaced--All Three Dem Candidates have a chance with DFA.....
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 09:54 AM
Dec 2015

All 3 submit letters. See this link.




http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/courting-the-left?utm_term=.jtvAX3EEQ&bftw=pol#.mcvXOEDDk


This Is How The Democratic Candidates For President Talk To Progressives

A grassroots progressive group’s presidential endorsement process shows of the various pitches Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O’Malley are making to the hard left.



posted on Dec. 9, 2015, at 1:01 p.m.

Evan McMorris-Santoro
BuzzFeed News Reporter


Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images

WASHINGTON — The three candidates for the Democratic nomination are attempting to win the endorsement from Democracy for America, a progressive grassroots group founded out of Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign.

DFA is going to make a primary endorsement soon, and that means leaders from the group are polling its members to find out who they like the most. Whichever Democratic candidate wins the DFA membership vote will get the group’s endorsement, as well as grassroots political efforts to bolster that candidates campaign using DFA’s well-established national political network.

The Democratic campaigns are pushing to win that vote. And so this week, each candidate is sending a letter to DFA members stating his or her case for the group’s endorsement. Members then vote in an online poll running through next Tuesday. Final results will be announced next Thursday. ...............

Great message from Clinton and Dean. Love it. Thanks for sharing. nt. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #1
+1. JaneyVee Dec 2015 #10
The establishment is clutching at straws and pearls alike. Betty Karlson Dec 2015 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Live and Learn Dec 2015 #3
You read all that? PADemD Dec 2015 #4
They didn't give the candidates your address. Renew Deal Dec 2015 #7
BREAKING NEWS!!! New Polling Scandal! brooklynite Dec 2015 #5
Facebook, one of the largest corporate entities in the world, polls good. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #16
They are pumping all 3 candidates Renew Deal Dec 2015 #6
Yup. Agschmid Dec 2015 #23
DFA is giving them equal time. I got the Bernie one a while ago DFW Dec 2015 #8
I think that you may have missed part of the lead-in. BlueMTexpat Dec 2015 #9
Seems fine to me. What exactly is the problem? NurseJackie Dec 2015 #11
Here's what you Bernistas need to know . . . Gamecock Lefty Dec 2015 #12
I got the same thing from dean Robbins Dec 2015 #13
Your fausx Outrage is misplaced--All Three Dem Candidates have a chance with DFA..... riversedge Dec 2015 #14
oops. lol. nt. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #17
Sanders submitted his own letter as did O'Malley. 'Calling out ' the progressive DFA will only make riversedge Dec 2015 #15
I think the poster is reflecting on DFA's former prez pumping, outside of equal voting time. ViseGrip Dec 2015 #18
Well, Sanders should have had his own surrogate include a memo into the letter of submission riversedge Dec 2015 #20
You should probably take down your post as it looks foolish. Several posters have corrected you. riversedge Dec 2015 #19
The Post is Updated... It Was About Fairness... CorporatistNation Dec 2015 #21
I voted Bernie. PowerToThePeople Dec 2015 #22
NOT Surprisingly, I Voted for Bernie as Well CorporatistNation Dec 2015 #24
Sorry, Dean was never terribly progressive. Ask Vermonters cali Dec 2015 #25
Just ask Vermonters about Bernis Sanders' F-35 MIC Contract. Not happy about that one either. misterhighwasted Dec 2015 #27
It's true that we Vermonters don't like the F-35 cali Dec 2015 #30
I'm not a Vermonter, but I knew Dean wasn't progressive theislander Dec 2015 #28
^^^this^^^ ViseGrip Dec 2015 #29
Kick! n/t in_cog_ni_to Dec 2015 #26
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