brandnewcongress: Does anyone know anything about the people leading this group?

[Skwmom]

1. Concerns. Is this legit or just a way to elect more Corporatist Democrats?
2. Are they trying to get Bernie's email list?
3. Is Bernie aware of this group?

BIG RED FLAG: Why are they pitching this idea to Bernie volunteers and not to Bernie?

Sorry, but in the world of politics I don't accept anything on face value.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Former Bernie Sanders Staffers Seek To Elect A ‘Brand New Congress’

While even Bernie Sanders is starting to admit that his chance of winning the Democratic nomination is exceedingly slim, some of his former staff and volunteers have formed a political action committee dedicated to giving the senator “the ability to make real change from the White House.”

Brand New Congress, which was launched Monday, is looking ahead to the 2018 midterm elections to “replace Congress all at once” with lawmakers who agree with the Vermont independent’s policy positions. The PAC won’t be able to fully accomplish that goal in 2018, however, since just 468 of the 535 lawmakers in the House and Senate will be up for re-election.

A timeline on the PAC’s website says that it plans to form local search committees to recruit organizers and candidates who are new to politics. (Sanders, for his part, has served in Congress for 26 years.) The PAC says it will codify various progressive policies in a platform that its slate of candidates must support.

Zack Exley, one of the PAC’s founding organizers and a senior Sanders adviser until a few weeks ago, said Brand New Congress can accomplish its goals because Sanders has shown that grassroots candidates who weren’t taken seriously in the past can recruit thousands of volunteers and raise tens of millions of dollars online. The senator has out-raised Clinton in each of the last three months, and has now matched her total fundraising haul, helping him stay in the race much longer than anyone anticipated before the primaries.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-congress_us_5720e608e4b0b49df6a9c933

[Skwmom]

2. I will pass. They say it's an idea, won't take place into 2017. Clinton wants the email and donor

list.

An article on Huffington Post doesn't cut it.

[Skwmom]

3. Here is an article on him. Has ties to Mook and the Obama campaign.

No thanks.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-02-24/behind-bernie-sanders-revolution-lies-a-meticulously-engineered-grassroots-network

[Demsrule86]

5. Ridiculous.

it won't happen...why not start at the local level?

[janlea]

6. I would fear this.

Coming seemingly out of nowhere, not a word from the Sanders campaign, so far. I feel the interest is only in gathering information; his voter list, his ability to raise large sums of money and his SUPER rallies, to name a few.Remember what he says, change happens from the bottom up. Who knows? I love Bernie, but, nah, until he comments, I'll pass.

[Skwmom]

7. It could be legit but I'll wait for Bernie to comment. I wonder why they didn't approach him and

the timing is suspect. Though maybe the did approach him...

[Demsrule86]

4. Former Bernie Staffers for midterm 18

I like my Senator...Sherrod Brown...so no not interested in kicking all Dems out...I imagine that is their mission.