Bernie Sanders Statement on DNC PLATFORM

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PRESS RELEASE


Sanders Statement on DNC Platform



MAY 23RD, 2016



LOS ANGELES – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement on Monday on the makeup of a key committee that will draft the party platform for this summer’s Democratic National Convention:

“We believe that we will have the representation on the platform drafting committee to create a Democratic platform that reflects the views of millions of our supporters who want the party to address the needs of working families in this country and not just Wall Street, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry and other powerful special interests.”




https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-statement-dnc-platform/

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1. Bernie is the only candidate fighting

for the People's voice to have a seat at the table...

[fun n serious]

2. Next time get your own table.

Poor table manners should not be tolerated.

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3. Maybe you should check your own table manners

before passing judgement on others.......get a life!

[Babel_17]

33. Reminded me of a quote I came up with/sometimes used as a signature.

Though off topic I hope it gives you a laugh.

"Politicians are like cannibals. They may criticize each others table manners but none of them are promoting vegetarianism."

[tazkcmo]

4. Guess what?

We like yours and we're taking it.

[fun n serious]

7. How?

Lol

[tazkcmo]

15. Seriously?

Haven't been watching the news, huh? This election is just the beginning of the DLC's end. Your Presidential candidate will probably win the nomination and congrats on that. One battle won in a war that's just begun. We've already begun work on 2018 and with Pay Day Debbie's record of helping Democrats win local elections I'd say your party (for now) is in deep doo doo.

[insta8er]

9. BAM!!!!! Good one!

[hellofromreddit]

5. This table looked vacant with so many having gone to sit at the republican one.

[insta8er]

6. Get ready to move to another table! we are the future of this establishment.

[fun n serious]

13. That is not what the voters say.

Believe what you will though. DU has always been mostly Indies and not reflective of Americans. I suggest people get out more. Go for a stroll.

[Exilednight]

16. What voters are those? An aging establishment that has theirs and now will do whatever is necessar

To kEep it?

I often when boomers traded in their places sign for a Mercedes benz emblem.

[insta8er]

17. Don't worry, time is on our side.

[Exilednight]

24. In primaries, not all voters are created equal. Just ask the supe delegates. But Broader point is

Boomers are beginning to die off. Gen Xers aren't a big enough population to replace them.... Within the next eight years it will be millenials will be picking our nominee and president.

[insta8er]

26. Meanwhile we will work on down ballot candidates. Change it from within....Storm is coming!

[tazkcmo]

19. "DU has always been mostly Indies"

Wow. You just slurred most of the members here. Love to see your sources for that claim.

[AgingAmerican]

8. Says the person with 22 hides

Most likely the most on this site.

[think]

11. Incredible....

[tazkcmo]

20. There is no free speech

on a privately owned web site.

[AgingAmerican]

23. He is now at 23 hides

Fitting....

[tazkcmo]

29. lol

Cool! Got my response in before the hide! Too bad it wasn't a scathing yet witty quip.

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28. Make that 23.

[mrdmk]

42. There are no consequences at this point other than to not to be able to post in thread

Others will take care of the rest...

[Ken Burch]

10. Every bit of Bernie language in the platform gains us votes in the fall.

We can only beat Trump if we run as a people's party in rebellion against the status quo.

[JRLeft]

12. Translation, I want Wall Street controlling the party.

Stop interfering.

[tazkcmo]

21. Dangit!

I keep finding myself agreeing with Faider fans! Go Chefs! (Not typos in those names)

[JRLeft]

39. I hate the Chumps, but Marcus Peters is from the Town.

[Snotcicles]

25. I applaud Bernie Sanders also for fighting for us 99% er's...

[deathrind]

34. Yes he is,

...and it is sadly disheartening and very troubling how the Democratic Party has turned its back on the issues he is fighting for...issues that same party has been espousing as core values (healthcare, environment, education, income equality, civil rights, social reforms) since I registered Democrat 30+ years ago.

As I have heard others say. I did not leave the party...the party left me. The clear bias displayed by the DNC/DWS during this election cycle and the incompetence by leadership and the organization resulting in the loss of numerous state seats and governorships over the last few election cycles demonstrates a clear and dramtic shift away from what was once a political party with a progressive platform that strived for the betterment of all and an aggressive strategy to make it happen.

[YouDig]

22. Which committee members does he think represent Wall Street, the drug companies,

the fossil fuel industry, and other powerful special interests. Is he just smearing the Democratic party in general? Cowardly.

[Chan790]

35. Neera Tanden, certainly.

Nobody else really sticks out but Tanden is a piece of goddamned work...a neo-liberal jerk who views social service programs as theft and people on them as freeloaders. She'd be much happier in the other party with her ideological twin, Paul Ryan.

[tarheelsunc]

27. Unprecedented for a primary loser to get this much say in the party's future.

But hey, it's rigged and all that CT shit.

[dflprincess]

31. Perhaps we can take it as a sign that the Vichy Democrats were paying attention after all

and are a bit nervous about just how well Bernie did do (think of where he started from a year ago) and are trying to save their own assess by throwing a small bone toward the left thinking that will pacify us.

It won't.

[timmymoff]

36. HRC needs our votes

that's why, she is begging him to save her. I'll think about it until November.

[brooklynite]

30. Note to Bernie...the other Committee members get to have an opinion as well.

[Eric J in MN]

40. Suppose Sanders' people

...try to get the platform to oppose the TPP and Keystone XL and to support a carbon tax.

Will you want them to succeed?

[felix_numinous]

32. Plus backing Tim Canova

is sounds like a brilliant strategy.

Ready for the Summer!!

[timmymoff]

37. DWS chose to support republicans she could work with instead of

helping dems. She earned it, we aren't playing with you right wing democrats, you screwed to much shit up for to damn long.

[Tarc]

38. Sanders will get to make suggestions, not actually control or steer policy

But it's cute that his supporters think otherwise...

[PufPuf23]

41. Please explain how you can have such general contempt for so many good Democrats. eom