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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 12, 2018, 09:44 PM Jun 2018

DNC member calls WV Sanders supporter a Russian plant

Selina Vickers’ weekend trip to Rhode Island was as cheap as she could make it. She shelled out $143.60 for a train ticket from her home in West Virginia to Providence, where the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws group was meeting.

She paid just $68.07 for an Airbnb in Cranston, Rhode Island, a short commute from Providence. Once there, Vickers did what she always did at DNC meetings — she took notes, recorded video, and made sure that the party was committing to reform its primary rules.

A few days later, Vickers was accused of being a Russia-backed agent of chaos, working to destabilize the Democratic Party from within.

The DNC’s current argument over how to reform its primaries achieved a special kind of absurdity on Monday when longtime DNC member Bob Mulholland asked whether Vickers’ appearances at meetings were paid for by Russians. Mulholland, who often cc’s reporters on his memos about the rules debate, speculated over the weekend that “someone is picking up her expenses” and that this was evidence that “the Putin operation is still active.”

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DNC member calls WV Sanders supporter a Russian plant (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP
I read the article. WV Sanders is evidently a conscientious Dem trying to participate/speak her min DemocracyMouse Jun 2018 #1
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DemocracyMouse

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1. I read the article. WV Sanders is evidently a conscientious Dem trying to participate/speak her min
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 10:28 PM
Jun 2018

Calling her a Russian was below the belt – or paranoid.

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