Bernie Sanders Campaign Statement on Puerto Rico POLLING PLACES

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PRESS RELEASE


Sanders Campaign Statement on Puerto Rico Polling Places



JUNE 5TH, 2016



SAN DIEGO – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign issued the following statement Sunday on long lines at polling places in Puerto Rico’s Democratic Party presidential primary election:

“Some Puerto Rico Democratic officials are claiming that the Sanders campaign requested fewer polling places in today’s primary contest. That’s completely false. The opposite is true. In emails with the party, Sanders’ staff asked the party to maintain the 1,500 plus presidential primary locations promised by the Puerto Rico Democratic party in testimony before the DNC in April, when the party was asking to have its caucus changed to a primary. They cannot blame their shoddy running of the primary on our campaign. This is just one example of irregularities going on in Puerto Rico voting today. We are the campaign that has been fighting to increase voter participation.”




https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-campaign-statement-puerto-rico-polling-places/

[Segami]

1. So many Hillary/Brock disciples pushing this lie on these boards....

[desmiller]

10. I'd put one of them in my Naughty list for that lie.

here's the link to that OP:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512133695

[grasswire]

2. there ya go.

Quick response.

Push back, Bernie!!

[DebDoo]

3. Lie now. Apologize later. Maybe. Repeat

[-none]

8. It has gotten to the point that if a Hillary supporter said it, it's spin at best and a lie normally

The Hillary supporters are a reflection on Hillary herself. And that is not good.

"War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things." Hillary is a War Hawk. That should be enough to question Hillary's qualification for the Presidency.

[TheFarS1de]

4. So the DNC made shit up .

And this is supposed to draw everyone together ?

[Segami]

6. Is anyone so surprised?....they are dealing with a lying machine.

[TheFarS1de]

7. To be honest I am no longer surprised .

There is no bottom to the filth they will pursue to discredit good people or suppress turnout . Money talks , fuck the actual people .

[Segami]

9. Its a BIG club and you ain't in it....

[TheFarS1de]

11. If this is what they do

they can keep it .

[Tarc]

5. Oh, ok. Sanders says so

Color me convinced...

[underthematrix]

12. In 2008, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran against each other

for the presidential nomination. The campaigns did not PUBLICLY denigrate the process and call into question its legitimacy.

Now, in 2016, the contest is between Bernie and Hillary and we know how Hillary handled the process last time. The new factor is Bernie who at some point turned to questioning the process in a way that reminds one of the Republicans narrative of President Obama as the "Other."

Expect articles about this from the NEW YORK TIME, SLATE, The Atlantic, Salon, WAPO, WSJ

[unc70]

14. You don't remember 2008 like I do

The 2008 primary was filled with procedural and other arcane fights. While the establishment was more evenly split (once Edwards was gone), there were major fights within the party, through the convention and in some cases beyond that.

Remember the fights over primary ordering? Or the delegates from Florida? Or from Michigan? Wasn't that pretty! And those a couple of open fights, "partnering" up with the local Repubs. Those look like process issues to me.

[Scuba]

13. There're DU members still pushing this lie, even after it's debunked in their own threads.

And people wonder why the Clinton campaign has a credibility issue.