Bernie Sanders: DNC to RESTORE Sanders Campaign’s Access to Voter Files

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DECEMBER 19, 2015


WASHINGTON – The Democratic National Committee on Friday capitulated and agreed to reinstate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign’s access to a critically-important voter database.

The about face came late on Friday night as a deadline neared for a hearing on a motion for an emergency injunction which the Sanders campaign sought after he sued the party in U.S. District Court in Washington.

The lawsuit sought the “immediate restoration” of the campaign’s access to the voter database. It argued that without the database, the campaign would lose some $600,000 a day in donations.

The campaign’s access to the database should be restored by Saturday morning in time for the campaign staff and volunteers to contact voters over the weekend.

“We are extremely pleased that the DNC has reversed its outrageous decision to take Sen. Sanders’ data. The information we provided tonight is essentially the same information we already sent them by email on Thursday,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager.

“Clearly, they were very concerned about their prospects in court. Now what we need to restore confidence in the DNC’s ability to secure data is an independent audit that encompasses the DNC’s record this entire campaign. Transparency at the DNC is essential. We trust they have nothing to hide,” Weaver added.

The DNC decision to let Sanders use his own database came after the national party was barraged with outraged messages from grassroots supporters of Sanders. There were more than 214,800 people who signed an online petition to the DNC circulated by Sanders’ campaign. MoveOn.org collected another 250,000 petition signatures and Democracy for America collected 100,000.

Earlier on Friday, Democracy for America issued a statement from Executive Director Charles Chamberlain saying, “The Democratic National Committee’s decision to attack the campaign that figured out the problem, rather than go after the vendor that made the mistake, is profoundly damaging to the party’s Democratic process. DNC leaders should immediately reverse this disturbing decision before the committee does even more to bring its neutrality in the race for President into question.”


https://berniesanders.com/press-release/dnc-to-restore-sanders-campaigns-access-to-voter-files/

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1. If DWS remains at the wheel, this isn't nearly enough. n/t

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2. The public outrage was overwhelming....

The Clinton campaign began crapping their pants.........they knew all too well, this was a loooooooser battle to be fighting.

The Hillary Clinton campaign is urging Democrats to come together for a quick resolution of the Bernie Sanders/DNC lawsuit. The campaign also wants Sanders to access to his voter files right away.

In a statement, Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon reacted to the news that a federal judge may hear the Sanders lawsuit against the DNC tonight.

Fallon said, “We hope that the court will resolve this matter tonight and the Sanders campaign has access to their voter files right away, with adequate protections of our proprietary information, which we understand could be completed in short order. As we stated earlier today, we also want a full, independent accounting of the Sanders campaign’s actions, as well as assurances that no data or strategic insight from this act of intrusion will be used by his campaign. This was an egregious breach of data and ethics.”


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There has been a lot of blame passed around, but at some point, all sides need to unify to figure out exactly what needs to be done to secure all data and prevent this from happening again.

I suspect that this matter will be resolved before Saturday night’s debate, and we will see more acts of unity on the debate stage.

It is time for Democrats to come together and put this behind them. Democrats have won five of the last six presidential popular votes because they aren’t the Republicans.

Democratic unity is being tested, and it is time for all sides to rise to the occasion.



http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/18/hillary-clinton-urges-quick-resolution-lawsuit-return-bernie-sanders-voter-files.html

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3. Yeah. "Can't we all just get along?"

Clinton's campaign would do better just to STFU.

This is laughably transparent, and Sanders should not hesitate in the least to lay this at Clinton's doorstep every chance he gets.

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4. No doubt Bernie will... this is NOT going away anytime soon.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

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8. Why didn't the DNC act quietly getting all parties

together privately to discuss this breach. No, instead they went public with it when early information was at best, sketchy to say the least. This data breach should have been handled behind closed doors since the breach itself involved ONLY democratic campaigns and not republicans so scoring political gains should have never been on anyone's radar.......but maybe it was for some.

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5. Boy are they backpedaling fast.

I love it.

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6. I Love It Too... They Did Not Get The Reaction They Thought They Would...

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7. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!