This is the guy Bernie endorsed for an open seat in Congress:

[Jose Garcia]

The Young Turks’ Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize

Top leadership at the progressive news network The Young Turks held an all-staff meeting at its office in Culver City, California, on Feb. 12. The regularly scheduled gathering was supposed to deal with personnel matters, but instead the focus turned to the staff’s nascent union campaign, which had just gone public.

Earlier that day, a Twitter handle claiming to represent TYT employees had announced on the social media platform their intention to form a union. In the staff meeting, the network’s co-founder and influential host, Cenk Uygur, urged employees not to do so, arguing that a union does not belong at a small, independent outlet like TYT, according to two workers who were present. He said if there had been a union at the network it would not have grown the way it has.

His talk ― at times emotional, the staffers said, with Uygur throwing his papers to the ground at one point, and chastising an employee ― seemed to contradict the progressive, worker-first ethos that TYT broadcasts to its millions of lefty followers. Jack Gerard, who is acting as the company’s chief operating officer as Uygur runs for Congress in California, told the staff they were not discouraging unionization. 

But the message from Uygur was clear ― and, to at least some staffers, discouraging

More: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e540686c5b6ad3de3823a32?yqt

[HarlanPepper]

1. I'll take insufferable hypocrite for $500, Alex

[Cal Carpenter]

2. Sanders retracted the endorsement THE NEXT DAY

because he got schooled so hard about who Uygur really was.

[Blue_Tires]

4. He didn't know before??

[NurseJackie]

6. Oh, he knew... he just didn't care. Or, he...

Oh, he knew... he just didn't care. Or, he... didn't care enough to do a basic youtube/google search to find out that Cenk Uygur is in favor of sexual animal abuse. Apparently, according to Uygur, it's okay as long as the horse is ALSO sexually gratified in the process.

Sick. Sick-sick-sick!

[lapfog_1]

3. uygur... ughh...

I gave up on the TYT a long time ago... mostly because of all the stories about him.

[Polybius]

5. Any polls on this race?

When's the primary?