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Bernie Sanders MOUNTS Democratic Convention Platform Fight
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday redoubled his efforts to ensure that despite his loss to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, the legacy of his progressive campaign will endure in the party’s official platform. Sanders, who has yet to drop out of the race and formally endorse Clinton, told CNN that his campaign made “very, very important victories” in inserting aspects of its policy agenda into the first draft of the platform. But he is determined to make a bigger mark. “We have made some good gains,” he said. “We have more to do.” Over the weekend, members of the Democratic Party’s platform committee met in St. Louis to lay out the groundwork for the official policy agenda that party members will adopt at next month’s convention in Philadelphia. Making the cut were several of Sanders’ proposals, including a $15 minimum wage, the expansion of Social Security and stricter sanctions for Wall Street fraud, according to The Associated Press. But the Vermont senator fell short in getting the broader hallmarks of his campaign into the draft — policies such as building a single-payer health care system, rejecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership and taking a stronger stance on climate change by taxing carbon emissions and banning fracking. Since Clinton sealed up the nomination in early June, Sanders’ chief objective has been advocating for the inclusion of his progressive policy agenda in the platform. In May, Democratic officials allowed him to name five of the platform committee’s 15 members, with Clinton getting six and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz getting four. It was a concession to Sanders’ campaign, since typically, the DNC chair appoints all of the members. Sanders said on Sunday that he is determined to press on and reiterated his vow to take his campaign to the convention. “We lost some very important fights. We’re going to take that fight to Orlando, where the entire committee meets in two weeks,” he said. “And if we don’t succeed there, then we’ll certainly take it to the floor of the Democratic convention.”
On Friday, Sanders affirmed that he will vote for Clinton in November and will work to make sure she defeats presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. But he is not yet prepared to endorse her until she adopts more of his progressive policy positions. “I hope very much that Secretary Clinton understands that not only is it good public policy, it’s the right thing to do,” he said on Sunday. “It is good politics to begin to move in that direction.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-dnc-platform_us_57701cf1e4b017b379f643a2 |
Posted by Segami | Sun Jun 26, 2016, 06:09 PM (7 replies)
Bernie Sanders Statement on Democratic PARTY PLATFORM
Posted by Segami | Sun Jun 26, 2016, 11:32 AM (7 replies)
1990 Bernie NAILED What's Wrong & Shows Why HE'S RIGHT To Fight
Posted by Segami | Sun Jun 26, 2016, 11:12 AM (5 replies)
Dem Platform Committee VOTES DOWN $15 Min Wage Amendment
Posted by Segami | Sat Jun 25, 2016, 12:48 AM (9 replies)
Clinton Side Gives Ground To Sanders on ABOLITION of Death Penalty
Posted by Segami | Fri Jun 24, 2016, 08:16 PM (2 replies)
Thousands of Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Suing the DNC in a MASSIVE Class Action Lawsuit
Posted by Segami | Fri Jun 24, 2016, 01:56 AM (15 replies)
Campaign For America's Future: Bernie Sanders’ Leverage ISN'T Going Anywhere. Deal With It.
Some politicians and commentators say that Bernie Sanders is losing leverage because he hasn’t conceded the Democratic primary to front-runner Hillary Clinton. To believe that is to misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters. Sanders received a mandate in “defeat” that most politicians never achieve in victory. The calls to surrender reached a fever pitch before the last primary even ended. We were told that Sanders was being stubborn, that he was rapidly losing influence. It was even said that all of the convention’s prime-time speaking spots would be taken soon if he didn’t concede soon, as if they were reservations at Nobu and he had no pull with the maître d’.
If Bernie were denied a prime-time slot at the convention, chaos would ensue. You can be sure that whenever and however the deal is struck, they’ll make room for him at a peak viewing hour. The Clinton team’s impatience is understandable, even if it lacks a certain grace. But they’re misreading both Sanders’ nature and the nature of the negotiations now underway. So is The New York Times’ Nate Cohn, who tweeted:  Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn
A fun thought experiment: imagine Sanders winning but Clinton refusing to endorse unless he adopted her views, etc -snip- Sanders also won the hearts of Democratic voters – more so than his opponent, in fact, despite her 30-year head start. A recent Gallup poll found that Sanders “continues to be significantly more popular than Hillary Clinton” among members of the party he only joined last year. Sanders’ current net favorable rating among Democrats is 13 points higher than Clinton’s, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll. The same poll found that 75 percent of Democrats want him to play a “major” role in their party. (Surprisingly, 44 percent of Democrats polled wanted Sanders to run as an independent, a fact that should give the Clinton team pause.) Also, Sanders’ stunning margins among young voters tell us that he isn’t just speaking for a large percentage of the Democratic Party’s voters. He also speaks for its future. Clinton needs his supporters. As Nate Silver noted last month, “her lack of support from Sanders voters is harming her general election numbers.” A YouGov/Economist poll in late May found that “Only half (50 percent) of Sanders supporters pick Clinton over Trump in the general election trial heat.” While those numbers are likely to keep falling, these voters can’t be handed off to Clinton and her party like a football. They are deeply skeptical about her, and not without reason. It will take concessions to win their support. And those concessions – especially on popular issues like tuition-free higher education, Wall Street reform, and Social Security – will make the Democrats a stronger party. I have no inside information, but it seems pretty obvious that Bernie Sanders isn’t positioning himself for another run. He’s not being stubborn; he’s negotiating. Nobody concedes while the negotiations are still going on. His negotiating partners should stop demanding that he fold his cards before the dealing’s done. They should also understand that they’re not just dealing with a candidate. They’re also talking to the representative of a movement, one that could decide the fate of this election and the future of their party. As leverage goes, that’s about as good as it gets. cont' https://ourfuture.org/20160620/bernies-leverage-isnt-going-anywhere-deal-with-it |
Posted by Segami | Mon Jun 20, 2016, 02:50 PM (4 replies)
