I am certain some Dems MIGHT be caught up in this...and some Independents too. Tad Devine...

[coolsandy]

how did Kerry and Gore choose to work with him? Who is he really?

[Vinca]

1. Apparently John Podesta's brother has gotten himself mired in the muck.

It seems his company was aware of Manafort's laundry habits.

[Honeycombe8]

8. I think it's more than that. His firm was hired by Manafort....

some say the job he was hired to do was to represent that Russian-planted Ukraine President to Congress. But Podesta's firm says they were hired to represent something related to Europe (I forget the details).

I didn't read the firm knew about the laundering, but "knew" is an iffy word. Did he suspect it? Did he hear rumors of it? Or did he have firsthand knowledge of it? Big difference.

[leftynyc]

2. Tough luck for them

I'm country before party and whoever gets taken down deserves it.

[Dave Starsky]

3. Hell, yes. Sunlight is fresh and cleansing.

Throw ALL the bums in jail. Enough of this crap.

[Honeycombe8]

9. The difference between the left & right....

The left GENERALLY (tho not always) sides with truth and legality. The right GENERALLY (tho not always) protects its own from accountability, no matter the lies or the crime.

This was not always true. If these Republicans were in office during Watergate, there would have not been a Watergate. Even with the two award-winning reporters reporting what went down.

[Renew Deal]

4. Interesting point. One of those Democrats is Devine

There were some questionable lines of attack coming from Sanders. What does Devine know about it?

[Madam45for2923]

6. I hope reporters will ask him these questions

[usedtobedemgurl]

5. I don't care who it is....

If you betrayed this country, you need to be in jail. I do not believe in protecting Democrats if they did something wrong.

[Kirk Lover]

7. Agreed...whomever is caught up in this muck and mire needs to pay the price...

and that is one of the differences between us and the far tighty righties.

[WinkyDink]

10. Don't hold your proverbial breath.

[octoberlib]

11. With some of these political consultants, it's just a job and they'll go where the money is.

Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe worked on David Cameron's campaign in the UK.


Thomas A. "Tad" Devine (born June 11, 1955)[1] is an American political consultant. Devine was a senior adviser in Al Gore's 2000 and John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaigns.[2] He was also the chief strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.[3] He has worked on eleven winning campaigns for President and Prime Minister in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as seventeen winning U.S. Senate races.[4] Devine is currently the president of Devine Mulvey Longabaugh, a Washington D.C.-based media consulting firm.

Devine is considered one of the leading experts on the Democratic Party's presidential nominating process[6] and general election strategy.[7] In 1980, he worked on President Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign as a delegate tracker.[8] He went on to serve as Deputy Director of Delegate Selection in the nomination campaign of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Executive Assistant to the Campaign Manager in the 1984 general election

From 1987-88, he served as Director of Delegate Selection and Field Operations in the nomination campaign of Governor Michael Dukakis. In 1992, Devine served as a member of the Democratic Party Rules Committee and was a consultant to CBS News throughout the Democratic National Convention in New York. As lead negotiator for the Dukakis campaign at the 1988 Rules Committee, Devine was involved in the Democratic party's 1988 reform that eliminated winner take all methods of delegate selection and established proportional representation as the exclusive system of delegate allocation in the Democratic Party.


n the general election of 1988, Devine got his start managing national campaigns when he served as Campaign Manager for the Vice Presidential nominee, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas.[13] In 1992, Devine served as Campaign Manager for Senator Bob Kerrey's campaign for President

Since early 1993, Devine has worked as a media consultant, writing, directing and producing television and radio advertising for leading Democratic candidates in the U.S. and providing strategic advice for national campaigns in Europe, the Middle East and South America. Devine has worked on the winning campaigns of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine in 2005, and several campaigns of senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Bill Nelson (FL), Bernie Sanders (VT), John Kerry (MA) and the DSCC independent expenditure for the winning senate races of Claire McCaskill (MO) and Robert Menendez (NJ), as well as numerous statewide elections. Devine's work as a strategist and media consultant has been recognized by leading media and political consulting organizations. Devine has produced award-winning television advertising for Sen. Edward Kennedy (MA), Sen. John Edwards (NC), and Gov. Parris Glendening (MD).

Internationally, Devine has worked as a strategist and media consultant for the winning campaigns of Colombian President Andres Pastrana in 1998, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in 1999, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo in 2001, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in 2002, Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 1997, 2002 and 2007, Honduran President Mel Zelaya in 2005, and Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and the Party of Regions in 2006. He worked again with Yanukovich in 2009 and 2010 for his successful Presidential bid. He served as a strategist and media consultant for Ashraf Ghani's 2009 presidential campaign in Afghanistan.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Devine


I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Manafort in any business endeavor.

[JI7]

12. Devine has involvement with the party long before Gore and Kerry

If he played a part in the Russian attack he should go down also.

I don't care what party they are. They should all be brought down.