Sanders campaign touts another endorsement that didn't happen

[riversedge]

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Source: cnn



Sanders campaign touts another endorsement that didn't happen

By Dan Merica, CNN

Updated 6:59 AM ET, Thu February 11, 2016 | Video Source: CNN

Story highlights

The Sanders campaign is touting the support of a Nevada activist who says she's actually backing Hillary Clinton
This is not the first time that the Vermont independent's campaign has incorrectly said someone endorsed them

(CNN)Once again, the Bernie Sanders' campaign finds itself having claimed the support of someone who didn't exactly endorse the Vermont senator.

Brenda Romero, a Nevada student leader and DREAMer that Bernie Sanders' campaign touted as someone who endorsed their campaign, tells CNN she never endorsed the Vermont senator and is backing Hillary Clinton.

Romero said Monday she had agreed to be part of Sanders' Nevada Latino Steering Committee, but that she never endorsed the senator....................


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-dreamer-support/index.html

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[Plucketeer]

3. Dupe?

Are you talkin' about the OP or a Hillary faithful?

[jtuck004]

6. If it was the OP it would be spelled differently. n/t

[thomservo]

10. fixed

[Plucketeer]

2. OMG!

Welp.... that's it! T'was fun while it lasted. Time for the Bernie bros to concede defeat and fall in line like good little automatons.

Wait a minute! If this is a LIE contest, we Bernie folks better get in gear! We gonna A LOT of ground to cover to catch up with the liar-in-chief.

[Iliyah]

4. UGH

[azurnoir]

5. so is she confessing that she's a mole for the Hillary campaign or what? 'cause that's the only way

this makes sense, 'cause being part of a steering committee does indeed seem like an endorsement unless she was really steering voters elsewhere

[NJCher]

11. I just read it once, but

it seems like a fairly credible report, due to the detail. However, it appears that both campaigns have, in the heat of competition, jumped the gun. This same CNN report says:

Clinton, too, has dealt with touting endorsements that haven't actually happened. Two mayors -- one from Wilmington, Delaware, and another from San Antonio -- were among a list of 50 mayors that endorsed Clinton in October. But shortly after the list was released to the public, both mayors said they had yet to officially endorse the former secretary of state.

I do hope that if this is true, the Sanders' campaign nails down future endorsements in writing so there are no questions about whether an endorsement is correct or not.


Cher

[azurnoir]

12. Notice though CNN isn't headlining those

honestly though sometimes I wonder if the M$M isn't looking to it's own future with the unvarnished Hillary favoritism, because after 8 years of the relatively personally boring Obama's, who's going to give them more red meat scandal reporting another Clinton WH or a Sanders one?

[riversedge]

19. Oh--more making up stuff.

[azurnoir]

20. nope I didn't have to make up anything first she's on Sanders steering committee

then she's endorsing Clinton-so what gives here can you explain it?

[CoffeeCat]

29. Clearly Sanders is being set up...

I can't imagine myself on any Clinton steering committee. Good God.

When someone joins your campaign, on a committee--you assume that they are supporting you.

I guess, due to the disgusting nature of this current race, Sanders will have to get things in writing.

Watch out Bernie--the kitchen sink knows no bounds.

He warned us...and here it is!

[azurnoir]

40. yes that's it but I can't help but wonder

do 'charitable foundations" have to publicly list which organizations ect they donate to?

[George II]

36. I think you folks who are questioning her motives should somehow find a way to ask her.....

....instead of throwing out speculative, and negative, motives.

Thank you.

[tommcc99]

7. Pot meet kettle

From the CNN article provided by the OP -

"Clinton, too, has dealt with touting endorsements that haven't actually happened. Two mayors -- one from Wilmington, Delaware, and another from San Antonio -- were among a list of 50 mayors that endorsed Clinton in October. But shortly after the list was released to the public, both mayors said they had yet to officially endorse the former secretary of state."

[Geronimoe]

9. So she is a spy

Supports Hillary, yet is working within Bernie's campaign.

[6chars]

26. I thought it was curious

Agreed to join Bernie's Latino Steering Committee. I mean, why join it if you don't support the candidate?

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Bernie Sanders seen wearing mismatched socks - video to follow

The overall intelligence level of this country is falling faster than I imagined.
No offense to the Nevada activist but who gives a shit? This is important and should
take up time to ponder? - c'mon people, we are better than this (I hope)

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Another Tempest In A Teapot

A college kid changes her mind and it's news? People change their mind about things every day.

This is a non-story

[onehandle]

15. Love that photo. The GE can't come soon enough. nt

[Blue State Bandit]

16. I'll join your steering committee...

and promptly steer your campaign into a ravine.

Kitchen sink?

[George II]

17. Why do they repeatedly do this over and over again? That does NOT attract voters, it....

....chases potential voters away.

Apparently they didn't learn from their bogus masquerading as Culinary Union workers (and trespassing) a couple of weeks ago. The Sanders campaign has said that the union "incident" has been resolved. Yes, it's over, but most certainly not forgotten.

So now they've claimed this student leader, a DREAMER, has endorsed Sanders even though she has not. Remember, and I hope Ms. Romero remembers that Sanders voted AGAINST the Dream Act!

One has to wonder how they'll explain this one.

[Omaha Steve]

18. Why was she there IF she is supporting Hillary?

Was she truthful upfront?

[George II]

21. Read the fourth paragraph:

"Romero said Monday she had agreed to be part of Sanders' Nevada Latino Steering Committee, but that she never endorsed the senator...................."

She agreed to be on his steering committee, perhaps to try to steer that committee to set Sanders' policy on Latino relations.

[Omaha Steve]

22. Clinton Endorsement NOT from Congressional Black Caucus but FROM Cong. Black Caucus SUPERPAC

So she wasn't upfront about her commitment to Hillary? Cause I wouldn't want her there if she was committed to Hillary. She could actually propose bad steering purposely, or report back to Hillary's camp on events etc!


Or is this like Hillary and the Black Caucus?

Seems what goes around comes around: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511199614

Clinton Endorsement NOT from Congressional Black Caucus but FROM Cong. Black Caucus SUPERPAC

On Democracy Now this morning.

Listening to Barbara Lee of the Congressional Black Caucus WHO IS NOT ENDORSING ANYONE - explain the difference. She is NOT a member of the CBC PAC. She said this is a group that raises money for specific candidates and they have a strong firewall between the actual CBC and the CBC PAC.

OS

[George II]

23. Off topic, but I'll address it anyway - NO ONE said it was the CBC itself, but the CBC PAC.

I saw the OP from someone else a little while ago and discussed this there, but that OP is an attempt to create an issue that doesn't exist.

Every report that I saw, including the stories earlier this week speculating on that endorsement, pointed out that it is the CBCPAC that has endorsed Hillary Clinton.

[Omaha Steve]

25. Cong'l Black Caucus (CBC) has NOT endorsed in presidential. Separate CBCPAC endorsed withOUT input

On first look at goggle. Rep. Keith Ellison

https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/697809288203522048

Cong'l Black Caucus (CBC) has NOT endorsed in presidential. Separate CBCPAC endorsed withOUT input from CBC membership, including me.

Donate to DU 4 Keith Ellison MN-05 here: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4keithellison

[George II]

34. Once again, NO ONE SAID THEY DID! Never! But why are you dragging the CBCPAC endorsement....

....into a discussion of the Sanders Campaign falsely claiming that a Latina woman endorsed them when they didn't?

There is no correlation between the two..

[Omaha Steve]

39. Congressman wasn't asked his opinion as a member of the caucus

Just like NARAL and PP didn't ask it's members. Then down the road one of Hillary's PAC's are free to transfer $ to other PAC's that endorse her as a thank you. There is a lot of $ floating around with Clinton strings.

So why was she there helping give info and take notes if she is a Hillary person? If she was a Hillary person she should not have been there on ethics.

Just got home from the store. Sorry for the delay.

[karynnj]

28. so, what does it mean to join a steering committee?

Either she was happy to have been asked and joined or she actively perused getting the posittion. I understand resume building, but if you sign on to a campaign's steering committee, you shouldn't have a problem with the campaign saying so.

She is young, but this does not impress me.

[George II]

33. You're right, I wouldn't have a problem with the campaign saying she joined Sanders'....

...steering committee. Is that what they said? No.

This isn't too much different than saying three or four New Hampshire newspapers endorsed Sanders when they didn't (indeed, a couple of them endorsed Clinton), or that Veterans' groups in New Hampshire endorsed Sanders, when they didn't. Or printing flyers with Veterans' photographs without getting their permission.

Now they're doing this in Nevada, where they've already been exposed for masquerading as union workers and trespassing on private property.

Incidents like this are becoming more and more pervasive, and they're alienating more people than they're attracting.

[karynnj]

38. He did not say the papers endorsed and accurately quoted

This is well within what is honest. As to this, the assumption that seine who joins the team is for him is pretty reasonable. There is more a question of what this young woman was thinking in joining. My question is what if anything she did in this role.

[LiberalArkie]

24. I think maybe Bernies campaign staff need to start asking their workers who they support.

[karynnj]

27. joining the steering committee for a campaign is usually MORE than just endorsing

It means you are actively involved. I give the student leader the benefit of the doubt, but she is more responsible for this error than the Sanders' campaign. Should they ask everyone ACTUALLY ON THEIR CAMPAIGN if they really support Bernie?

I credit CNN for including this fact, but think it should have been higher up.

[Billsmile]

30. Seems like a misleading headline by CNN as there's more to it than that.

https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/csn-student-body-president-becomes-pawn-battle-between-clinton-and-sanders-nevada

[truebluegreen]

31. I'd worry more about Hillary's endorsements ($$$$) nt

[LannyDeVaney]

32. At this point, as these type of deceptions pile up ...

the question becomes, can the Sanders campaign be trusted?

Too many issues to answer yes.

[Bernin]

37. How many campaigns

have you volunteered for where you did not support the candidate you were volunteering for?

[Bernin]

35. Miss Romero's

resume just took a hit.

No wonder she supports Hillary.
Birds of a feather and all.

[Wibly]

41. Meanwhile in Hillaryland

Clinton campaign is claiming an endorsement from the Congressional Black Caucus when in truth is just a lobby PAC that has endorsed her, not the Congressional Black Caucus.

I swear, the Clinton campaign has gone all "artful smear" and wholly dishonest.

[one_voice]

42. Locking..

doesn't meet SoP for LBN. Please repost in GDP. Thanks.