Leaked DNC emails reveal secret plans to take on Sanders

[Hissyspit]

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Source: The Hill

July 22, 2016 - 02:21 PM EDT

Leaked DNC emails reveal secret plans to take on Sanders

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Top officials at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) privately planned how to undermine Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, according to a trove of emails released by WikiLeaks on Friday.

The Sanders campaign had long claimed the DNC and Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had tipped the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton during the party’s presidential primary.

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The email does not name the Vermont senator, but it talks about a man of “Jewish heritage” Marshall believes to be an atheist. It makes reference to voters in Kentucky and West Virginia, two states that were holding upcoming primary elections.

“It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist,” the email says.

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[davepc]

1. Fucking vile.

[pnwmom]

50. We don't even know if they're real. And the timing of release was designed to help TRUMP.

The emails happened in May.

[riversedge]

2. Golly gee. Talking about how to get at your opposion. Who would have guessed!

[NWCorona]

20. Not even close

[puffy socks]

22. Truth

Sorry it upsets you.

[NWCorona]

27. I stand by my post.

[Hissyspit]

24. DNC rules, designed to ensure all candidates get a fair shake in presidential primaries, state, “The

DNC rules, designed to ensure all candidates get a fair shake in presidential primaries, state, “The Chairperson shall be responsible for ensuring that the national officers and staff of the Democratic National Committee maintain impartiality and even-handedness during the Democratic Party Presidential nominating process.”

[Sunlei]

3. interesting, the writer is probably correct, an atheist would never win. I'm satisified with our pri

primary.

[Moostache]

31. FUCK THAT!

There is no, I repeat NO, religious test to hold office in any capacity for the United States of America.

Implying that you are OK with excluding atheists from office, do you also support Republicans pressing their religious agenda on the seating of SCotUS justices? or the Yam's idea of allowing preaching and campaigning to retain tax-exempt status?
Are you A-OK with bans on Muslims too? After all, who cares about religious tests as long as its not YOUR belief, right?

The explicit endorsement of excluding atheists from elective office is odious and well beneath what I would expect to find here.

[Demit]

45. I don't see that the poster implied being ok with religious tests for office.

Or excluding atheists from office. You are reading far too much into his/her post. The poster was merely making an observation that, in some communities in this country, people —the voters, not the government—prefer their candidates to be churchgoers.

Lighten up. Be a little more cordial, please, or you might find yourself alerted on for taking such a belligerent tone.

[trixie]

38. I am so sick of this atheist stance

There is no Santa Claus! I prefer to be labeled a realist.

If you are a Christian then you would be an atheist to all other religions, I just add one more - yours.

Famous quote but can't find the exact wording or author to give correct ownership. Yikes!

[Sunlei]

51. I'd vote for an atheist. But I've read that an atheist would have trouble gaining votes.

Personally, I wish we had a real separation of church and state. Religious discussion not a part of our government at all, state, local and federal.

[SeattleVet]

64. Here'e the full quote, and source:

"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
...Stephen F Roberts

And his page explaining the origin:

http://freelink.wildlink.com/quote_history.php

[riversedge]

4. Another hit piece by the Hill.

[floriduck]

5. No one here has any interest in this. It doesn't serve any purpose of theirs. Donald Trump is a bad

guy. That matters.

[babylonsister]

16. I have an interest in it.

I don't want shit shoveled under a carpet because it does or doesn't favor someone.

[Hissyspit]

19. I'm here.

I'm interested.

Yeah, Donald Trump is a bad guy.

[msongs]

6. not LBN...its a blog post lol nt

[still_one]

29. you noticed that also.

[truthisfreedom]

7. I believe the OP breaks the rules, no matter how you feel about it.

I know how I feel about it as well, but I still believe that this post is DIVISIVE and must go.

So get rid of it.

[George II]

10. An OP about this has already been removed earlier today.

[sheshe2]

30. Amazing that some of the rec's are members at another site.

Yet this was allowed to stay. Hmmm.

[nolabear]

8. Apparently they also leaked the names of expat donors and personal info, inc. credit card info.

I don't know what they're trying to do, but it sounds deliberate and aimed at Hillary.

[George II]

9. The first one mentioned in the "article" is from May 21, after more than 3/4 of the pledged...

...delegates had already been determined. Plus, the Kentucky and West Virginia had already voted by that time.

This looks like yet another phony story by wikileaks.

[riversedge]

26. Thanks for the information. You have a good eye.--so the emails are real but the

story is made up.

[George II]

40. I don't even know if the emails are real, it is wikileaks don't forget.

[ericson00]

11. stop doing Putin's work for him

by trying to elect Trump, which is what putting anti-HRC hit pieces does.

[Blandocyte]

12. Wow. It's like it's politics

Imagine that. Not surprised.

[runaway hero]

15. Good I hope we get more.

DNC has lost 3 elections in a row. Time to clean house. Hillary winning will be the first non Obama victory since 2006(!!!)

[tk2kewl]

17. Long time, no see

[Recursion]

18. Huh. Are people under the impression that the DNC can't take sides in a primary?

They generally have before. Funny how this year it pisses people off...

[Hissyspit]

23. DNC rules, designed to ensure all candidates get a fair shake in presidential primaries, state, “The

DNC rules, designed to ensure all candidates get a fair shake in presidential primaries, state, “The Chairperson shall be responsible for ensuring that the national officers and staff of the Democratic National Committee maintain impartiality and even-handedness during the Democratic Party Presidential nominating process.”

[tk2kewl]

34. ...

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4938

[sheshe2]

48. JPR!

Congrats on your post. LOL!

[tk2kewl]

60. You do know...

Rules are for other people

[NWCorona]

25. I think that has something to do with the fact that the DNC has stated that they don't /didn't favor

a particular candidate in this race.

[CharlotteVale]

42. Using a Jewish person's religion against them ALWAYS pisses me off.

This email is beyond gross and disgraceful, and there is simply no way to spin it.

[annavictorious]

52. It's Sanders's religious ambivalence that is discussed in the email, not his actual religion.

[Hissyspit]

63. Well, that makes me feel better.

Not.

It stinks.

[humbled_opinion]

55. Just imagine if they had decided to back

Bernie Sanders instead.... or have you forgotten exactly how close this primary was?

[HR_Pufnstuf]

21. hissyspit has kahonayes

proudya girl.

[apcalc]

28. Putin is behind these leaks, because he wants the moron Trump elected,

[red dog 1]

32. K&R...Thanks for posting

This doesn't surprise me.

The Democratic Party needs a unifier as Chair of the DNC, not someone as divisive as DWS.

Hillary can make this all go away by choosing Elizabeth Warren as her running mate.

THAT will unify the Party.

THAT will ensure a Democratic victory in November!

[Rex]

33. They never for a minute thought a socialist could beat whomever the GOP ran against them.

I saw that writing on the wall in 2010.

[MattP]

35. 1 email is a secret plan

[bluedye33139]

36. lol

[MattP]

37. 1 bad email the rest is DWS bitching about bad press

[larkrake]

39. great op, transparency is democratic, thank you and wikileaks

[humbled_opinion]

56. Can't wait till they release

the Goldman Sachs transcripts... WOW !!!...

[larkrake]

58. I dont see anyone sending wiki those

[CharlotteVale]

41. This is the most disgusting thing I've read today. And that's saying a lot.

[turbinetree]

43. The U.S. Supreme Court is at stake...................

the same U.S. Supreme Court that has been making rulings on everything from religion, to how much a bar keeper gets in tips.
I am giving my money to Canova for many reasons, and too Teachout for many reasons, they are now my starting point.

Honk-------------------for a political revolution

[Loki]

44. You do realize that the primaries are over?

Innuendo now stands as fact? I think you should do the right thing and remove this post. You know where it belongs, and it doesn't belong here.

[HereSince1628]

47. Yes, the primary is over. Do you know if the class action suit against the DNC is over?

You know, the lawsuit where the plaintiffs sought to get reimbursed for their donations because the DNC didn't follow it's own chartered promises about even-handed treatment of all candidates.

I really haven't been paying attention to that and this sort of seems like evidence that might be relevant to the plaintiffs' claims

[sheshe2]

49. It was a leave.

[pnwmom]

46. Assuming these aren't fake, why did Wiki leak these NOW? Looks like they're trying to help Trump.

[Loki]

59. Exactly, what proof do we have. None.

[humbled_opinion]

53. Well I just have to say...

What difference at this point does it make?

[chillfactor]

54. oh good god....

this seems like a hit piece on the part of the Hill.....timing very suspicious.

[question everything]

57. Um.. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is of "Jewish heritage"

Either way, let it go.

For the ones who were wishing that either Sanders or Warren would be picked as v.p. - can anyone really see either of them as "second in command?"

[luxpara4]

61. It is a big deal, and it was a shitty thing to do.

It is a big deal, and it was a shitty thing to do. Imagine this was turned around, and people planned on using Hilary's gender against her – and they had it in writing. I'm amazed at the hypocrites here who wouldn't admit to lose in a collective minds if something like this came out.

[gwheezie]

62. There might even be an email somewhere

That discusses Hillary being female as working against her with some voters.

[luxpara4]

65. There might be, but we haven't seen it

There might be, but we haven't seen it. And this is about the DNC trying to use it for their advantage of one Democratic candidate over the other. Not as and attempts to understand a possible Republican strategy.

[Chemisse]

66. Locking

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