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Related: About this forumSanders Team Wanted DNC To Pay For Private Plane For Fall ~ (HRC GP)
Oops. Sanders staffer leaves an internal memo in a restaurant, which makes its way to the press. Plans for fall campaign include asking DNC to pay for private plane for Bernie to fly around and conduct rallies.
An internal End Game memo left in a Los Angeles hotel restaurant details extraordinary demands considered by the Sanders campaign ahead of the Democrats unity event.
PHILADELPHIA The Bernie Sanders campaign considered demanding a private plane staffed and funded by the Democratic National Committee as part of negotiations with Hillary Clinton heading into this weeks convention, according to a Sanders memo obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The plane was to be used for a series of fall rallies in battleground states, according to the Bernie 2016 memo, which was drafted in the days before Sanders sound defeat in the June 7 California primary, the contest that effectively ended his insurgent bid.
This plane would be paid for by the DNC, it reads.
The document reveals a campaign in its final days, considering whether to fight on with a divisive critique of Clinton, yet attuned to diminished influence inside the party.
Aides believed a tour of the battleground states would help keep Sanders center stage. The memo, titled End Game, also suggests that the Vermont senators campaign for Senate Democrats to help deliver a majority and take credit for it one of several references throughout the four-page document showing the extent to which aides remained aware of opportunities to take credit amid decreasing leverage.
PHILADELPHIA The Bernie Sanders campaign considered demanding a private plane staffed and funded by the Democratic National Committee as part of negotiations with Hillary Clinton heading into this weeks convention, according to a Sanders memo obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The plane was to be used for a series of fall rallies in battleground states, according to the Bernie 2016 memo, which was drafted in the days before Sanders sound defeat in the June 7 California primary, the contest that effectively ended his insurgent bid.
This plane would be paid for by the DNC, it reads.
The document reveals a campaign in its final days, considering whether to fight on with a divisive critique of Clinton, yet attuned to diminished influence inside the party.
Aides believed a tour of the battleground states would help keep Sanders center stage. The memo, titled End Game, also suggests that the Vermont senators campaign for Senate Democrats to help deliver a majority and take credit for it one of several references throughout the four-page document showing the extent to which aides remained aware of opportunities to take credit amid decreasing leverage.
Much more in link: https://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/bernie-sanders-private-plane?utm_term=.tyxDkoRW6#.guZ2VG8Zw
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Sanders Team Wanted DNC To Pay For Private Plane For Fall ~ (HRC GP) (Original Post)
Her Sister
Jul 2016
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Cha
(305,606 posts)1. Hmmmmm!
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)2. Cha I just posted the beginning.... Recommend reading the rest
Hmmmmm! Is right!
shenmue
(38,538 posts)3. The cheek!