2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Accuses DNC Of Keeping Union Members Off the Platform
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281916-sanders-accuses-dnc-of-keeping-labor-union-members-offSanders submitted RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, to be included on the platform drafting committee. But according to Sanders and DeMoro, the DNC vetoed the nomination.
Bernie called me and told me that he needed somebody who was a very strong voice for Medicare for all and labor on the DNC [drafting committee] and he thought I would be very vocal, DeMoro told Politico.
"Bernie told me it was very important to him that I would agree to do this.
msongs
(67,405 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Just more grandstanding from Bernie
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)From the article in the OP:
DNC platform committee spokeswoman Dana Vickers Shelley said in an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday that the DNC didn't want labor leaders on the platform drafting committee because they already had a representative on the full committee. Paul Booth of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union is the only labor representative on the committee.
Because union leadership was represented on the full platform committee, a decision was made no union leadership would be represented on the platform drafting committee, said Vickers Shelley.
That was communicated to the campaigns, and they understood our rationale.
CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)But never pegged him for a nutcase. I think he may need a loooooooong rest after this is over.
jillan
(39,451 posts)oasis
(49,383 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)They are DESTROYING the Party...
Hekate
(90,683 posts)Bernie is being a manipulative politician, my my. He is simply trying to pack the committee with people of his own choosing, including non-Dem hostile-to-Dem-Party Cornel freaking West.
If he had not done that, I'd have no objection to the nurses and I bet the committee wouldn't either. What was it Barnie Frank said about Bernie Sanders when he was in the House? Oh yeah, he was his own worst enemy and alienated his natural allies with his self righteous rigidity -- or words to that effect.
Too bad, because I think the nurses union would have been a natural.