How the DNC Just Sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ Campaign in One Devastating Move

[elleng]

'Voters eager to pressure Debbie Wasserman Schultz to reverse her decision can call her office at 202-226-2052, and send emails to [e-mail]. There’s also a petition circulating demanding Debbie Wasserman Schultz reinstate the Sanders’ campaign’s access to the 50-state voter file, displayed below.'

http://usuncut.com/politics/dnc-sabotages-bernie/

[emsimon33]

1. If DWS keeps this up, no one will vote for Hillary

This does the Party no good.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Oh, she has no idea the WRATH aimed at her and her corrupt party.

I have a feeling she will find out tomorrow!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Betty Karlson]

58. I hope and pray you are right.

This level of corruption and bias is nauseating. And more: it is evil.

[Zorra]

63. I'm sure the Greens are pleased at the potential probable increase in their membership. nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

66. They should be!

Their party is about to become HUGE.

Then the Third Way Party and GOP can finally join forces and be the chums they want to be, instead of putting on this facade of two separate parties for everyone.


PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[elleng]

4. I doubt that will be the outcome.

ANY publicity is GOOD, dontcha know???

The PARTY may be so damaged that, even in the face of a clown repug, Dems have a tough time in the General. And IMAGINE the Dem response to repug vote tampering! Even BETTER than last time!

[tecelote]

14. Bernie just got more publicity in one night than he has for his whole campaign.

[thereismore]

78. That! nt

[aspirant]

6. How about nobody in Florida voting for DWS for Congress too?

[jfern]

7. Sometimes you need a one hit wonder Joseph Cao to clean out the trash

[emsimon33]

9. If Bernie is not the nominee, then I shall move to DSW district AND

actively work against her re-election and suggest that other Bernie volunteers man her phone banks and let her constituents know what a traitor she is.

[Enthusiast]

23. Huge +1!

[Indydem]

25. No, you won't.

Because if you actually meant that, you'd already have property bought.

He is not going to be the nominee.

Period.

[emsimon33]

84. You can rent!

And he will be the nominee if the Turd Way, neo-liberal, Wall Street puppets in the Party would stop the cheating. They are looking more and more like Republicans in their tactics every day,

[rjsquirrel]

54. Lol sure you will

Internet threat bluster 101.

[emsimon33]

85. I work on the Internet so I can live anywhere there is Internet

I have volunteered for campaigns at my own expense all over the country since I was old enough to travel on my own.

You HRC people have no understanding of how fed up the rest of us are with Turd Way, neo-liberal, Wall Street-controlled "Democratic" candidates, such as HRC.

[elleng]

10. Good luck with THAT!

[emsimon33]

15. I'll keep you updated.

[VanillaRhapsody]

19. Please please do!

[emsimon33]

86. You need to move your fly swatter more to the left when it swats.

[VanillaRhapsody]

87. No I dont...

I like it just the way it is......it sure seems to rile certain folks up!

[sulphurdunn]

24. She's securely gerryymandered

into her district.

[aspirant]

49. Everyone in her district are corporate Dems?

[sulphurdunn]

70. I would assume that most of them

are democrats. Were it otherwise, she would most likely not represent it.

[Live and Learn]

2. Thank you, elleng.

I'll be doing both though I am sure she has my emails going directly to trash, already.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Bookmarked to call tomorrow! Thank you! n/t

[Bohunk68]

8. Not to worry, folks.

Look, here is what we do. Go to the local Boards of Election and get the voter lists. They will have names, addresses, phone numbers and party affiliation. I have one of my community sitting right here beside me. Still, do all the things that elleng suggests and don't take the pressure off of DWS and the DNC. Use social media to tell the full story. Now, stop complaining and git out there and get the local lists. We can do this.

[peacebird]

26. Great suggestion!

[Ed Suspicious]

39. We should help to find some database folks to set up a database and have thousands of volunteers

access the database online in order to enter the voter data. Bernie's list could be freaking huge. It really would not be to hard a feat.

[beam me up scottie]

11. Thanks elleng.

You and a few other MOM supporters are being supportive instead of ghouls and I appreciate it.

You guys are keeping it classy as always.

[elleng]

12. You're welcome.

[retrowire]

22. yes, you are the best! :) nt

[elleng]

69. THANKS, retro! eom

[Segami]

13. Has an official statement been issued by the DNC Chairwoman?

The Democrats Facebook page is very quiet without a single post regarding this breach.

Does anyone find this to be a bit strange that someone, whoever that is, had the authority to suspend or cut off the Sanders Campaign from accessing the national party’s voter data?

[AgingAmerican]

50. They are refusing to comment

No big surprise there

[newthinking]

16. If this gets out of hand it hurts Hillary as well - Can she keep the country's data secure?

that will be the tagline.

It behooves the PTB to put a lid on this no matter who they may favor.

[VanillaRhapsody]

18. Hahahahaha

[workinclasszero]

61. Are you even serious?

[newthinking]

64. I think she can, but that will be what the pundits will say

[VanillaRhapsody]

17. The Sanders campaign did that all on their own...

And why would team M'OM be in support of the cheating?

[Proserpina]

20. This is a character test...for Hillary

will she call off her pit bull DWS in the interest of fair and free elections? Will she do the right thing?

[seabeyond]

28. Or for Sanders. Will he demand integrity he is running on from himself and staff, or blame others.

[Proserpina]

34. I think you already know the answer to that question...Bernie IS integrity

and he has acted not only with integrity, but with the best interest of the country and the Party.

Hillary has yet to demonstrate any of these tendencies.

[seabeyond]

35. SO, no. Door two. Vilify Clinton. Gotcha.

[newthinking]

65. Yep

I realized this morning they will have to do much more than this to get it to stick.

[workinclasszero]

62. Exactly

Has Bernie made a formal statement to the press in regards to this scandal?

[Bohunk68]

72. That just happened a few moments ago.

Was that soon enough for you?

[upaloopa]

30. This is unbelievable. Bernie campaign operatives break the law and you all are pissed at Hillary.

Bernie's campaign is going up in smoke. In stead of working for Bernie you all are going to FL and attack DWS!

Unbelievable!

[Proserpina]

36. There is no law, and that's the problem

There is a Party official who makes it up as she goes along, with her thumb firmly on the scale.

[newthinking]

67. Because everyone, even Clinton supporters, know that Bernie is clean of this

And even if this was the incident it is being drummed up to be people will assume it was rogue staff.

Make hay, it is obvious that your hay is political. Nobody believes there is a real scandal here.

[NCTraveler]

47. Will Sanders release...

His National Data Directors emails in the name of transparency?

[stonecutter357]

21. when bernie fails to be elected it will be his fault no one else.

Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton voter data.

[Ed Suspicious]

41. Mhhhmm.

[AgingAmerican]

51. And when the Democratic party starts bleeding away supporters

Because of DWS corruption, we lose the general. The only thing that would cause me NOT to vote for her in the general is cheating, and THIS is cheating.

[seabeyond]

27. How Sanders people sabotaged their campaign, breaking the rules. Nt.

[BooScout]

29. LOL

[uponit7771]

31. Unnnnnn, looks like Sanders staff did this to themselves... Not DNC

Jeff Weaver, the Vermont senator’s campaign manager, acknowledged that a low-level staffer had viewed the information but blamed a software vendor hired by the DNC for a glitch that allowed access. Weaver said one Sanders staffer was fired over the incident.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-sanders-campaign-improperly-accessed-clinton-voter-data/2015/12/17/a2e2e14e-a522-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html

[RoccoR5955]

33. Meanwhile...

The person on the Sanders campaign got fired for it, and Sanders' office reported it immediately to the DNC!

[leftofcool]

44. How about naming and firing the other 3?

[tammywammy]

48. According the the guy that was fired

The DNC called him, not the other way around.

[MeNMyVolt]

59. They're going to repeat that no matter what's presented.

If history is any guide. At least you tried.

[uponit7771]

79. Yeap, and the company called the DNC first.... Sanders staff never initiated a call after seeing the

... data was accessible

[Agschmid]

77. "Low level staffer" aka The National Data Director

[RoccoR5955]

32. Link to the Move On petition

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/debbie-wasserman-schultz-2.fb52?source=s.fb&r_by=1449738

Please sign.

[pnwmom]

37. It wasn't some "low level staffer." Bloomberg says that the top computer guy,

the National Data Director, Josh Uretsky, himself improperly accessed the data.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251908166

[Proserpina]

38. That's "FORMER National Data Director"

[Tarc]

40. Sanders diehards are hilarious

They get caught hacking, get penalized, and somehow the DNC is at fault for penalizing the transgression?

Actions have consequences, something that the BernieBros don't quite grasp.

[Ed Suspicious]

42. Hacking? Define hacking, because based on this post our definitions are far apart.

[U of M Dem]

45. Right, DNC is an innocent martyr in all this... *Scoff*

Meanwhile in a parallel universe: Evil Bernie and his team of elite hackers under their guise The BernieBros indiscriminately take advantage of our "hero" The Infallible HRC. The Infallible HRC's eternally righteous supporters within the irrefutably sanctimonious Camp Weathervane are justifiably OUTRAGED! DNC operatives commanded by the High Inquisitor DWS respond with their secret (and only) weapon - Excommunication!

In your dreams bub.

[Tarc]

57. You got caught, therefore there are consequences

This is something adolescents seem to struggle with.

[U of M Dem]

71. If you are suggesting that I am an adolescent

or have the mentality of an adolescent, that is your shame and is a baseless assertion.

This world is neither black nor white. Where you see consequences, I see an incredibly complex intersection of variables sometimes referred to as the sea of gray.

What I suggest you do to bring yourself clarity is take a good look at the facts.

No one was caught, Sanders went to the DNC with this.

Allegations are not proof. Prove that Sander's conspired to steal these documents or attempted to cover this up and I will be right there with you pointing fingers and demanding there be consequences for actions taken.

[Tarc]

80. "No one was caught, Sanders went to the DNC with this"

Ahh, this must be the "as long as I fess up, then it's not a crime!" mentality.

Adolescent indeed, a complete lack of responsibility for one's own actions.

[U of M Dem]

81. It appears that you are calling Senator Sanders the Adolescent and not myself

for that I am relieved as I now cannot take your related comments seriously.

I now understand that you think a Senator who has worked nearly his whole life in politics and social activism is adolescent-like in his behavior. I patently disagree obviously, but you probably knew that would be the case before you hit Post my reply!

Ahh, this must be the "as long as I fess up, then it's not a crime!" mentality.

Now that we understand this, it is easy to see how this particular issue involving many variables can be summed up in such a simplistic manner. Again, your assertion is baseless and thus trivial.

Of course, your interpretation of Sanders going to the DNC conveniently steers clear of the more complicated variables in the mix.

(From an earlier post of mine relevant to this post)

Did Bernie hack HRC data? No.

Did Bernie carry on as if this access was OK? No.

Did Bernie report the data leak? Yes.

Did Bernie fire the staff who was involved? Yes.

Did Bernie fall into DWS's trap of indefinitely keeping him from a vital campaign resource? If this was premeditated (and it sure looks like it as this is a convenient way to hamstring a campaign), then yes it was a trap. If not, then she should have no trouble being a reasonable human being and reinstate Bernie's access after reporting the flaw.

If you are seriously lock stepping behind the DNC in holding Bernie personally responsible for a DNC IT error, then just admit this and move on. Bernie, in my opinion handled this error professionally by quickly stepping forward to get ahead of this before it "became a thing." It is very suspicious at best, criminal at worst, that it "became a thing," anyway. It is even more suspicious that it this happened in such a hurried fashion from on high by DWS.

I dare you to respond with something substantive. Anything substantive.

[workinclasszero]

68. Pick one

Last edited Fri Dec 18, 2015, 06:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Its the fault of....


1. Hillary
2. DNC
3.DWS
4.MSM
5.Oligarchy

[U of M Dem]

43. I see the swarm from camp weathervane have their current meme "reaction" decided upon.

Something along the lines of Bernie did this to himself by breaking the law.



I wish my world were this simplistic, but we all know camp weathervane is a hive mind.

Lets check the facts:

DWS pulled the plug on Bernie's access to the voter file after software bugs from the firewall vendor led to a leak that Bernie's campaign reported to the DNC.

If I were a criminal, I don't think I would report myself to the police after illegally taking advantage of a loophole.



Did Bernie hack HRC data? No.

Did Bernie carry on as if this access was OK? No.

Did Bernie report the data leak? Yes.

Did Bernie fire the staff who was involved? Yes.

Did Bernie fall into DWS's trap of indefinitely keeping him from a vital campaign resource? If this was premeditated (and it sure looks like it as this is a convenient way to hamstring a campaign), then yes it was a trap. If not, then she should have no trouble being a reasonable human being and reinstate Bernie's access after reporting the flaw.

Another Link: Look closely to the words in the article especially Allegedly. Allegedly can be defined as - used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place, although there is no proof.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-dnc-suspension/

[NCTraveler]

46. Pass the buck.

Doesn't make a good campaign slogan. Though most of us already recognized he has employed that tactic throughout his career.

[rjsquirrel]

52. Yeah who sabotaged it?

Bernie's own people, getting desperate and careless. You can smell it here too.

This is no Dean Scream. The media aren't creating this. I hate the DNC too, but this is the price of unprofessional campaign management.

[kenfrequed]

53. This reminds me of the Acorn thing

Acorn reported bad voter registrations and then got accused of improprieties by republicans to sabotage getting out the vote.

The Sanders campaign reported the holes in security and even fired those they thought might have been accessing the data. And then DWS punishes the entire campaign for the failings of the software.

All on the day before a big debate.


Anyone that pretends that this was justified is full of it.

[redstateblues]

55. Perpetual Victimhood.

[EdwardBernays]

56. Emailed

And I will actively campaign against Hillary until this shit is sorted out.

This is exactly the sort of bullshit that will convince PROGRESSIVES to sit at home on election day.

[Jester Messiah]

83. +1 [nt]

[MohRokTah]

60. IT'S A CONSPIRACY I TELLS YA!!!

[Bohunk68]

74. About the only thing you have said that is true.

[Vinca]

73. The DNC seems to be inviting Bernie to run as an Independent.

If he does he will split the vote. Hello President Trump.

[moobu2]

75. This is blaming the victim. Nice.

[B Calm]

76. I think it was a republican sabotage myself. The last thing we need is Bernie running on an

Independent ticket.

[Andy823]

82. I have to respectfully disagree with you on this one Ellen

It was Bernie's staff that devastated his campaign. They should not have done what they did, and Bernie should have come out as soon as he heard about it and apologized, stated all involved will be fired, and say he will do everything he can to help investigate this, and prove that any files download are deleted.

[elleng]

88. I was just reporting, 'news,' Andy, @ 5 this morning !!!, not taking a position

on who is or was to blame. Was surely too early to do such at that hour, and I'm not ready to do it now!