From Daily Kos: BREAKING SCANDAL: Democratic Presidential candidate has Democratic Party connections

[iandhr]

BREAKING: We’ve come to realize, especially now via the ethical and moral investigating that the Bernie Sanders campaign’s data team (and subsequent unbiased sources), that the following MAY BE TRUE:

1. Hillary Clinton MAY have been supported by Democratic politicians in the past, and that many of them may STILL favor her in the nomination process

2. As a long-time establishment Democratic politician, it’s POSSIBLE that regular Democratic donors and lobbysists DONATED AND WORKED FOR HER IN THE PAST

3. That members of the DNC POSSIBLY KNEW AND LIKED Hillary Clinton before the 2016 race began, and still do

4. That MANY Democrats, politicians and voters alike, have SOME LOYALTY to the Democratic Party and may look upon someone who has been a longtime leader and member as preferable to someone who has not been.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/22/1462762/-BREAKING-SCANDAL-Democratic-Presidential-candidate-has-Democratic-Party-conections

[MoonRiver]

1. ...

[Dawson Leery]

2. #4. Hillary has had the back of the party since 68', Bill since birth.

Bernie since September 2015.

[madfloridian]

11. So what about us lifelong Democrats who don't want the Clintons to own the whole party?

I have respected them for their contributions, but now I think the centrist think tanks got too firm a hold on all of us.

[tecelote]

17. Since they have so much influence, how about a rule change?

Let us Democrats elect who is in key positions within the Democratic National Committee.

It would be the democratic thing to do.

[pangaia]

16. Bernie has had the back of human beings for, what, 30 years?

[A Simple Game]

19. 30 years... heck no! He got arrested in 1962 or '63 fighting against segregation.

So I would say for at least 50 years.

Not sure if he supported Goldwater, who was one of the most conservative politicians at the time, before that.

[pangaia]

28. Thanks. !

[Jarqui]

46. Hillary was a Goldwater Girl ...

At college, she was President of the Young Republicans and interned with Republicans in Washington.
By around '69 or '70 she made the transition to the Dems.

Bernie was working on social causes before he was out of high school and went into fighting for civil rights causes (like against segregation) in his early college years.

[madfloridian]

3. That post is a reaction to a post before it...PLUS a link to an important article.

Here is the original diary there:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/22/1462664/-DNC-Data-Breach-Reveals-a-Lot-More-Than-Hillary-s-and-Maybe-Bernie-s-Campaign-Data

Here is the article that diary links to, conveniently left out of the diary you posted.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-dnc-data-breach-217016

Sanders data controversy spotlights powerful gatekeeper

[NCTraveler]

7. Fired his National Data Director, suspended others, more on the way.

Are you sure there was a gatekeeper? Seems they just hired one.

[DhhD]

63. I got a message on my private email from a lady from the Kos asking me to sign a petition, and in

doing so, I would be joining the Hillary Campaign. I cannot support a 1%er or Democratic Party conservative, against Bernie Sanders, unless that candidate wins the primary. Glad to see others realize that the Daily Kos is apparently supporting Clinton in the Primary.

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R!

[comradebillyboy]

5. OMG they are all playing politics

It's like they are politicians or something.

[yardwork]

14. Thread winner!

[liberal_at_heart]

20. And the American people hate politicians. That's why the majority of them don't vote.

[Ed Suspicious]

40. This.

[Hoyt]

6. Excellent.

[NCTraveler]

8. Thanks for sharing. Love post number two as well. K&R nt.

[Matariki]

9. From the DNC Charter

The National Chairperson shall serve full time and shall receive such compensation as
may be determined by agreement between the Chairperson and the Democratic National Committee. In
the conduct and management of the affairs and procedures of the Democratic National Committee,
particularly as they apply to the preparation and conduct of the Presidential nomination process, the
Chairperson shall exercise impartiality and evenhandedness as between the Presidential candidates and
campaigns. The Chairperson shall be responsible for ensuring that the national officers and staff of the
Democratic National Committee maintain impartiality and evenhandedness during the Democratic Party
Presidential nominating process.

http://berksdems.org/sites/default/files/dnc_bylaws.pdf

[madfloridian]

12. Keep posting that from the charter.

[Matariki]

34. Indeed, but I don't have much faith that it matters

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - my new favorite Upton Sinclair quote.

[Ed Suspicious]

41. and this.

[madfloridian]

53. Great quote.

[zeemike]

65. Yep, that seems to be the case

It don't matter to them...those are just words, nothing to be taken seriously.

[nc4bo]

22. +1 nt.

[Duval]

30. +2 nt

[coyote]

33. +3

[WillyT]

35. Bingo !!!

[panader0]

49. Yes--This is the part that went WHOOOSH--over the OP's head.

[Snotcicles]

59. When you don't have an ethical or moral compass, you don't realize when you are off coarse. nt

[JoePhilly]

10. That's pretty good!

[liberal_at_heart]

13. and that is part of the reason why the majority of the country doesn't vote.

The entire system is rigged and corrupt and the American people know it.

[Alfresco]

15. K&R

[George II]

18. All those DEMOCRATS who have known her for decades and like her.....

.....should be drummed out of the Democratic Party immediately. How dare they!

(I better add this

[panader0]

50. Hey George--are you a Democrat?

[George II]

52. Why do you ask?

[panader0]

54. I dunno--- I had you figured for a Tory.

[George II]

57. Do you even know what a "Tory" is? I think not.

[panader0]

58. I asked you a question and you responded with two questions.

How cute.

.(in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party

[George II]

60. Yep. Are you a Democrat?

[panader0]

61. Do you even know what a Democrat is? I think not.

Five generations here laddie.

P.S. Don't forget to vote--oh wait --you Canadians can't vote in the US elections--so sorry.

[R B Garr]

21. So you're saying that Hillary knows people????

Scandalous!!!!!

LOL.

[NuclearDem]

23. My God man!

A Democrat who knows other Democrats and is liked by other Democrats?

You've unearthed a subtrefuge so diabolically atrocious it makes my nipples tingle with fear! Could this phenomenon be the work of the Illuminati?

[leftofcool]

48. Could be part of the DaVinci code

[reformist2]

24. Hillary's DNC friends treated Bernie as if he were the ENEMY. That's a problem.

[NuclearDem]

27. And his plan to endear himself with the party by stealing their shit and subsequently suing them

for their shit having been stolen was so intricately woven!

[reformist2]

31. Calling it "his plan" is the kind of thing I'm talking about...

[Ed Suspicious]

42. Yup.

[George II]

55. Have you seen all the things Sanders has been saying about Democrats over the years?

He's treated Democrats as if they were the enemy. THAT is a problem.

[MineralMan]

25. LOL!

That's funny!

[Android3.14]

26. Which apparently makes it okay to cheat

Who knew?

[leftofcool]

29. OMG! Democrats supporting a Democrat! They are all evil!

[Motown_Johnny]

32. So an umpire can call a ball a strike because he/she likes one team more?

Situational ethics are unethical. Why can't some Clinton supporters grasp that simple truth?

[WillyT]

36. Like Axelrod Said... Thumb On The Scale...

[frylock]

39. Lack of ethics likely plays a large part in their inability to grasp that.

[Motown_Johnny]

45. That is a stronger position than I am willing to take.

Maybe they are just short sighted.


Maybe they honestly believe that sometimes the end justifies the means.


I don't understand it, but assuming that they themselves are unethical is something I can't do.

[Snotcicles]

47. Ethics tend to hinder ones ability to look the other way. nt

[PowerToThePeople]

51. I agree. n/t

[Ed Suspicious]

44. It's why Clinton is going to lose.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. You'd never know it.

[frylock]

38. Is this an admission that Debbie's DNC is in the tank for Hillary?

[treestar]

43. LOL

Good one. The proposed solution are funny, too.

[Bleacher Creature]

56. I need a fainting couch!! Stat!!!

[stupidicus]

62. that's not even good snide garbage, it's just dishonest garbage

that does little to distract from the many legitimate reasons why someone might think that impartiality is non-existent with DWS and therefore the org.

[Geronimoe]

64. If so loved?

then why so few debates and on weekend nights too?