http://quizarco.com/sanders-dnc-stacked-platform/
When it was announced in May that Sanders had won five appointments to the DNC’s 15-member platform committee, many celebrated the fact that the Vermont senator and his base had successfully pressured the DNC to allow the Sanders campaign to have representation on the committee responsible for drafting the guiding principles for the Democratic Party for the next four years. However, Sanders is now blasting the DNC for rejecting Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, for the platform committee on the grounds that the party didn’t want too much influence from labor.
DeMoro called the rejection of her appointment a “set-up,” as it forced Sanders to pick another male for the committee. Sen. Sanders’ DNC-approved appointments (U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, civil rights activist Dr. Cornel West, 350.org founder Bill McKibben, Native American activist Deborah Parker, and pro-Palestine scholar Dr. James Zogby) comprise four men and one woman.
“It fed into the ‘Bernie bro’ narrative and meme. ‘Oh, Bernie picked one woman, he’s a sexist,’” De Moro told the Washington Post.
DeMoro, who was one of the earliest backers of Sen. Sanders’ candidacy, was initially chosen for the committee to advocate for Sanders’ Medicare-for-All proposal to be included in the Democratic platform. But in a Wednesday press conference in California, the Vermont senator told reporters he was discouraged from choosing labor leaders for the committee.
“What we heard from the DNC was that they did not want representatives of labor unions on the platform-drafting committee,” Sanders said.
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