Bernie Sander's new hire Darius Khalil Gordon.

[OldRed2450]

Either you believe Bernie does not vet his hires at all which is completely incompetent and should be taken as how he will vet his cabinet should he be President or you believe these hires have been vetted and this is completely on purpose. Neither option is good.

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This thread shows screenshots of his homophobic, misogynist, antisemitic tweets.

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[oasis]

1. Oooooooh brother!

[trueblue2007]

113. just awful. what it the world is Bernie doing??? Not happy with him at all.

[Cha]

2. Oh no.. not another one whose previous

tweets show he should have been vetted.

Does anyone remember who that last one was?

[George II]

8. David Sirota deleted more than 20,000 tweets the day he was formally hired...

He was working for Sanders a couple of months before he was announced.

[lapucelle]

12. And BS has a BRAND! NEW! IDEA! that was actually part of the 2016 Democratic Platform.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=371545

https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/

[George II]

14. Yeah but, the Democrats didn't tack on "for ALL" to their platform plank (even though it IS for all)

[Cha]

20. Right Sirota.. but there was a video guy

last couple of months who BS had to fire right away because tweets.

[George II]

23. Oh yeah, that one - Matt Orfalea. Hired and fired in one day. This guy should be gone as quickly.

[Cha]

27. That was him.. I just found it.. Thanks!

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287307776

[OldRed2450]

13. Shaun King is happy.

Hi Cha!

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[George II]

16. Thankfully he's being bombarded with the homophobic anti-Semitic tweets of Gordon.

[Cha]

31. Oh.. good to know!

[Cha]

22. Has he seen this guy's tweets.. like what are they

thinking with these tweets that live forever.. if they're screen shots anyway.

OldRed!

[sop]

56. One not only has to be a complete moron to post such crap on social media in the first place,

but to not realize these postings follow one around forever is another level of stupid. And to go to work for a presidential campaign thinking this sort of social media past won't be made public is incomprehensible. It's almost as dumb as the Sanders' campaign not properly vetting the guy.

[squirecam]

86. True

nt

[Gothmog]

3. I saw this and more on twitter

[George II]

4. Isn't this guy special.....

He should fit in well with David Sirota. Here are a few more:

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[Cha]

38. Darius is also fond of the "r" word.. :(

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[squirecam]

70. Well

He says that you put it on Twitter if you want others to judge it.

Ok. I’m judging it.

Dude should be fired immediately.

[Cha]

85. And Darius is Fired!

[OKNancy]

5. other trashy anti-women tweets too

I'll see if I can post them... edit: see above

[OldRed2450]

9. This one is bad.

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[George II]

6. And another, apparently he's not afraid to be judged, either:

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[OldRed2450]

32. Well, he's loud and proud

Apparently, so is Bernie's campaign.

[George II]

7. The hits keep coming:

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[OldRed2450]

11. That is vulgar!

[Cha]

28. No.. don't "trust you", Darius.

Thank you, George.

[MineralMan]

10. Wow! Not a good look, and right out in the open, too.

Hmm...

[OldRed2450]

25. It's utterly incompetent.

[MineralMan]

26. This is going to bite him on the butt - Hard!

What was he thinking? Antisemitism? Misogyny? He hardly needs any of that as part of his campaign, I think.

[OldRed2450]

34. Nina Turner retweeted a NYT piece a few days ago

that basically said Bernie doesn't care about social issues. This is looking more and more like a feature.

[MineralMan]

39. Yeah, well, it doesn't come as much of a surprise to me.

Bernie has always been all about "economic justice.' That's his thing. It's a very important thing, of course, but it's not the only important thing out there, nor it is it a zero sum game.

Bernie Sanders has a very narrow view of things, it has always seemed to me. He thinks he can build support from people of color simply by telling them he'll make their economic life better. That's his white privilege talking. He thinks women will do better if they have "economic justice." That's his male privilege talking.

What he focuses on is important, but it's not all that, really. In fact, for many people, social justice is the most important thing of all. Bernie doesn't recognize that, so he loses the support of that group of people.

That's why he won't be the Democratic nominee in 2020. It's really simple.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. And who might this guy be in a Sanders administration?

Press secretary? That'd be worse than Sean, Sarah and Stephanie put together!

[George II]

17. He's "Deputy Director of Constituency Organizing", whatever that is.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Yeah, that's sort of meaningless. Most titles are.

His social media is alienated him from some crucial constituencies, as well.

[sop]

58. Like Stephen Miller is the Director of Organizing the White Nationalist and Nazi constituencies.

[MineralMan]

18. Dear Senator Sanders: That man is a bad choice for your campaign.

Very bad. It's not going to accomplish what you hoped it would. Instead, it will alienate others you desperately need on your side.

[LongtimeAZDem]

19. According to his LinkdIn page, he was at Penn State from 2007 to 2010, so these

are the words of a college educated adult.

SMH

[TidalWave46]

24. This is a feature of the Sanders campaign, not a bug. NT

[Me.]

29. Isn't It Past Time People Stopped Kidding Themselves

When someone tells you who they are believe them.

[bluedye33139]

30. I want to say that these are old and unrelated but

These are extremely horrible, for anyone at any age.

On the other hand, I think it more or less goes without saying that the candidate did not directly vet this hire.

[George II]

33. They were posted after he graduated from Penn State.

[LongtimeAZDem]

35. Yep

[Lexee]

74. A man who is old, just had a heart attack walking into a stressful job. What VP does he pick?

We do not get to know up front. Who would trust him with a VP pick? Not me. He hires poorly.

[Politicub]

36. Disgusting. This toxic person should never be allowed near a campaign.

[NJCher]

37. ummm, not so fast to make a judgment

I Googled the source for this story and it is the Washington Free Beacon, the same site that sells an Eric Swalwell whoopee cushion. I believe we are not supposed to cite such sources at this site. However, the Tweets stand on their own, but this is the only outlet carrying this story so I am suspicious. As you know, this is a r-w site.

This person is claiming he is the deputy director of constituency communications, but how can a deputy be hired when there is no person in that position to be a deputy to? The position of Constituency Communications Coordinator is open at the Sanders job listings section at his web site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/bernie2020

This is the definition of "deputy": "Deputy is used in combination with the names of various executive officers, to denote an assistant empowered to act in their name; as, deputy collector, deputy ..."

So I reiterate: how can he be a deputy when that position is not yet filled? There is no one to "act in their name," meaning being a constituency communications coordinator.

This person refers to a full-time job "Been so busy with work forgot to tell you all. I have joined the @SenSanders
2020 campaign as the Deputy Director of Constituency Organizing."

I suspect that what we have here is a person who volunteered.

Do all the campaigns, including the Biden campaign, vet volunteers?

This story doesn't add up.

I will await further word from the Sanders campaign before I buy into this. Even if he was selected as a volunteer, I doubt that he will be given any work to do with the kind of attitudes he's expressed in his Tweets.

[LongtimeAZDem]

40. If he is still part of Sanders' campaign by the end of the day, it's on Bernie

[NJCher]

43. yes, he has to react to this

does anyone here know if any candidate campaign staff vets volunteers? It's a serious question.

[LongtimeAZDem]

44. Can't say, but this is a clear pattern with the Sanders campaign

[NJCher]

48. I'll mention it to them

Can you give me three or four examples? I'm unaware of any.

I have emailed them with an alert to this.

[LongtimeAZDem]

53. Simone Zimmerman, Matt Orfalea, Linda Sarsour

[OldRed2450]

118. I missed Simone Zimmerman

what did she do?

[OldRed2450]

46. It looks like Darious just deleted his twitter account.

@Khalil_202

[Cha]

52. But we have screen shots.

Is that like closing the barn door after the horses ran free?

[OldRed2450]

55. Yep. Disqualifying.

[MineralMan]

41. You know, he has a proud Jill Stein voter high in his campaign organization.

I think you're expecting something you won't get with regard to this new addition to his staff.

[still_one]

61. Briahna Joy Gray, and to this day Ms. Gray is proud she didn't vote for the Democratic nominee in

the GE in 2016

[OldRed2450]

54. No one posted a RW site here.

Nothing to be suspicious about. He claims to be a part of Bernie's campaign and they are his tweets. Shaun King and Linda S congratulated him. He seems to have noticed the attention tho because he just deleted his twitter account.

[NJCher]

64. please re-read my post

I said the only people carrying it as a story is a r-w site. How did you find the Tweet? Through the story or are you just browsing Twitter and you just happened to come across it?

I also said the posts stand on their own. The meaning is clear.

[LongtimeAZDem]

65. PinkNews is a right-wing site?

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/06/bernie-sanders-aide-darius-khalil-gordon-tweets/

Edited to add: If an obscure right-wing site could find the tweets so easily, why couldn't the Sanders campaign?

[NJCher]

87. I think there's a reading comprehension problem here

Beacon was the only site carrying it as a story when I searched.

Don't ask me to speak for the Sanders campaign. For all I know they weren't even aware of it until this guy resigned. If you want the answer to the question, you can email the campaign just as easily as I can.

[LongtimeAZDem]

94. Even if that's true, so what? The authenticity of the tweets is not in question, and so

whoever first discovered them is irrelevant.

All you are doing is trying to deflect a legitimate criticism of the Sanders campaign by attacking the source of the discovery. And, IMO, the fact that the original discovery may have been made by a right-wing site makes it worse, not better.

If the campaign knew about the tweets, they were reprehensible; if they didn't know, they were incompetent.

[OldRed2450]

69. It was posted by someone I follow. A Warren supporter BTW...

Blaming the messenger is typical. This is a pattern on the part of the campaign. It seems to me they just don't care.

[NJCher]

88. Who is blaming the messenger?

I only posted a press reference because that can sometimes speak to the credibility of the story.

There's a "clear pattern" here and it doesn't have to do with Bernie's hiring practices. It has to do with you reading material into posts and making assumptions that aren't there. This is taught in school, and even though you call yourself "old", I'm sure it was taught in your day. It falls under "critical thinking."

[squirecam]

89. So

Did they not vet his tweets?

Or they saw them but didn’t care.

Pick one.

[NJCher]

90. no, you answer my question first

I want to know if volunteers are vetted on all campaigns. Does Klobuchar vet her volunteers? Does Biden? No one has answered my question, which I posted upthread. I'm waiting.

[squirecam]

91. If

Amy hires a racist homophobic sexist staffer, and fires him/her the next day, I’ll criticize her campaign for either not vetting properly, or initially being ok with it, but firing based upon feedback. In either case, I’d be doubly upset if it happened on multiple occasions.

You?

[NJCher]

92. answer my question

eom

[LongtimeAZDem]

95. Unless you have evidence that they do not, your question is nothing more than a fallacious implied

tu quoque attack to deflect criticism of the Sanders campaign.

Wait all day if you want; no one is under any obligation to respond to whataboutism.

[OldRed2450]

97. I doubt campaigns vet their volunteers.

He was not a volunteer, he was a hire. No doubt all campaigns have seedy volunteers sometimes but this is not the case here. Bernie does have a history of this. I think this is the 4th campaign hire that was let go after public opposition to what they have said or wrote i the past. It's fair to ask.. Will he fill agencies with unqualified people without vetting them just because they're loyalist? It's a fair question.

[George II]

42. Summing up, he's offended:

Gays
Women
Asians
Jews
Mentally challenged
Whites

Did I miss any?

[LongtimeAZDem]

45. Steelers fans

[George II]

49. Bazinga!

[MineralMan]

51. Yeah, that about covers the folks he will alienate.

Uff da!

[The Valley Below]

47. It's a question of judgement.

[dalton99a]

50. Surrounding himself with only the best people

[The Polack MSgt]

57. His tweet about Asian women bothered me (My wife is Asian) but this?

I will have to quote these 2 - I don't use Twitter and trying to just show the last page of that thread is beyond me.

All quotes (SIC) in advance

"I got a black mans body, a white mans power, a jew man money and an asian man lifespan. LOL"

"Working hard so one day I can make that Jew money"

So yeah... FTG

ETA- What's that old saw? "Once is an accident twice a coincidence but three times is an attack"

Hiring this guy is like the 5th time I've had to question the Vetting standards that the Sanders' campaign use.

[Demsrule86]

59. What the hell?????

[still_one]

60. All I need to do is look at who he has hired, Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota to tell me what I

need to know about Sanders

[dalton99a]

62. +1. "The end justifies the means."

- Sergey Nechayev, Leon Trotsky et al

[still_one]

63. +++

[BannonsLiver]

66. Bernie sure knows how to pick them.

Sirota, Neena, this guy. Terrible judgement. The crickets from his supporters here is super amusing.

[Wawannabe]

78. Right?

I’ve asked one in particular if he/she can defend. ???? Probably won’t - crickets is correct!

[MineralMan]

67. Maybe he is going to coordinate the bigoted incel constituency.

It's not a lot of votes but, hey...

[TexasTowelie]

107. .

[sheshe2]

71. Dear Goddess!

What a sorry excuse for a human being.

[squirecam]

72. He also

Works here

https://justiceworksny.org/2014/07/darius-gordon/1361


https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/darius-gordon/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-khalil-gordon-aa1b6552

I wonder if any of these entities checked his social media. I’m thinking no.....

[spooky3]

101. LinkedIn is a networking site. He didn't list it as

An employer; he just has a free profile there.

I’m not familiar with NetrootsNation, but from the link you provided, it appears to be an association and not an employer.

Your link to justiceworks describes him as a speaker, not an employee. As with NetrootsNation, he probably spoke at a meeting they had, maybe gratis.

Many people give speeches or do workshops for nonprofit groups (or for companies like Goldman Sachs). That doesn’t make them employees.

[Lexee]

73. Just another example over the last four years Sanders doesn't think much about women.

My mama taught me, believe what they are telling you. And I do. I believe.

[George II]

75. Or gays, or women, or Asians, or Jews, or mentally challenged, or even whites.

[Lexee]

76. Yes. He has been pretty consistent who his demographic is he is going after.

He makes no qualms about saying it out loud either. The only group, hardest hit is the middle class white man.

Recently, I saw a video of Sanders in a school or something that has like 93% blacks and his audience was still all white.

[MH1]

100. Yep.

Believe them the first time.

[Wawannabe]

77. Hassin Bin Sober

Seen this? Defend this?

[Blue_true]

98. All of them are in hiding. They are decent people, they can't defend that type of stuff. nt

[squirecam]

79. Was

There any official response yet?

This isn’t a hard call....

[OldRed2450]

80. Looks like it

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/06/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-staffer-out/index.html

[LongtimeAZDem]

81. "He is no longer with the campaign and we wish him the best"

Bernie Sanders campaign parts ways with staffer after report of homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets

[squirecam]

82. What

About his other employers?

[LongtimeAZDem]

83. Good question

Someone should ask the The Center for Popular Democracy how they feel about him.

[OldRed2450]

84. I Agree with you

What is wrong with these people who do not vet their hires?

[W_HAMILTON]

93. Did Nina Turner "ooooweee!" this hire as well?

[SidDithers]

96. LOL...

What a train wreck.

Sid

[Gothmog]

99. There has been some turmoil in the sanders campaign staff

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[NurseJackie]

102. OUCH! That's gonna leave a mark!

[Autumn]

103. Those tweets are from 2010 and 2011. That's sad that people want to hang this on Bernie.

A lot of the same people found a hundred excuses for Joy Reid... but Bernie People grow and change. If you haven't found one from last month or last year you guys are scraping the bottom of the magic barrel of smears. Do keep trying.

[OldRed2450]

104. People use time to their own benefit

Attending a MLK event and getting arrested at a protest 40 years ago and nothing in between is suppose to show how Bernie cares about Civil rights but vile, vulgar comments 10 years ago means nothing.

[Autumn]

105. Oh, I forgot to tell you welcome to DU.

[OldRed2450]

106. Is that suppose to be a bern?

[Autumn]

110. Not at all. Just the usual welcome to DU. I'm sure you have seen people saying that before.

[TexasTowelie]

108. As you have said before,

it is called vetting.

[TwilightZone]

109. Considering how vile they are, I don't think an expiration date should apply.

I don't think we should hold them against Sanders personally, but his staff certainly deserves some criticism for the lack of vetting. If others could easily find them, there's really no excuse for whoever was responsible for hiring the guy not knowing about them.

[Autumn]

111. Homophobia is vile. And it was excused when another personality had their blog posts exposed.

If people give one person a pass and spend outrage on another because they don't like who that person has associated themselves with? I don't waste my time believing they are really outraged over what the other person said.

[LongtimeAZDem]

112. Whas it excused by the same people? Examples please.

[Autumn]

114. Many of them yes. There's a search function on top of the page, just search for Joy Reid.

[LongtimeAZDem]

115. Even if true, it simply puts you in the same category as them if you excuse such obscenity

[Autumn]

116. I wrote Bernie's campaign when I heard this. Bernie got rid of him. I excuse nothing but

don't expect me to be outraged. I'm just sitting back enjoying the Faux outrage .

[LongtimeAZDem]

117. It's not fake in my case, and I find such defenses pretty sickening.

It's the same way supporters of the other side act.

This is at least the fourth time the Sanders campaign has done this; I no longer believe it is accidental.