Yang deletes tweet

[Llero]

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang posted and later deleted a tweet questioning why Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) was excluded from a video message filmed by a number of candidates running for the party's presidential nomination on Tuesday.

The video, posted Monday by the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Twitter account, features Yang alongside a slew of other Democratic candidates for president, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

It's part of a fundraising push for the DNC's Democratic Unity Fund, which works to support whichever candidate wins the Democratic nomination following the primary. Gabbard is not among the candidates in the video.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/475887-yang-asks-wheres-tulsi-after-video-of-dem-candidates-leaves-her-out?amp

[hlthe2b]

1. Someone on his staff must have a "clue" it seems...

Waaay past giving benefit-of-the-doubt, I'd say. Perhaps Mr. Yang realizes that now.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Maybe she..

...declined to participate.

[dewsgirl]

3. Didn't he say, he'd consider pardoning Trump last week?

He completely lost me there.

[Cha]

4. Yes.

[George II]

5. When she voted "present" this did it for me:

[Cha]

8. Yes Gabbard has burned a lot

of bridges. Excellent graphic to denote said bridges.

Mine was in 2012 when she went of faux news all the time and whinged about President Obama.

Why would Yang want more of this in the debate?

Link to tweet

[George II]

12. Really strange that she's still listed as a Fellow on the Sander Institute website, eh?

[grantcart]

15. Not if you know who runs the Sander Institute

Let me offer my apologies and a correction.

I should not have made the reference to David Driscoll, Senator Sanders step son whose last job was a jr retail clerk at a snow board shop who was named to lead the prestigious "think tank" named after the Senator and was intended to advance research and policy discussions at the post graduate level even though Driscoll who got a serious 6 figure salary shows no other expertise than snow boarding.

The reason I apologize is that in googling the Institute I find that it was closed lol

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/434186-sanders-institute-shutting-down-amid-criticism


The Sanders Institute, a think tank founded by the wife and son of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is shutting down, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

The Vermont institute stopped accepting donations and will suspend all operations by the end of May “so there could not even be an appearance of impropriety,” Jane Sanders told AP.


Critics have said the think tank blurs lines between family, fundraising and campaigns.

. . .


The 2020 Democratic candidate has no role in the institute, which was created after his failed 2016 push.

Speaking to AP, Jane Sanders kept the door open for the institute to begin taking donations again once Bernie Sanders is no longer running for president.

“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations, because nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody else and anybody running for office,” she said in an interview this week.

“It just seemed the responsible thing to do,” Jane Sanders added.

But you are right George II that the Sanders Institute appears to continue to operate as their Web site doesn't indicate that they have closed.

They still love Gabbard

https://www.sandersinstitute.com/about/gabbard

Maybe they aren't closed. Maybe devotees can still make contributions to fund the executive salaries of Jane Sanders and David Driscoll. Who knows maybe they are doing cutting edge research on which wax is optimum on Vermont snowboards at this time of the year.

[Cha]

23. Oh really?

[dewsgirl]

17. Reminds of those, that try to defend Julian Assange.

[Lexee]

14. She lost me months ago.

[bitterross]

16. Yes, he did. So he's completely out for me.

Any Dem who wants to play nice with the Republicans "for the good of the country" the way we've done it in the past is off my list entirely.

We did that in 2000 w/W. Bush and again in 2004 when W. stole Ohio and again in 2008 when Obama let the financial industry off with no real consequences. All of those missed opportunities to hold people accountable have only emboldened the Republicans and the banksters more.

[Beartracks]

22. Yes, still waiting for the "good" to come out of that approach.

Has the effect on the country been "good" so far?

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[Laffy Kat]

24. I didn't know that. That's a deal-breaker for me. nt

[Joe941]

6. Everone deletes a tweet from time to time... I'm not holding it against him.

[boomer_wv]

7. Deleting it wasn't the problem..

It was posting it in the first place.

I'm out on any candidate that goes down this path of saying the DNC isn't providing a fair process.

It's gone out of the way to give a fair process. It's not their job to prop up every fringe candidate who can't stand on their own feet.

[Cha]

10. Mahalo for this boomer_wv.. you speak the TRUTH!

[NYMinute]

11. Precisely!

[Llero]

28. Update: Bennett, Delaney weren't in the video either

This makes Yang's tweet look bad, since he implied that the DNC was out to get Gabbard.
Maybe that's why he deleted his unfortunate tweet.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

9. "Deleting the tweet".. isn't the point.

[LovingA2andMI]

13. Why did he questioned this?

Isn't it obvious why Theodora (oops Tulsi) was not included.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. I actually think Tulsi should be included in this.

She is running for the nomination and it is about unity, after all.

And trust me. I am no Tulsi fan.

[Llero]

20. Tulsi said the DNC wants to rig the primary

And she must be invited by the DNC?

Link to tweet

Do you think she will advocate unity if she's invited?
Another interesting question is whether she would accept the invitation at all.

[Drunken Irishman]

21. No but I see no reason to create drama.

Excluding her does no one any good except Tulsi.

[Cha]

27. The DNC did not "exclude" her.. as ehrnst

posted.. there are requires that have been set since the beginning.. she actually declined the last debate as we know..'

Link to tweet

The one after this..

[Drunken Irishman]

29. There is no requirement for the video. Bloomberg and Booker were in it.

She should have been asked. I hope she was asked. If she declined, then that's on her.

[Cha]

30. Oh sorry.. I got mixed up.. Thanks. I guess we'll find

find out.

I doubt very much that the DNC is "rigging" like Gabbard accuses

[ehrnst]

25. No, the DNC does not "invite" participants to these debates. They set requirements

that must be reached by any candidate running on the Democratic ticket to qualify for participation.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/09/23/democratic-debate-what-are-the-requirements-for-the-november-debates/2421660001/

If she meets the requirements, then she gets to participate.

[Cha]

26. Gabbard.. "Oh looky at me.. "I can say Corporate"... "aren't

I just ama-Zing!" lol

Link to tweet

[question everything]

19. Welcome to DU