Jason Johnson, re Sanders trying to claim those attacking Culinary Union weren't his supporters

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

It's not random Twitter people, Bernie's actual paid staff routinely harass journalists, organizations and regular citizens online. He's seldom publicly reprimanded or removed anyone for this behavior. This statement is empty

Gary Grumback tweet about Sanders that Johnson was responding to:

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[madaboutharry]

1. This is troubling on several levels.

Blaming
Not controlling staffer’s behavior
Not calling out bad behavior
Not apologizing

These are very negative character traits. It demonstrates a particular kind of immaturity and lack of leadership skills.

I think most democrats will prescribe to the idea of “Go blue no matter who.” Bernie doesn’t need to make it so hard.

[MH1]

2. Thank you, exactly what you said. nt

[highplainsdem]

4. Can you imagine an administration, a White House, run that way?

[madaboutharry]

6. I know.

[BlueIdaho]

10. We have one right now... nt.

[BlueIdaho]

9. This all seems vaguely familiar...

Only the other guys are wearing red hats...

Look into populism. This sort of behavior is pretty much textbook stuff.

[Blue_true]

20. It is troublingly like what we saw and see from Trump, any thing

goes as long as Trump prevails in the end. I was hoping for better for a person running under the Democratic Party banner.

[FarPoint]

26. I have to agree with you...

I know this exact same behavior by the " Bernie Bro's" happened the last cycle in 2016.... same old crap....I don't know if they are troll plants or actually a deniable/actual collective that Sanders Camp is in charge of....That said, it happened before...so, if he is against such behavior...he has had 4 years to figure out how to stop it....Additionally...we don't have such disruptors coming from the other candidates...

[Cha]

3. OMG! Thank you, Jason Johnson!

[tishaLA]

5. Good for Prof Johnson

anyone who follows journalists on twitter knows that the professional campaign staff routinely decides to unleash their folks on reporters who have questioned the orthodoxy, and it's especially cruel with women reporters

[squirecam]

7. Agreed

Nt

[DanTex]

8. LOL. The same guy who tried to claim Bernie and Bloomberg are both oligarchs because they

are both worth over a million dollars. Now he's climbing onto the "Bernie Bro" train. Funny.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Lol. You beat me to it. The guy is a clown.

[DanTex]

13. What's more funny is people post stuff like this from MSNBC contributors, and then deny

that the MSM is against Bernie!

[highplainsdem]

15. Jason Johnson made it clear he didn't want the word oligarch used. Nina Turner was using that word,

and she couldn't handle it when Johnson pointed out that Sanders is also part of the 1%, part if the elite. At the end of their debate she was sputtering that Sanders "just got there, at the age of 78," from selling his books.

Bloomberg didn't inherit his money, either.

He earned it.

Nina lost that debate and made herself look foolish.

Sanders use to rail against the millionaires and billionaires.

He's dropped references to millionaires from his speeches now that he is one and everyone knows it.

He is part of the 1%.

[DanTex]

18. Jason Johnson made it clear he would go to absurd lengths to attack Bernie.

We'll have to disagree on who looked foolish. But what's clear is that Jason Johnson is every bit as much in the anti-Bernie camp as Nina Turner is in the pro-Bernie camp.

[highplainsdem]

19. It's hardly going to absurd lengths to point out Sanders is part of the 1%. Turner calling Bloomberg

an oligarch -- given the term's current association with Russian oligarchs --was going to absurd lengths.

[Cha]

25. Not so funny.. he's not "climbing" anywhere.. he makes good points.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. Lol. Jason Johnson thinks Bernie is an oligarch. His tweets are humorous.

[highplainsdem]

16. See reply 15.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. No.

[Cha]

28. "Jason Johnson made it clear he didn't want the word oligarch used. Nina Turner was using that..

word"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=515316

[oasis]

14. Whose fingerprints are all over this? Here's a hint :"MEDICARE4ALL".

Duh!

[UniteFightBack]

21. Not an empty statement - muddying the waters. nt

[krissey]

22. I have been reading the same here pertaining to this conversation.

[Scurrilous]

23. I've floated online supporting people in somebody else's name sometimes.

[seaglass]

24. Poor leadership. Bernie doesn't know what's happening with his own campaign or he does and

it's working for him.

[Cha]

27. KICK!

[Cha]

29. Thank you, Jason Johnson!

[Gothmog]

30. This stunt is disgusting

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Cha]

31. KICK