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PRESS RELEASE

Sanders: Trump is ‘Getting Nervous’


DECEMBER 27, 2015




BURLINGTON, Vt. – Quoting Donald Trump’s assertion that wages in the United States are “too high,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said Trump’s attempt to back away from his own words shows that the Republican front-runner is “getting nervous that working families are catching on” to his views.

“Donald Trump says that I’m a liar because I said he believes wages in America are too high. Really?” Sanders said in response to Trump’s assertion on Twitter on Sunday. “This is what CNN reported last Nov. 12,” Sanders added. “Trump insisted on Thursday that the U.S. must keep wages low in order to compete with other countries, one day after he dug in on his assertion that ‘wages are too high’ in America. ‘Whether it’s taxes or wages, if they’re too high we’re not going to be able to compete with other countries,’ Trump said Thursday morning on Fox News. Trump first said he believes wages are ‘too high’ during Tuesday night’s Republican debate.”

“It appears that Mr. Trump is getting nervous that working families are catching on that his policies represent the interests of the billionaire class against almost everyone else. He refuses to support raising the minimum wage. He believes wages are too high and he wants to provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the very richest families in America. That’s not an agenda that ‘makes America great.’ It’s just another Republican billionaire wanting to make the very rich richer at the expense of working families.”



https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-trump-is-getting-nervous/

I’ve noticed a lot of HRC supporters refer to Sanders supporters as PUMAs. Well, first, PUMA were nominal Clinton supporters in 2008. I say ‘nominal’ because the undisputed queen of the PUMAs, Darragh Murphy, only donated to McCain prior to that.

Another notable PUMA adds to the irony, Lynn Forrester, Lady de Rothschild, seen here calling a man who grew up on food stamps an elitist, herself the daughter of an aircraft tycoon who married a baron. (The video was uploaded by another notable PUMA, Larry Johnson, best known for the ‘whitey tape’ hoax, but it actually is AC360.)



What am I getting at? PUMA created the smears about Obama, PUMA nominally supported Clinton, but PUMA really supported McCain and thought Clinton was unelectable.

When you remind people of PUMA, what you’re telling me is “Hillary can’t win—vote Hillary!”

(As an aside, the 2008 campaign was when I fell out of love with Ms Clinton, due to the racially-charged nature of the campaign, and not just the PUMAs.)


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/27/1464018/-Why-PUMA-References-Reflect-Poorly-on-HRC-A-History-Lesson

Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump

.@BernieSanders-who blew his campaign when he gave Hillary a pass on her e-mail crime, said that I feel wages in America are too high. Lie!

11:49 AM - 27 Dec 2015

The date for the release is only part of the story. The film will be launched in one of the most progressive and activist formats ever conceived. Early test scores of the film have it getting the highest viewer ratings of any of Moore’s previous films. “What it has shown us is the film not only plays well as just a movie, but the issues raised in the film deeply affect people,” Moore said.

So Moore asked his distributors to get on board with a release plan designed to rock the nation: “I said …. give me a month or so to barnstorm the country, me personally, in a big rock ‘n’ roll tour bus, and we will criss-cross the country showing the film for free, leading up to the New Hampshire primary — because the issues in the film are the issues, the real issues, people want being discussed in this election year.” They may also have music and rallies along the way.

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/25/michael_moore_just_exploded_the_rights_biggest_lie/

Moore then embarks on a tour of a series of European nations and one in Africa where he finds society getting it right. From debt-free education to paid leave, women’s rights, prison reform and delicious school lunches, Moore offers viewers a world where people simply live better than we do here.

In a brilliant move, Moore has made his most patriotic film yet without shooting a single frame in the United States.

Richard Sullivan, of the lobbying firm Capitol Counsel, is a bundler for the Clinton campaign, bringing in $44,859 in contributions in a few short months. Sullivan is also a registered lobbyist for the Geo Group, a company that operates a number of jails, including immigrant detention centers, for profit.

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/23/private-prison-lobbyists-raising-cash-hillary-clinton/

A senior executive with the second-largest for-profit prison company in America assured investment bankers last summer that despite talk of drug policy and criminal justice reform, the country will continue to “attract crime,” generating new “correctional needs.”

“The reality is, we are a very affluent country, we have loose borders, and we have a bad education system,” said Shayn March, the vice president and treasurer of the Geo Group. “And all that adds up to a significant amount of correctional needs, which, thankfully, we’ve been able to help the country out with and states with by providing a lower cost solution.”

The previously unreported remarks were made during a presentation at the Barclays High Yield Bond & Syndicated Loan conference in June.

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/22/geo-group-explains-crime/

Actor Mark Ruffalo, who was hoping to see Elizabeth Warren run for president, is on board with a petition to get the DNC to host more presidential debates:

Mark Ruffalo ✔@MarkRuffalo

Please Sign Robert Reich's petition: Tell Democrats to hold more presidential debates. #MoreDemDebates

http://act.democracyforamerica.com/s/175041.Rrkoa5

10:18 AM - 26 Dec 2015



SIGN ROBERT REICH'S PETITION to the DNC: Demand more debates with Sanders, Clinton, and O'Malley
By DemocracyForAmerica @DFAaction

If Democrats are going to win the White House in November, they need to be making their case to the American people NOW -- and the debates are one of their best opportunities to do so.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will bid farewell to 2015 with a New Year's Eve party in Des Moines.

The Democratic presidential hopeful, who will campaign in Iowa Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, will host the party from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Doors open at 6 p.m.

The event will be at the Savery Ballroom at the Renaissance Des Moines Savery Hotel in downtown Des Moines. The party is free and open to the public, although RSVPs ARE RECOMMENDED.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/12/23/sanders-host-new-years-eve-party-des-moines/77863594/