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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nina Turner had questionable issues with Our Revolution [View all]
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Nina better hope Shontel Brown doesn't bring up Turner's disastrous tenure as president of Our Revolution, where the money came up funny and the board had to stop her from hiring her anti-immigrant friend while fearing she intended to use OR to further her own political ambitions
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In a statement out Tuesday, Turner, the groups president, noted that the comments by Tezlyn Figaro are not held by Turner, or by Our Revolution. On Fox News last year, Figaro cited President Donald Trumps leadership on the travel ban and said, We are sick and tired of immigrants coming into the country and getting benefits that Americans do not get what Im seeing is not paying taxes, what Im seeing is getting a lot of freebies that Americans do not get.
Those comments and others a month after Trumps election in 2016 she tweeted Please! #buildthewall have upset many in the organization. The Our Revolution board stopped Turner from installing Figora as the groups chief of staff.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/our-revolution-sanders-turner-figaro-603410
Anti-immigrant, supporter of Trump policies, & Fox News regular, Tezlyn Figaro was personally hired by Turner as OR's COS.
THIS IS WHO TURNER pals around with.
There is a reason why Turner never speaks ill of Republicans. Yet damns every Democrat trying to hold the line against the annhiliation of American Democracy.
There's a reason Turner's AMARE PR GROUP is supported by RU compromised MERCURY Global Lobbyists, whose CEO Kirill GORNCHENKO was a RU Putin associate of Paul Manafort.
There is a reason Turner hired Manafort's Ukraine electoral companion, Tad DeVine, to aid her future campaigns.
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Hey, HELLO SOMEBODY 🤪? Can you tell us what Nina Turner's real game is here?
That's some shady bowl of shit we're being fed.
What's up with this Ms Turner?
Could SOMEBODY Also ask if Nina plans to maje her home in OH to address the need of those constituents, OR will she abandon them to go back home to Maryland?
Would be kinda good for OH-11 to know if they'll be represented locally, or not.
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So, Nina gets to find out what it is like to have her own "sins," "lies," and tactics come back
hlthe2b
Jul 2021
#1
Bernie's BIG mistake was giving Nina Turner the power of position with Our Rev, in the 1st place
Budi
Jul 2021
#5
Well said, betsuni. Nina is not a progressive. They are all building a "brand" but now
Nixie
Jul 2021
#48
Good point. I will start calling them that. I am progressive but not in alignment with that set...nt
Blasphemer
Jul 2021
#54
Most people worried about Covid, healthcare, food on the table, climate change, etc. want
betsuni
Jul 2021
#40
Why would anyone with a decent reputation to protect ever Endorse this sketchy mess 🙄
Budi
Jul 2021
#6
She founded "Amare Public Affairs" in late September 2020, and immediately paid herself...
George II
Jul 2021
#33
She is a lobbyist that is back by Mercury Public Affairs, which has ties to trump, Paul Manafort....
George II
Jul 2021
#44
Isn't that Jill Stein sitting with Vladimir Putin and convicted/pardoned by trump Michael Flynn?
George II
Jul 2021
#45
I wonder if the Shontel Brown campaign will bring this up and make it an issue?
NurseJackie
Jul 2021
#50
Glad to see the new polling. The earlier ones were hard to believe. Hope Brown wins.. nt
Blasphemer
Jul 2021
#53