DC votes to put Sanders on primary ballot

[JonLeibowitz]

4. The Clinton campaign is spinning this...and lying while doing so

But the council action did not come without a fight — led by Clinton supporters. They sought to use the council interference to highlight that Sanders was in need of a legislative rescue only because his campaign had chosen to pay its way onto the D.C. ballot rather than to collect signatures as Clinton had done.

Sanders “put himself into this situation,” said D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange (D-At Large), a chairman of Clinton’s last presidential campaign in the District. “The difference is Hillary Clinton put a crew on the ground and collected signatures — Sanders did not.”

The problem for Sanders came last month when he took advantage of a Democratic Party rule that allowed him to submit a $2,500 donation to the D.C. Democratic State Committee — in lieu of 1,000 signatures — to become certified as a candidate in the party primary.

Sanders submitted his check on time. But the committee notified the D.C. Board of Elections a day later, after the deadline to do so, and a Democratic activist challenged Sanders’s status as a result.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-bends-rules-to-allow-bernie-sanders-on-the-primary-ballot/2016/04/05/6e0f0c0a-fb3e-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html

Paying the fee or collecting signatures had nothing to do with the challenge. Lies Lies Lies.