Florida judge dismisses fraud lawsuit against DNC

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84. And this in particular just made me spit out my coffee:

"It shows the creation of an aura of inevitability of Hillary Clinton's candidacy that the DNC pushed into the media and, essentially, in our view, crushed the Bernie Sanders campaign."

They really wanted the court to rule that the DNC, DWS in particular had that kind of power to "create an aura." With no evidence whatsoever that any action was taken to "crush Bernie Sanders campaign."

(Sounds very much like someone blaming an election loss on someone other than one's own campaign, ironically enough.)

and this:

"This is a case -- and I have to make this point again and again, because I think this really gets back to the technical issues that your Honor identified at the outset, which is that we have standing here because there was payment of money in reliance on a false understanding that was created by these defendants."

Especially after reading that none of the plaintiffs had actually read the Charter that they said was the proof that they were "defrauded."

As to the "aura of inevitability" that was apparently so powerful it "crushed" Sanders' campaign, and fooled people who would otherwise vote against her into voting for her...

Anyone with any knowledge of political campaigns (which apparently is not applicable to a whole lot of people) knows that to keep the White House in a party after two consecutive terms in highly unlikely, which means you have to start laying the groundwork for such a campaign to keep it two years in advance. So YES the DNC had been thinking about this back in 2014, and as the candidate who came within 1% of Obama in 2008, HRC was an obvious choice, and likely frontrunner. Any candidate opposing her would have known that.

More:

http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf