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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders tells Democrats to back off primary attacks [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)...like that again.
On the other hand, two comments:
1. The DCCC represents only a small fraction of all the elected members of the Democratic Party, specifically only House Democrats. They don't represent Senate Democrats or any state or locally elected Democrats and they don't represent the party as a whole.
2. The point of this OP and this discussion has been Senator Sanders lecturing the Democratic Party (as a whole) for what one organization, the DCCC, did in Texas' 7th District.
My point in even getting involved in this discussion is that his very own organization, Our Revolution, did almost exactly the same thing or maybe even worse, to a Democratic candidate in the 22nd District.
Specifically, Our Revolution claimed that the leading Democratic candidate, Sri Kulkarni (who ultimately finished first, their endorsed candidate finished third), had a "criminal record" because he was arrested as an 18-year old (21 years earlier) for possession of less than a gram of cocaine. That charge was ultimately dismissed without a conviction.
They also claimed that he was running under an assumed name (!), since his full name is Srinivas Kulkarni, and that he also registered to run for a congressional seat in Massachusetts.
To me and many others, what they did was despicable and might even have been worse than what the DCCC did.
One should get their own house in order before they tell others how to run their house.