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Once again---It is the Sanders camp who do not know the rules/process--yet publicly yet out how unfair the process is. Shame on them!


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@politico ---OH my --once again @BernieSanders is having a fit. He makes himself out to be such a victim!



Sanders crashes into Democratic Party wall

The Vermont senator's camp seethes over real and perceived slights from the party establishment.

By Daniel Strauss

05/13/16 05:12 AM EDT


...................After piling up millions of votes and wins in 19 states, Bernie Sanders and his supporters are beginning to lay out their expectations for the Democratic National Convention — and they’re expressing deep frustration with what they see as a wall of party resistance.

The most recent flare-up occurred last week, when Sanders publicly released a letter to Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz accusing her of stacking the deck against him on the convention's standing committees. “[W]e are prepared to mobilize our delegates to force as many votes as necessary to amend the platform and rules on the floor of the convention," wrote Sanders, several days after a tense phone conversation with the chairwoman.

According to a Sanders official with knowledge of the call, the senator demanded more representation on the committees but Wasserman Schultz would only assure him that he would have representation. A DNC spokesman declined to characterize the conversation and would only confirm that it took place.
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The chairwoman contends that the Sanders’ frustrations are misguided — that they resulted from his campaign’s misreading of the rules, rather than any attempt to put her finger on the scale.

There appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the Sanders campaign about the way the standing committees of the convention are appointed," she said. "I have nominated and the Democratic National Executive Committee have elected 25 members to each of the standing committees: rules, credentials and platform in January. They've been elected and that process is complete. The remaining membership of each of the standing committees has 167 additional members which are divided proportionally based on the statewide vote that each candidate has earned. So the overwhelming majority of the remaining members of the standing committee are made up of the candidates' choices to serve on those committees. So the answer is yes, both Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton will have the lion's share of the representation and membership on each of the standing committees at the convention.”

That answer, however, carefully eludes the heart of the Sanders camp's grievance: that the allocation of the initial 75 DNC-nominated standing committee members doesn’t in any way reflect the proportion of the vote the senator has won in the primaries and caucuses...................

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-dnc-rules-committee-222978#ixzz48cxkLaac
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