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Showing Original Post only (View all)DNC Superdelegate Promoting Brokered Convention Is A Significant GOP Donor, Health Care Lobbyist [View all]
Time to meet some of the superdelegates that everyone is suddenly such a big fan of.
First up, a corporate lobbyist who donates to Republicans! Who could imagine why he wouldn't want Bernie to be president???
WILLIAM OWEN, a Tennessee-based Democratic National Committee member backing an effort to use so-called superdelegates to select the partys presidential nominee potentially subverting the candidate with the most voter support is a Republican donor and health care lobbyist.
Owen, who runs a lobbying firm called Asset & Equity Corporations, donated to Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and gave $8,500 to a joint fundraising committee designed to benefit Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in 2019.
Owen, who runs a lobbying firm called Asset & Equity Corporations, donated to Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and gave $8,500 to a joint fundraising committee designed to benefit Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in 2019.
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/27/dnc-superdelegate-convention-gop-donor/
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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DNC Superdelegate Promoting Brokered Convention Is A Significant GOP Donor, Health Care Lobbyist [View all]
DanTex
Feb 2020
OP
Exactly. Jill Stein supporter Briahna Joy used to work for greenwald's intercept, and now
still_one
Feb 2020
#55
Vast majority are elected or formerly elected officials - where did you get the idea they weren't?
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#17
LOL. I wonder why you didn't post the numbers of each of those categories? Hmmm....
DanTex
Feb 2020
#21
Yes, but it's educational to others in the process. They get the facts that they
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#42
OOH - I found out that one of the non-elected Superdelegates worked with PAUL MANAFORT!!!
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#58
LOL. No, they really aren't. More than half are DNC members, not elected officials. Sorry.
DanTex
Feb 2020
#40
He spends a great deal of time working with Tennessee Democrats and for Tennessee Democrats. Not a
bluedye33139
Feb 2020
#7
Not sure why you would be ok with a repub donor being a Dem super delegate.
brutus smith
Feb 2020
#13
What are talking about? You should at least read the OP and the comment I responded to.
brutus smith
Feb 2020
#30
That's an odd conclusion to draw from an article about a corporate lobbyist and GOP donor.
DanTex
Feb 2020
#16
The Intercept... Along with Jacobin, they're Tiger Beat for Bernie, & keep anti-Democratic party
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#20
I remember when they tried to credit Bernie's blessing with Randall Woodfin's 2017 victory
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#34
Well, if you're going to tar everyone who's backed a brokered convention with the same brush...
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#25
Dan, I like your non-election year posts and I love your photos, but this is getting nuts.
Squinch
Feb 2020
#26
How about a Superdelegate that used to be a BUSINESS ASSOCIATE to PAUL MANAFORT?
ehrnst
Feb 2020
#57