Bernie Sanders Organizer Screams Expletives at Rally: 'F*ck Hillary! F*ck Hillary!'

[Tom Rinaldo]

225. I see someone identified as "Msrk Craig" being described as "a Bernie Sanders organizer".

I went looking for more about him because many of the comments above seem to assume this guy is on the Sander's staff and that he is a paid organizer for Bernie Sanders. I thought that displayed a questionable leap of logic without more supporting evidence. I know plenty of grass roots activists who call themselves "organizers" for some cause that they believe in, but they aren't paid by anyone nor do they have any formal organizational ties. They freelance organize as the spirit moves them.

I found one story from 2016 that described "Mark Craig" as "the founder of a grassroots volunteer group in Michigan that supports Bernie Sanders"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kossacks_for_Sanders/comments/4bxepm/ryan_hughes_mi_and_pa_bernie_state_director/?depth=2

I found another from 2016 where he was featured in a (Flint Michigan) human interest story

"Flint, Michigan: Where the pipes poison the water and even the nice parts of town are dotted with vacant homes"
"A generation ago, in a different world, Mark Craig, the founder of an organization called 'Flint 4 Bernie,' was living the textbook American dream...
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/flint-michigan

The guy came off in that story as a fervent Sanders supporter, clearly, but self activated and not in anyway coordinating with the Sanders campaign. Here's some insight into him:

"Craig left Flint right out of high school. He spent 22 years in the Navy before leaving to sell boats in Florida. He came back six years ago after Michigan legalized medical marijuana. He grows his own now, for himself and five others. It’s good stuff, he says. Potent. His girlfriend swears by it. It’s good for her arthritis...

...Craig comes from politics, the local kind. His dad was a union organizer. His mom’s a Democratic party lifer. Over the past forty years, Craig has volunteered for every big name Democrat that’s come around. Carter was the best of them, he said. Bill Clinton was the worst.

Craig quit the party recently. He only rejoined to volunteer for Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described socialist running Hillary Clinton a close second in Iowa. “I figured it was our one chance to get an honest person elected,” he said. “I’ve had too many Bushes and too many Clintons.”

Every weekend since last spring, Craig has parked the Bern Unit at the Flint farmer’s market. He hands out home-pressed buttons and signs up voters..."

I don't know if it all has changed this time around and now he is the Sanders inner circle as a core paid organizer, but that seems improbable. More likely Craig is still a passionate Sanders supporter doing what he thinks he can to help a politician he believes in.

Screaming anti Hillary Clinton obscenities in a rally crowd does Bernie Sanders no good of course, but nothing suggests that Craig had any significant role in organizing that rally. His outburst was as stupid as it was ugly. I unhesitatingly personally "Condemn it", but there are a lot of passionate people in the world who say and do dumb ass things who I usually don't get a chance to weigh in personally to condemn them.

Calling Mark Craig out is one thing. Implying that he has some important official role in the Sanders campaign is another, and unless someone produces evidence that he does, than in my book he is just some over the top guy who clearly has strong beliefs but lacks some rudimentary political judgement. NOT SOMEONE WORKING FOR BERNIE SANDERS
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