The Bernie Sanders campaign sought to keep two key Clinton allies from co-chairing Democratic National Convention committees at the Democratic convention in July, according to a report from Politico.
Now, according to the Associated Press, the DNC has rejected the Sanders campaign’s request.
The AP reported the DNC did not find that the complaint had merit and they were “compelled to dismiss it.”
In the original complaint letter obtained by Politico,, the Sanders campaign asked for both former Rep. Barney Frank (R-MA) and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy to be stripped of their co-chair positions on their respective Standing Rules Committee and Standing Platform Committee.
Sanders’ council wrote “both Governor Malloy and Mr.Frank (the”Chairs”) have been harsh,vocal critics of Senator Sanders and equally active supporters of his challenger, Hillary Clinton.”
“While it is expected, acceptable and even desirable, that committee members and leaders at the Convention will represent a diversity of political views and presidential preferences,the preferences of party officials must not interfere with the fair and neutral administration of Convention business and procedures,” the complaint said.
The letter went on to explain specific incidences when the surrogates criticized Sanders.
“Mr.Frank’s animosity toward Senator Sanders dates back decades,” the later stated. “After Senator Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primaries in February, Mr.Frank wrote an opinion piece in which he professed his “resentment” toward the Senator. And Mr.Frank’s invective against Senator Sanders has only intensified as Senator Sanders has notched additional primary victories.”
In an interview with Politico, Frank offered an explanation.
“I think what you have here is this: Sanders is losing to Hillary Clinton because she is getting many more votes and many more pledged delegates. Some of [the Sanders supporters] are trying to lay the claim that he’s being unfairly deprived of this.”
It’s time to give Bernie a choice. Either play with the team or be cut loose to try to play as a free agent. I no longer care about, nor am I worried about his running a campaign as an independent - he’s been essentially doing that anyway. And at least he’ll be lobbing his grenades from outside instead of inside the compound.
But Cornell West has never expressed a negative thought about Hillary, though. Grow up Bernie. Your whining is getting tiresome. What exactly do you think losing a primary process entitles you to demand? And if you don’t get what you demand, you’ll send your berniedudes to destroy the whole convention? Again, grow up. It’s sad to see a man in his late 70’s act like a twelve year old brat.
A bridge too far-Frank, the archetect of effective bank regulation. Time for Warren to step in and support her former MA colleague. That’ll give pespective and light to Sanders real problems and dishonesty.
From Nate Silver, updated 1219 EDT 28 May 2016:
[According to our latest polls-plus forecast, Hillary Clinton has a 97% chance of winning the California primary.]
From ME:
[“Counting today, there are 10 more days of BernieBros… then the Democrats enter a new stage of the campaign”]
PostScript: Although I have Military Service, I was never in a Crusade like Overlord. I cannot imagine how those soldiers felt. For that reason I try to glean as much as possible from written and film accounts (both fiction and historical).
After 7 June 2016, the bullshit stops and we will see what kind of Crusade we can mount to rescue our country. What kind of Democratic Party and American People we are…and, if I may be permitted to paraphrase a Soviet mother as she worked 16-hour days in a Russian factory beyond the Urals, “I work like this so that, with every weapon I manufacture, my son comes closer to being back to me”. The Russians lost at least 7,000,000 in battle and an additional 7,000,000 civilians. The Allies would not have won the war without this Soviet sacrifice. The bulk of Sir Martin Gilbert’s superb history of The Second World War (same title) reads like scores of maps depicting the Soviets labouriously and bloodily pushing back the Nazis.
SURELY sauntering down to cast one’s vote in November 2016 against the greatest threat to American Democracy since 2 September 1945 is the LEAST the disinterested masses of voters can do.
Not to mention, Frank is a gay rights icon and Bernie is not doing too well with the LGBT community these days.