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KoKo

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Wed Nov 12, 2014, 11:35 PM Nov 2014

Report: Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails

(It''s RW "NewMax" Rag...but still an interesting read ...outside our Dem Box from the RW View)

Report: Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails

Liberal activists are slamming Hillary Clinton in a members-only group on Google, with some calling for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the White House in 2016 to teach the former secretary of State and mainstream Democrats a lesson.

"The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message," Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in an email obtained by The Hill.


Warren, 65, who is in her first term, has repeatedly said that she would not seek the presidency in 2016. Clinton, 66, who is seen as the likely Democratic nominee, has said that
she will decide early next year on whether to run.

The Hill said it reviewed "hundreds of emails" from a the "Gamechanger Salon," a private, members only forum through which nearly 1,500 progressive activists, journalists, and strategists discuss issues and develop messaging efforts.

The group is run by Billy Wimsatt, founder of the progressive League of Young Voters, according to MediaTrackers.org,
which first reported on the Gamechanger Salon earlier this year.

Its members include prominent Democrats, executives of such powerful unions as the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and officials and members of such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

The president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Nancy Keenan, is a member — as well as journalists who work for such liberal news organizations as The Nation magazine and The Huffington Post.


According to the Hill, the emails it reviewed from June 2013 through July show a clear dissatisfaction with Clinton.

"A Clinton presidency undos [sic] all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have," Melissa Byrne, an activist with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said in a November 2013 email.

The newspaper talked with a half-dozen Gamechanger Salon members this week, learning that the frustration with Clinton has only grown since it last read some of the emails.

"There’s good reason to believe the discontent remains the same," said Neil Sroka, spokesman for Democracy for America.
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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/elizabeth-warren-liberals-democrats-president/2014/09/18/id/595602/

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Report: Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails (Original Post) KoKo Nov 2014 OP
So let's all post ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2014 #1
Wow, giving recognition to fucking Newsmax giftedgirl77 Nov 2014 #2
There's also a report from legit sources that Hillary was left out of a big liberal meeting PAProgressive28 Nov 2014 #3

PAProgressive28

(270 posts)
3. There's also a report from legit sources that Hillary was left out of a big liberal meeting
Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:10 AM
Nov 2014

So this may not be BS

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