Advocacy Groups Call Foul on Sanders Campaign in Iowa, Nevada

[riversedge]

Source: newsweek



Advocacy Groups Call Foul on Sanders Campaign in Iowa, Nevada


By Emily Cadei On 1/28/16 at 6:22 PM


Senator Bernie Sanders has built his insurgent presidential bid around being Mr. Clean, but several outside groups are now accusing his campaign of playing dirty.

Sanders’s campaign in Iowa has included League of Conservation Voters and AARP logos in recent mailers it’s sent to prospective caucusgoers, a subtle effort to tie himself to those groups, if not implying an endorsement. But neither group has backed him. The AARP, which represents retirees, does not endorse candidates, and the League of Conservative Voters, an environmental advocacy group, is supporting Sanders’s Democratic foe, Hillary Clinton.

And now news has broken of what is potentially an even more bald-faced deception, in Nevada, where Sanders supporters have reportedly been posing as members of Las Vegas’s powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to try to rally labor support ahead of the state’s Democratic caucuses on February 20.


For a candidate who has boasted about not taking money from billionaires and never running a negative political ad in his life, the moves raise questions about the iconoclastic Vermont lawmaker’s campaign just days before the make-or-break Iowa caucuses......................

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-complaints-iowa-nevada-420806

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[Renew Deal]

1. 3 scandals in one day

And it comes at the same time as some very dishonest stuff I've seen on DU the last few days (untruths, RW sources, misleading posts, etc).

[JackRiddler]

22. Better if he'd bombed three countries I guess.

[workinclasszero]

26. Blocking the Brady bill and protecting

Big gun manufacturers are responsible for hundreds of dead Americans.

Thanks Bernie

[JackRiddler]

27. I guess only the dead Americans count?

How many died as a result of the banking deregulation under Clinton which caused the financial crash?

[billhicks76]

32. PaheticComment

Keep smearing the only good person. It only strengthens him.

[tarheelsunc]

43. Only good person in the primary? In Vermont? In the world?

[billhicks76]

47. In The Race duh

[840high]

2. Unrec

[KamaAina]

3. "the League of Conservative Voters, an environmental advocacy group"

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Print or online, same old Newsweak.

[MeNMyVolt]

6. ConservaTION. For cryin out loud.

[Lage Nom Ai]

13. That's right

The same conservation group that endorsed the one who was whoring for fossil fuel and Wall Street money last night. Seems it's not only her judgement that should come into question.

[tarheelsunc]

44. Apparently this disgusting post was allowed to stand 2-5.

A female presidential candidate is "whoring" for money... really?

[Lage Nom Ai]

45. ?

It would have been okay if it was a male candidate?

[BumRushDaShow]

48. Yup

that's how DU rolls nowadays...

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[GusBob]

23. Lol weak

[MeNMyVolt]

4. His campaign seems to be losing it.

[lunamagica]

5. K&R. I'm glad newsweek is on it

"the league requires permission to use its logo and only grants that to politicians who’ve been endorsed by the affiliated LCV Action Fund. In the presidential race, that’s Clinton. According to a spokesman, the group has asked the Sanders campaign to not continue using its logo, and the campaign is looking into how it happened."


and

"If the data breach didn’t gin up any backlash, it’s hard to see Sanders losing votes over skirmishes about logos and union politicking. But is there any doubt that if the roles were reversed and Clinton operatives were behaving this way, it would be a much bigger story?

If Hillary's camp had done any of those things, they'd be huge scandals. It's just wrong that Sanders always gets a pass

[azurnoir]

7. so the League of Conservative Voters backs Hillary sounds about right

and oh thanks for including AARP's statement not once but twice, re enforces how much of a tempest in teapot this really is , really Newsweek's headline is much more lurid

[pangaia]

10. League of CONSERVATION Voters..

Just so you know.

[azurnoir]

12. ah ha are they pro fracking too?

[azurnoir]

15. oh wait they have "strong concerns" about fracking but they didn't say "cut it out" :)

[murielm99]

41. They know.

They are trying to use the Sanders' campaigns underhanded tactics to further smear Clinton.

If they repeat it often enough, in this thread or elsewhere, it is supposed to become true.

[AzDar]

8. LOL

[scottie55]

9. Oh This Is Horrible - I Will Start Supporting Wall Street Candidate Immediately!

My gawd!

Release the hounds!

Call to arms!

Bad Bernie!

Screw the seniors, and the environment!

I endorsed Goldman Sachs!

[still_one]

14. so you have no problem with someone implying an endorsement without permission?

[azurnoir]

17. implying? so wait Bernie didn't say they endorsed him?

[still_one]

31. by using the logo, it is an implied endorsement

[billhicks76]

33. Yawn

[still_one]

36. I am sure that would be the same reaction if the Clinton camp did it, right?

[billhicks76]

37. When It Comes To Clinton

Best to wait a minute to see the actual facts.

[mahina]

38. Came here to say this.

Thanks.

I don't think Bernie would do this, and if he did, he should repudiate it asap.

If it's a false flag operation, which wouldn't surprise me, I'd love to know the source.

[liberal N proud]

11. Call me shocked

Mr. Clean? No one in politics is that clean.

[immoderate]

16. Oh-h No-o-o!

--imm

[november3rd]

18. Nice try

Somebody may decide they can't support Sanders because of this, but I find the lack of definitive clarity of detail concerning exactly what the mailing said, who in the Sanders campaign authorized it, who was it sent to--when, why and how many--and what the Sanders' campaign's response is, to all make for a very weak indictment of the Sanders campaign.

[riversedge]

21. You will have to ask the Sanders camp those questions

[blackspade]

25. I thought that was what journalists were supposed to do.

prior to publishing this kind of one-sided garbage.

[murielm99]

42. Informed voters check things out for themselves.

[blackspade]

46. ironic comedy.

well played

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. Oh no! Not "Mr. Clean". Say it ain't so!

[billhicks76]

34. Probably Isn't So

Go back to laughing about impoverishing Americans and killing everyone else in the Middle East.

[mcar]

20. Hmmm

Guess Bernie isn't such a "saint" after all.

[blackspade]

24. Another hit piece by Newsweek.

Lame.

[DJ13]

28. The air of desperation has an odor thats unmistakeable

This smells just like 2008.

[nc4bo]

30. Doesn't it now?

Oh yes it does.

[SunSeeker]

29. Sanders' campaign is so desperate for endorsements they're making them up.

[Iliyah]

35. Oh my

[murielm99]

39. This reminds me of Nixon. n/t

[Eko]

40. Campaigns mess up.

Not the greatest thing to have done but not really bad at all.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

50. I don't think Bernie could possibly micro-manage at that level. But he should publicly FIRE someone!

[bunnies]

49. None of my mailers have anything like that on them.

Ill believe it when I see it.