Newsweek: Advocacy groups call foul on Sanders campaign in Iowa, Nevada

[pnwmom]

According to reports, his campaign has used without permission the logos of AARP -- even though AARP hasn't endorsed anyone -- and the League of Conservation voters, which endorsed Hillary. How could this be an accident?

And now the Culinary Workers Union says that campaign workers have been wearing buttons falsely identifying themselves as union members and entering union facilities and campaigning while wearing those union buttons.

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

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.

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The Sanders campaign could spin those as honest mistakes, but given how much thought campaigns put into their advertising and the messages they’re trying to convey, that requires some credulity. It will be harder to explain away how campaign supporters knowingly deceived hotel workers on the Las Vegas Strip to gain access to employee-only areas, as veteran Nevada politics scribe Jon Ralston is reporting.

[JonLeibowitz]

1. Thanks i hadn't seen the other 50 threads.

[MeNMyVolt]

2. K&R for the OP.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Has Sanders lost control of his campaign

These ethical lapses are out of character for him.

Either he doesn't give a damn about ethics, or he is incapable of controling his employees.

[MeNMyVolt]

5. I feel the same. It has to be Weaver fucking it up.

[PatrickforO]

6. Or...

There's a big huge RAT trying to FUCK him. That is a distinct possibility, at least in my eyes.

[enid602]

10. Jane

Jane does have a history of cutting corners.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. These developments are distressing.

In the absence of more evidence I will just chalk it up to overzealous supporters.

[frazzled]

7. Can you imagine ...

if the Clinton campaign were pulling these kinds of deceptions how much hell would break loose? These are dirty tricks worthy of Republicans, not major candidates in a Democratic race.

The "pure as the driven snow" mantle is falling apart quickly.

[litlbilly]

9. You mean like of the bullshit David Brock is puting out there? Wow, just amazing

[hedda_foil]

12. That sounds like something HRH would do to smear Bernie.

Sure. Print up a mess of faux Bernie brochures and leave them around Las Vegas or mail them to her Nevada list.

As far as Bernie supporters rallying the culinary workers, they're almost certainly real members of that union.

This stinks of Brock.

[litlbilly]

13. It sure does.

[enid602]

8. trick

Swell. Dirty tricks.

[jillan]

11. The envelope is a total photoshop, a very bad one at that.

Whoever did it doesn't know the first thing about an envelope. It's laughable, as are the pencil marks used to line it up.