2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo how did Bernie staffers get Culinary Union buttons, if not from someone in the Union?
Either someone low on the totem pole in the Union thought this was a good idea and handed out buttons to Bernie's people or the Union gives out buttons to whoever asks for one.
Whatever happened this isn't subterfuge as the Bernie staffers were talking to union members in plain sight.
It sounds to me like the Union has responded the way it has because they have taken a position of being neutral and they are concerned this incident undermines that.
ypsfonos
(144 posts)Bernie made them in his secret factory
we is doomed!
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)get you as many as you need. I hear they're selling like hotcakes so you gotta act fast.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)why is it wrong? Someone messed up but I don't think it was Bernie's people who, if the reports are true, were walking around in the open talking to union members. This kind of behavior is hardly the actions of people who know that what they are doing is wrong.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)We were just informed that the entire story was a fabrication by the union. Now you're saying they had buttons, but it's okay because you think they must have come from someone in the union?
Come on. Can't you guys agree on one story and stick with it?
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)may differ from another's opinion.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)As long as one sticks to the general principal: Bernie, gospel truth; rest of the world: liars.
Gotcha.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)We are just, well....
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)How excuse-y.
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)because they got them somewhere and I very much doubt that there are shady people standing on corners in Las Vegas hawking counterfeit Culinary Union buttons.
It sounds to me like Bernie's people were given the go-ahead by someone in the Union who didn't clear it with his or hers higher ups.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)Do we know if anyone was outed as a masquerader? There's literally no details on this except hearsay from someone who campaigned with Clinton and just so happens to head up the union in question. Let's see some proper evidence here.
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)But I am just a mere conspiracy theorist here
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...staffed by smuggled child workers from Bangladesh.