Sanders Accuses DNC Of Keeping Union Members Off the Platform

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/281916-sanders-accuses-dnc-of-keeping-labor-union-members-off

What we heard from the DNC was they did not want representatives of labor unions on the platform drafting committee," Sanders said during a news conference Wednesday, according to The Washington Post. "That’s correct."


Sanders submitted RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, to be included on the platform drafting committee. But according to Sanders and DeMoro, the DNC vetoed the nomination.

“Bernie called me and told me that he needed somebody who was a very strong voice for Medicare for all and labor on the DNC [drafting committee] and he thought I would be very vocal,” DeMoro told Politico.

"Bernie told me it was very important to him that I would agree to do this.”

[msongs]

1. sanders accuses lots of people of lots of things.the universe is out to get him ya know nt

[frylock]

10. Like a VRWC?

[Renew Deal]

2. So Sanders knew she wasn't going to qualify for the committee and he picked her anyway?

Just more grandstanding from Bernie

[RufusTFirefly]

3. How dare he question the wisdom of the great and powerful DNC!

[SFnomad]

4. BS knew the DNC didn't want union members on the drafting committee, but he submitted one anyway

From the article in the OP:

DNC platform committee spokeswoman Dana Vickers Shelley said in an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday that the DNC didn't want labor leaders on the platform drafting committee because they already had a representative on the full committee. Paul Booth of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union is the only labor representative on the committee.

“Because union leadership was represented on the full platform committee, a decision was made no union leadership would be represented on the platform drafting committee,” said Vickers Shelley.

“That was communicated to the campaigns, and they understood our rationale.”

[CorkySt.Clair]

5. I always thought Bernie was a backseat driver

But never pegged him for a nutcase. I think he may need a loooooooong rest after this is over.

[jillan]

6. The New Democratic Party = Lobbyists good. Unions bad.

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7. Bernie's having a hard time proving he's a team player.

[AzDar]

8. Nurses: America's Most Trusted Professionals... Debbie WantstoRigItShultz not so much.

They are DESTROYING the Party...

[Hekate]

9. Politics, red in tooth and claw

Bernie is being a manipulative politician, my my. He is simply trying to pack the committee with people of his own choosing, including non-Dem hostile-to-Dem-Party Cornel freaking West.

If he had not done that, I'd have no objection to the nurses and I bet the committee wouldn't either. What was it Barnie Frank said about Bernie Sanders when he was in the House? Oh yeah, he was his own worst enemy and alienated his natural allies with his self righteous rigidity -- or words to that effect.

Too bad, because I think the nurses union would have been a natural.