Guess Who Wasn’t Invited to Tonight’s Democratic Debate in Flint

[leftcoastmountains]

Flint residents interested in hearing Democratic candidates’ plans for dealing with their poisoned water at tonight’s debate may have to watch from home. That’s because CNN and the DNC have released no tickets to the general public.

Area residents scrambled to try to find information on how to get tickets to tonight’s debate.

“We’ve been getting a lot of calls with questions about how to get tickets to Sunday’s debate, but at this point it looks like no tickets will be given out to the public without an invitation,” said Natalie Zarowny, a journalist at Flint’s ABC affiliate.

Hillary Clinton has made the crisis a major campaign issue by holding events in Flint last month, and saying that the crisis was “unconscionable” and that “every single American should be outraged.” Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz echoed Clinton on the importance of Flint’s crisis, “This debate is an opportunity to elevate the very serious issues facing the residents of Flint.”

Yet, despite the Clinton and Schultz’s rhetoric, it seems the people of Flint will once again be neglected and locked out of the debate.

http://usuncut.com/politics/flint-democratic-debate/

I guess this means tickets went to the Democratic Establishment. Which means everybody will be cheering for Hillary.

[wendylaroux]

1. so just h people? nt

[Nyan]

7. Pretty much, I guess.

The usual H fans. And occasionally, gentlemen who've become fans in a dramatic turn of events, after watching Benghazi hearing.

[840high]

12. Looks like it. I'm so over this .

[Bubzer]

16. More hilly bullshit

[think]

2. The DNC & CNN choose to leave out the actual people who live there. How sad is that....

[Enthusiast]

29. Sad but not surprising. eom

[retrowire]

3. No no no!

We've got one of our Bernie guys in the crowd tonight!

Motown_Johnny!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280136919

[wendylaroux]

8. Awesome!!!!! nt

[Half-Century Man]

4. So the media will use the people of Flint to help the establishment

rub one out for public entertainment.

[Siwsan]

5. It is my understanding that there is a big viewing party at the UofM-Flint

Which is right down town. Not as good as being at the Whiting, but at least it's a place for people to gather.

[intheflow]

10. But that won't be televised.

What matters is what's broadcast in real time. Perception is reality. So if everyone in the audience is establishment, that will be a manufactured, but prevailing, perception.

[Siwsan]

13. I guess I'm thinking about people who show up, thinking they will get in

At least they will have someplace warm to go, and watch. I know the local media will cover the UofM party, but, of course, the national won't.

But there are "regular" people there, too. A friend of my brother got a ticket. The Whiting is a BIG venue so I suspect it isn't going to be just a manufactured audience. Of course, I could be wrong. I'll know more when I see the audience shots. We 'Flintstones' recognize our own.

[dana_b]

6. of course not

they don't want the people who are living with this shit day in and day out to interrupt.

I think that the water that they serve to all of the audience should come from Flint's taps.

[Nyan]

9. MSM never take interest in poor people's plight. TV doesn't cast them in a favorable light.

That's not what they do.

[sarge43]

11. The "general public" probably couldn't afford the cover charge anyway. n/t

[Lorien]

14. After 50 years of being a Democrat, I've grown to utterly loathe

the Democratic party establishment. If we can't root out the unDemocratic corrupt scumbags that populate it, a third party will be the only way forward!

[TrueDemVA]

19. The Democratic Party has been slowly leaving us for the past 20 years.

This may be the final straw. It is so blatantly corrupt. I mean they don't even try to hide it anymore. Corporations and scum bags have taken over. They are alienating millions of people. My fear is we are heading to a reality of super rich and super poor. If anyone studies history, this type of environment is a recipe for disaster. The poor grow tired and angry and eventually rise up. I don't want that for my children. I hate what our party is doing. Being a democrat is starting to hurt.

[Lorien]

41. Well put TrueDemVA

I think it's actually been more like 30 years that they've been leaving us (and rapidly accelerating since the mid 90s), but yes, on all other counts I have to agree. Our planet itself can't handle much more of what they're pushing; the fracking, oil spills, methane leaks, biodiversity loss, ocean dead zones, out of control climate change....IT HAS TO STOP!

[ChiciB1]

21. AND, THE NUMBERS Are Growing! Can't Tell You How Many Dems I Talk With

who feel this way. TOTALLY FED UP, The Clintons and The Hierarchy aren't fooling anyone! Most think Hillary has actually lost some states that they've said she won.

There is NO TRUST and now a growing white hot anger! I know how I feel and it ain't good. I wrote a letter today in RED LETTERS to the DSCC, DNC & my State Dem Party telling them how I feel and to make sure to get my name of any lists Asking For A Donation! They won't be getting $$ from this house as long as they're ignoring WE THE PEOPLE!

This "thing" is building and they can ignore it all they want, Hillary may get her wish, BUT she will have ruined The Democratic Party. I find it hard to believe that the Party as a whole hasn't picked up on this growing anger because IT IS EVERYWHERE! And it's growing.

THIS time we won't be MADE TO HEEL!

[Enthusiast]

28. Ever consider this might be the actual objective—make you hate the party?

It almost seems like it at times.

[bvf]

30. You've got ten-plus years on me, but 100% agreed. n/t

[dreamnightwind]

34. Yes, I and many others are in the same place you are

Still working, thanks to Bernie's campaign, to do this within the party, against all odds and against every bit of the party establishment.

But us Sanders supporters are serious. The party has to represent us, not corporations, or we'll be forced to make a new party. The better outcome would be for us to succeed in retaking the Democratic Party.

They sure aren't making it easy, they'll fight us every inch of the way, with billions of dollars and an entrenched media establishment on their side. We have the truth on our side, amplified by the urgency of war, poverty and climate change.

I can't wait to see what comes after the Sanders campaign, this movement will morph, either as an empowered new wing of the party or as a competing external entity.

I keep pushing for the Progressive Caucus (which Bernie co-founded) to change its rules, allowing no candidates in their caucus who accept corporate money. They could. with our help, and maybe that of some of the large progressive NGO's (MoveOn, PDA. etc), provide an alternative people-funded campaign financing infrastructure to allow progressives to actually govern as progressives by making sure they owe no favors to corporate America.

[clg311]

36. Couldn't agree more.

And when she gets the nomination she'll move hard to the right and if she wins she'll support TPP, appoint Goldman Sachs cronies to her cabinet, a neo-con to secretary of war and VP and ignore the concerns of those who voted for her until 2020.

[southerncrone]

43. I keep repeating this over & over in response to many threads here:

"She was a Repuke long before she pretended to be a Democrat."

Any wonder the party has veered strongly to the right since the Clintons gained prominence? As far as I can see, they are just Bush Light.

[hillarysong2016]

15. Want to bet "invitation only" for autidence and probably other demands, were HRC's

conditions that HRC insisted on to go on Fox?

[INdemo]

17. Hillary's Campaign Thanks to Hillary Debbie,Bill DavidBrock,John Podesta

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is looking more like the Bush/Cheney Campaign than the Bush/Cheney Campaign.

Something was wrong in Maine,,,,,with a huge turnout for Bernie and in the end there were results that close
I'm not believing it....I could go one step further while I'm on the subject....I think Bernie won Mass.too

[ChiciB1]

22. Well, I Go Even Further... I Know He Won MA!

Sure the numbers don't show it, but they're NOT fooling a very large growing number of Democrats who've HAD ENOUGH!

[Enthusiast]

25. Me too.

[Enthusiast]

26. I'm not believing it, either. You know that trust figure? I think that is understated too.

[fbc]

18. A DNC crowd?

I bet there will be at least one or two Bernie supporters among the Rich Uncle Pennybags

[Duval]

20. Dammit!

[Enthusiast]

23. Bernie Sanders is the only person involved with a sense of ethics.

An unfair audience makeup is no concern to the party establishment. They want to preserve the artificial meme creation that Bernie has no real support.

[PatrickforO]

24. Wow.

That's just wrong.

[whereisjustice]

27. Hillary and Debbie are making it easier for pay day loan sharks to offer "relief"

to impoverished residents dealing with a lifetime of medical problems for their children caused by the business aspirations of political leadership who wanted to sell Flint's shitty water system to a corporations who would then jack up rates and cut service even more to make a killing.

Luckily because of the blight, there will be lots of criminal activity and Hillary can profit again from her various associations in the private prison systems.

As businesses shut down, Hillary can profit again from the corporations like Walmart who off shore to India and China.

She's a rebel.

So there's that.

[highprincipleswork]

31. Utter bullshit. This shall not stand!

[90-percent]

32. Give her the benefit of the doubt

Just because she's running a corrupt, unfair and mean, below the belt campaign doesn't mean she wouldn't be a good President. Tigers can change their stripes or something? Past behavior is not an indicator of future performance and maybe she'll be a compassionate Oligarch just like FDR was?

-90% Jimmy

[JackRiddler]

33. The audience sounds very pro-Sanders, so this probably didn't result in a Clinton-only crowd.

[leftcoastmountains]

35. Actually I'm surprised at the cheers Bernie is receiving.

[floppyboo]

38. Bernie wins the clap-o-meter!

[L. Coyote]

37. Someone has an axe to grind.

If the standards of scientific journal review were to be applied to political articles, we would have little discourse and discord.

[angrychair]

39. Are. You. Shitting. Me.

Debate in Flint and no one from Flint was allowed to attend???? That is some serious bullshit. Bad form DNC.

[JDPriestly]

40. Did anyone else notice that Hillary seemed to know the woman who asked her whether

she prayed?

Did anyone else hear Hillary say she had attended that woman's church when the woman described how her congregation prayed in the church?

What was that about?

Did I hear wrong?

My husband heard what I heard. We wonder who selected that woman to ask a question and why and whether there was some collusion with the candidates in selecting people to ask questions.

That seemed very odd to me.

[southerncrone]

44. Yep, I heard that, too.

Here's my response on another thread here tonite:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7665432

[SoapBox]

42. Rigg'n it for the Hill.

Disgusting and a sham as usual.

No...More...Clintons.