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Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has announced she will resign as chair of the Democratic National Committee. The resignation is to become effective after the party's convention. The organisation's e-mail system was hacked; leaked e-mails appear to confirm accusations that Wasserman-Schultz had taken action favouring Hillary Clinton in her contest against Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Sanders had previously called for Wasserman-Schultz to resign, a request he reiterated in light of the leak.
Wasserman-Schultz said in a statement:
I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future. I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the country to ensure her victory.
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by fustakrakich on Monday July 25 2016, @09:01AM
I'm not wildly optimistic that they will cause a huge enough scene to change anything or even be entertaining
Yeah, now I'm wondering how they're going to keep people tuned in. Ad rates will plummet if they don't have something.
Bernie also seems committed to shepherding his people into the Hillary camp
That's exactly what his job was from the start. You had to have your eyes wide shut not to see it. Sheepdog Sanders is his name. Keep the money in the democrat corral. It was a smashing success. Count how many independents will win seats this year. I bet you it will be anywhere from zero to none.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @02:12PM
Count how many independents will win seats this year. I bet you it will be anywhere from zero to none.
מַה נִּשְּׁתַּנָה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 25 2016, @05:59PM
Now this is why I'm glad Slashdot doesn't have unicode!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday July 25 2016, @02:19PM
That's the establishment's view of it. The corrupt establishment that keeps letting GOP candidates run on the Democratic ticket and is a huge circle jerk for barely legal bribery.
Sanders ran for the issues. I don't think he expected to get that far, but it's pretty much destroyed the party now that people know what's been going on internally. I mean, for heaven's gate, they won't even put climate change action into the party platform for government agencies making decisions considering the impact on climate change of the decisions. Probably the next step weaker would be proposing that we burn down the national forest in its entirely in order to prevent wildfires.
It's going to bite them in the ass as there's already more interest in groups like wolf-pac.com for finally doing something about the corruption.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday July 25 2016, @05:43PM
The corrupt establishment that keeps letting GOP candidates run on the Democratic ticket...
You are wagging the dog. The situation is quite the reverse. Remember all those dixiecrats that jumped ship in '65. They run the republican party now.
Sanders ran for the issues.
Now you can disagree all you want, but the simple fact is that these people are not playing that game. This is strictly business. There is no need to read anything else into it. The propaganda is distraction designed for our amusement. Campaign funding is a simple (or complex, take your pick) money laundering operation, and these people are simple con men/women playing an ancient shell game.
And it is up to the voters to turn their backs on the bling. All that money would go up in a puff of smoke if we simply ignored them and voted for someone else. There are two other people on the ballot. We could just as easily turn it into a race between the Libertarians and the Greens. The choice to feed or starve Mr. Moneybags is ours alone.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday July 25 2016, @08:59PM
Voting only works if there isn't an organized campaign of election fraud. The DNC went way out of it's way to do things like close polling stations and hasn't even bothered to count all the ballots in CA or release the figures from IA. The exit polling data had to be "corrected" because it didn't match the actual vote, which is to say they had to change it so people wouldn't ask questions about the election fraud going on.
Exit polling is a reliable method of verifying the results of an election.
One of the odd coincidences is that whenever there were irregularities, it somehow managed to help Clinton. And whenever she was being hurt by actual votes, it was dismissed because that state was in some way weird.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 26 2016, @02:38AM
If people don't fight back and demand adequate oversight, there is nothing more I can offer. I can only keep telling you that blaming the objects of desire (money, power) is the wrong way to go at it. It only serves the running gag and evades the issue.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..