The fact that you receive a message from Miriam through Blind Democracy
does not mean that she has resolved her problem. I am getting a number
of messages that tell me that a post needs my approval because the
message is from a nonsubscriber. I have been promptly approving them
without reading them, but I still note that they are from Miriam lately.
Formerly I got messages just like that from Charley. I tried to approve
those too, but I may have failed. That was before I quite figured out
just how to approve them.
On 6/3/2016 12:29 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
It is very clear that the fix is in. To believe that the DNC would
tolerate a Socialist Democrat, is as silly as believing that pigs can
fly.
Miriam, I can't tell if this email reached me through blind democracy,
or because you sent me a CC.
Either Charlie Crawford has not yet reconnected, or he is having the
same problems. I did see that Kevin did get back on, after following
Roger' instruction.
Carl
On 6/3/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Weigel writes: "When the Democratic National Committee announced that Sen.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont would get to pick five of the 15 people who'll
write the party platform, it was seen as a small coup. But at a news
conference today, Sanders revealed that the DNC had actually vetoed his
nomination of a key labor ally, and said he was told not to pick anyone
else
from the labor movement."
Senator Bernie Sanders with the National Nurses United Director RoseAnn
DeMoro. (photo: National Nurses United)
Sanders: DNC Vetoed Union Leader Pick for Platform Committee
By David Weigel, The Washington Post
02 June 16
When the Democratic National Committee announced that Sen. Bernie Sanders
of Vermont would get to pick five of the 15 people who'll write the party
platform, it was seen as a small coup. But at a news conference today,
Sanders revealed that the DNC had actually vetoed his nomination of a key
labor ally, and said he was told not to pick anyone else from the labor
movement.
"What we heard from the DNC was that they did not want representatives of
labor unions on the platform-drafting committee," he said. "That's
correct."
Yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Nicholas was the first to
report that Sanders had included RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of
National Nurses United, on his list of preferred platform committee
members.
"He told me that he really wanted me on the committee to advocate for
Medicare for All, especially," DeMoro told The Washington Post today.
According to Sanders and DeMoro, the DNC nixed her, resulting in a Sanders
delegation of four men, one woman (Native American activist Deborah
Parker),
and no one from organized labor. While many progressive commentators
cheered
Sanders's picks, which include the environmental writer and activist Bill
McKibben and the academic iconoclast Cornel West, the gender and work
balance opened him up to criticism.
"I think it was a set-up," said DeMoro. "It fed into the 'Bernie bro'
narrative and meme -- oh, Bernie picked one woman, he's a sexist. As soon
as
the list was out, there were articles about how he chose two 'anti-Israel'
people. The truth of the matter is that they were choices the DNC had
signed
off on."
In an interview Wednesday, DNC platform committee spokeswoman Dana Vickers
Shelley confirmed that the DNC had not wanted labor leaders on the platform
drafting committee, limiting labor's presence to Paul Booth of the American
Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union.
"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."
That was cold comfort to DeMoro. "The most insidious thing, frankly, is
that
only one of 15 people on this drafting committee is for labor," she said.
"It shows you how insidious the DNC has become. Labor built this party.
Labor built this country. One person is enough to represent all of that? If
you look at the composition of who they chose, besides Bernie's choices, K
Street's far better represented than the labor movement."
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Senator Bernie Sanders with the National Nurses United Director RoseAnn
DeMoro. (photo: National Nurses United)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/01/sanders-dnc-
vetoed-union-leader-pick-for-platform-committee/https://www.washingtonpost.c
om/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/01/sanders-dnc-vetoed-union-leader-pick-for
-platform-committee/
Sanders: DNC Vetoed Union Leader Pick for Platform Committee
By David Weigel, The Washington Post
02 June 16
hen the Democratic National Committee announced that Sen. Bernie Sanders
of
Vermont would get to pick five of the 15 people who'll write the party
platform, it was seen as a small coup. But at a news conference today,
Sanders revealed that the DNC had actually vetoed his nomination of a key
labor ally, and said he was told not to pick anyone else from the labor
movement.
"What we heard from the DNC was that they did not want representatives of
labor unions on the platform-drafting committee," he said. "That's
correct."
Yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Nicholas was the first to
report that Sanders had included RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of
National Nurses United, on his list of preferred platform committee
members.
"He told me that he really wanted me on the committee to advocate for
Medicare for All, especially," DeMoro told The Washington Post today.
According to Sanders and DeMoro, the DNC nixed her, resulting in a Sanders
delegation of four men, one woman (Native American activist Deborah
Parker),
and no one from organized labor. While many progressive commentators
cheered
Sanders's picks, which include the environmental writer and activist Bill
McKibben and the academic iconoclast Cornel West, the gender and work
balance opened him up to criticism.
"I think it was a set-up," said DeMoro. "It fed into the 'Bernie bro'
narrative and meme -- oh, Bernie picked one woman, he's a sexist. As soon
as
the list was out, there were articles about how he chose two 'anti-Israel'
people. The truth of the matter is that they were choices the DNC had
signed
off on."
In an interview Wednesday, DNC platform committee spokeswoman Dana Vickers
Shelley confirmed that the DNC had not wanted labor leaders on the platform
drafting committee, limiting labor's presence to Paul Booth of the American
Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees union.
"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."
That was cold comfort to DeMoro. "The most insidious thing, frankly, is
that
only one of 15 people on this drafting committee is for labor," she said.
"It shows you how insidious the DNC has become. Labor built this party.
Labor built this country. One person is enough to represent all of that? If
you look at the composition of who they chose, besides Bernie's choices, K
Street's far better represented than the labor movement."
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