Now, this one came through the list without my having to approve it.
On 6/3/2016 2:02 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I suspect it came from me to you. We need someone else on the list to tell
us if the articles are reaching them from the list. I doubt they are.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Jarvis [mailto:carjar82@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 12:30 PM
To: Miriam Vieni
Cc: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Sanders: DNC Vetoed Union Leader Pick for Platform Committee
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:
union.
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
"Because union leadership was represented on the full platformrationale."
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
That was cold comfort to DeMoro. "The most insidious thing, frankly,movement."
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
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valid.
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/sander
s-dnc-
vetoed-union-leader-pick-for-platform-committee/https://www.washington
post.c
om/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/01/sanders-dnc-vetoed-union-leader-pi
ck-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
"Because union leadership was represented on the full platformrationale."
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
That was cold comfort to DeMoro. "The most insidious thing, frankly,movement."
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
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