Carl,
Did you hear that lady from the FCC on Democracy Now, yesterday? It's just a
technicality, but she explained something important about that 2010 Supreme
Court ruling and it clarifies why the ACLU went along with it. It didn't say
that corporations are people. It said that they are fictitious people, but
they are composed of real people and those real people have a right to
political speech. Her point was that these real people are share holders
and many of them may be foreign citizens so that means that foreign money
may be being used to influence our politics and that is a problem. Whatever!
It's a mess which ever way one interprets it. But Clinton's campaign is
using every trick they can. Sanders had a rally scheduled in a Manhattan
park on April 14. He'd been demanding a debate in New York and she kept
refusing. Suddenly, she decided to agree to a debate to be held on the
evening that his rally is scheduled. She joined our governor in Albany to
rejoice about the passage of a $15 minimum wage in New York and she made a
speech about how wonderful this is and, "onward to Washington". However, she
neglected to say that she opposed a $15 federal minimum wage.
Miriam
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A "path to victory", certainly.
But a path strewn with Super Delegates and Party Leadership frantically
searching for anyway to derail the Sanders Express.
How many times must we learn that the first rule of any group in power in
any organization is to maintain control. From Wall Street all the way down
the list to the Garden Club, there will always be those who "know what's
best for us all", and who will profit one way or another from maintaining a
death grip on the organization. And Hillary Clinton, according to the
Democratic Party, has been determined to be the best thing since sliced
bread.
I used to be opposed to term limits. And at one level I still feel that if
we were involved in our government, we would not need such superficial
controls. But maybe what we need is to return to the thinking of Thomas
Jefferson and remove our entire government from time to time, redesigning it
and putting in new ideas.
As I sit here pondering how this would come about, I think of our move to a
Corporate controlled Empire. We need to simply revoke all Corporate
Charters, or whatever laws and made up rules allow them to be passed off as
First Class Citizens. Revoke their right to do business, seize their
assets, both within and off-shore, and redistribute the wealth and
ownership. Unfair? Just what do we call the present lopsided distribution
of our collective wealth? Possible to do? Not so long as those at the top
control the guns and drones.
That's why they are in control.
So my pipe dream will remain just that, smoke and mirrors. At least until a
much larger number of working class folks get fed up.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/6/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
House."
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Sanders Wins 6th Straight State With Wisconsin Victory, While Trump
Shows He Can't Close the Deal By Steven Rosenfeld [1] / AlterNet [2]
April 5, 2016 Wisconsin voters said no way to the Democratic and
Republican Parties'
presidential frontrunners Tuesday, giving big wins to Bernie Sanders
and Ted Cruz and injecting frustration and uncertainty into the
campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
For Sanders, it was his sixth straight victory since March 22's
problem-plagued Arizona primary, where Clinton was deemed the winner
but voters faced so many impediments that the Justice Department is
investigating. His victory in Wisconsin, beating [3] Clinton 56.4
percent to
43.4 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting, comes after
winning Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Utah and Idaho.
"Moments ago the news networks called another state for our political
revolution, and it's a big one: Wisconsin," wrote Sanders in an e-mail
with less than one-quarter of the votes tallied. "The corporate media
and political establishment keep counting us out, but we keep winning
states and doing so by large margins. If we can keep this up, we're
going to shock them all and win this nomination."
A little while later, he told supporters in Wyoming, which will caucus
on Saturday, "We will win in November if there is a large voter
turnout. This campaign is giving energy and enthusiasm to millions of
Ameicans. I think the people of this country are ready for a political
revolution, and if you ignore what you hear in the corporate media,
the facts are pretty clear: we have a path to victory and to the White
Earlier Tuesday, Clinton's campaign was telling its supporters thatlofty goals.
Sanders was expected to win and started attacking him on several
fronts: a spokeswoman saying his visit with the New York Daily News
editorial board this week showed that he had no idea how to accomplish his
Campaign manager Robby Mook said his campaign knew it was losing whereTrump:
it counted-accumulating delegates-and thus was sounding something like
posturing the delegate math doesn't matter.try and flip delegates'
"It seems the Sanders campaign is finally seeing the writing on the wall:
Hillary has won more votes AND more pledged delegates in this
election-her lead in both is nearly insurmountable," Mook said in an
e-mail blast. "So this morning, Bernie's campaign manager claimed the
convention could be an "open convention," and declared they're going to
votes, overturning the will of the voters."the country.
As the 2016 nominating season lurches from state to state, you can
expect hyperbole from all sides. Sanders obviously has been gaining
momentum. But number-crunchers like Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com
who are postulating pathways to the nomination are saying [4] that
Sanders will not beat Clinton unless he wins at least 57 percent of
the delegates in the remaining contests.
It appears he hovered a sliver under that threshold on Tuesday,
winning
56.4
percent of the vote based on 97 percent of precincts reporting, and
showing deeper and wider appeal than many Clinton backers care to
acknowledge-such as almost tying her in Milwaukee, a city with a large
non-white population, and continuing to win among young voters in
university towns like Madison.
The next Democratic state to vote is Wyoming, which will caucus on
Saturday, April 9, a format where Sanders more often than not has
beaten Clinton. But then the race jumps to a major new orbit, with New
York holding its delegate rich primary on April 19. Two-hundred and
ninety-one delegates are at stake, compared to 72 in Wisconsin and 18
in Wyoming. A week later, more mid-Atlantic states vote, including
Pennsylvania with 210 delegates, Maryland with 118 and Connecticut
with 70.
But all eyes will be on New York, which has become a must-win state
for Clinton-not because she is not leading to get the 2,383 delegates
needed to win-but because is she loses the state where she was a U.S.
Senator and now calls home, it will be a devastating symbolic blow to
her campaign by underscoring her weakness as a national candidate.
After Tuesday's vote, the New York Times estimated that Clinton had
1,271 pledged delegates, compared [5] to 1,024 for Sanders, a
difference of 247 delegates. That does not include the Party's
so-called super-delegates, which accounts for one-sixth of all the
delegates and are its top officeholders and state party officials across
Republican Results1948.
On the GOP side, Ted Cruz won a decisive victory, gathering 50 percent
of the vote, compared to 33 percent for Donald Trump and 15 percent
for John Kasich. Trump was not favored to win Wisconsin, where that
state's right-wing establishment-from Gov. Scott Walker who dropped
out of the presidential race months ago and backed Cruz, to many AM
talk radio hosts, to various super PACs fueled by top mainstream
donors-viciously attacked him.
Trump did not speak on Tuesday, but in a written statement attacked
Republican Party bosses, the anti-Trump super PACs, and called Cruz
"worse than a puppet" for being used to steal the nomination from him.
While Trump is leading on the GOP side with delegates, the presence of
Cruz and Kasich is increasingly raising the prospect that he won't
cross the nominating threshold of 1,237 delegates and the party will
have a contested national nominating convention-the party's first since
Trump may be blaming the GOP establishment and his competition for anCitizen's Guide to Voting"
increasingly frustrating campaign, but according to Wisconsin exit
poll results broadcast on CNN, an astounding 38 percent of Republicans
said they were worried about a Trump presidency. They also noted how
exit polls said Clinton's campaign has still not managed to excite
growing numbers of Democratic voters. But if these presumed
frontrunners win their party's nomination-or Sanders manages to take
it, fear of Trump may provoke many Americans to vote Democratic.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).House."
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Shows He Can't Close the Deal By Steven Rosenfeld [1] / AlterNet [2]
April 5, 2016 Wisconsin voters said no way to the Democratic and
Republican Parties'
presidential frontrunners Tuesday, giving big wins to Bernie Sanders
and Ted Cruz and injecting frustration and uncertainty into the
campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
For Sanders, it was his sixth straight victory since March 22's
problem-plagued Arizona primary, where Clinton was deemed the winner
but voters faced so many impediments that the Justice Department is
investigating. His victory in Wisconsin, beating [3] Clinton 56.4
percent to
43.4 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting, comes after
winning Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Utah and Idaho.
"Moments ago the news networks called another state for our political
revolution, and it's a big one: Wisconsin," wrote Sanders in an e-mail
with less than one-quarter of the votes tallied. "The corporate media
and political establishment keep counting us out, but we keep winning
states and doing so by large margins. If we can keep this up, we're
going to shock them all and win this nomination."
A little while later, he told supporters in Wyoming, which will caucus
on Saturday, "We will win in November if there is a large voter
turnout. This campaign is giving energy and enthusiasm to millions of
Ameicans. I think the people of this country are ready for a political
revolution, and if you ignore what you hear in the corporate media,
the facts are pretty clear: we have a path to victory and to the White
Earlier Tuesday, Clinton's campaign was telling its supporters thatlofty goals.
Sanders was expected to win and started attacking him on several
fronts: a spokeswoman saying his visit with the New York Daily News
editorial board this week showed that he had no idea how to accomplish his
Campaign manager Robby Mook said his campaign knew it was losing whereTrump:
it counted-accumulating delegates-and thus was sounding something like
posturing the delegate math doesn't matter.try and flip delegates'
"It seems the Sanders campaign is finally seeing the writing on the wall:
Hillary has won more votes AND more pledged delegates in this
election-her lead in both is nearly insurmountable," Mook said in an
e-mail blast. "So this morning, Bernie's campaign manager claimed the
convention could be an "open convention," and declared they're going to
votes, overturning the will of the voters."university towns like Madison.
As the 2016 nominating season lurches from state to state, you can
expect hyperbole from all sides. Sanders obviously has been gaining
momentum. But number-crunchers like Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com
who are postulating pathways to the nomination are saying [4] that
Sanders will not beat Clinton unless he wins at least 57 percent of
the delegates in the remaining contests.
It appears he hovered a sliver under that threshold on Tuesday,
winning
56.4
percent of the vote based on 97 percent of precincts reporting, and
showing deeper and wider appeal than many Clinton backers care to
acknowledge-such as almost tying her in Milwaukee, a city with a large
non-white population, and continuing to win among young voters in
The next Democratic state to vote is Wyoming, which will caucus onthe country.
Saturday, April 9, a format where Sanders more often than not has
beaten Clinton. But then the race jumps to a major new orbit, with New
York holding its delegate rich primary on April 19. Two-hundred and
ninety-one delegates are at stake, compared to 72 in Wisconsin and 18
in Wyoming. A week later, more mid-Atlantic states vote, including
Pennsylvania with 210 delegates, Maryland with 118 and Connecticut
with 70.
But all eyes will be on New York, which has become a must-win state
for Clinton-not because she is not leading to get the 2,383 delegates
needed to win-but because is she loses the state where she was a U.S.
Senator and now calls home, it will be a devastating symbolic blow to
her campaign by underscoring her weakness as a national candidate.
After Tuesday's vote, the New York Times estimated that Clinton had
1,271 pledged delegates, compared [5] to 1,024 for Sanders, a
difference of 247 delegates. That does not include the Party's
so-called super-delegates, which accounts for one-sixth of all the
delegates and are its top officeholders and state party officials across
Republican Results1948.
On the GOP side, Ted Cruz won a decisive victory, gathering 50 percent
of the vote, compared to 33 percent for Donald Trump and 15 percent
for John Kasich. Trump was not favored to win Wisconsin, where that
state's right-wing establishment-from Gov. Scott Walker who dropped
out of the presidential race months ago and backed Cruz, to many AM
talk radio hosts, to various super PACs fueled by top mainstream
donors-viciously attacked him.
Trump did not speak on Tuesday, but in a written statement attacked
Republican Party bosses, the anti-Trump super PACs, and called Cruz
"worse than a puppet" for being used to steal the nomination from him.
While Trump is leading on the GOP side with delegates, the presence of
Cruz and Kasich is increasingly raising the prospect that he won't
cross the nominating threshold of 1,237 delegates and the party will
have a contested national nominating convention-the party's first since
Trump may be blaming the GOP establishment and his competition for anCitizen's Guide to Voting"
increasingly frustrating campaign, but according to Wisconsin exit
poll results broadcast on CNN, an astounding 38 percent of Republicans
said they were worried about a Trump presidency. They also noted how
exit polls said Clinton's campaign has still not managed to excite
growing numbers of Democratic voters. But if these presumed
frontrunners win their party's nomination-or Sanders manages to take
it, fear of Trump may provoke many Americans to vote Democratic.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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