I have to correct myself. It was the FEC, not the FCC.
Miriam
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On 4/6/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,Miriam,
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 losingTrump:
where 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 losingTrump:
where 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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