2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

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[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I don't understand this sentiment. You know that Bernie is running to be the head of the Democratic Party, right? If he's not planning on winning over establishment Dems and getting them to do his bidding, then what the hell is the plan? Do you expect he'll reject the DNC's support and money if he wins the primary? Do you expect he'll tell Democratic establishment that he doesn't want their vote? Warren gets roasted for meeting with Dem Power Brokers, is Bernie going to cut off all contact with them in the general? In that case, why doesn't he just run a third-party candidacy? Thankfully Bernie is a lot smarter and realistic than many of his supporters

 

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[storyteller]

The entire mueller investigation was done by republicans

Sometimes I'm not sure if you're a legitimate bad faith actor who needs to be bushed or just legitimately gullible...you a boomer? Comparing the Mueller Investigation to this is about as dumb as the fearmongering you were doing over Ilhan Omar not that long ago. Actually, this is even worse. The case got thrown out already and there's a full thread of you playing yourself about the issue...yet here you are in another thread spreading an already debunked story. This is as bad faith as it gets.

Lawyer behind Sanders' allegations has history of complaints

A Republican lawyer pushing the allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife committed bank fraud to win a loan while president of a now-defunct Vermont college has a long history of filing complaints against left-of-center politicians in the state.

The complaints and public records requests filed by Brady Toensing date to 2004, when he sought expense documents from a Vermont auditor of accounts to a 2015 complaint that the state’s former Democratic attorney general had committed campaign finance violations.

Conor Casey, executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party, said Toensing has a history of filing frivolous complaints. He called the complaints against Jane Sanders “a political witch hunt.”

“This is another notch in Brady’s belt, a waste of time and a politically motivated attack,” Casey said

“It makes you wonder if it’s not dirty politics, a character smear, which is certainly what he was trying to do to me,” said former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat who was the subject of a 2015 investigation by an independent counsel appointed by Democratic former Gov. Peter Shumlin after Toensing filed the campaign finance complaints against him.

The investigation into Sorrell by former Republican state Rep. Thomas Little cleared him of five of six allegations, referring the sixth to the state police, which announced in January 2016 that they would not investigate, although they referred the issue to federal authorities. Sorrell’s attorney in that case, former Vermont U.S. Attorney David Kirby, who is also one of Jane Sanders’ lawyers, said he was later told by federal authorities that no charges would be filed against Sorrell.

“It’s unfortunate that he’s brought this kind of politics to Vermont,” Sorrell said of Toensing.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

an entire page of napoleon. jesus.

@FAH1223 @tru_m.a.c. c'mon dudes

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

@FAH1223 @tru_m.a.c. c'mon dudes

Support your candidate. I'll do the same

I'm posting 100% relevant, on topic content.

 

[StatUS]

Yall still don't have dude on ignore

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Support your candidate. I'll do the same

I'm posting 100% relevant, on topic content.

No, you're a shill who's spamming the board with horse shyt. Shut the fukk up.

Spoiler

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Yall still don't have dude on ignore

Why doesn't @Brooklynzson just push the big ignore button? Then lurkers can ignore him too.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

You can't call donors corrupt and then take money from them.

 

[goatmane]

More rigged bullshyt vs Bernie

 

[King Kreole]

You can't call donors corrupt and then take money from them.

Yes, you absolutely can. I keep seeing this idea spread by extreme Bernie supporters, as if the money is literally dirty. The entire way money and corruption works is that the money buys access which leads to influence. If you take the money and don’t provide access or influence, there’s no corruption. It’s like saying taxing the wealthy is inherently corrupt because you’re confiscating and utilizing their dirty money. So unless you can point to where Elizabeth Warren has been providing access and influence to wealthy donors, these charges are totally baseless. Should Bernie become the nominee, there will be many wealthy donors who will contribute to him directly or indirectly through Democratic fundraising. That doesn’t mean he would be compromised.

Publicly funded elections would be the most effective immediate step to mitigating the potential for undue influence of the wealthy in elections, and it’s something that Liz has called for consistently.