Democratic Party Gives Bernie Sanders Bigger Role In Shaping Its Platform

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Via HuffPo

In a move meant to cool down tensions between his campaign and the Democratic establishment, the Democratic Party will give Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a greater role to play in establishing its platform at this summer’s Democratic National Convention.

Under an agreement the party reached with Sanders and opponent Hillary Clinton, Sanders can select five people to serve on the party’s platform committee, a third of the committee’s members. Clinton will name six members, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), the party chair, will name four, according to the Washington Post.

Typically, the chair names all 15 members to the committee, which sets the party’s agenda and guiding principles at the convention in July. This year’s change is a concession to the Sanders campaign, which has accused the party of rigging the nominating rules against him and is concerned the party will ignore Sanders’ progressive policy proposals with Clinton as the nominee.

Though Clinton leads Sanders in the delegate count and is expected to clinch the nomination when the primaries wrap up next month, the Vermont senator and his supporters hope his influence on the party will continue and he’ll bring the progressive movement he has built to the general election. 

Among the five members Sanders is expected to name to the committee are environmental activist Bill McKibben; Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and James Zogby, a DNC member and pro-Palestine activist.

Democratic leaders want to ensure that Sanders can unite his supporters around the party’s general election efforts, as tensions between the party and the Sanders campaign have boiled over in recent weeks.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Good for them  This is how you show the voters that you at least take their complaints seriously and try to appeal to people who may not like the nominee. They couldve just tried to appeal hardcore to them while still throwing Bernie under the bus, but with this he will have an indirect but active effect on the party's overall platform.

I think this is the best that Bernie fans could hope for at this point, as Bernie is NOT going to be the VP  

It will also, I think, lessen the blow of people actively not voting or voting for Trump in an Anti-Hillary frenzy.

 

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Just now, ItsTommyBitch said:

Good for them  This is how you show the voters that you at least take their complaints seriously and try to appeal to people who may not like the nominee. They couldve just tried to appeal hardcore to them while still throwing Bernie under the bus, but with this he will have an indirect but active effect on the party's overall platform.

I think this is the best that Bernie fans could hope for at this point, as Bernie is NOT going to be the VP  

It will also, I think, lessen the blow of people actively not voting or voting for Trump in an Anti-Hillary frenzy.

 

Sanders wants concessions and that's fair. It's not like his ideas were bad.

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Well, that's some thing I guess.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

Just now, LebaneseDude said:

Sanders wants concessions and that's fair. It's not like his ideas were bad.

Definitely. I was full on board for Bernie's ideas until in my opinion his campaign began to degenerate in an unappealing light. 

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Um why is Debbie still there

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5 hours ago, brendablethyn said:

Um why is Debbie still there

Because she was Obama's choice to succeed Tim Kaine as the 52nd Chair of the Democratic National Committee.