Peter Staley Slams Sanders: Misleading Statement About Meeting On HIV/AIDS

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

 

Via JMG

“Feeling used and abused by the Sanders campaign right now. They just issued a press release making it sound like our meeting was about his endorsement of AHF’s drug pricing ballot initiative in CA. Senator Sanders never brought the issue up during our meeting. WE brought it up near the end, only to tell him that we had been flooded with messages from all the leading AIDS organizations in CA with deep concerns about AHF’s initiative — they are worried it could actually negatively impact access to AIDS drugs.

“Those groups have tried to reach the campaign with these concerns but had hit a brick wall. We asked Sanders to designate someone in his campaign to talk with these groups, and he agreed to this. WE DID NOT ENDORSE AHF’S INITIATIVE. His campaign should not have issued a press release implying this was a major topic of discussion at the meeting, and that there was general agreement on the Senator’s position on this. Anything but.”

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This is the Sanders statement

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

I am shocked this isn't getting much attention. 

[mcoop 628]

15 hours ago, LebaneseDude said:

I am shocked this isn't getting much attention. 

If the title said "Peter Staley Slams Hillary...", this would be a hit thread.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

9 minutes ago, mcoop said:

If the title said "Peter Staley Slams Hillary...", this would be a hit thread.

Guess LGBT issues aren't important to GGD members  

This is a pretty big deal. The AHF's initiative is not a good solution.

[Michelle 2,056]

Haha I read the title as Paul Stanley as in Paul from Kiss