Sanders coalition takes over Brevard County, FL Democratic leadership

[portlander23]

Sanders coalition takes over Brevard Democratic leadership
Dave Berman
Florida Today

Bernie Sanders supporters have taken over the leadership of the Brevard County Democratic Executive Committee, pledging to work to turn the county's political landscape from red to blue.

The new party chair is Stacey Patel of Satellite Beach, who trounced two opponents in committee elections this week. Patel was an elected Sanders delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

"We've already expanded the membership significantly this year" within the local Democratic committee, Patel said. "And we are going to work to continue to expand the membership. By doing that, we're going to expand the Democratic electorate here, and begin to identify really strong candidates from the Democratic side. So we expect to really be prepared for 2018. We are all in this together."

[HassleCat]

1. Might be good.

I noticed my county central committee consists of the same elderly ladies who have been there thirty years. They're very nice, but it would be nice to have a little diversity.

[NCTraveler]

2. Is Mr. Warren aware?

http://www.brevarddemocraticparty.org/

Do you have a link to the BCDEC website?

This has the hallmarks of being a fake news story.

[think]

3. Mr Warren is quoted in the article:

In the state committeeman race, Sanjay Patel, easily defeated two previous leaders of the local party. He received 50 votes, compared with 15 for incumbent State Committeeman Bill Rettinger and 10 for Lancent Warren Sr., who was the vice chair of the Democratic Executive Committee committee, as well as its acting chair after the previous chair resigned.

"I recognize what you're attempting to do," Warren said in his candidate comments to the meeting attendees prior to the vote. "You guys need to reach out to the people."

Warren declined to amplify on his comments after the meeting, saying: "We just need to move forward together, and work to move the county blue."

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/09/sanders-coalition-takes-over-brevard-democratic-leadership/95105028/

[NCTraveler]

4. I shared my thoughts about the article.

Do you have a link to the BCDEC website?

[think]

6. Nope. Just read this article which is on Florida Today; a subsidiary of USA Today.

I highly doubt USA Today is peddling fake news through this subsidiary but anything is possible....

[NCTraveler]

7. Seems it might be accurate.

I wasn't able to find anything on it outside of this article and her own facebook page. Seems she is a bit slow in getting the webpage updated, if accurate. If accurate, it's nice to see they are taking a completely different tact than Sanders and are a part of the Democratic Party. That's how it is done.

[RAFisher]

5. Aren't fake news stories normally from fake news sites? Florida Today is a real newspaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Today

The idea that one of there reporters just made this up seems highly unlikely.

[portlander23]

12. Fake news is any news you don't agree with

And that's how you turn into a Fox News viewer.

[ebbie15644]

8. Could use some help in PA

[Dustlawyer]

9. Keep it up, let's get some real Progressives in office that don't owe

allegiance to corporate donors!!!

[ehrnst]

11. Can you list those that "owe their allegiance to corporate donors!!!" (nt)

[George II]

10. If they're all Sanders supporters, it's not a "coalition":

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coalition