NEW: Sanders' Director of Technology is out, as are two more members of his CA senior leadership tea

[riversedge]

going going gone...............


Gabriel Debenedetti ?@gdebenedetti 9m9 minutes ago

NEW: Sanders' Director of Technology is out, as are two more members of his CA senior leadership team



More Sanders staffers exit campaign

By Gabriel Debenedetti

05/17/16 01:05 PM EDT


A handful of high-level staffers have left Bernie Sanders’ campaign in recent weeks, including his director of technology and three of the four members of his original senior leadership team in California — a state his team has said is critical to his bid for the Democratic nomination.

The moves come at a time of contraction for the campaign, which let go of hundreds of field staffers earlier this month amid slowed fundraising.

Zach Schneider, among the campaign’s lead tech staffers, voluntarily left on Friday after six months when the in-house text messaging program he had been working on was cut, he told POLITICO.

Texts For Bernie, the campaign’s program for having volunteers send text messages to targeted individuals — voters in primary states on Election Day, for example — had been run for the first few months of the campaign through a third-party company called Hustle before Schneider and his team developed their own program in time to get out the vote for this month’s Indiana primary......................

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-staffers-exit-223264#ixzz48w0AwxgN
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[bkkyosemite]

1. biting at the bit

[Sheepshank]

2. seems like a sign

that Bernie and his ardent followers would rather ignore.

[KingFlorez]

3. At this point it isn't affordable to keep up

[Txbluedog]

4. This relates to my thread on the scaled back ad buys

I think the Sanders campaign is in more financial dire straits than they are leading on

[NurseJackie]

5. Things aren't looking good for Bernie!

When stories like this start to make the rounds, it's pretty clear that the campaign is now beginning to fall apart.

Good. The sooner this is over, the better.


(Alerter: These are my personal opinions and my personal observations.)

[workinclasszero]

7. If there are any real democrats on his payroll

they better get out now before the Berner riots in Philly