Black Enterprise: [EXCLUSIVE] Bernie Sanders Press Secretary Responds to ISIS Comment Backlash

[Omaha Steve]

Symone Sanders is from Omaha. She and I have talked shop a few times.

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http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/exclusive-symone-sanders-bernie-sanders-response-cnn-issis-comment-backlash/

Posted: December 9, 2015

By Hailey Wallace, Politics

On Tuesday, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders took a walking tour through Baltimore, meeting with the city’s civic and religious leaders to discuss the issues affecting the African-American community. Sanders ended his time in Freddie Gray’s neighborhood with a news conference to discuss what he had seen that day.

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The Sanders campaign had scheduled a press conference to share the events of the day with the media. Symone Sanders, national press secretary for the Sanders campaign, arrived and provided a quick summary of topics to be covered. She then asked reporters not to “ask about ISIS today,” because “it was not on topic.” The topic was, again, the issues affecting the African-American community.

Dan Merica tweeted the following:

Sanders Press Secretary Symone Sanders tells reporters before his press conference: “Don’t ask about ISIS today.” Yeah, ok.

— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) December 8, 2015


FULL story at link.

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[nc4bo]

1. ".....but TODAY was about Baltimore. "!!!

Emphasis mine.