Nina Turner changes her mind on Hillary Clinton, endorses Bernie Sanders for president!!!

[Fawke Em]

Nina Turner, the former state senator from Cleveland and a top Ohio Democratic Party official, is ditching Hillary Clinton in favor of Bernie Sanders.

Turner and Sanders' presidential campaign confirmed the endorsement Thursday.

"I'm very attracted by his message and his style and that he has held pretty much strong on his beliefs and the world is catching up with him," Turner said. She added that Sanders' positions on voting rights and wage increases have stood out to her.

Turner spoke to cleveland.com by telephone before flying to Iowa, where she will attend Saturday night's Democratic debate featuring Clinton, Sanders and Martin O'Malley.

She also will introduce Sanders at his Monday night rally at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. The independent Vermont senator, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has emerged as Clinton's strongest Democratic primary rival.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/11/nina_turner_changes_her_mind_o.html

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. The first endorsement defection to the Sandernistas, comrade? nt

[Fawke Em]

2. I said earlier that the Postal Workers Union endorsement broke the floodgates.

I really think it has.

[virtualobserver]

3. I found these paragraphs very interesting

Ready for Hillary? A former board member of "Correct the record" ?

She must not have liked what she saw behind the scenes.

The move comes as a surprise – and a blow for Clinton. Turner had been among her most enthusiastic cheerleaders in the Buckeye State and nationally. She was involved early with the Ready for Hillary super political action committee that promoted Clinton as a presidential candidate before the former U.S. secretary of state launched her campaign.

Turner spoke last fall in New York and earlier this year at a Cleveland fundraiser for the now-defunct organization. In June, Turner spoke at a grassroots-organizing event for the Clinton campaign in Cleveland. She also had served on the board of Correct the Record, another pro-Clinton super PAC but recently severed ties.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. She was probably already really onboard before Bernie even stepped into the race

and regretted her likely commitments as soon as he did, and it just took this long for her to decide that policy was more important than loyalty and the potential damage to her career if Clinton wins the nomination.

Gods help her if Clinton wins, she'll be at the top of the s__t list with the post office and nurses.

[appalachiablue]

5. K & R. Good for Nina Turner, one bright, involved & outspoken Ohio representative.

[Android3.14]

6. That's some good news.

Go Bernie!

[fbc]

7. Now there's a good democrat

I applaud her.

[panader0]

8. Ohio--I hope she still has some pull there.

[deutsey]

9. K&R

[SandersDem]

10. This is how it begins.

I have to say the other day, I was completely blown away by the candidate website traffic, not only seeing Bernie Sander's site far out surpassing all other candidates, but also seeing such a low number of people going to HRC's website.

What this tells me is that a whole lot of people already know HRC and feel no need to do much research on her positions. (They change so often anyway why bother and yay I am in the Bernie Group, I think I can safely say this not only because I can here, but its true too).

What does this have to do with the endorsement change? Well, I think that as more and more people get to know Bernie and see and hear some of his fantastic proposals (like the Post Office one...another damn example of socialism in America I tell ya), his support will continue to grow just as recent polling has shown.

This is a long haul and with it, we will not only get endorser switches, but super delegate switches too.

Keep it going, we have some amazing issues to promote and all we get from the other side is a bunch of attacks, flame baiters and fly swatters.