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SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 12:07 PM Dec 2015

It's showtime folks. Just ask Ed.

Listen to Ed and Larry Cohen talk about how the CWA came to their conclusion. Very smart. 700K people had a voice in a bottom up result. The people have spoken. And 2M contributions. WOW

This is definitely huge. Maybe, just maybe, the MSM will start to listen.

Then Ed makes a point about this Saturdays debate. Corporate democrats - we're onto your rigged game.

Starts at 15:45

http://wegoted.com/2015/12/ed-schultz-news-and-commentary-thursday-the-17th-of-december/

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It's showtime folks. Just ask Ed. (Original Post) SmittynMo Dec 2015 OP
K&R! peacebird Dec 2015 #1
Make no mistake, they are listening. That's not the problem. It's that they are libdem4life Dec 2015 #2
I'm pretty revved up for the primaries. SmittynMo Dec 2015 #5
As some wise person once said, "It ain't over 'till it's over." libdem4life Dec 2015 #7
K & R SoapBox Dec 2015 #3
K & R ! TIME TO PANIC Dec 2015 #4
Larry Cohen always makes sense. He has been on Ed's show jwirr Dec 2015 #6
Every union should be doing this. SmittynMo Dec 2015 #8
I can tell you that this is true of AFSCME RoccoR5955 Dec 2015 #14
Bernie is on fire! People everywhere are feeling the Bern! peacebird Dec 2015 #9
Kicked and recced madfloridian Dec 2015 #10
and problem is Robbins Dec 2015 #11
Exactly. ladyVet Dec 2015 #20
The media only listens to money. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2015 #12
Where are all the posters with pictures of floriduck Dec 2015 #13
or a bug being sprayed so hard the screen cracks? MisterP Dec 2015 #15
Are Hill supporters at a summit today? Divernan Dec 2015 #16
Gee I wonder why? SmittynMo Dec 2015 #18
WTO.................................. turbinetree Dec 2015 #17
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Dec 2015 #19
 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
2. Make no mistake, they are listening. That's not the problem. It's that they are
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 12:26 PM
Dec 2015

sitting on their proverbial hands...doing nothing. Let me guess why...they are corporations and are desperate for the Corporatist Candidate to win. The slogan, "Not the Billionaires", carries with it a threat to their 7-figure incomes.

It will be kicking and knuckle dragging even should Bernie rise even more, to give him much coverage.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
5. I'm pretty revved up for the primaries.
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 01:24 PM
Dec 2015

I can't wait. It's going to be so monumental.

I'm going to a Bernie party locally Saturday night to watch the debate.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
6. Larry Cohen always makes sense. He has been on Ed's show
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 01:28 PM
Dec 2015

many times and he is very active. I love it that they actually polled their workers.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
8. Every union should be doing this.
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 02:03 PM
Dec 2015

I would suspect this is not true in most cases. When others are endorsed, I'm pretty sure it's the big wigs are making the endorsement, not the workers.

So why isn't this process in place for all endorsements? I mean, it's fair, honest, and accurately reflects "we the people".

I think we all know the answer.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
14. I can tell you that this is true of AFSCME
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 03:02 PM
Dec 2015

Last edited Thu Dec 17, 2015, 10:03 PM - Edit history (1)

I was never polled, and have been a member of AFSCME for 26 years. When I saw a post in a Discuss forum on endorsements (probably a link from here) I saw someone who stated that she was one AFSCME member for Bernie. I added my comment: So is this AFSCME member of 26 years. The next morning I saw over 100 "likes" between the two of us.
Even though a Clinton supporter here stated to me that there are more Clinton supporters in her neck of the woods than there are Bernistas, that it was good that AFSCME and other unions endorse Clinton.
I dunno, but the more I talk with folks, the more I find that they would rather have Bernie than Clinton. I am talking about Dems, Reps, and Indys. None of them want Clinton, yet they would vote for Bernie in a heartbeat!
Am I in a Bizzaro world, or what?


Update: I went back to the website with over 100 likes, and it is now up to 300. IN ONE DAY!

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
9. Bernie is on fire! People everywhere are feeling the Bern!
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 02:23 PM
Dec 2015

Love it!
TWICE as many individual contributions as Obama had in 2008! Two million of them! That, my friends, is indicative of surging enthusiasm!!!

DFA has Bernie with 88% of the vote! Awesome!

madfloridian

(88,117 posts)
10. Kicked and recced
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 02:24 PM
Dec 2015

That's how unions should endorse.

I am still furious over how the teachers' unions handled it.

Robbins

(5,066 posts)
11. and problem is
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 02:28 PM
Dec 2015

members don't support these endorsements.they cry bloody hell on social media.many support bernie over her.

union bosses can give union money to her but they can't force members to work for her and vote for her.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)
20. Exactly.
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 11:46 AM
Dec 2015
union bosses can give union money to her but they can't force members to work for her and vote for her.


All the endorsements in the world mean nothing until people go to vote. Hillary has the big money in her pocket, but there are more of us than there are of them.

Feel that burn, turd way.
 

floriduck

(2,262 posts)
13. Where are all the posters with pictures of
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 02:50 PM
Dec 2015

Hill dusting the dandruff off her shoulder. It is so unbecoming of a presidential candidate.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
15. or a bug being sprayed so hard the screen cracks?
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 03:03 PM
Dec 2015

usually by people who scream that they're the most persecuted DUer eva!

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
17. WTO..................................
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 03:20 PM
Dec 2015

was implemented in 1995 under Clinton, after GATT the public has WTO.
And they can now if this 1.1 trillion " last minute deal goes through" will chip away at this countries sovereignty
Rep Ryan with his talk with Schultz got it right, we the public want to know where are food is coming from, because even though this country has been eviscerating the USDA by the republicans, we want to know where our food is being produced and cleaned,



Great post -----------------------news instead of from the MSM ratings game


Honk--------------------for a political revolution it is about getting a progressive U.S. Supreme Court and Congress

Bernie 2016



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