Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Acting Just Like the Villain Bernie Sanders Says She Is

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By Jim Newell
Sen. Bernie Sanders had been having a lovely little week. He scored the endorsements of both the Communications Workers of America union and the progressive grass-roots group Democracy for America. On Thursday, his campaign announced that it had received more than 2 million donations. “We are enormously proud,” Sanders said in a statement, “that we have received more individual contributions at this point in the campaign than any candidate who is not an incumbent president.” The campaign said on Thursday that it had raised more than $3 million in contributions since Monday.

But by Friday morning, the Sanders campaign found itself locked out of the Democratic National Committee’s 50-state voter file and its own proprietary voter information that it maintains on the DNC’s platform.

The DNC suspended the campaign from access after a software glitch on the system, run by the vendor NGP VAN, broke down the “firewalls” between each campaign’s information and some number of Sanders campaign tech employees breached and downloaded some of Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s data. The Sanders campaign fired its national data director on the spot and is doing an internal investigation of its staffers’ activities.

The Sanders campaign is reacting to the DNC’s incredibly punitive response as another instance of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s DNC treating all non-Clinton presidential campaigns unfairly and generally making a mess of the primary process. This shouldn’t excuse the members of the Sanders campaign who did, in fact, screw up. The campaign should come fully clean about what proprietary Clinton campaign information they do or don’t have.

But do they have a case that Wasserman Schultz’s DNC has generally facilitated the Clinton campaign throughout the cycle? Oh God, yes, and it’s no shock that the Sanders campaign and its supporters are treating this as a declaration of war.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/debbie_wasserman_schultz_s_dnc_has_been_incompetent.html

[daleanime]

1. With good reason.

[Lorien]

2. She's as corrupt as they come

From undermining Bernie's campaign at every opportunity, losing the midterm elections, and supporting the for-profit prison industry, to helping repug candidates who were her "personal friends" beat Democrats and sabotaging efforts to bring medical marijuana to Florida because the bill's sponsor, Attorney John Morgan, called her a "bully"; petty Debbie Wasserman Schultz is about the worst thing to ever happen to the DNC.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a37542/dnc-chairperson/

[tech3149]

4. I used to like DWS on a personal level but her actions over the last few years reveal the ugliness

inside. The actions you referenced are just the tip of the iceberg. If people like this are running the Democratic party do we have any choice but to overthrow it? For me, that is what the Sanders campaign is all about.

[GReedDiamond]

5. That sums up DWS's activites as DNC Chair very well...

...and every time I think about her, I feel sickened.

[NorthCarolina]

3. Bernie called DWS a villain?

I agree she is, but I had not heard mention before now about him actually saying that.

[Kalidurga]

6. Do you want me to delete my thread.

I think I started it after yours.