DC votes to put Sanders on primary ballot

[mak3cats]

Source: The Hill via msn

The Washington, D.C., Council voted to put Bernie Sanders on the District's Democratic presidential primary ballot on Tuesday, according to NBC Washington.

The Vermont senator's name had been left off of primary ballots due to a registration error by the local Democratic Party.

Both Sanders and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton filed their registration fees on time, but the party didn't submit paperwork until the day after the deadline. A voter filed a challenge against Sanders, initially keeping him from being registered alongside Clinton.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has endorsed Clinton, said she would sign legislation putting Sanders on the ballot.

The chairman of Clinton s campaign, John Podesta, also called for Sanders's name to be on the ballot.


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dc-votes-to-put-sanders-on-primary-ballot/ar-BBroJb0

[Carolator]

1. As it should be!

The Party would otherwise be shown to be discriminating against him and preferential to Clinton.

[Scuba]

2. They should expect a law suit from the Clinton campaign.

[Gothmog]

5. Do you tire of being wrong?

It has been pretty clear to me that Sanders would be on the ballot. The Clinton campaign was pushing for this result http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/274822-clinton-campaign-head-put-sanders-on-dc-ballots

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman says Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) should be on the Washington, D.C., ballot.

John Podesta ✔ ‎@johnpodesta
An administrative error should not keep a candidate off the ballot. Let's get @BernieSanders on the ballot in DC.
12:21 PM - 31 Mar 2016

“An administrative error should not keep a candidate off the ballot,” John Podesta tweeted on Thursday. "Let’s get @BernieSanders on the ballot in D.C.”

[geek tragedy]

11. Not over the years, pretty remarkable actually, Dick Morris would be proud nt

[Renew Deal]

28. lol

[geek tragedy]

9. I hope you're predicting Bernie to win New York and Pennsylvania, nt

[Ken Burch]

32. Pennsylvania will be tough, but NY is clearly in play. n/t.

[elleng]

23. On what basis???

[FighttheFuture]

49. I, a Bernie supporter, doubt it. It would backfire on HRC, she does not need the negative optics.

[JonLeibowitz]

3. Awww Bob Brannum has a case of the sadz.

[Roland99]

44. He's lucky he's not serving time...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1640863

[1StrongBlackMan]

48. The laws would have to change for any chance of that to happen.

[JonLeibowitz]

4. The Clinton campaign is spinning this...and lying while doing so

But the council action did not come without a fight — led by Clinton supporters. They sought to use the council interference to highlight that Sanders was in need of a legislative rescue only because his campaign had chosen to pay its way onto the D.C. ballot rather than to collect signatures as Clinton had done.

Sanders “put himself into this situation,” said D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange (D-At Large), a chairman of Clinton’s last presidential campaign in the District. “The difference is Hillary Clinton put a crew on the ground and collected signatures — Sanders did not.”

The problem for Sanders came last month when he took advantage of a Democratic Party rule that allowed him to submit a $2,500 donation to the D.C. Democratic State Committee — in lieu of 1,000 signatures — to become certified as a candidate in the party primary.

Sanders submitted his check on time. But the committee notified the D.C. Board of Elections a day later, after the deadline to do so, and a Democratic activist challenged Sanders’s status as a result.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-bends-rules-to-allow-bernie-sanders-on-the-primary-ballot/2016/04/05/6e0f0c0a-fb3e-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html

Paying the fee or collecting signatures had nothing to do with the challenge. Lies Lies Lies.

[geek tragedy]

10. how is the campaign lying? or are we back to blaming candidates for everything

their supporters do?

[JonLeibowitz]

12. In this case, yes.

[geek tragedy]

13. So when is it okay to blame Bernie for his supporters? nt

[JonLeibowitz]

15. This person was her campaign co-chair in 2008. I think it's fair.

If you find a campaign co-chair of Bernie's misbehaving, then fire away.

[geek tragedy]

18. is this 2008? In 2008 Martin O'Malley endorsed Clinton

[JonLeibowitz]

19. Buh Bye.

[geek tragedy]

20. happy trails! nt

[LanternWaste]

55. Seems irrational to make that link to the current campaign,

Seems irrational to make that link to the current campaign, but I'm certain your bias requires you to believe as much.

[jwirr]

21. The fees did not have anything to do with it. They both

submitted the applications at the same time but the local worker did not submit them together to they committee. That made Bernie late - nothing he did. But since he was late a Clinton supporter took the opportunity to challenge him. So yes they are telling LIES.

[JonLeibowitz]

22. Exactly.

[Stryder]

25. "chosen to pay its way onto the D.C. ballot"

Right Vincent. How would Bernie ever come up with 1000 signatures?
Maybe in his couch cushions (so to speak.) Sad fail.

[JonLeibowitz]

26. No I think that part might be accurate. But it's not why his ballot access was challenged.

[AlbertCat]

46. "chosen to pay its way onto the D.C. ballot"

Well, duh!

Since way back then Sanders was not well known and Clinton was already a trademark.

But it just points to the amazing uphill climb Sanders has achieved and Clinton's failed anointment as the only chosen one.

[StevieM]

31. One person not withstanding, most of the people on the DC Council who voted to put Sanders

on the ballot are probably Clinton supporters?

Besides, why would Hillary not want Sanders on a ballot in a contest she is expected to win in an overwhelming landslide?

[JonLeibowitz]

36. That's got nothing to do with what I posted. They're still lying about the source of the problems

[Roland99]

45. "a Democratic activist challenged Sander's status". uhhh...not an activist

a Clinton campaign toadie

[liberalhistorian]

51. She can't handle the fact that she actually

has competition. She wanted and expected it to just be a cakewalk coronation and the DNC has done everything short of putting a crown on her head to make it happen for her. It's irritating as hell. This is a democracy and we deserve choice and competition, not a forced rubber stamping. She isn't owed or entitled to any damn votes.

She said recently, in a Politico article I just read, that she's "had enough of Bernie Sanders." Translation: she's had enough of actually having to EARN votes instead of having them, and the nomination, handed to her along with her crown on a silver platter. Too bad. Maybe she should try to figure out WHY he has such support and enthusiasm instead of dismissing and minimizing it and demanding support.

[passiveporcupine]

6. Thank you council

It was the right thing to do.

I'm laughing at the frustration of the guy who tried to challenge him.

[Amimnoch]

7. Good. K&R.

He's not my pic, but leaving him off the Ballot is NOT the way I'd like to see Hillary win, or lose if it's an honest loss.

[LonePirate]

8. To the surprise of no one except those interested only in outrage

[geologic]

14. > and a Democratic activist challenged Sanders’s status as a result.

Isn't this public record--
who was that "Democratic" activist???...

[JonLeibowitz]

16. Bob Brannum.

[geologic]

30. thanx...

...

[mpcamb]

38. Megaphone-Wielding Vince Gray Admirer To Help D.C. Remember 9/11 (For $37,000)

In answer to "Who is Bob Brannum?"

Megaphone-Wielding Vince Gray Admirer To Help D.C. Remember 9/11 (For $37,000)

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/looselips/2011/07/27/megaphone-wielding-vince-gray-admirer-to-help-d-c-remember-911-for-37000/

Looks like he's all th things you'd expect him to be...

[jwirr]

17. LOL as if Clinton supporters really had any choice.

[Buzz Clik]

24. Good! He will lose by 75-25.

[AlbertCat]

47. Good! He will lose by 75-25.

Like he did in WI!

[Buzz Clik]

50. Good point. After all, Wisconsin and Washington DC have identical demographics.

[AlbertCat]

52. Whoosh!

My point was about predictions, not demographics.

DC is sorta like AL with art galleries.... in a bubble.

[Buzz Clik]

53. LOL!

You really think you're the smartest one in the room.

You're my chew toy, but I'm bored.

Next!

[AlbertCat]

54. Does your post

actually mean anything?

[Agnosticsherbet]

27. Good. I don't support him, but he should not be screwed because DC did not have their

shit together.

[Renew Deal]

29. I knew no matter what, the gnashing of teeth would continue

[mpcamb]

39. Not sure it shouldn't...

There have been a lot of roadblocks.

[wordpix]

33. yay!

[zentrum]

34. DC slouches

…itself towards representative government.

[DebbieCDC]

35. I'm sure DWS will get a tongue lashing from her boss eom

[Duval]

37. Finally!!

Registration error?

[Zira]

40. Good. And thanks John Podesta of the Clinton campaign for also calling for Sander's name to be

on the ballot.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

41. I'm so happy tonight. Wisconsin, and now DC.

[MynameisBlarney]

42. Noice!

Good news!

[Angrydemex]

43. Good stuff

I can definitely feel the Bern.

[SoapBox]

56. Good news.

Thank you Mayor and City Council.

[blackspade]

57. Congratulations 'challenger'

Thanks for wasting everyone's fucking time. Fucking idiot.