Bernie Sanders Gets Group Endorsements When Members Decide; Hillary Clinton When Leaders Decide

[Uncle Joe]

Every major union or progressive organization that let its members have a vote endorsed Bernie Sanders.

Meanwhile, all of Hillary Clinton’s major group endorsements come from organizations where the leaders decide. And several of those endorsements were accompanied by criticisms from members about the lack of a democratic process.

It’s perhaps the clearest example yet of Clinton’s powerful appeal to the Democratic Party’s elite, even as support for Sanders explodes among the rank and file.

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For example, Clinton got an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign this week. That decision was made not by a vote of HRC’s membership list but instead by a 32-member executive board that includes Mike Berman, the president of a lobbying firm that works for Pfizer, Comcast, and the health insurance lobby. Northrup Grumman is among its list of major corporate sponsors.

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The one major labor union that did allow for a vote was the Communications Workers of America. CWA followed a three-month process that included meetings with members, telephone town halls, and an online polling voting process.

“We conducted an online membership poll from mid-September to early December,” said CWA spokesperson Candice Johnson in a statement to The Intercept. “Tens of thousands of members voted in the poll, with Sanders getting a decisive majority.” Johnson noted that CWA did not endorse in 2008 because they followed the same process and the three leading Democratic candidates all received around the same proportion of votes.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/22/bernie-sanders-gets-group-endorsements-when-members-decide-hillary-clinton-when-leaders-decide/

There is a graph on the link reflecting how these organizations came to their endorsement decisions.

[Uncle Joe]

1. My only quibble with this article is the charitable use of the word "leaders," other than that

it's spot on.

[Ferd Berfel]

2. and this is how she would run things

Hillary will be Status Quo .

Democracy, The middle-class and the poor cannot survive any more Business as usual.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I agree, Ferd Berfel, this is Hillary's modus operandi.

I don't expect it to change should Hillary be elected.

[Segami]

4. That should be

a good indicator on how governing will be conducted in a Clinton administration........the voices of the many will NOT count.

[Uncle Joe]

5. The 1% will definitely have their voices heard.

[Segami]

6. They sure will!!

[sadoldgirl]

7. And this indicates who will be the chosen ones for her Cabinet,

or at least where they would come from as well
as their interests.

[Uncle Joe]

8. You can count on that, sadoldgirl.

Peace to you.