Sanders Campaign Withdraws Suit in Intraparty Fight

[WhiteTara]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/04/29/sanders-campaign-withdraws-suit-in-intraparty-fight/

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has withdrawn his lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, putting an end to an intraparty dispute over unauthorized access to proprietary data belonging to rival Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Attorneys representing Mr. Sanders filed paperwork in U.S. District Court to dismiss the case on Friday. In a statement, the Sanders campaign said it moved to dismiss the case after receiving the results of an independent investigation.

“We are gratified by the results of this independent investigation,” said Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver.

The dispute between the DNC and the Sanders campaign began in December, after it was revealed that four staffers working for the Sanders campaign had accessed some voter data that belonged to the Clinton campaign. The data was available to Mr. Sanders as the result of a glitch in the software platform both campaigns were using for voter targeting.

[tonyt53]

1. Won't stop the Bernie-ites though

[Wilms]

2. Welcome to DU, Tony.

What brings you here?

[nolawarlock]

3. Same thing that brought me here ...

Brock's check.



God, it's just unbelievable what they put people through here that are new. You'd think you'd want to engage people in the political process.

[sufrommich]

5. Meh,it's a weak attempt at intimidation.

[Wilms]

6. "engage people in the political process"??

With that reply and your sig line?

Try again.

[nolawarlock]

8. Please ...

I've been here six weeks and have been accused of being a paid Brock troll probably no fewer than thirty times. It's so ridiculous. And you've got this broken jury system where Bernie supporters can outright call Hillary supporters "assholes" (just saw a hide fail on that very thing) and we Hillary fans get hides for practically nothing. It's so unbalanced.

Everything in my sig file is true. Had I not been hidden unfairly so much, it might have had a few more unicorns and rainbows in it.

[Wilms]

11. I didn't accuse anyone of being a paid troll.

If others have, that your issue with them. Newcomers with 20 posts a day draw attention. What can I say?

And you sig line betrays your claim.

Unicorns and rainbows? Have a nice day.

[nolawarlock]

13. I like my sig line.

Every time I've gotten a bogus hide, I created a new graphic, though I'm kinda running out of space and am going to have to start swapping some out.

[Wilms]

14. No one said it's easy maintaining an adolescent sig line.

You'll manage. I'm sure.

[nolawarlock]

16. I prefer to have a sense of humor ...

... and not look at every election like it's the end of time.

[Wilms]

20. And that has what to do with what?

You've posted here a thousand times in 6 weeks. Hahahaha. OK. It's funny.

[nolawarlock]

24. I love reading my own opinion. :)

If you don't, there's always the ignore feature.

[Wilms]

34. Welcome to DU. n/t

[nolawarlock]

55. Many thanks! :) nt

[nc4bo]

23. .

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[rhett o rick]

40. And well trained to get that first response slot. It take dedicated punching the refresh button to

find the newest OPs and get a post up in two minutes. I recommend putting them all on ignore.

[rhett o rick]

39. Wow, another low, low post count Clinton fan. And look at you getting the first response

in less than two minutes. Now that takes dedication. And start right off with an attack on Sanders supporters. I recommend everyone neutralize the low post Clinton fans but putting them on instant ignore.

Bob-Bye

[sufrommich]

4. That independent investigation must have

been pretty cut and dried as to who was at fault.

[rhett o rick]

43. Yes it did.

Now, four months later, an independent investigation of the firewall failures in the DNC’s shared voter file database has definitively confirmed that the original claims by the DNC and the Clinton campaign were wholly inaccurate – the Sanders campaign never “stole” any voter file data; the Sanders campaign never “exported” any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaign’s “strategic road map.”

[NurseJackie]

7. Abort! Abort! Head for the hills!

The investigation showed that four Sanders campaign staffers had access to some Clinton data for about an hour. The investigation also revealed that a Sanders staffer downloaded a data table during the breach. As a result of the breach, a Sanders campaign staffer was fired in December.

As we've always known.

The Clinton campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.

There's really no need for them to, is there? (That's what DU is for, eh?)

[sufrommich]

9. Hillary has so moved on to the general.

[joshcryer]

18. Everyone knows they were trying something.

That they failed is neither campaigns fault. (Nor would it have been Sanders' fault if they succeeded. They were acting on their own.)

[NurseJackie]

32. :-)

[NCTraveler]

30. Interesting the way the timing worked out for the Friday evening news dump.

That tactic doesn't work well anymore but politicians still do it. The timing tells me we will be hearing more about it.

[imagine2015]

12. Independent Investigation Confirms Sanders Campaign Told the Truth In DNC Lawsuit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511866782

[sufrommich]

19. Says BernieSanders.com

Let's see the actual Investigation report.

[imagine2015]

21. Ask Hillary for it along with the Wall Street transcripts. She'll get them to you later today.

[tonedevil]

28. At least...

she will look into it.

[imagine2015]

61. She's been looking for 2 months now. What's the rush?

[joshcryer]

15. Called it, as usual.

Far too late though. Weaver is a scumbag.

[ljm2002]

36. The only reason the Hillary camp thinks badly of Weaver...

...is that he is a fighter, and he is effective. He is willing to throw punches. Well, good. You can't play in the big leagues by being a wimp. Just ask Gore and Kerry, for starters.

[pnwmom]

38. This was blatant cheating. And the independent investigation confirmed it, which is why

Bernie fired the guy and withdrew the lawsuit.

[joshcryer]

46. No, Weaver ruined Sanders' chance.

By making a personality cult, by not reigning in abrasive supporters, indeed channeling them, he turned off the voters who would be best served by him. Weaver and Devine are only in it for the money.

BTW, whatever happened to suing the DNC and shedding light on its corrupt practices? Isn't settling the lawsuit the exact opposite of what you claim? Especially without the investigation details being released?

[Number23]

62. A Sanders supporter in the AA forum said that he could have run Sanders' campaign 100 times better

for free from his damn bedroom. And I don't doubt that for a freaking second, considering how ineptly and bizarrely run the man's campaign was and is still being run now.

By making a personality cult, by not reigning in abrasive supporters, indeed channeling them, he turned off the voters who would be best served by him. Weaver and Devine are only in it for the money.

There will be books written about this campaign. And they will probably be called "How NOT to run for President."

[Gothmog]

17. The lawsuit had no merit

It is nice that Sanders finally realized this

[imagine2015]

22. The claims against the Sander campaign had no merit.

[Gothmog]

26. Sanders was caught red handed stealing data

[seabeyond]

27. His people stole.

[joshcryer]

47. The lawsuit was a joke.

[seabeyond]

25. Good. Not only does he go thru his money, he goes thru others, too. Nt

[Beacool]

29. The suit had no merit anyway.

It was the Sanders campaign that was caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

[NurseJackie]

33. He should have just let it go with the firing, and the public apology...

... taken it on the chin and moved on. It would have been forgotten and seldom mentioned (outside of place like this web site.) But, here it is again! Reminding everyone what a sleazy thing it was to do, and how the campaign (Bernie?) wouldn't accept the consequences and felt justified in retaliating to the mild restriction of privileges.

Sneaking cookies before dinner? No dessert for you!

[LexVegas]

31. Smart enough to know when he is beaten. nt

[silvershadow]

35. Vindicated! Debbie-gate isn't on him. I wonder if the investigation continues? nt

[Hoyt]

37. They would have laughed out of court. Sanders' folks steal data, blame it on Clinton.

[TM99]

42. Do you fools ever actually read you

know the articles?

An independent fucking investigation RULED in favor of Sanders. The DNC was at fault and all of the smears y'all have thrown were baseless.

No god damned motherfucking data was stolen. PERIOD!

Jesus on a fucking crutch! I am sick of y'all.

[Hoyt]

44. What "Independent," credible investigation are you referring to? How was anything Clinton's fault?

[TM99]

45. I am so sick of zombies.

[Hoyt]

49. You should be sick of people trying to blame Clinton for Sanders' campaign's indiscretions.

If Sanders' folks were innocent, why did they fire a staffer. The only reason he's dropping the suit is he can't win it, or the primary. He ought to be truthful rather than lying about some "Independent investigation."

[TM99]

51. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!

Here is actual proof that no data was stolen, that Sanders acted appropriately in their handling of the situation, that the DNC acted inappropriately, and that the Clinton campaign used and continues to use it as a smear.

Your 'speculations' are just that.

[Hoyt]

53. Where is there proof? In Sanders' or press release he's dropping the suit? LMAO. He's

He's trying to extricate himself from an embarrassing situation, no matter how many times you say BS, BS.

[Land of Enchantment]

59. You've heard of 'climate deniers'? Some of these people are 'fact deniers'

oblivious to the truth even when confronted head on full out by the truth. Trying to reason with them is like trying to nail jello to the ceiling. Save your sanity and put them on Ignore.

[TM99]

60. I had been meaning to put the poster

on Ignore for some time.

They made it very easy tonight given their zombie like behavior.

[moriah]

65. Really?

Edit: I have to admkt, have always wanted a man who liked me for my brains...

[joshcryer]

50. Um, Sanders campaign admits their staffer did wrong.

And the investigation does not cover the lawsuit which the campaign withdrew because it was garbage.

[Number23]

63. Even with clear English his supporters still deny what's right in their faces while insulting every

body else. The lawsuit says plain as day that four members of Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton information on 11 states for over an hour. But somehow, this EXONERATES Sanders.

GOD, I will be glad when all of this crap is over.

[joshcryer]

64. Ever since the breach I've been disappointed in Weaver.

Some of the social media stuff I realize isn't able to be channeled, or it's damn hard. But the personality cult building, and fundraising, quite literally, off of their own staffers committing what amounts to criminal activity if they actually managed to do what they were trying to do, that's Weaver's doing. When Sanders apologized to Clinton you could tell in his own voice he wasn't buying his own campaign's rhetoric.

But he's doubled down, defended, and repeated Weaver's stupid ass campaign rhetoric ever since. It was a bad move, and I say this saying from the start that Sanders needed to go on the attack. But personality attacks are wholly different from policy attacks.

Don't get me started on Devine who is just this cycle's Mark Penn.

[msongs]

41. lawsuits cost $$, LOTS of $$. it's an economy move nt

[winter is coming]

48. So? They said all along that they'd withdraw the lawsuit if an indepedent

investigation happened.

[MineralMan]

52. Finally. eom

[LenaBaby61]

54. So ...

That matter is behind both camps.

Good Deal.

[Kip Humphrey]

56. "a glitch in the software platform both campaigns were using for voter targeting."

Is this 'software platform" the same Microsoft built app ordered by the Hillary (pre)campaign and distributed to the Sanders campaign by the DNC prior to the start of voting? The same app that the Sanders campaign refused to use for vote tracking due to it's proprietary trade secret status?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511759392

[WhiteTara]

57. It's called VAN and is used by democratic committees all over the country

Hillary did not order this.

[Kip Humphrey]

67. oh, ok

[morningfog]

58. This tells me Bernie and the DNC are making progress in their talks.

We are getting to the home stretch. I hope and expect that Bernie got something in return to dropping the suit.

[Maru Kitteh]

66. K & R