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shireen

(8,333 posts)
1. This is so sad
Sat May 21, 2016, 01:30 AM
May 2016

These people take voting seriously. They showed up. She and her husband waited 4 hours in line. That's dedication.

Why are they being treated so badly? It can't be incompetency since it's not the first time NV is running a state convention.



jillan

(39,451 posts)
3. Yes - she has gone on a couple of shows. I think Hartmann had her on too. Of course! no one at
Sat May 21, 2016, 01:38 AM
May 2016

CNN or Msnbc thought of that to interview anyone that was actually there the entire time.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
4. Corporate media has bills to pay. No time to talk to everyone...
Sat May 21, 2016, 01:47 AM
May 2016


Television News Network Lobbyists Are Fundraising for Hillary Clinton

By Lee Fang
Oct. 29 2015, 12:51 p.m.


~Snip~

The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.

The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.

Presidential campaigns are obligated by law to send the Federal Election Commission a list of lobbyists who serve as “bundlers,” collecting hundreds of individual checks on behalf of a candidate’s campaign.

CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as “one of Washington’s top lobbyists.” He’s lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy...


Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/

jillan

(39,451 posts)
5. Yep - this country is so screwed when the people that are supposed to be keeping the politicians
Sat May 21, 2016, 01:50 AM
May 2016

honest are paying for the politicians.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
6. Journalism in America is in dire need of a makeover. When 6 corporations own the majority of major
Sat May 21, 2016, 02:02 AM
May 2016

media outlets things have gone too far. How does true free speech exist in that kind of environment?

http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

Media consolidation is only good for those that want to control the flow of information.

I'm so thankful for those journalists that exist outside of the framework of those 6 corporations.

 

Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)
10. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 played a major role in media consolidation. Thanks Bill. nt
Sat May 21, 2016, 03:59 AM
May 2016

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
7. Elmendorf is her bundler and also a Goldman Sachs person.
Sat May 21, 2016, 03:06 AM
May 2016

Dr. Dean sat next to him at one of the debates.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
11. I'm sorry I've read this story before and I can't make sense of it
Sat May 21, 2016, 04:10 AM
May 2016

I don't think we'll find out what really happened until after the general election.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
12. Why would we find out then?!? No time like the present.
Sat May 21, 2016, 04:12 AM
May 2016

Perhaps as a Clinton supporter you don't want the truth to be revealed?

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
13. The whistleblower is a Clinton supporter
Sat May 21, 2016, 04:48 AM
May 2016

The story just doesn't make any sense. I caucused in Nevada in 2008 and it was handled through the registrar's office at the county level. Delegates were selected on the basis of the results. State party officials are not involved at that level. Nevada has very strict LAWS about caucusing and assigning delegates. I observed this whether it was a Clinton or Obama supporter. Yes there was acrimony in southern Nevada but nothing like calling the process and results fraudulent.

I could have this wrong but these people were either registered Republicans or indies. I think they were Republicans. They then registered as Democrats but there was an extra step they needed to take and they didn't do it. 8 Clinton delegates were disqualified and I guess she was one of them. If I have this wrong please correct me.

I think you're angry but I don't think your anger is really about the process. I hope when we get the full story, someone will explain the anger that drives you to try and destroy not only Clinton but the Democratic Party. I honestly don't get it.

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
14. Very enlightening. Thank you.
Sat May 21, 2016, 04:54 AM
May 2016

The eyewitness accounts coming from the Sanders team seem very dubious. Frankly I don't think we're supposed to be able to make sense of them because to the degree that we can it seems clear that there was no impropriety on the part of the state Democratic party.

 

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)
15. Debbie and her DINO-pals are a cancer to this party.
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:37 AM
May 2016

Lange et alii need to go, and hang their heads in shame.

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