Sanders names Cornel West, Keith Ellison to DNC platform committee

[oberliner]

Top Bernie Sanders supporters Dr. Cornell West and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will be among those on the Democratic Party's important Platform Drafting Committee after the Vermont senator won a key concession as he looks to leave his mark on the party's platform.

The roster of the drafting committee, released by the Democratic National Committee on Monday, reflects the party's agreement that Sanders would have five supporters on the committee, compared to six for Hillary Clinton.

Sanders previously panned DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who appoints all of the committee members, for failing to include enough of his supporters on an initial list. But the latest statement notes that Wasserman Schultz allocated the campaign's seats "proportionally according to the current vote tally."

Along with West and Ellison, Sanders supporters on the committee are author Bill McKibben, Arab American Institute head James Zogby and Native American activist Deborah Parker.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/280941-sanders-names-cornel-west-keith-ellison-to-platform

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Interesting choices./nt

[seabeyond]

3. We.. This is interesting. All he is doing now is insulting, and throwing fits, acting like a two yr

old.

DNC does this and they print out the Democrats gave in to his demand. So fuckin gracious. The sanders says his people are working people, like all the rest of us don't do shit.

He is just about insulting. Putting West in is clear his intent. All we do is stand back, let the fire works happen, the show, the entertainment, in all what I expect will be nasty, ... Then we adults take control of the situation, reign it in and move on from there.

I am truly becoming disgusted with the show. But... Just another little while.

[wendylaroux]

4. oh no,you're disgusted.

[Raster]

6. "...we adults take control of this situation..."

[cali]

7. Lol. Melodrama should be your middle name

You're acting like a child

[seabeyond]

8. I am stepping back, watching a tantrum. Fireworks and all.

[whistler162]

22. Let me guess full length mirror!

[seabeyond]

23. No.

[B Calm]

9. +1

[hrmjustin]

17. Pot Kettle Black.

[cali]

18. Lol. I'm snarky and cutting. I cop to that. Melodramatic? Hardly.

[hrmjustin]

19. Please don't make me laugh.

I have chapped lips.

[cali]

20. Please. Post links to my supposedly melodramatic posts.

[hrmjustin]

21. Lol.

Read your own ops.

[wendylaroux]

27. bag balm is the best for chapped skin.

you're welcome.

[AlbertCat]

34. Please don't make me laugh.

You laugh???

Huh.

I thought you just pouted.

[hrmjustin]

37. No unlike you i have a sense of humor.

[JRLeft]

30. I want my neoliberalism/neoconservative policies remaining intact Gawd Damn it!

[tkmorris]

10. I'm sorry, what?

[eShirl]

13. oh good, I'm not the only one

[frylock]

24. You poor dear.

There there.

[pmorlan1]

2. Great choices

I wonder who will be on the rules committee?

[rhett o rick]

5. But DWS didn't allocate seats proportionally. She did not include the

millions that caucus delegates represent. Another shenanigan favoring Clinton.

[leftynyc]

42. LOL - stop with your whiny bullshit already

She wasn't obligated to put ANY of Bernie's choices on the committee. That's what the WINNING candidate does.

[trudyco]

11. I wish he would include in the platform

Verifiable vote counting and EZ voting (enough machines, long hours, multi day voting, EZ same day registration, uniform party affiliation and changing affiliation procedures, etc).

Verifiable vote counting, paper trails and mandatory Public Viewing hand audits are the most important. Required exit polls and follow up investigations when they don't match the vote counting within the margin of error (or if the error always goes to one candidate even if it is within the moe). We need our democracy back.

Also ending the war on drugs (starting with anybody in jail for nonviolent drug possession) and letting all Felons regain voting privileges.

And something about a public option for healthcare and something to relieve college debt.

And, finally, overturning Citizens United. Corporations are not people. Billionaires should not dictate policy through their donations.

[JimDandy]

14. Nice list, especially most of your election protection suggestions.

[mmonk]

12. Brother West is in? Rock & roll!

[ericson00]

15. great move, how mainstream!

the GOP will dig up interesting quotes from West, to say the least...and his support for anti-Semitic BDS

[jillan]

25. Who or what is BDS? On edit, never mind I looked it up. But your post is a little - um - off since

Bernie is Jewish! And Cornell endorses his "Brother Bernie".

[arcane1]

26. The GOP does your thinking for you?

Not for me!

[bvar22]

16. Thank You, Bernie!

I applaud your appointments!
For the first time I feel like I actually have representation!

[ucrdem]

28. Brother West, the fanatical Obama hater who helped Sanders lose the South by staggering margins.

Yes he'll be a real asset.

[JoePhilly]

32. + 1

[AlbertCat]

35. the fanatical Obama hater

Didn't this thread start out with enough melodrama?

Guess not.

[Sheepshank]

36. Is Bernie *this* blind, and *this* tone deaf, and led by Weaver with *this* big of a nose ring...

....that in some disjointed, disillusioned campagin, he through West was a good idea?

wow...so glad Bernie can never become CiC.

[Gothmog]

29. Sanders is showing that he has poor judgement

[oberliner]

31. West seems like a particularly poor choice

Given his remarks about Obama in particular and Democrats in general.

[Octafish]

33. Better than Superdelegate Lobbyists

Plus, West and Ellison put people over profits -- just like Democrats used to before Goldmsn Sachs took over.

[TheKentuckian]

38. 1/3 isn't proportional. I thought Clintonites "get math". Another lie.

[oberliner]

40. 5/11 is

5 for Sanders, 6 for Clinton.

[TheKentuckian]

43. I see 15 with 10 being the option of the Turd Way.

[oberliner]

44. Normally the chair chooses all the committee members

Instead, the chair is choosing 4, and the campaigns are choosing the other 11, divided proportionally.

[TheKentuckian]

45. The Chair, Clinton, all spends the same to me.

[taught_me_patience]

39. He's straight trolling now nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

41. Shakin' shit up.

I love it!