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Related: About this forumReady for Warren becomes Ready to Fight, supports Bernie Sanders. Two articles about it.
DU poster wilsonbooks posted about the endorsement today in General Discussion.
I found two articles about the group. This is a significant endorsement.
Ready for Warren endorses Sanders
While Warren is the champion who inspired this movement, the draft effort was never just about her it's about her message and the values she represents, Erica Sagrans and Charles Lenchner write in an opinion piece on CNN released Friday morning.
Bernie Sanders has caught fire in a way that's reminiscent of the draft Warren movement itself from the Internet to town halls in Iowa, Sanders has captured the imagination and support of people looking for a real progressive challenger in the 2016 Democratic primary.
Sagrans is the campaign manager for the group, which has now rebranded itself as Ready to Fight. Lenchner is the groups co-founder.
Sanders has emerged as Clintons leading opponent from the left. While he still trails Clinton by significant margins in most national and statewide polls, hes racking up strong poll numbers in New Hampshire and is drawing large crowds in Iowa.
.....The Ready for Warren rebrand comes weeks after another group, Run Warren Run, suspended operations after it delivered a petition of 365,000 signatures urging Warren to run.
More from The Hill:
Ready for Warren to become Ready to Fight
Ready for Warren, the political group that sought to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) into the presidential race, is taking on a new name and mission.
The group will dub itself Ready To Fight on Friday and push a liberal economic agenda in the 2016 cycle.
According to a source close to the organization, Ready To Fight will advocate for many of the same initiatives as Ready for Warren, which formally ended its effort to draft Warren earlier this month.
....Ready For Warren's transition comes as Run Warren Run, another draft Warren effort that was backed by Democracy For America and MoveOn.org, disbanded their effort earlier this month.
I am thinking that Democracy for America will likely not come out for Sanders since Howard Dean has been openly supporting Hillary Clinton.
Anyone heard what is in Move On's mind? I believe they got their name when they formed during the impeachment of Bill Clinton...was it censure and then move on?
I post a lot about Bernie Sanders at Twitter
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Ready for Warren becomes Ready to Fight, supports Bernie Sanders. Two articles about it. (Original Post)
madfloridian
Jun 2015
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madfloridian
(88,117 posts)1. I found more about MoveOn's founding. I was right.
Last edited Fri Jun 19, 2015, 03:46 PM - Edit history (1)
MoveOn started in 1998 as an e-mail group, MoveOn.org, created by software entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married cofounders of Berkeley Systems. They started by passing around a petition asking Congress to "censure President Clinton and move on", as opposed to impeaching him. The petition, passed around by word of mouth, gathered half a million signatures[10] but did not dissuade Congress from impeaching the President. The couple went on to start similar campaigns calling for arms inspections rather than an invasion of Iraq, reinstatement of lower limits on arsenic and mercury pollution [clarification needed], and campaign finance reform.
Since 1998, MoveOn has raised millions of dollars for many Democratic candidates.[11] In November 2007, a drive spearheaded by MoveOn caused Facebook to change its controversial new "Beacon" program, which notified Facebook users about purchases by people on their friends list.[12] As of 2009, MoveOn had 20 full-time and 20 part-time staffers. As of 2012, MoveOn claims a membership of over 7 million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org
bvar22
(39,909 posts)2. But...but....but....
....Warren said that Hillary was "terrific".
Doesn't that count as an endorsement?
A lot of people here thought so.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)3. I sure didn't take it that way.