Bernie Sanders to Skip Netroots Nation

[brooklynite]

Daily Beast

Before confirming his attendance at this weekend’s Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia, members of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) team raised concerns about one of the moderators who would be asking questions at a presidential candidate forum on Saturday, according to two sources who described the conversations to The Daily Beast.

The campaign’s questions centered on Markos Moulitsas, the founder and publisher of the progressive activist website Daily Kos, who has been publicly critical of the Independent from Vermont.

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As of late Wednesday afternoon, the candidates listed as attending were former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Warren is the only candidate among the top polling five who has committed to attending.

Sanders will not be able to attend due to scheduling difficulties, though his campaign announced that national co-chair Nina Turner would be there on Friday.

[Me.]

1. So Is He Afraid To Answer A Question From A Critic?

Presidents have to do that all the time

[redstatebluegirl]

2. Ok,so he doesn't like anyone asking him questions who don't agree with him?

Do we really want that in our candidate, I don't.

[KitSileya]

3. Considering his history of never granting interviews unless he has final say over Qs

This seems to be par for the course. I know that local papers in Vermont have complained because Senator Sanders refuses to be interviewed by them unless he gets to vet the questions.


"The Sound of Silence: Bernie Sanders Spurns Seven Days for 1,000 Days"

POSTED BY PAUL HEINTZ ON WED, JAN 24, 2018 AT 4:00 AM
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2018/01/24/the-sound-of-silence-bernie-sanders-spurns-seven-days-for-1000-days

Seven Days was hardly the only local news outlet to get shut out during Sanders' presidential campaign. As we reported in December 2015, he largely ignored interview requests from most of the state's press corps, with the occasional exception of Vermont television stations that also broadcast in the early primary state of New Hampshire. And as we reported in March 2017, the streak continued for several news outlets — including Vermont Public Radio and VTDigger.org — long after the campaign ended.

Sanders has since mended fences with those two organizations. After a two-year hiatus from live appearances on VPR's "Vermont Edition," he returned to the show last June and has appeared at least once more since then. VTDigger.org's Washington, D.C., reporter, Elizabeth Hewitt, said she snagged her first of two phone interviews with Sanders in November and has managed to catch up with him in the halls of the Capitol since.

But 1,000 days later, Sanders still hasn't taken an interview with Seven Days.

Why not? Is it because Seven Days was the first Vermont news outlet to raise questions, in June 2015, about whether his wife, Jane O'Meara Sanders, committed federal loan fraud during her presidency of Burlington College? (Federal authorities later launched an investigation, which was active as recently as December 2017.)

[SidDithers]

4. He can do a Fox News town hall...

but won’t face Kos?



Sid

[Go Vols]

5. Good for Bernie

http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html

[Cha]

6. Big Bad Kos!