How many staffers can you name who aren't with Bernie 2020

[Eric J in MN]

...but are campaign staffers for candidates in the current Democratic presidential primary? (Without Googling.)

[George II]

1. Wha?

[Eric J in MN]

2. I'm just wondering. NT

NT

[melman]

3. It's a good question

There's a very obvious strategy of demonizing/discrediting anyone associated with the Sanders campaign.

[emulatorloo]

5. Probably because Sirota and Gray are wasting too much time with twitter feuds instead of helping

Bernie win. They appear to spend a lot of time in grudge matches rather than promoting policy.

Bernie deserves much much better.

[melman]

6. No

I don't think that's it.

[emulatorloo]

7. That's my observation. They've been agressive twitter "warriors" for a long time.

It may have made sense to Bernie when he hired them, but it isn’t working well for his campaign.

We don’t know the names of the other campaign’s top staff because as fair as I know those staffers aren’t out there on twitter getting into ugly fights with people and encouraging doxxing.

As I say, Bernie deserves way better than this. He has great ideas, he’s a man of character, and an excellent candidate. Sirota et al detract from Bernie.

My humble opinion based on my observation.

[melman]

8. "encouraging doxxing"

This is a thing that didn't happen. As I'm sure you know.

[emulatorloo]

10. I read it with my own eyes.

End of discussion. Bernie deserves better.

Have a great night

[melman]

11. "End of discussion"

lol if you say so. If you don't like discussions you shouldn't start them.

[emulatorloo]

13. Yes it is the end of the discussion because I don't believe we have anything else to say

to one another.

I stated my observations, you stated yours.

[melman]

15. Well it's not the end if you keep going

is it?

[emulatorloo]

17. LOL

I love your sense of humor!

[melman]

19. That's nice

I guess. But it wasn't a joke it was a simple observation. If you want a discussion to end you shouldn't continue.


and btw, speaking of twitter...Ian Sams is a complete asshole on twitter but you don't see that because you don't want to.

Because what you want is for it to be just about Sirota and Gray. Which goes back to the original point.


Anyway, great discussion as always. Thanks!

[emulatorloo]

20. I don't follow Senator Harris, so I had to google that name

If Ian Sams is behaving in a toxic manner, then the Harris campaign should get rid of him.

(I will admit Sanders is much higher on my short list that Harris, so that’s Probably why I don’t know him.)

What I want is for Bernie to have the best staff available, ones that will effectively support him and promote him. Not ones who appear to waste a lot of time in pointless melodrama that have zero to do with getting Bernie the nomination. I know they mean well, but that’s not how an effective campaign person spends their time.

You have a different opinion and apparently believe they are doing a great job. So we’ll just have to disagree.

You seem to want to insinuate my opinion makes me a “bad person”. It doesn’t. Your opinion that they are doing a great job doesn’t make you a “bad person. “ We just have different ideas about whether Sirota’s and Grey’s twitter activities help or harm Senator Sanders in the long run.

Melman, I always like talking with you. Hope you have a nice weekend.

[comradebillyboy]

14. There it is! They distract from the candidate and not

in a good way.

[Cha]

16. I see that too, emulatorloo.

It's a thing.. Sirota etc in twitter vengeful feuds.

BS hired them, though.

[LanternWaste]

23. This is troubling for Bernie.

[House of Roberts]

4. My memory usually sucks anyway.

I can name Bernie staffers, Faiz Shakir, David Sirota, and Nina Turner, because people here complain about them.
The only staffer's name I can remember for anybody else is Symone Sanders, because she worked for Bernie last time and Biden this time.
The rest are the usual suspects from the DNC crowd all hoping for a White House gig.

[aikoaiko]

9. Lauren Hitt for Beto.

I became interested in her when she started to minimize Beto's mandatory forced gun buy back program.

[comradebillyboy]

12. The staffers of competently run campaigns don't seem to attract

too much attention. For instance I have no idea who Warren's staffers are. Good staff doesn't distract from the candidate.

[NNadir]

18. Staphers or staffers? Infections or Walmart workers? Swimming pool staff? Russian staff?

Personally I don't give a shit who's with Bernie. I have a distinct impression of "who's with Bernie."

Yesterday I saw my first ever "Jill Stein" bumper sticker, from 2016, which had the interesting claim "Vote for the Greater Good, not the Lesser Evil." It was right next to the Bernie 2016 sticker, on a Prius in a parking lot at Rutgers University.

The "greater good" is apparently a mentally deteriorating orange Nazi in the White House inciting racist mass shootings in the United States.

To me that says everything I need to know about Sanders. I have no use for a candidate who has supporters include any people have a vision of "good" that is so defined.

I'm personally not interested in Googling anything about Bernie Sanders. I personally wish he'd just go away. He won't, but I wish he would.

[TwilightZone]

21. We shouldn't be able to name many at all, including those of Sanders.

If they're detracting attention from their candidates or making the news about themselves, they're not doing their jobs.

[Gothmog]

22. Symone Sanders works for Biden

Marc Elias is working for Harris as head of her voter protection team
Crystal Perkins (former executive director of Texas Democratic Party) works for Biden
I have met Beto’s staff at an event earlier but do not Romberg their names