Sanders Official: "Mayor Pete Buttigieg is what happens when the therapist botches the conversion,"

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

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[apcalc]

1. That guy thinks he's clever and funny. Instead he's just churlish.

[Cha]

5. I think he's disgusting.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

64. I'll second that.

He needs to be gone. BS needs to send him packing.


Edit to add: Downthread comment says he's been fired.

[Cha]

65. Thanks for telling me, Hermit

[Hermit-The-Prog]

68. We will get there.

That guy should have had some feedback long before now. Republicans have the party of assault, not us.

[ramen]

69. Amen, that is bullshit.

I'm encouraged that Sanders has let that person go. No room for that stuff right now.

[left-of-center2012]

2. He should be fired

"Mayor Pete Buttigieg “is what happens when the therapist botches the conversion,” and his husband, Chasten, Mora predicts, will be ‘busted for running a meth racket’”

[MisterFred]

47. I expect he will be. nt

[Cha]

3. could they be anymore

disgusting?

Glad you're back for ever how long

[apcalc]

7. Ah yes, a Bro in the finest tradition of jerky Bros.

Forgot how vile they could be in real life ....

[Cha]

49. I never forget.

[hlthe2b]

4. Only hires the best for his campaign leadership.

I suppose I'm only surprised it wasn't Nina Turner making those ugly comments.

[HarlanPepper]

6. Warren is just a "dumb okie"

This about a state DL won in 2016 by 10 points.

[George II]

8. Disgusting. This is the campaign of the "front runner"?

[BootinUp]

9. insecure asshole. nt

[aikoaiko]

10. He's got to go.

[showblue22]

11. This is bad.

Link to tweet

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[Gravitycollapse]

15. Mora has been fired by the campaign.

Link to tweet

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

18. Oh okay, so under the "Biden Standard," Bernie should now be exalted!! Yessss!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[William769]

63. It's very telling that you find this funny. nt

[ramen]

70. Nothing funny to me here.

A campaign surrogate behaving terribly has been fired. That was the right response. I can't abide by that type of toxicity, especially right now.

[maryallen]

73. Something stinks here.

If this person was working for the Sanders' campaign, he would not do something this stupid. This sounds like "dirty tricks," the kind that Roger Stone performed for Nixon and Trump.

[sheshe2]

21. He was promoted then fired?

Seriously? Promoted then fired. PROMOTED.

WTF?

[Gravitycollapse]

22. Promoted before this evidence came to light?

[sheshe2]

23. So they don't vet their hires?

Wrong on do many levels.

[dumptrump1]

31. not sure it is fair for campaigns to know every little detail about their staffers.

[LiberalFighter]

51. Probably true. BUT they should indicate to their staff what is expected of them.

And what is not acceptable behavior.

[dumptrump1]

52. in my campaign experience, I haven't been a part of one that didn't do that.

[Gravitycollapse]

33. Can't catch everything. Glad they took out the trash when the evidence came out.

[mcar]

50. How many times has this kind of thing happened?

Firing after the fact isn't close to enough.

[sheshe2]

53. Over and over and over again.

[W_HAMILTON]

37. It isn't like this is the first time something like this has happened with Sanders.

Matt Orfalea immediately comes to mind.

[George II]

62. We need to hear from the candidate HIMSELF!! This isn't the first time this has happened....

...First it was Orfalea, then it was Gordon, now this.

Not a peep from Sanders. HE HIRES these people. He should own up to his poor judgement.

[hlthe2b]

81. Funny.. That article says he was PROMOTED..

But the private Twitter account of a newly promoted campaign staffer indicates that despite his condemnation of online harassment, at least some of the Vermont senator’s most toxic support is coming from inside the house.

[msongs]

12. one suspects that most of these oddball staffers do not reflect the candidate's views

ya can't weed out all nutters

[Gravitycollapse]

13. Update: Mora was condemned and fired by the Bernie campaign.

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

34. Good

Thanks for the update.

[chillfactor]

14. What a HORRIBLE thing to say!!!!

Another reason why I would never support sanders.

[dalton99a]

16. Unity, Bernie style.

[Callado119]

17. He'll probably get a promotion...

[Gravitycollapse]

20. He has been fired.

Link to tweet

[dumptrump1]

28. well okay!!

Kudos to sanders and his campaign for doing the right thing!

[Renew Deal]

46. That's good

That was ridiculous.

[uponit7771]

19. Can staffers be bots? Jus sayin, I can hear the excuses before they're typed

[tishaLA]

32. LOL

[Celerity]

24. WTF! But then again, Bernie-friendly social media and rad left sites have be a sewer from the start.

SMDH

[showblue22]

25. Someone on the campaign knew and it was not very hidden..

It linked directly to his real Instagram. It was ignored until he was exposed by Daily Beast.

Quote:

Mora, who joined the Sanders campaign last fall as an organizer in Iowa, locked the account roughly six months ago so that only followers—including at least one other person on the Sanders campaign payroll—could see what he tweeted. But the account, which features a photo of Mora as its avatar, links directly to his personal Instagram and shares its name as well, remains active, with more than 4,000 followers.

[squirecam]

57. Exactly

Nt

[brooklynite]

26. Nice that he's been fired; why was he hired in the first place?

Sanders seems to have a problem with hiring intolerant people.

[hlthe2b]

78. Where does it say that he has been fired?

[brooklynite]

79. Daily Beast,...

After this story was published, Mike Casca, the Sanders campaign’s communications director, told The Daily Beast that “we are running a multiracial, multigenerational campaign for justice where disgusting behavior and ugly personal attacks by our staff will not be tolerated.”

Mora, the Sanders campaign confirmed, has been fired.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-staffer-mocked-elizabeth-warrens-looks-pete-buttigiegs-sexuality-on-private-twitter-account

[hlthe2b]

82. Funny that the article stated he was PROMOTED.

Sure would love to see a detailed timeline of events...

[dumptrump1]

27. rfds are relatively low level staffers. but with the high profile nature of the news

It is wise for a quick apology and firing of this idiot. Wow!

[brooklynite]

35. I'm sure this was an isolated incident...

Bernie Sanders campaign parts ways with staffer after report of homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets

(CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign has parted ways with a newly hired staffer after a conservative website unearthed a series of tweets allegedly from the staffer that contained anti-Semitic and homophobic language.

Darius Khalil Gordon announced Wednesday that he had taken a job with the campaign as the deputy director of constituency organizing. On Thursday, the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, reported that Gordan had sent tweets in 2010, 2011 and 2012 that contained offensive, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs.

The tweets were no longer available on Gordon's page after the Free Beacon's post, and Gordon's Twitter account has since been deactivated.

The Sanders campaign told CNN that Gordon is no longer on the job.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/06/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-staffer-out/index.html

[dumptrump1]

38. I guess the worry should be if they keep them

Bloomberg hires literally everybody and if somebody wanted to derail his campaign by focusing on any one of those people, it probably wouldn't be too hard. I am speaking from experience here.

[donco]

29. More than likely

it was Russian bott working for tRump/pUtin campaign.

[RandySF]

30. Nope

The kid was fired.

[njhoneybadger]

36. Why are so many disgusting people associated with Bernie Sanders

[mrs_p]

39. What a sick fuck.

I just can’t with these horrible people anymore.

[Joinfortmill]

40. Disgusting

Not going to help Bernie.

[Loki Liesmith]

41. Sanders responded appropriately.

Hopefully this sends a message to the other toxic bros.

[AlexSFCA]

42. He was fired! End of story!

I don’t like BS but DU has become unbearable since BS won NV. We can’t be throwing every little thing at him. It might be too late to stop his momentum so we need to be preparing for unity at some point.

[hlthe2b]

77. You should link to validation of that assertion. Just sayin.

[Blue Owl]

43. He sounds like a graduate of Castro's literacy program

n/t

[Eric J in MN]

44. I would say he was a mid-level staffer

...rather than an official.

He was in charge of door knocking in one geographical area. Not messaging or research or strategy.

[Moderateguy]

45. He was fired--so I am good with this

[mcar]

48. Guess it's not just Russian bots

but we knew that already.

Time to speak out, Bernie.

[yaesu]

54. Sanders, being the #1 candidate in the country, seems to be the target once again. nt

[RandySF]

55. Yeah

Somebody must have brainwashed the staffer in tweeting out homophobic comments.

[rwheeler31]

56. Does Bernie pay any attention to what his spoke people ar saying?

[SunSeeker]

58. Sickening.

That person should be fired.

[Lithos]

59. This guy needs to go

n/t

[33taw]

60. Sounds like he has been fired. But I am surprised he was not vetted more thoroughly.

[peoli]

61. He should be fired

[thegoose]

66. Ax this piece of shit now

[ramen]

71. Happy to report that this exact thing happened.

Get that behavior out of our primary. Good riddance, and a good call on the part of the Sanders campaign. Especially the apparent attack on Buttigieg's sexuality.. jesus.

[marieo1]

67. Jerk

Sounds just like DJT to me....no decency, no class!!

[TryLogic]

72. FIRE HIM IMMEDIATELY

Update: Apparently he has been fired. The rest of us should move on.

[Maven]

74. Another toxic little bastard working for Sanders

He sure seems to attract a lot of them, doesn't he?

[Cha]

75. So many

[True Blue American]

76. I read that earlier

Thought it might not be a good idea to publish. The things he wrote about the other Democratic candidates was filthy. I understand he was fired, but too late. He never should have been hired in the first place!

The Daily Beast article was sickening.

[dsc]

80. You wanna know the worst part of this story

This person had another account on Twitter which printed tweets about Pete that were 'sexual' and 'scatalogical' but couldn't be recited by the Daily Beast. This account got banned but not for those tweets, for comparing Megan McCain to Ms. Piggy. So you can call gays any name you want apparently but don't dare go after Megan.

[OliverQ]

83. The guy was fired.

[LAS14]

86. I wish the OP would edit his post to include this. But no.... nt

[LAS14]

84. We shouldn't give stuff like this any air time.

What's the current analogue to "air time?"

tia
las

[BusyBeingBest]

85. Guy was fired, so it was dealt with appropriately.

[LAS14]

87. The OP should edit his post to include this. nt

[Gothmog]

88. Who is surprised by this comment?

sanders has shown some very poor judgment in staffing decisions