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In reply to the discussion: The Atlantic Accused David Sirota of Secretly Working For Bernie Sanders. But Where's the Evidence? [View all]CentralMass
(16,346 posts)The revelation that Sirota was consulting since February 20th? Is apparently the issue.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/bernie-sanders-hires-former-journalist/index.html
"Sirota, who is known for both his reporting and combative Twitter presence, had been informally advising the campaign on a trial basis since the day after Sanders formally launched his 2020 bid for the presidency last month. But shortly before his hiring was announced, Sirota began erasing old tweets, many of which ran contrary to Sanders' call last month for supporters and surrogates to adopt a more friendly tone in their public exchanges with political rivals.
According to campaign manager Faiz Shakir, Sirota began the trial arrangement, in which he would assist Sanders with speechwriting, on Feb. 20, a day after Sanders made his candidacy official. Sirota left his post with the Capital and Main website on Feb. 14, Shakir said. He then signed a formal letter to become the campaign speechwriter on March 11. The trial period was to see how Sanders, who traditionally prefers to handwrite his own speeches on yellow-lined paper, would work with a speechwriter."
On another thread there are links to some 2016 tweets regarding Hillary's Wall St connections. They seem to be sited as evidence of "Sirota's treachery against the party while he was working for Sanders except he wasn't in 2016.
So this was a two or three week period, from February 20th until March 11th when Sirota signed on with the campaign and at which point he deleted tweets not in keeping with the campaign.
So I call bullshit on this bogus Issue.

primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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