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TexasTowelie

(112,237 posts) Sun Aug 28, 2016, 08:15 AM Aug 2016

Still no cash for Sanders' 4; checks in mail, state party says

Supporters of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders say the Democratic Party of Arkansas broke its promises and withheld financial support it had publicly promised to provide.

Party spokesman H.L. Moody acknowledged his organization missed the payment deadline it had set but said the problem now has been addressed.

"The checks have been mailed and we apologize for the late nature of the checks, and once {the Sanders supporters} get them hopefully we can put this story to rest," he said Thursday.

Last month, three Sanders delegates to the Democratic National Convention and one pro-Sanders member of the convention's Rules Committee claimed that they had been denied the $250-per-person subsidies that were provided to other Arkansas Democratic activists who traveled to Philadelphia.

Read more: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/aug/26/still-no-cash-for-sanders-4-checks-in-m/?f=news-politics

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Still no cash for Sanders' 4; checks in mail, state party says (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP

umm. This was published very early Friday am. Wonder if the riversedge Aug 2016 #1

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1. umm. This was published very early Friday am. Wonder if the

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Sun Aug 28, 2016, 08:24 AM

Aug 2016

checks arrived either Fri. or Sat. Or if update to this article.
If the delegates were promised the money--they should be paid.

.........On Tuesday, after a Democrat-Gazette inquiry about the email, Dick called the Sanders supporters and promised they'd be getting the checks soon.

Sanders delegate Teresa Gallegos of Russellville said Dick apologized, promising he would send the money "as soon as possible."

"I'm still waiting to see if they will follow through," she said Thursday.

Amanda Kennedy, a pro-Sanders Rules Committee member from Greenbrier, said Dick had "apologized and taken full responsibility" for the problem, but she said that the money hadn't arrived with Thursday's mail..........

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