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kstewart33

(6,551 posts)
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:05 PM Apr 2016

Update on Bernie's layoffs.

As reported on MSNBC tonight on Maddow, Jeff Weaver informed the laid-off employees in a group phone call to all that lasted about 10 minutes. Some employees (number not reported) were upset because they understood that they would be working up to June 1 and possibility thereafter and they were now unexpectedly unemployed. Some (number unspecified) were upset because Bernie was not on the phone call. Employees were paid $15 an hour.

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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
1. You can always rely on Ms. Selective Outrage (aka Clinton's Cheerleader) to get in a dig
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:06 PM
Apr 2016

at Bernie. That's okay, just keeping pissing off the Bernie supporters. Great strategy you have going there. It seems the GOP doesn't corner the market on stupidity.

 

JTFrog

(14,274 posts)
12. Well they certainly don't corner that market if folks are going to base their vote
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:06 AM
Apr 2016

on vindicating some stupid discussion board feud. I mean that pretty much takes the cake.



griffi94

(3,733 posts)
3. Bernie knows it's over
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:14 PM
Apr 2016

They're just in it for the donations now.

No point in spending any more than you have to on the actual campaign.
That's a dead horse.

Fundraisers and tweets are enough now.

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TM99

(8,352 posts)
8. The truth just doesn't sound quite as juicy does it?
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:28 PM
Apr 2016

It doesn't fit the narrative.

We have moved past the discredit and disqualify to the demoralize as we 'unite' the party!

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IamMab

(1,359 posts)
7. Now imagine how many employees could have been kept on without the $800K per month to Devine.
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:27 PM
Apr 2016

Or whatever Weaver and the other 10-odd men at the top of Bernie's highest-paid list are earning.

oasis

(49,387 posts)
9. Nina Turner and Jane have likely been getting pretty hefty sums
Wed Apr 27, 2016, 11:42 PM
Apr 2016

for their fantastic appearances on cable.

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
10. What I don't understand
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:52 AM
Apr 2016

Is why Mrs. Clinton's supporters, if they think she has this locked up, continue to trash Bernie and his supporters. Are they just being mean-spirited and arrogant? Is this what we might expect of a Clinton administartion. Sounds pretty distasteful to me. But then, that's the Clintons for you -- vindictive and petty.

If she manages to get in, it's going to be a long, painful four years, if that her administration lasts that long.

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