2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Did Bernie Sanders Cancel a High-Profile Meeting With AIDS Activists?
But if Sanders’ intent on all this is sincere, it’s baffling that Sanders canceled an important meeting with AIDS activists of several prominent groups, individuals who’d spent money on last-minute expensive airfare and made travel plans for a highly-publicized meeting with the candidate on May 3. And it may be a big hint that Sanders and his campaign truly know it’s over for them and have no intention of trying to win the nomination, let alone contesting it and winning over superdelegates.
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The Clinton meeting is happening tomorrow. But the Sanders meeting was canceled two days before its May 3 date with a promise of rescheduling, and yet the campaign is not returning calls or emails to the activists. “They sent a ‘need to reschedule’ email last Sunday (for our Tuesday meeting), and then bizarrely stopped communications completely after that,” Staley told the Washington Blade. “We’ve been emailing and calling every day since then, including warning them days ago about our intent to go public.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/why-did-bernie-sanders-cancel-meeting-aids_b_9904898.html
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Gomez163
(2,039 posts)
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)We all know what a great contribution Nancy made to the advancement of the cause.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Quote the opposite. Why would you say that?
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... that's COLD!!
"Sorry, we need to reschedule ... and too bad about the money you spent to travel to a meeting that's not taking place."
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)At this point meeting with anyone isn't going to do him much good moving forward, so I'm guessing it was a waste of his time to do so.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)someone just as impartial? 
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)and they had along, tiring day.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts).....those actual committee members know full well Bernie's lack of commitment.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)I've canceled meetings after getting food poisoning the night before. Were you invited to it or something? I understand being sad you couldn't meet him and have to settle for just seeing Clinton, but things happen
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)My suggested answer is quite clear and simple. I did read the article and it doesn't say anything to refute it. Did you read my post?
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)so you are speculating he ate bad shellfish, had to cancel, and now won't return calls, etc for over a week, meanwhile making public appearances and showing no signs of your suggested excuse.
So no, you didn't read the article.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Unless you have proof of some malice I suggest you give him the benefit of the doubt.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)Prism
(5,815 posts)Disappointing, but it's been one week and everyone's melting down (and by melting down, I mean Signorile and a bunch of other Clinton supporters). As with the HRC, I'm not impressed by the LGBT Establishment class, and Signorile's hit job is precisely why. It's possible to express disappointment without the innuendo and hit job.
"The whole community's outraged!" No we're not. Stop speaking for us. And missing one meeting and not getting a reply for a week is hardly on the level of Hillary "Heterosexuals Are Sacred Until I Run For President Again!" Clinton.
I'll take Sanders' record on AIDS and LGBT issues over Clinton's every single day of the week, and twice on Pride Day.
Such sore winners, this lot.
But then, Singorile has been bitter for years. There's a man who thinks his ego is an actual movement.
CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts)Meh.
Scheduling conflict for the man with incredible energy fighting and winning the uphill battle on the uneven battlefield created by Hills and her bankster friend.
Meh.
