2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAlbemarle Democratic volunteer voices concern over letter put forth by Democratic committee
http://www.nbc29.com/story/30405410/albemarle-co-democratic-volunteer-voices-concern-over-letterMarianne O'Brien is the Democratic Party's chairwoman for the Yellow Mountain Precinct. As she was going through her Election Day materials, she came across a memorandum from the Albemarle Co. Democratic Committee.
O'Brien says the last sentence of the letter caught her attention.
It reads: As voters exit the polls, please ask them to sign the petition to include Hillary Clinton on the ballot for the 2016 Virginia Democratic Primary."
O'Brien says she feels as though this sentence shows the committee's bias in favor of Clinton's campaign by excluding any mention of Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley.
"It bothered me that they seemed to be showing preference for one candidate over all of them. We're supposed to be equal and even-handed with all the candidates, providing equal support until after the primary has been voted," OBrien said.
LiberalArkie
(15,729 posts)I think I posted something about it yesterday or the day before but did not have anything but a picture.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)its up to the campaign to do there own paper work.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)for that. I'm glad to know this. I will be telling everyone I know to expect it so they are not taken by surprise.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Bought and paid for. They'll be really upset when it's not delivered
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Am I hearing that right?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Site? Did anyone from Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley campaigns organize an effort to have petitions signed? Instead of jumping to conclusions and saying bias in favor of other candidates, go to the campaigns and ask who did not organize to get petitions signed. It takes lots of work to campaign, just because a candidate decides to run in the DNC does not mean the DNC does all of the organizing.
artislife
(9,497 posts)The party recognizes both of them as running for the Democratic nomination.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)On the ballot? Running for president takes more than saying they are running. I knew there has to be a petition to get on the state ballots and I am not on charge of running a campaign, now someone needs to find out what a campaign needs to do abm d then do the job.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)are far more aware now of these things and don't fall for these things the way we used to.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)for votes.
All campaigns should serve their candidates. Why did you feel the need to say that?
We are talkiing about OUR PARTY treating some voters differently than others.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I thought all Democrats were against big money from buying elections. Not HRC supporters.
George II
(67,782 posts)...if Sanders wasn't using the DNC as his affiliation he'd have squat in contributions today.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)regardless of the DNC as do ALL his donors. The DNC has zero to do with his huge, historical number of donors.
Where you got that from is a mystery to me.
elleng
(131,129 posts)Sending this to O'Malley's campaign.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)The Albemarle Co. Democratic Party tells NBC29 the letter has been misunderstood as an endorsement.
The committee says it does not support one candidate over another but was specifically asked by the Clinton camp to collect signatures and that's what it was doing.
The Albemarle Co. Democratic Party has revised its memorandum to now include all three candidates in light of O'Brien's concern.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)getting bad publicity says it all. And I wonder how many other areas they are trying to pull this shit in. Thank you for speaking up. I wouldn't have sounded that calm!
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Marianne,
Given your concerns The Chairman of the Albemarle Democratic Committee has asked that all precinct chairs be advised that they can have petitions signed for all 2016 Democratic presidential candidates. It is just being requested that voters be approached after they vote.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)that they are being underhanded. Wow, it's so big of them that they finally did what they should have done in the first place.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Ugly.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)State for their requirements'
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18701434/ns/politics/t/so-you-want-run-president/
MisterP
(23,730 posts)they can't really acknowledge the Sanders campaign as even a campaign, let alone a full-bore attack on party and national politics as usual
there's no deck that can't be stacked http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/25/4-state-parties-sign-victory-fund-pacts-with-clinton-campaign/
play the game or get gamed: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251755318
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)So if I ask them to go "jump in the lake" they will?
It all sounds so very stoopid.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)The FIX is in and has been for a long, long time.
senz
(11,945 posts)Democracy is for peons.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)How many precincts are running Clinton only campaigns across the country? How many are ignoring the supporters of the other candidates even when we contact them? Who is directing this across the country - can we see the communications between local groups and the DNC since the campaign started?