Bernie Sanders

jillan

(39,451 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:44 AM Feb 2016

Check this out - more dirty tricks planned for tomorrow.

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — Jeff Weaver, the presidential campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), says he is worried Hillary Clinton’s team is resorting to “irregular” tactics to win the Iowa caucus on Feb. 1.

Weaver’s concern is based on what he described as an “alarming” letter received by a voter named Dennis Clifford in Hawarden, Iowa. Although Clifford is a Sanders supporter, the letter, from a Clinton campaign office in Sioux City, urged him to caucus for Clinton and identified a non-resident as his local precinct captain. That would not actually be prohibited, but Weaver, who admitted he wasn’t familiar with the rules, claimed it indicated the Clinton campaign is “infiltrating the caucuses with out-of-state paid staffers.”

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/sanders-campaign-cites-alarming-signs-clinton-020552922.html

It really says something when you have to play dirty in order to win.

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Check this out - more dirty tricks planned for tomorrow. (Original Post) jillan Feb 2016 OP

Same old same old Old Codger Feb 2016 #1

Bernie's campaign is smarter. in_cog_ni_to Feb 2016 #2

That is good to hear! jillan Feb 2016 #4

Nah. This letter isn't particularly alarming. PatrickforO Feb 2016 #3

+1. The presence of outsiders isn't by itself a red flag. winter is coming Feb 2016 #5

Any Dirty Tricks Pulled By The Hillary Campaign Will.... global1 Feb 2016 #6

Old Codger

(4,205 posts)

1. Same old same old

Reply to jillan (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:51 AM

Feb 2016

Politics as usual from camp weather vane ... win at any cost with any dirty trick you can get away with..

in_cog_ni_to

(41,600 posts)

2. Bernie's campaign is smarter.

Reply to jillan (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:59 AM

Feb 2016

He's got his own phone app to calculate HIS Votes directly from the caucus floor. Any discrepancies will be caught and challenged. She can try to cheat, but Bernie will catch her and expose her.

Tomorrow is going to be so exciting! Bernie is going to win!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

jillan

(39,451 posts)

4. That is good to hear!

Reply to in_cog_ni_to (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:06 AM

Feb 2016

PatrickforO

(14,577 posts)

3. Nah. This letter isn't particularly alarming.

Reply to jillan (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:04 AM

Feb 2016

On another thread the Sanders campaign is using out of state volunteers to be 'back up' precinct captains.

Clinton's trying some other dirty tricks, for sure (check out the sane progressive on U-Tube - she explains it pretty well). But this isn't one of them.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)

5. +1. The presence of outsiders isn't by itself a red flag.

Reply to PatrickforO (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:11 AM

Feb 2016

As long as they don't misrepresent the rules or otherwise try to pervert the process, it doesn't matter whether they're local or not. OTOH, given some of the dirty campaigning we've seen of late, it wouldn't surprise me if they try something squirrelly.

global1

(25,253 posts)

6. Any Dirty Tricks Pulled By The Hillary Campaign Will....

Reply to jillan (Original post)

Mon Feb 1, 2016, 03:03 AM

Feb 2016

only backfire on her. It will show the real Hillary - you know the over ambitious one that will do or say anything to be the
first woman president. Many people believe that of her now and any dirty tricks she pulls will only reinforce that belief.

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