Bernie Sanders
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The Democratic National Committee on Friday capitulated and agreed to reinstate Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns access to a critically-important voter database.
The about face came late on Friday night as a deadline neared for a hearing on a motion for an emergency injunction which the Sanders campaign sought after he sued the party in U.S. District Court in Washington.
The lawsuit sought the immediate restoration of the campaigns access to the voter database. It argued that without the database, the campaign would lose some $600,000 a day in donations.
The campaigns access to the database should be restored by Saturday morning in time for the campaign staff and volunteers to contact voters over the weekend.
We are extremely pleased that the DNC has reversed its outrageous decision to take Sen. Sanders data. The information we provided tonight is essentially the same information we already sent them by email on Thursday, said Jeff Weaver, Sanders campaign manager.
Clearly, they were very concerned about their prospects in court. Now what we need to restore confidence in the DNCs ability to secure data is an independent audit that encompasses the DNCs record this entire campaign. Transparency at the DNC is essential. We trust they have nothing to hide, Weaver added.
The DNC decision to let Sanders use his own database came after the national party was barraged with outraged messages from grassroots supporters of Sanders. There were more than 214,800 people who signed an online petition to the DNC circulated by Sanders campaign. MoveOn.org collected another 250,000 petition signatures and Democracy for America collected 100,000.
Earlier on Friday, Democracy for America issued a statement from Executive Director Charles Chamberlain saying, The Democratic National Committees decision to attack the campaign that figured out the problem, rather than go after the vendor that made the mistake, is profoundly damaging to the partys Democratic process. DNC leaders should immediately reverse this disturbing decision before the committee does even more to bring its neutrality in the race for President into question.
To read other statements of support click here.
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/dnc-to-restore-sanders-campaigns-access-to-voter-files/
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)and a very bad mark on the Clinton/ DNC side. Of course, DWS won't take a fall for it...it was resolved too swiftly to get enough dirt out.
The facts (and the contract) won over the sleaze and the cheating. Because Bernie. And the debate.
Hillary and Debbie will have to go back to the Nixon-Rove School of Politics for a refresher course in "How not to make a public enemy of yourself".
I bet they never have another restful night's sleep, after such a public outpouring of support for Bernie. Half a million petitioners within 6 hours...that's grassroots power!
cantbeserious
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