Bernie Sander’s presidential campaign has once again escalated its ongoing feud with the DNC and attempts to wield more power at the Party’s national convention in July, this time attempting to remove former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank and current Connecticut Governor Christopher Malloy from their respective roles as co-chairs of two convention committees, according to Politico.
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The Sanders camp had fired off a letter to party officials insisting that the appointments of Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and former MA congressman Barney Frank violated party rules. “Frank have both been aggressive attack surrogates for the Clinton campaign”, Sanders campaign counsel Brad Deutsch wrote in a letter to the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee.
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Democratic officials replied Saturday morning with a letter from Jim Roosevelt, a retired health insurance executive, and Lorraine Miller, who head the partys permanent rules and bylaws committee.
Deutsch wrote that Malloy’s “incendiary” attacks on Sanders over gun control “betray a closed mind and a lack of civility that would make it hard if not impossible for Governor Malloy to effectively conduct his duties as co-chair of the Standing Platform Committee”.
Marlon Marshall, who is Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement, also said he wanted a smooth process. While Republican-run states cut back on benefits and public employees, Malloy raised taxes, presenting CT as a laboratory of democracy to contrast with Kansas or Texas. Wyoming Democrat Party Vice Chair, Bruce Palmer, said, “We are psyched by the turnout we got here. And Mr.Frank’s invective against Senator Sanders has only intensified as Senator Sanders has notched additional primary victories”. Wyoming’s four un-pledged delegates (or superdelegates) recently pledged their support for Clinton; however, the superdelegates are not bound to a specific candidate and can vote any way at the national convention.
The Connecticut governor, on the other hand, has lambasted Sanders for his opposition to a federal gun control bill, and has a long history of openly supporting Clinton’s campaign, argues the letter.
The Sanders campaign built a case out of interviews both co-chairs had given as the party grew anxious about Sanders’ refusal to drop out until “the last ballot” was cast. “We have won, at this point, 45 percent of pledged delegates, but we have only earned 7 percent of superdelegates”.
“Bernie Sanders is the nominee of the caucuses; Hillary Clinton is the nominee of the primaries, which are more Democratic”. But Donald Trump, who has clinched the Republican nomination, is running a jarringly different crusade: accusing her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of rape; proposing that the country torture detainees; and suggesting that South Korea and Japan be permitted to develop nuclear arms.
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“After Nevada, I think the party realized that it needs Bernie Sanders’ supporters in order to win the presidency”, Kusaba said.
