Browner claimed the Sanders camp set up an unfair litmus test of what it means to be “serious” on climate, saying they wrongly claim the platform “falls short because it does not include their preferred amendments to enact a carbon tax and immediately ban all oil and gas production through hydraulic fracturing”.
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Nothing illustrates the potential for a new, Independent Party as well as the so-called “insurgent” campaign of Bernie Sanders.
She also was the person selected to speak on Sanders’ behalf at the state convention.
“You’re not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?”
The episode raises the risk that voters will see the former secretary of state again as part of an enduring power couple that receives special treatment and privileges.
Sanders supporters are begrudgingly starting to support Clinton as the general election gets closer, as the fact that Donald Trump is actually the Republican nominee and could conceivably be the next president begins to hit us all. He says it has no impact on his candidacy. Moreover, unlike what is referred to as “traditional wisdom”, Sanders raised tens of millions of dollars from small donors, not billionaire-funded Super PACs like his primary rival Hillary Clinton. Moreover, because he is 74, Mr. Sanders would not be able to use the vice-presidency as a platform for another presidential bid.
Still, Trump predicted that supporters of Sanders would protest Clinton at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
But now it seems Sanders’ “black swan” moment isn’t going to come.
“I am so sick of the 1% getting this preferential treatment”, Sanders cried, in character and on point, as rich passengers boarded lifeboats on a sinking Titanic.
And that’s where the problem with this sort of incrementalism, exemplified by the Clinton deferment plan, lies: it’s such a tiny change that you’re not sure if it’s moving forward or backward, and after it gets put through the ringer in Congress – assuming it even gets to that stage – what net benefit young people stood to gain will be even smaller.
Tyrone Taitano, an alternate Clinton delegate for the Democratic National Convention, donated to Clinton’s campaign because he said he believes Clinton is a “hardworking and knowledgeable public servant” who is also aware of some of the issues that Guam faces.
The following statement was released by Gloria La Riva, the 2016 presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Don Benton and Doug Ericksen – did not return phone calls Friday.
“They are throwing everything at me except the kitchen sink”, Sanders roared, “and I have the feeling that the kitchen sink is coming pretty soon as well”. It was a progressive movement within a party that is still run by its established leaders.
Was it great timing? And like Sanders, voters responded to the truth about just what those agreements have cost American workers in terms of jobs lost to outsourcing.
He would lose the Empire State, but did enjoy a brief audience with Pope Francis.
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Frankly, I do not understand why the amendment our delegates offered on this issue in St. Louis was defeated with all of Hillary Clinton’s committee members voting against it. I don’t understand that because Clinton, during the campaign, made it very clear that she did not want to see the TPP appear on the floor during the lame-duck session.
