One of the open questions in Democratic politics right now is what will happen to Bernie Sanders’s huge email list, which he’s used to raise more than a hundred million dollars from grassroots Democrats and independents all over the country.Given my experience as a Howard Dean folder in 2004, where I seemed to get way too much in the way of fundraising calls and letters from the DNC and the usual center-right suspects, I do not want either Hillary or the DNC to get their claws into that list.
So far, according to a senior Sanders campaign official, there’s been no discussion between the campaign and Hillary Clinton’s about what will happen to the email list.
But at least one of the Vermont senator’s top supporters is already arguing that Sanders should refuse to give the list to Clinton.
Monday, the head of the main labor group behind a pro-Sanders super PAC pledged that Sanders will not provide access to the list to Clinton.
“Bernie has run a populist campaign and the campaign is not over,” RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director of National Nurses United, told BuzzFeed News. “The campaign’s in its nascent stages, really. He’s sitting on the greatest populist list in the history of this country. And he wants to use it for populist reasons.”
Asked whether Sanders would give the list to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, DeMoro said he would not, “Because he doesn’t want to hand it over to Wall Street.”
They will suck the marrow out of list, and leave it a husk.
Keep the list, and use it as an effort for real Democrats, not New Dem Wall Street pukes.
The thought of Hillary and the DNC looking at that list as an ATM - and that's the expression they've been using, apparently - makes me blind with rage. I hope they don't get it. But if they do, I hope to god that it doesn't do them any good.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of Hillary and the DNC looking at that list as an ATM - and that's the expression they've been using, apparently - makes me blind with rage. I hope they don't get it. But if they do, I hope to god that it doesn't do them any good.
ReplyDeleteBut will the Sanders people actually do anything with such resource, or will they be like occupy?
ReplyDeleteBetting the latter.
I would disagree.
ReplyDeleteFirst, he has a record of legislative accomplishment, and second, he apparently has no patience with that shit, as evidenced by the fact that he hasn't returned Nader's phone calls since the 2000 presidential elections.