Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails
Sep 20, 2014 05:00:51 #
Report: Liberals Bash Hillary, Back Warren in Secret Emails
By Todd Beamon
Liberal activists are slamming Hillary Clinton in a members-only group on Google, with some calling for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the White House in 2016 to teach the former secretary of State and mainstream Democrats a lesson.
"The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message," Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in an email obtained by The Hill.
Warren, 65, who is in her first term, has repeatedly said that she would not seek the presidency in 2016. Clinton, 66, who is seen as the likely Democratic nominee, has said that she will decide early next year on whether to run.
The Hill said it reviewed "hundreds of emails" from a the "Gamechanger Salon," a private, members only forum through which nearly 1,500 progressive activists, journalists, and strategists discuss issues and develop messaging efforts.
The group is run by Billy Wimsatt, founder of the progressive League of Young V**ers, according to MediaTrackers.org, which first reported on the Gamechanger Salon earlier this year.
Its members include prominent Democrats, executives of such powerful unions as the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and officials and members of such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
The president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Nancy Keenan, is a member as well as journalists who work for such liberal news organizations as The Nation magazine and The Huffington Post.
New members to the group have to be sponsored by a current member, both the Hill and MediaTrackers report. According to the Hill, the emails it reviewed from June 2013 through July show a clear dissatisfaction with Clinton.
"[A] Clinton presidency undos [sic] all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have," Melissa Byrne, an activist with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said in a November 2013 email.
The newspaper talked with a half-dozen Gamechanger Salon members this week, learning that the frustration with Clinton has only grown since it last read some of the emails.
"Theres good reason to believe the discontent remains the same," said Neil Sroka, spokesman for Democracy for America.
Generally speaking, the emails slam Clinton as "too much of a hawk, too cozy with Wall Street" and that she "hasnt spoken out enough on c*****e c****e, and will be subject to personal questions and criticisms," the Hill reports.
But group members seem to be most upset with Clinton's v**e for the Iraq War in 2002 when she was a New York senator.
She has since said that her v**e was a mistake.
"The more progressives I talk to, the more people tell me that theyll never forgive her for v****g for the Iraq War ... and wont even v**e for her in the general," Ryan Clayton, a progressive commentator and strategist, said in a July 2013 email.
Charles Lenchner, executive director of the progressive group Organizing 2.0, told the Hill that Clinton and anyone else who backed the war was "tainted."
"And personally, I would like to see a Democratic Party where folks who enabled George Bush to d**g the country into a permanent war are punished at the b****t box," Lenchner said in an interview.
A Clinton spokesman declined to comment to the Hill.
By Todd Beamon
Liberal activists are slamming Hillary Clinton in a members-only group on Google, with some calling for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for the White House in 2016 to teach the former secretary of State and mainstream Democrats a lesson.
"The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message," Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in an email obtained by The Hill.
Warren, 65, who is in her first term, has repeatedly said that she would not seek the presidency in 2016. Clinton, 66, who is seen as the likely Democratic nominee, has said that she will decide early next year on whether to run.
The Hill said it reviewed "hundreds of emails" from a the "Gamechanger Salon," a private, members only forum through which nearly 1,500 progressive activists, journalists, and strategists discuss issues and develop messaging efforts.
The group is run by Billy Wimsatt, founder of the progressive League of Young V**ers, according to MediaTrackers.org, which first reported on the Gamechanger Salon earlier this year.
Its members include prominent Democrats, executives of such powerful unions as the SEIU and AFL-CIO, and officials and members of such organizations as Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
The president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Nancy Keenan, is a member as well as journalists who work for such liberal news organizations as The Nation magazine and The Huffington Post.
New members to the group have to be sponsored by a current member, both the Hill and MediaTrackers report. According to the Hill, the emails it reviewed from June 2013 through July show a clear dissatisfaction with Clinton.
"[A] Clinton presidency undos [sic] all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have," Melissa Byrne, an activist with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said in a November 2013 email.
The newspaper talked with a half-dozen Gamechanger Salon members this week, learning that the frustration with Clinton has only grown since it last read some of the emails.
"Theres good reason to believe the discontent remains the same," said Neil Sroka, spokesman for Democracy for America.
Generally speaking, the emails slam Clinton as "too much of a hawk, too cozy with Wall Street" and that she "hasnt spoken out enough on c*****e c****e, and will be subject to personal questions and criticisms," the Hill reports.
But group members seem to be most upset with Clinton's v**e for the Iraq War in 2002 when she was a New York senator.
She has since said that her v**e was a mistake.
"The more progressives I talk to, the more people tell me that theyll never forgive her for v****g for the Iraq War ... and wont even v**e for her in the general," Ryan Clayton, a progressive commentator and strategist, said in a July 2013 email.
Charles Lenchner, executive director of the progressive group Organizing 2.0, told the Hill that Clinton and anyone else who backed the war was "tainted."
"And personally, I would like to see a Democratic Party where folks who enabled George Bush to d**g the country into a permanent war are punished at the b****t box," Lenchner said in an interview.
A Clinton spokesman declined to comment to the Hill.
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Sep 20, 2014 14:09:22 #
Gitzo wrote:
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There is no such thing as a "secret email" thanks to the NSA.
Sep 20, 2014 14:09:23 #
Gitzo wrote:
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There is no such thing as a "secret email" thanks to the NSA.
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Sep 20, 2014 15:52:37 #
At least we have two candidates, at last call, how many did the repubs have who weren't under indictment or involved in an investigation? That idea that the cheese heads have of securing the governor's seat is falling through. The stooges announced they were going to harass African-Americans going to the polls. That was bright. I swear the members of your party are their biggest problem. They have to get rid of you people to be a national political party again.
Sep 20, 2014 18:17:09 #
Gitzo wrote:
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This woman is nuts! The other is just plain evil.
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Sep 20, 2014 22:00:00 #
RixPix wrote:
There is no such thing as a "secret email" thanks to the NSA.
There is no such thing as a "secret email" thanks to the NSA.
Republicans are i***ts and arguing with them is a waste of time!
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Gitzo wrote:
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There is no such thing as a "secret email" thanks to the NSA.
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Sep 21, 2014 10:21:36 #
dljen wrote:
At least we have two candidates, at last call, how many did the repubs have who weren't under indictment or involved in an investigation? That idea that the cheese heads have of securing the governor's seat is falling through. The stooges announced they were going to harass African-Americans going to the polls. That was bright. I swear the members of your party are their biggest problem. They have to get rid of you people to be a national political party again.
"At least we have two candidates"
It's not about how many, it's about what they stand for and it appears the American people have had enough tyranny for a while anyway!
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