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Leaked Bernie Sanders emails a headache for Hillary as convention gets set to kick off

Emails from senior Democrat figures appearing to disparage Bernie Sanders have given Donald Trump an easy target.

Campaign 2016 Clinton Sanders Bernie Sanders listens as Hillary Clinton speaks during a rally in New Hampshire earlier this month Jim Cole Jim Cole

A CACHE OF leaked emails from Democratic party leaders’ accounts includes at least two messages suggesting an insider effort to hobble Bernie Sanders’ upstart campaign, a revelation that threatens an uneasy truce within the party.

The release of more than 19,000 emails sent and received by seven top Democratic National Committee officials, by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, comes at a time when the party is anxious to project an image of unity.

It also threatened to overshadow Hillary Clinton’s first joint rally with her newly-named running mate, Tim Kaine, two days before the Democratic Party Convention kicks off in Philadelphia to officially crown the White House nominees.

Clinton’s Republican opponent Donald Trump pounced on the leaks as he tries to scoop up disaffected voters who feel Sanders – a self-described democratic socialist from Vermont initially dismissed as a fringe candidate – was denied a fair shot at the nomination by the political establishment.

In a 5 May exchange, DNC Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall asked if someone could ask a person he did not name, presumably Sanders, about his religious belief in the conservative states of Kentucky and West Virginia.

“Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage,” the message said.

I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.

Amy Dacey, the committee’s CEO, responded in all caps: “AMEN.”

The Intercept news website quoted Marshall as saying: “I do not recall this. I can say it would not have been Sanders. It would probably be about a surrogate.”

A 21 May email chain discussed Sanders’ assertion in an interview that he would oust party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz once he was elected to the White House.

Writing from a Gmail account that media reports said belonged to Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman noted:

This is a silly story. He isn’t going to be president.

Sanders waged a feisty yearlong battle against Clinton in the Democratic primaries. She clinched enough delegates to secure the nomination in early June, but Sanders did not concede defeat and endorse her until 12 July.

Sanders’s campaign manager Jeff Weaver, in an interview with ABC News, has demanded answers about the growing controversy.

“Someone does have to be held accountable,” said Weaver, who said the emails seemed to show misconduct at a very senior level of the DNC.

The Democratic Party, Weaver said, seemed to have “its fingers on the scale” for Clinton, he added during the interview, which was posted on the television network’s website.

We have an electoral process. The DNC, by its charter, is required to be neutral among the candidates. Clearly it was not.

© – AFP, 2016

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:08 PM

    Bono could not be the Pope because it would have been a demotion.

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    Mar 15th 2013, 3:16 AM

    Beautiful .

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:43 PM

    Fair play Bono……..and here come the RED THUMBS…..

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:59 PM

    I would love to sit on that sand sculpture, have a dump right in its mouth and show the Church what I think of their Cult!

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    Mar 14th 2013, 9:33 PM

    @ Stephen, amen to that!

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    Mar 14th 2013, 10:37 PM

    Was that you on Dollymount Stephen!?!? Feckin runners are ruined!!

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:53 PM

    If you actually watch the Video its hard to red Thumb.. he has done great work fair play…. :)

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    Mar 14th 2013, 10:00 PM

    Haters be hatin’

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:47 PM

    Great talk. FairPlay Bono.

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:02 PM

    Puri? Seems odd, as it’s a very important Hindu religious centre. Have they gone Catholic?

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:27 PM

    Have they gone Catholic? Not necessarily, it was only one person who made the sculpture and as far as i’m aware Hindus are not that opposed to Catholics in the sense that they would prevent a person from doing something like this. Still though it is impressive.

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:54 PM

    It is impressive. I’m only saying because I was there a long long time ago ( lovely place, with a massive yearly religious festival ), and it’s the other side of India that has a large catholic presence, mainly around Goa. You’re right about Hinduism not having a problem with most other religions, Hinduism just sort if absorbs them into itself. Beats slashing each other to death. The Muslim/Hindu tensions are not based in religion, but were stirred up by the departing British authorities IMHO. A terrible shame.

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    Mar 14th 2013, 8:06 PM

    Great times in Basin Lane school, Jamebo.

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    Mar 15th 2013, 8:52 AM

    Hmmmm the multi millionaire TALKS about poverty wow!!!!

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