WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder

Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by enobrev on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:37AM (#12262067)

I'm not exactly sure how to find that the requirement of "paying DNC dues" is defensible. We're not talking about a local sports club.

Don't get me wrong. While I supported Bernie, I feel he was outplayed in a masterful game that he wasn't ready for. I'm not sore about it. Frankly, I'm surprised Hillary didn't win by a far larger margin, considering she had a decade to make deals and sway powerful people her way, and apparently, an entire political machine skewed in her favor.

But the idea that the entire DNC teaming up with a single candidate is to be expected and not taken as simply "rigged" seems intentionally obtuse.

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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by mtanski on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:34AM (#12267671)

I would feel differently about it there was multiple viable Democratic candidates and they were helping out the favorite. Since Bernie was just renting the ticket, I don't feel this applies here.

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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by enobrev on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:48AM (#12269197)

If Bernie ended up with < 5% of the voters / delegates, I might be obliged to agree with you, but that's far from the end result. It seems he's far more in-line with the democratic party, according to the party itself, than you're suggesting.

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Re:WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC st... by mtanski on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:27PM (#12269584)

The guy joined the party 1 year before the primary and he's planing on coming back to the senate as a independent. Just because he does caucus often with democrats does not change my assertion that he was just renting the ticket.

This is a big difference and it matters to the party (organization).

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