OPEN LETTER TO BERNIE SANDERS FROM FORMER CAMPAIGN STAFF

Run Bernie Run!

                                              

Dear Senator Sanders,

Last summer you said you would not run as a third party candidate if you did not win the Democratic nomination. 

You said, “the reason for that is I do not want to be responsible for electing some right-wing Republican to be president of the United States.” 

This was before the unexpected and unprecedented success of your grassroots campaign where you won 22 states and almost half of the delegates in a primary process that was stacked against you every step of the way.

We take you as a man of your word and we certainly don’t want Trump to be president either. A Trump presidency would be a terrible step backwards for working people, people of color, immigrants, students, retirees, the LGBTQ community, the environment, and the entire world, which is why more than ever we need you to reconsider the situation and make a third party run.

Polls show that Hillary Clinton, the official Democratic nominee, is an incredibly weak candidate in the general election. Even after spending $57 million in ads (vs. $4 million by Trump) she is trailing slightly, and Trump is actually leading in several important swing states. Frankly, Hillary Clinton does not have the credibility to take on the dangerous appeal of Donald Trump.

For a variety of reasons, many justified and some not, people don’t trust her. We are now faced with two of the most disliked presidential candidates in the history of the country. Unfortunately, too many people are disillusioned with politics and the lack of inspiring viable candidates will only hurt voter turnout. If there was ever an opportunity to break the corporate two party duopoly, this is it.

 So, we respectfully ask you to consider Jill Stein’s offer of a united Green Party ticket.

A Sanders/Stein campaign would be more popular than Hillary Clinton and more successful against Trump. If polling shows you in the lead before the election, we trust that Secretary Clinton would do the right thing and not be a spoiler.

The stakes are too high. If Donald Trump wins, all the progressive change we have fought for will vanish. Secretary Clinton’s recent vice presidential pick makes us question that she will run the kind of economically populist campaign it will take to defeat Trump. Furthermore, in light of the platform committee discussions, it makes us question where she really stands on important issues such as the TPP, fracking, single payer healthcare, war and military spending, Israeli occupation of Palestine, financial regulation, and money in politics.

With your steadfastness and consistency in talking about the issues, you educated us and inspired a whole generation to get involved in politics. We look forward to continuing the political revolution and working with your successor organizations, however right now the country still needs you to run for president.

In Solidarity,

Phillip Kim

22 hrs ago3 min read

Ace Acosta, Field Organizer (NV)
Rolando Aguirre, Regional Field Director (NV, AZ), Delegate Team (WA)
Betsy Avila, Deputy Digital Outreach (NV)
Rob Byrne, National LGBT Outreach Coordinator
Ricky Cárdenas, Field Organizer (NV, WA), Regional Field Director (CO, CA)
Carol Čizauskas, Field Organizer, Outreach Coordinator (NV)
Alicia De Toffoli, National Women’s Outreach Coordinator
Giulianna Di Lauro, National Latino Strategist, Field Director (Puerto Rico)
Benjamin Erkan, Field Organizer (KS, WY, NY, CA)
MacKenzie Ewing, Regional Field Director (IA), Field Director (NE), Constituency Outreach Coordinator (OR), Field Organizer (CA)
Anthony Garcia, Regional Field Director (NV), Deputy Field Director (AK)
Matthew Glasgo, Field Organizer (NV, MN)
Austreberto Hernandez, Field Organizer (NV)
Wesley Irwin, Field Organizer, Chair of the Caucus Advisory Group (WA)
Phillip Kim, Labor Outreach (NV, WA, CA)
Marc Leonard, Field Organizer (NV, UT, CA)
David Lewis, Field Organizer (IA, KS, MO, WY, IN)
Laura Llamas, Outreach Coordinator (NV)
Billie McFadden, Field Organizer (NV)
Alonso Montes, Deputy Field Organizer (NV)
Kevin F. Solis, Outreach Coordinator (NV), Field Organizer (WA, CA)
Andee Sunderland, Outreach Coordinator (NV)
Caesar Vargas*, National Latino Outreach Deputy Director

*current staff

Former staff, email phillipkim@gmail.com to add your name.

DEM POLLING ALERT

Dear Sirs,

The only way que there is Hillary Clinton Requesting loss statement and supporting Bernie Sanders.

See what I wrote to Senator Bernie Sanders. I wish to American people welfare, who will win Bernie to keep 1% of millionaires, who will They understand and comprehend,

http://palacazgrandesartigos.blogspot.com.br/2016/07/strategic-actions-to-generate-new.html

With Bernie Sanders Trump NO Wins The Presidency.  

For Their future sobresistencia, how to know to do the welfare of others. Know how to live for others, without giving their equity.

Sincerely

2016-07-27 14:10 GMT-03:00 DEM POLLING ALERT (urgent) <info@dga.net>:

BREAKING NATE SILVER FORECAST: IF ELECTION WERE HELD TODAY...  TRUMP WINS THE PRESIDENCY.  RAPID RESPONSE FUND: GIVE $5 OR MORE NOW TO BOOST DEMOCRATS TO VICTORY AND DEFEAT REPUBLICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY >> ALL GIFTS DOUBLED UNTIL MIDNIGHT. Paulo Augusto, this is a NIGHTMARE:  Donald Trump is gaining ground – polling within single digits in every 2016 swing state – and now Nate Silver confirms if the election were held today, Trump and the GOP would likely WIN. This is real: If Democrats don't commit to doing everything to turn this election around, Trump WILL be our next president and Republicans will dismantle Social Security, defund Planned Parenthood and deport millions of families.  We can only stop them if we know NOW that Democrats like you are committed to fighting back. We're counting on you: Name: Paulo Augusto Supporter ID: 8751682 Suggested Donation: $5 – GIVE NOW. ALL GIFTS DOUBLED >> Click here to give $5 or more, and your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, to raise $10,000 by midnight TONIGHT. Donate now to stop Trump's surge and deliver Democratic victory across the country: If you've saved payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: Donate $5 now >> Donate $25 now >> Donate $50 now >> Or donate other amount >> This email was sent to sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com. To unsubscribe from the DGA email list, click here. Paid for by Democratic Action, democraticgovernors.org, not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions or gifts to Democratic Action are not tax deductible.

STRATEGIC ACTIONS TO GENERATE NEW POLITICS IDEAS!

Dear Mr. Senator Bernie Sanders,

                     "There is exchange for something when this something was replaced"

 When you supported Hillary would be the moment to place the replacement.

Split the Party of Democratic and save the American People and the other corners of the world, would be a revolutionary solution.

 At this point you have not been courageous enough; you were highly Prudent and chose not to be a Great Leader Statesman, really sinned not be a Grand REVOLUTIONARY Victorious.

 I still hope that you may be saved to console us, the https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/ bring more data to annul the constitutional convention.

I keep admire you in the level of "Veneration" but I could not help exclaiming my feelings of deep sadness at this time.

 I do not blame you, because unfortunately your advice did not help you properly.

Let's go to fight!

 As, I do not know yet!

Just for your knowledge SCCBESME HUMANITY, which was founded in 2011 so far was unable sufficient financial resources to progress with it projects. For the Statute, only it can receive individual donations and through Foundations.

 If you can indicate the USA Foundation not support Hillary, to make donations and continue to support you, not by money, but by our social and moral principles, because  we need money to survive, and we thank you very much.

 Looking forward to news, I wish you,

Health, respect and fraternity

 Paulo Augusto Lacaz

       President

SCCBESME HUMANITY

http://societocratic-political-regime.blogspot.com.br/2013/09/new-ideas.html

Donation: http://www.doctrineofhumanity.com/   PAYPAL BUTTON 

NEXT STEPS FOR OUR REVOLUTION

Bernie Sanders <info@berniesanders.com>
responder a:		Info@berniesanders.com
para:		Paulo Augusto Lacaz <sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com>
data:		26 de julho de 2016 00:23
assunto:		Next steps for Our Revolution
enviado por:		bounce.bluestatedigital.com
assinado por:		berniesanders.com

Paulo Augusto,

Our campaign has always been about a grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying:

 "Enough is enough. 

This country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires."

I just finished speaking at the Democratic National Convention, where I addressed the historic nature of our grassroots movement and what's next for our political revolution.

I hope that I made you proud. I know that Jane and I are very proud of you.

Our work will continue in the form of a new group called Our Revolution. 

The goal of this organization will be no different from the goal of our campaign: we must transform American politics to make our political and economic systems once again responsive to the needs of working families.

We cannot do this alone. All of us must be a part of Our Revolution.

Join Our Revolution and help continue our critical work to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the 1 percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice. Add your name here.

When we started this campaign a little more than a year ago, the media and the political establishment considered us to be a "fringe" campaign.

 Well, we're not fringe anymore.

Thanks to your tireless work and generous contributions, we won 23 primaries and caucuses with more than 13 million votes, all of which led to the 1900 delegates we have on the floor this week at the Democratic convention.

What we have done together is absolutely unprecedented, but there is so much more to do. It starts with defeating Donald Trump in November, and then continuing to fight for every single one of our issues in order to transform America.

We are going to fight to make sure that the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party becomes law. 

This means working for a $15 federal minimum wage, fighting for a national fracking ban, and so many more progressive priorities.

The political revolution needs you in order to make all this happen and more.

Add your name to say that you will join Our Revolution and be part of the fight for our progressive vision for America.

Thank you for being a part of the continued political revolution.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

JOIN OUR REVOLUTION »

 Paid for by Bernie 2016

PO Box 905 - Burlington VT 05402 United States - (855) 4-BERNIE

This email was sent to sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com. If you need to update or change your information or email address, click here toupdate your info. Email is one of the most important tools we have to reach supporters like you, but you can let us know if you'd like toreceive fewer emails. We'd hate to see you go, but if you need to do so, click here to unsubscribe. Stand against the powerful special interests and help build the future of our political revolution by adding a contribution here.

TONIGHT'S SPEECH - 07/25/2016

Paulo Augusto,

Thank you for everything you have done for the Political Revolution.

As you know, our campaign has always been about a grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying: "Enough is enough.

 This country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires."

Tonight I'm going to speak to the Democratic National Convention about all that we did together in our campaign, about the future of our country, and about the need for our grassroots movement to continue the struggle.

Say you'll watch my address tonight to the Democratic National Convention.

I hope you'll tune in. It will be a very important address that will talk about not just why we must defeat Donald Trump, the worst presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, but how we will work together beyond this election to continue our political revolution.

What we have accomplished so far is nothing short of astonishing. 

When we began our campaign we were considered "fringe" and irrelevant by the pundits and the media. Well, 13 million votes later it appears that we have begun the process of transforming our country and radically changing the political landscape. We have made history, and you helped make that happen.

Taking on virtually the entire political establishment, you helped us win primary and caucus elections in 23 contests and send nearly 1900 delegates to this Democratic convention.

 In a race in which everyone expected us to be outraised and outspent, you made more grassroots contributions than any primary campaign ever and proved that we could run a presidential campaign without begging millionaires and billionaires for money. Some of the wealthiest people in the world were prepared to spend billions of dollars to stop you.

You built a grassroots organization that rivals anything seen before in our country, knocking on millions of doors, making tens of millions of phone calls, and building immense power in your communities.

You brought the issues of universal healthcare, combating climate change, free college tuition, a $15 minimum wage, and so many more progressive issues to the forefront of the race for president.

But you did more than just make those issues part of the debate – you have changed the policy platform of the Democratic Party and of Secretary Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Because of our tireless work the Democratic Party has just passed the most progressive platform, by far, in the history of the party. Secretary Clinton now says that she will oppose the disastrous Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. She has also embraced parts of our plan to make college tuition free – and if her new plan passes, it could revolutionize the way higher education is funded in our country.

 Secretary Clinton has also embraced the public option for health insurance, and now supports significantly increased funding for community health centers. She adopted these positions because of you and your organizing.

It is critically important that we do not let up in our fight for a political revolution.

 Tonight at the Democratic National Convention I will address the future of Our Revolution, and I hope you will both tune in to watch, and join our effort after.

Thank you for being a part of the continued political revolution.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

I'LL WATCH THE SPEECH »

 Paid for by Bernie 2016

PO Box 905 - Burlington VT 05402 United States - (855) 4-BERNIE

This email was sent to sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com. If you need to update or change your information or email address, click here toupdate your info. Email is one of the most important tools we have to reach supporters like you, but you can let us know if you'd like toreceive fewer emails. We'd hate to see you go, but if you need to do so, click here to unsubscribe. Stand against the powerful special interests and help build the future of our political revolution by adding a contribution here.

Thank you, Bernie Sanders - VoteVets

de:		VoteVets.org <info@votevets.org>
responder a:		info@votevets.org
para:		Paulo Augusto Lacaz <sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com>
data:		25 de julho de 2016 12:22
assunto:		Thank you, Bernie Sanders

Paulo Augusto, 

In just a few hours, Senator Bernie Sanders is set to take the stage at the Democratic National Convention. 

Throughout the primary campaign, the veterans, military family members, and their supporters who power VoteVets demonstrated a strong affection for the senator. And it's no surprise. 

He worked hard in the Senate to pass comprehensive legislation to improve veterans' health care, job training, and education benefits -- and he did it before the VA scandal came to light. He was a powerful voice against the war in Iraq, and recognized that if we are going to commit our men and women to war, the cost of continues long after the last service member comes homes. 

We are all united in the effort to defeat Donald Trump, but tonight is a night to thank Bernie Sanders for his work on behalf of veterans, and issues he brought to light during the primary. So, please join us: 

Add your name in thanking Senator Bernie Sanders for his leadership on behalf veterans and military family members, and for the historic campaign he waged for the Democratic nomination. 

The theme of the convention tonight is unity, and we are all going to do whatever we can do to defeat Donald Trump. VoteVets is running some of the largest television buys in the campaign to do just that. But unity requires us to to recognize the accomplishments of both campaigns, and we hope you'll add your name to thank Senator Sanders for everything his "political revolution" brought to this race. 

All my best, 

Jon Soltz 

Iraq War Veteran & Chairman 

VoteVets

ADD YOUR NAME

Are You Veteran? No

Are you an Iraq or Afghanistan Veteran? No

I'm friends with you.

---

PAID FOR BY VOTEVETS ACTION FUND

This email was sent to sccbesme.humanidade@gmail.com. If that is not your preferred email address, click here. Click here if you'd like to unsubscribe. We try to send only the most important information and opportunities to participate via email. To sustain VoteVets with a contribution click here.

The Deeper Reason Many Intelligent Progressives and Independents Will Not Support Hillary Clinton

    http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_820_noupscale/578ed454130000130005ed25.jpg

  For those who hope for swift unity in the Democratic Party, there are reasons to believe it won’t happen if Hillary Clinton is the nominee.

While there are serious policy differences between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, a deeper fault line between their supporters must be acknowledged.

Certainly the two candidates remain far apart on issues that matter to progressives and independents — fracking, the TPP, tuition-free public colleges, universal single-payer healthcare, racist policing — to name just a few. Indeed, based on policy and political strategy, many independents and Democrats see Clinton asmore like a traditional Republican. Many even see it as indicative of privilege if one supports Clinton over Sanders, given the current state of the economy and the environment. Many intelligent progressives see the two candidates as representing different social classes.

Nevertheless, a debate about policy differences only partially explains the disconnect between Clinton, on the one hand, and Democrats, independents, and progressives, on the other. Clinton has begun incorporating into her speeches many core issues of the Sanders campaign, including some mentioned above, but there remain deeper reasons many intelligent left-leaning voters remain unable to support Hillary Clinton: dishonesty and scandals.

Don’t Shoot the Messenger

These deeper issues aren’t generally considered important by writers in the mainstream media. They paint Clinton’s dishonesty and scandals as Republican fabrications or as remnants of longstanding political vendettas that no longer matter. Writers, like yours truly, are generally accused of supporting the Republican if we even mention Clinton’s deeper shortcomings; we are also accused of sexism if we happen to be men.

So I will be attacked for writing this article. But I find it important nonetheless to try to help Democrats understand why, on a level deeper than just policy, intelligent non-sexist progressives and independents are generally unable to support Hillary Clinton.

First, it’s important to state that some of the scandals and darker rumors about Hillary and Bill Clinton are indeed the result of baseless political attacks. I’ve left those out of this article as much as possible.

Some Clinton scandals however are about real events, crimes, and misdemeanors, and those scandals are what must be acknowledged.

Just because a Republican says something doesn’t automatically mean that it’s false. Just because you don’t like the news that a messenger brings doesn’t mean that the messenger is wrong. Just because a journalist writes about the many reasons intelligent progressives are unlikely to support Clinton does not mean that that journalist is sexist or supports the atrocious and fraudulent candidacy of Donald Trump. Trump is very bad, and must be defeated, but that doesn’t automatically make Clinton good in the minds of independent and progressive voters.

The truth is that poll after poll finds that people across the political spectrum do not trust Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders polls way ahead of her on the topic of honesty and trustworthiness — by as much as 50 points — and if he’s the nominee, polls show he would unite the left and independents in a way that Hillary will not.

Voters find even Trump — who seems to concoct his own facts and policy positions during each and every speech — more trustworthy than Clinton, by 8 points and growing.

Corporate media pundits who write for publications supporting Clinton (I’m looking at you, New York Times, CNN, NPR, and MSNBC) shrug off these numbers as the simple product of longstanding attacks on her credibility by her opponents. This is exactly the kind of nonchalant dismissiveness and shoddy journalism that doesn’t wash with intelligent progressives and independents anymore. There are many, many politicians who have been in the public eye for decades; only a handful are seen to be as dishonest as Hillary Clinton.

It’s not rocket science. The unbiased history shows that she does lie and obfuscate more frequently than other politicians, and she has changed her policy positions more often than most.

Intelligent voters notice this. Clinton rarely seems to be speaking her mind. She appears to calculate before speaking what specific words she should use to kill off a line of questioning, rather than engage in open discussion.

Barack Obama once said, “Hillary Clinton will say anything, and change nothing.” These words resonated with voters in 2008, and they resonate again now.

What She Says, or What She Does

To really understand why non-sexist, intelligent progressives and independents are unable to support Clinton we have to look at some historical patterns that provide a basis for mistrust.

Author Michelle Alexander has eloquently explained that Hillary Clinton and her husband bear much responsibility for the rise of mass incarceration of African Americans and the “new jim-crow.” Alexander explores the uncomfortable awareness that the Clintons might be as racist as Trump, but just hide it better. When someone is viewed as dishonest, what they do and have done becomes much more important than what they say.

Intelligent progressives also know that because of who Hillary is, as journalist Naomi Klein puts it, she is unfit and unable to address the crucial issues of climate change and wealth inequality. In other words, regardless of what she says, her longstanding connections to corporations such as Walmart, Monsanto, and Goldman Sachs formed her worldview long ago and she is unwilling—and unable—to change. What is worse is that she can speak out on the campaign trail as if she would challenge these corporations, but whether or not she would is less important than the sense that she is dishonest and secretive and will say anything to get elected.

Her Damn Emails

Let’s look at a very recent, pertinent event. FBI Director James Comey reported to the nation this month on the findings of an FBI investigation into Clinton’s secret use of a private email server to conduct official business.

Many people remember Hillary last year answering questions about this secret server. Even Bernie Sanders said, “We’re tired of hearing about your damn emails.”

It turns out virtually everything she said last year about her secret server was contradicted by Comey and the FBI: 

To neutral observers, and to intelligent progressives, this scandal isn’t “much ado about nothing,” as some diehard Clinton supporters maintain.

The fact that she set up her own email server and used her own personal email accounts isn’t just probable evidence that she broke numerous parts of the Espionage Act and thus might no longer qualify for security clearance. It’s an even bigger deal when one considers the allegations, discussed below, that Clinton ran the state department partly for personal enrichment by accepting large donations to the Clinton Foundation from repressive countries for which she approved weapons deals. If she sent classified information via her personal email account or communicated secretly with countries or foreign nationals who were donating to the Clinton Foundation, and then wiped her private server, this could point to serious corruption.

An Honest Appraisal of Scandals, Fraud, and Worse

Dozens of scandals have swirled around the Clinton’s rise through Arkansas and national politics. It would be difficult to compile a full appraisal of these scandals, as there are so many, but doing a short survey of them should go a long way toward explaining why the “lesser-of-evils” argument probably won’t work for independent and progressive voters considering their options in November.

I’ve chosen four that I think best provide an understanding of the state of mind of independent and progressive voters.

1. Election Rigging and Fraud. This is a current scandal on the minds of voters today. As has been documented extensively in both the corporate and alternative media, this Democratic primary was rigged in countless ways for Clinton from the very beginning. The media began counting superdelegates in October as if they’d already voted even though today they still haven’t; the DNC performed something shockingly similar to money laundering for the Clinton campaign to circumvent donation maximums and funnel millions to her campaign; the debates were reduced, canceled, or scheduled at times few people would watch, which prevented Bernie Sanders from becoming better know earlier in the primary; and the primary rules as a whole were written and rewritten by DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who happens to be a longtime Clinton friend and ally.

Even worse: voter rolls were mysteriously purged in many states; caucus rules were changed suddenly; and actual votes were flipped by the thousands in many states, according to scientific analysis.

In nearly every single instance, the election fraud and rigging of the rules favored Clinton.

The fact that Clinton benefited so much from all of this and never said anything about it, for many, is the straw that broke the camel’s back. It’s one thing if an imperfect system is a little bit unfair here and there. It’s another thing if the rules are systematically broken, always in favor of one candidate, and the beneficiary simply takes the spoils and runs. Mathematicians and election analysts have shown that whenlikely fraud is taken into account, Bernie Sanders may be rightfully winning right now going into the convention. At the very least, if Clinton values party unity, she should call for investigations and, where merited by evidence, request recounts or even revotes. That would go a long, long way to building party unity. Most voters want, first and foremost, a basic sense that the election has been fair.

This scandal has gotten little corporate media coverage so far, but it has been covered extensively in alternative media. Were Clinton viewed generally as trustworthy, this might not matter so much, but as it is, it’s a reason many independent voters remain uneasy, if not outright suspicious, about Hillary.

2. The Clinton Foundation. Mentioned above, this scandal is problematic even from a nonpartisan standpoint. There is a disturbing correlation between large donations accepted by the Clinton Foundation from repressive regimes, on the one hand, and enormous weapons deals approved for those same repressive regimes by the Clinton-led State Department, on the other.

To an honest, nonpartisan observer, it appears raising money for her foundation was at least as important as sending arms to repressive Middle Eastern regimes.

Here’s a short segment that covers this scandal in a vituperative but informative documentary by investigative journalist Abby Martin.-  https://www.facebook.com/JournalistAbbyMartin