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AOC Trashes Hillary Clinton for Failed Presidential Campaign
By: Howard M. Riell
It was a 2016 Facebook live video that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may or may not wish she could take back.
In it, the controversial congresswoman absolutely trashes Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, brushing away many of her oft-repeated excuses as if they were “stupid.”
Said AOC: “I’m not trying to be difficult. I’m not trying to be down. But she didn’t try hard enough in Michigan. She didn’t make a single… visit to the United Auto Workers before the general election. And then… they’re like upset that the union workers didn’t organize for her.”
Added AOC compatriot Maria Swisher, an actress, “We needed to win the Rust Belt and we could have done that and there are places that went for Obama that didn’t go for Hillary so there is a lot of complex things going on here.”
And speaking of the former first lady and two-time loser in the race for the presidency, one-time Clinton advisor Dick Morris suggested that Hillary and Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton are trying to slip her into the presidential race sometime in the next few weeks.
“Here’s the deal that I think is going down. I think Hillary and Bloomberg have gotten together and cooked up a scheme,” Dick Morris said to John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday. “Nobody will be nominated on the first ballot, and it’ll go to a second ballot,” Morris said of a brokered convention. “The problem is that the party establishment doesn’t have a candidate. They can’t do Bloomberg because he got killed in the debate. … Can’t do [Joe] Biden because he’s already lost the front-runner status. … [Pete] Buttigieg looks like a high school kid at the Model UN. … [Elizabeth] Warren is third, but she’s pretty far to the Left, and they’re not going to want to trust her.”
“He said Bloomberg would stay in the race, even if he has no chance of winning, in an effort to get at least enough support to keep Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from running away with the nomination,” reported Washingtonexaminer.com.
The lackluster former New York Senator and Secretary of State could, Morris speculated, join the race on a second ballot at a brokered convention. “And then Hillary begins to gain; the other candidates begin to drop out. And Hillary is the nominee. That, I think, is the establishment scenario. Hillary is the only candidate that they’ll be able to come up with that can measure up to Donald Trump.”
Clinton, who lives for power, recently said on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, “I never say never because I do believe in serving my country, but it’s not going to happen.”
http://thejewishvoice.com/2020/02/aoc-trashes-hillary-clinton-for-failed-presidential-campaign-2/
Florida lawsuit: Don’t count Bernie Sanders’ primary votes, he’s ‘clearly not a Democrat’
The complaint asserts there is no basis in Florida law for an independent to run in the Democratic primary.
Two Florida men who don’t want to see independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders win the Democratic presidential nomination are suing to nullify votes he gets in Florida’s March 17 primary.
Frank Bach, a retired letter carrier, and George Brown, a retired social worker, filed a lawsuit this week in Leon County Circuit Court asking a judge to disqualify Sanders from the ballot and block Florida from certifying his votes.
“The plaintiffs have the right to cast their March 17 Democratic presidential preference primary votes for those who are really Democrats, not independents, and are entitled to this court’s protection of their right to vote for a Democrat, with the results not diluted by Defendant Sanders’ unlawful participation as an independent interloping improperly in the (primary),” the complaint says.
Juan Peñalosa, executive director of the Florida Democratic Party, called the lawsuit “ridiculous.”
“The Florida Democratic Party Executive Committee voted unanimously to place Sen. Sanders on the Florida ballot,” he said in an email. “Votes cast for the senator are valid and must be counted.”
The lawsuit comes as Sanders has gained early front-runner status in the Democratic primary contest after wins in New Hampshire and Nevada and a strong showing in Iowa, where he won the popular vote.
However, Tallahassee attorney Karen Gievers, a retired circuit judge now representing the two men, said the complaint was not prompted by concerns from moderate Democrats that Sanders is too far to the left to win a general election and beat President Donald Trump.
“Their concern is that there not be someone running as a Democrat who isn’t because that’s messing up their vote,” she said.
The complaint names as defendants the Florida Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee, Sanders himself and Secretary of State Laurel Lee, Florida’s chief elections officer. It seeks to block Lee from certifying votes for Sanders, and stop the Democratic Party from awarding any delegates to him ahead of the summer convention.
The complaint asserts there is no basis in Florida law for an independent to run in the Democratic primary. It also notes that Sanders has raised nearly a million dollars as an independent running for re-election to his U.S. Senate seat in 2024.
“Defendant Sanders is clearly an independent and is clearly not a Democrat, by his own definition,” the lawsuit says. “His current ‘day job’ is as a United States senator and he has consistently, proudly asserted his service in that role as independent.”
The Vermont senator appeared on Florida ballots in 2016 during his first bid for president. He finished a distant second to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
It’s too late to actually remove Sanders from the ballot. Thousands of Florida voters have already returned mail ballots in the Democratic primary, a fact mentioned in the complaint.
Gievers, who is married to Bach, served on the bench from 2011 until last July, when she retired on her 70th birthday because of judicial age limits. She stepped down just before a new law raising the retirement age to 75 went into place.
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This story originally published to usatoday.com, and was shared to other Florida newspapers in the new Gannett Media network.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200226/florida-lawsuit-dont-count-bernie-sanders-primary-votes-hes-clearly-not-democrat
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