10+ Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Should Not Be a Sanders Institute Fellow

The Washington Post reports:

“Jane O’Meara Sanders, who campaigned alongside her husband Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) across the country last year, is launching the Sanders Institute to help progressive allies reach more people through events and traditional media.

“‘The purpose is to revitalize democracy in the support of progressive institutions,’ Jane Sanders said in an interview. ‘Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque. A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking. So we put together this team to focus on issues, but not in a partisan way, not in a way that just focuses on the latest crazy thing. It will not be about Trump; it will be about the issues facing the country.’”

If revitalizing democracy is the purpose of the Sanders Institute, it is hard to understand why Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is a Fellow given that she has refused to debate her general election opponents for three Congressional elections in a row and refused to debate her 2016 primary opponent (all while calling for the Democratic National Committee to have more Clinton-Sanders debates, no less!).

Tulsi Gabbard Stands with Assad and Against Syrian Refugees

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s “fact finding” trip to Syria is guaranteed to find only ‘facts’ that benefit the regime of Bashar al-Assad. As guests of Assad’s regime, foreign dignitaries and politicians enjoy neither freedom of movement nor freedom of speech; all of their activities are tightly controlled by the military-security apparatus and so are their interactions with ordinary Syrians. Even people who travel there for the sole purpose of writing pro-government propaganda for Western consumption describe the intensity of regime control over foreign visitors as “scary.”

Jill Stein Syria Statements Show She’s Unfit to Be President

Last month, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was roundly condemned for surreptitiously substituting a neutral pro-peace Syria statement on her campaign’s website in place of her original pro-war criminal position without a word of explanation.

Now, the URL linking to her original statement no longer seamlessly re-directs to her new statement but has been restored — but without its original incriminating text. Instead, there is the following statement:

Jill Stein Supported Bombing Aleppo

On October 5, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein removed her previous statement on Syria (“Stein Opposes Obama’s Troops on the Ground in Syria”) and put in its place a very different statement (“Jill Stein on Syria”). Visitors to the previous statement‘s URL do not encounter an error notice but are seamlessly redirected to the new statement.

It is as if her first Syria statement never happened.

Unfortunately for Stein, the internet never forgets. Her now-disappeared statement will always be available here.

Jill Stein: Suspend Your Campaign and Unite with the Black Masses to Defeat Trump

By Clay Claiborne. First published by Linux Beach.

Politics in the U.S. may have reached a new low on Friday when a Maine legislator took the governor up on his challenge to make a voicemail message public:

“Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage,” a recording of the governor’s phone message says. “I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you cock sucker. I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cock sucker. You … I need you to, just friggin. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”