Nina Turner, the national co-chairwoman of the Bernie Sanders campaign, is absolutely furious over the appointment of Hillary Clinton lackeys John Podesta and former Rep. Barney Frank to the rules committee that will oversee the party platform at their nominating convention.
Appearing on the progressive podcast Status Coup, Turner said that the party should be “ashamed” and vowed that “if the DNC believes it’s going to get away in 2020 with what it did in 2016, it has another thing coming.”
“The DNC should be ashamed of itself, because it really is a slap in the face to folks who were asking for reform, and if the DNC believes that it’s going to get away in 2020 with what it did in 2016, it has another thing coming,” Turner said.
Sanders’s California political director Susie Shannon has also sent a formal letter to Perez requesting that paid employees or consultants to the presidential campaigns be excluded from the rules committee.
Sanders previously attempted to get Frank, a harsh critic of his, removed from the rules committee in 2016. The campaign described him as an “aggressive attack surrogate for the Clinton campaign.”
The backlash comes after Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez released a list of nominations for the standing committees over the weekend.
Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez issued a list of individuals he nominated for the 2020 Democratic National Convention committees.
Let’s examine some of the individuals. I’ll initially focus on the nominees for the DNC Platform Committee.
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— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) January 25, 2020