Let's Not Wait For the Revolution To Catch Up To Us. Are You Ready for Some Hardball?

Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 2:38pm

Back in early April LeChienHarry and I assembled a list of Superdelegates. The preponderance were committed to Clinton long before Sanders voters expressed their wishes - Sanders for President.

Except for those with real integrity, politicians care about one thing and one thing only - getting reelected.

Here's a news flash for you, Mr. or Mrs. Superdelegate. April was a long time ago in political terms and the landscape is changing rapidly. We don't matter? We don't have any other choices? You think we're between the rock and the hard place? You could never be so wrong, because We Are The Revolution. Join it or get left in the dust.

We Can Play Hardball Too - This Is An Action Plan

Find your Supers from the list above.
Select those committed to Clinton.
Search for their website and contact info.
Email, Tweet, or FB them.
Email, Tweet, or FB your friends, your family, your favorite progressive websites.

This is the message:

SUPPORT SANDERS OR I WILL VOTE AGAINST YOU.

n/t (All Caps, No Text)

There isn't the least bit of subtlety or equivocation in this statement. Politicians don't understand subtlety, and any form of equivocation leaves the slimy vermin room to maneuver. It's blunt and straight to the point.
If it's an email, no text. Emails mostly don't read anyway, but someone has to see it in an inbox.

SUPPORT SANDERS OR I WILL VOTE AGAINST YOU. n/t

It's time to make these people work FOR us instead of AGAINST us.

Tags:

*BernieSanders *HillaryClinton *SuperDelegates *DemocraticConvention

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Comments

Submitted by LeChienHarry on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 3:21pm

I support this action plan! That was fun.

The lesser of evils thing isn't working. Merkley from Oregon and Defazio are the best of the bunch. Wyden needs to go. Way too corporate.

This is the time to let them know.

Thanks AB.

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Submitted by Steven D on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 6:08pm

Looks like the Supers have alrteady gotten the message

or some of them if David Shuster is corrrect.

Ps. And you said you couldn't write. I call bs.

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Submitted by Steven D on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 6:37pm

Messages sent to

My Congressional Rep Louise Slaughter.
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
US Senator Charles Schumer

Left the message.

Tried to contact Gov. Andrew Cuomo using his state contact page. Got this reply every time I tried:

An unknown connection error occurred.

Which makes sense because I haven't connected with Cuomo and his pay to play style of corrupt Democratic Party politics in years.

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Submitted by RejectingThe3rdWay on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 9:50pm

LOL

Cuomo makes Hillary look downright progressive by comparison!

I despise Cuomo!

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Submitted by joliberal on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 6:53pm

I am curious

Does anyone know if someone has crunched the numbers from each state to demonstrate the percentage of the vote represented by individual super delegates? I want to know how many individual votes in my state are equal to the single superdelegate vote of my congressman Rick Larsen. If it is significant, he needs to switch support to Bernie because he won my state by 70% and not a single SD from WA state has supported him yet.

Submitted by 2andfro on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 7:09pm

A useful link below

http://www.lobbydelegates.com/delegates.php

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 7:20pm

SUPPORT SANDERS OR I WILL VOTE AGAINST YOU.

Email, Tweet, or FB them. Or All Three Definitely All Three.

They need to be swamped with a chorus of voices that can't be written off as "a few malcontents."

Steven, I know we discussed your launching this for me so your handle would draw more attention to the plan. But I couldn't wait any longer. It's been burning a hole in my ~~pocket~~ keyboard ever since I mentioned it to you. Sorry, dude.

By the way, we're good for your stay here. And it seems like HaikuKitty is going to join the party too.

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Submitted by Steven D on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 10:08am

Thanks!

But you got yourself front paged anyway! My handle is highly overrated.

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Submitted by terriertribe on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 7:40pm

Maggie Hassan's team

Is probably tired of getting that email from me. They've stopped responding.

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Submitted by Christine.MI on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 8:00pm

Honest question

In the category of no question is too stupid:
None of the delegates on the list sound familiar to me, except for two. How do I send the message if they aren't someone I've voted for in the past? By the fact they are in my state I can email them or call any phone number I can find for them? Thanks in advance.

Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 8:16pm

Christine, it doesn't matter whether you've heard of them

or not. This is all about waking these people with a brickbat. They all have their own little websites. Those sites have contact info.
Copy SUPPORT SANDERS OR I WILL VOTE AGAINST YOU into the subject line. Don't bother with any text in the body. Go on to the next one. If you copy the email addys to a file, you can do it very easily tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next.

Likewise if you have a Twitter account or FB page. Spread it around. It needs to become viral. They ALL need to know the party is over and we're as serious as a heart attack.

"It's a Revolution, dammit. It's not supposed to be polite!" -- AB

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Submitted by blue drop on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 9:23pm

did you get the Democratic Party survey...

...in your mail recently. sounds like practically everyone did. mark it "Bernie or Bust" and send it back. that's one way to send a message to the party if you can't contact superdelegates directly. is your district representative a Democrat? more than likely they endorsed Clinton. write or call them. your state senators? Democrat? same thing. write letters to the editor to your local paper with your message to all local superdelegates.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 3:18pm

Got an email today from NY AG Schneiderman about how he had

gone after Trump for his fraudulent university scam, and for it Trump has, among other things, attacked him personally in the media.

I used it as an opportunity to refocus the direction of inquiry to the less obvious:

Schneiderman is one of my favorite elected officials, that rare Progressive who has the guts to tell it like it is and backs it up to get things done.

Which is why I'm compelled to write this.

This year's election has been a debacle from start to finish. Bernie is being robbed by a collusion of rigging the debates, moneys appropriated and the convention schedule by the DNC chair, and the local and state BOE's have conspired to suppress and disenfranchise voters, under the supervision of long-time Clinton supporters.

It is a great travesty of American democracy to be watching as the two most disliked and untrustworthy are "leading" the race. This is the best we can do? Two multi-millionaires trading off their celebrity?

Trump's fraud is the obvious. He's a goon, shyster, a con artist, a pathological liar.

But the Clinton Foundation, in my opinion, is much more grave. They are trading on their status to peddle influence through donations abroad and at home. The Saudi arms deal and Haitian emergency management pillaging are serious quid pro quo and defrauding mechanisms that endanger national security. Add to that the hubris and arrogance of Hillary to set up a home server to hide and then delete her emails as SOS, and there's the serious appearance of impropriety.

This is a terrible, dangerous and arrogant candidate who should not be anywhere near the White House (again).

Historically we'll look back on this time and not have sufficient explanation to the next few generations of how it's come to this. Chronic dysfunction and a revolving door in DC, tied to Money In Politics, ignored by a cabal of insiders nakedly getting while the getting's good. The citizenry is at it lowest ebb of belief and confidence in government. With these two candidates that lack of trust and fealty incredibly plummets even further.

Trump can't win, and Hillary can't either. One will lose less.

Hillary's transgressions are just as serious, if not more, than the insufferable narcissist half-wit Trump.

Bernie is our only hope.

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Submitted by terriertribe on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 9:39pm

Are you asking how to find their contact info?

Wikipedia has a list of the 2016 superdelegates with many of the delegate names linked to a Wikipedia article on the delegate, which seem to largely have contact info. It's not sorted by state, but you can use the menu to search the page.

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 10:15pm

This is also useful. It can be sorted by State.

There are little up-down arrows next to each category to sort by whatever criterion you choose. I find it mose useful to sort by State. This allows me to focus on the Super-Ds in my own State.

Thanks for this list, terrier.

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Submitted by blue drop on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 11:12am

did you get the Democratic Party survey...

**edit** sorry, double post.

Submitted by blue drop on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 9:18pm

i plan to do this after the CA primary

no need to have someone muck around with my registration before then.

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 8:50am

DONE

sent this message to Rubén Hinojosa, however I already stopped voting for him when he voted to cut food stamps. He rep's a district that runs all the way down to the border, one of the poorest areas in the country.

But it may still do some good, who knows. I doubt that he remembers my letter telling him that I would never vote for him again.

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Submitted by katherine919 on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 9:13am

preparing email to my rep.in North Carolina

He asks for zip+4 so last time I got ready to write, I could not recall the extra four digits. My county was one in the heart of Carolina that went solidly for Bernie, but his district is wider than just us and some voters went strong for HRC. What I want to know from him is whether he pledged before any votes were cast. This is really saying to the voters - I will not represent you, but will side with the establishment of my party. I want an answer to that. This has led to massive GOP control in NC, having a party that really is entrenched with their own and not looking to future voters and their needs.

Submitted by angel d on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 10:00am

Just tweeted an all caps memo to

@RepRickLarsen of WA

Submitted by angel d on Fri, 06/03/2016 - 10:02am

I'm on the bus heading to work

But I can do more!