The DNC Leak hits the fan, and I felt a disturbance--as if a million Clinton shills cried out at once

Been a few things that I wanted to diary in past few weeks, and now we have this on our hands. Well, well, well. Where to begin?

With the pundits full of righteous faux-indignation that Bernie *dare* to criticize the DNC primary system ?

https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/756880782518607872

Or the more salacious, like when DNC Finance chairman exchanged emails about which gay men "totes" gave him "daddy vibes"? (uh....ok)

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/498

Or the downright scary? Google is now listing Wikileaks as a "dangerous site". Folks have been pointing out for years how far $GOOGL has strayed from its "do no evil" founding motto.

Apparently Jeff Weaver is "looking" at the leak. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/emails-released-wikileaks-show-dnc-aid-hi...

What I find most disgusting is how Clinton (who is most likely faking her religion) has a DNC explicitly trying to use Sanders' own heritage against him. Downright nauseating.

It might may [sic] no difference, but for KY and WA can we get someone to ask his belief,” Brad Marshall, CFO of DNC, wrote in an email on May 5, 2016. “Does he believe in God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My southern baptist peeps woudl draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.”

Amy Dacey, CEO of the DNC, subsequently responded “AMEN,” according to the emails.

The collaboration between media companies (that donate to Clinton groups) and the DNC is scary-- it even included missives from Clinton operatives within the DNC to MSNBC to change their reporting mid-segment.
https://twitter.com/zachhaller/status/756760884072976384

Now, the interesting Twitter angle to all this is how #DNCLeaks (with an 's' at end) was trending yesterday, and then CLinton made her underwhelming announcement of tim kaine. That knocked DNCleaks off trending, but it's back up today as #dncleak without an 's' on end.

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Alphalop's picture

I didn't know you could buy a "Clinton in a box." Wink

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6X9KcrXHwg]

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

OMG, thanks for the (very appropriate) reminder about Time Bandits! I saw that years ago and loved it - I wonder if it's on You-Tube in full.

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I don't know if it's on youtube but I know it's available on Torrent sites.

If you really need a copy and can't find one PM me sometime and I will see if we can figure a way to get one over to you. Smile

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

Thanks! Don't have Torrent but I'll check on Youtube for it as soon as people quit posting interesting/important stuff on here!

I adore corny movies!

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Especially if you're not familiar with them, or you're not on one of the larger internet providers.

Smaller providers will catch you, and the sites are teaming with infected content. My daughter's laptop kept turning itself and her webcam on after downloading Game of Thrones.

Pirates aren't exactly known for being the kindest of souls, and often pack their shared or pirated content with really bad stuff. Beware!

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Thanks for the warning! Wouldn't actually have bothered with Torrent myself, as I don't watch many movies, but this is good to know.

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Folks in poor countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have been legally torrenting (file sharing) for decades. These so-called "pirates" are millions and millions of poor people sharing their files freely. Poor people don't have bank accounts and credit cards. Poor people don't have cable TV subscriptions. The people who make up indices (like BitTorrent, Pirate Bay etc.) for sharing files are as big of heroes as Snowden. They have brought poor folks into the information age. Poor people have books to read and share freely, poor people can get texts for college, and see a good movie without spending a week of salary. People sharing files are not "pirates" they are a cooperative community of sharers. Poor people don't add viruses to what is shared, leave that to the 5 media giants and US government. Sharing is a progressive and revolutionary act. Consider torrentz as the Free International Lending Library of the World.

I doubt any viruses came from Game of Thrones mkv's and none would have come from index sites. Its unfortunate that big name anti-virus software flags torrent indexes and utorrent sharing code as "viruses" because they aren't.

The government/media giants aren't looking for some poor black guy in the inner city downloading the latest action movie. They are looking for the ones who know how to keep the sharing safe, open and free.

If someone lives in a country where sharing is illegal and the govt. controlled by big media corporations, then you will want to share using a VPN proxy. You will want to disable anti-virus software and scan afterwards. I will sincerely suggest though, that people in rich countries support and use local libraries, interlibrary loan, and buy books and used dvd's from mom and pop bookstores and garage sales.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! An excellent antidote to the stink of corruption when both sides really do do it!

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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How did they cram that many people in a theater? lol!

I wonder if they were looping around and entering via fire-doors to do it again, I thought I saw the same people more than once.

Never heard of Blobfest before, sounds like it would be a good side event for our next ZombieCon. Smile

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

Maybe he could blink twice if he's being held hostage by Chelsea.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

In this instance, I'd think that this would be the right strategy at this point. Anything Bernie says will be used to silence his message - and what does he really need to say? The aware are becoming aware and spreading the word; the unaware will not be listening to him but to corporate media - and possibly also, here and there, to adult children, co-workers and others who are aware and present in their lives.

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surrogates, I.E. us, make all the noise. (At least publicly)

It's not like we are not already anyway. Smile

This lets him stay above the fray and places one less hurdle for the SD's to overcome in order to vote for him.

I would bet you dollars to donuts that there has been a lot of unofficial "Phone Banking" going on behind the scenes.

Sanders is probably playing this exactly as he should be. By not getting down in the mud he is keeping himself eligible.

If Sanders was to pound on this and the SD's did give him the nom many Clintonites would use this as an excuse to go PUMA, so he is denying them that out.

Stay Classy Bernie. While I wish you would have taken your gloves off early, staying above such things just illustrates what a true statesman he really is.

And if it works? Fuck me, I mean I always knew Bernie was one sharp cookie but damn... You wanna talk about a long strategy that will go down in the history books.

Bernie winning will teach us two things that we thought were set in stone were totally wrong.

1. you can win a campaign without big donors (Mission accomplished.)

2. You don't have to get down in the muck with your opponent to win.

If successful it could have a lasting impact in the way politicians approach campaigns in the future.

Or maybe I am just too damn optimistic, lol!

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

Bernie has, over the decades, refined the art of coming up from behind to win public office on his record, integrity and principled strategies.

My faith Berns forever.

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Have had it as my sig ever since the endorsement.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

Twitter left me! I don't have a cell phone, yet they locked me out of my account for not giving them a cell phone number.

Phuque 'em!

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How else can they get your permission to have access to your contacts, incoming call data, microphone, camera, etc., and then be able to stream it to the NSA, et la (my phone REFUSES to allow a l together and changes it to la).

At least you don't have to deal with auto correct!

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I just gave 'em an old landline number. They apparently haven't had to call me yet...

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And it is going to remains so indefinitely.

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For $60/year, I have both unlimited outgoing and incoming calls with my own phone number. I give that phone number to anyone that I do not want contacting me. Meanwhile, the unlimited calls is handy for long conversations that would eat up my cell phone's 250 minutes per month, such as calls to Comcast to wrangle a better deal. Even with a limited income, I find that the extra privacy this gives me well worth it.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

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Same here. I live in an area without cell service and have been locked out since they decided I was a robot. Same with Pinterest where I had a great collection.

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From the Light House.

https://twitter.com/quikjl/status/756648007441928192

after the one eyar appointment runs out, Kaine's old seat will be up for grabs. if the Red team takes that seat back, what does that to do potential future Dem majority in senate? if it's all about SCOTUS, then why is kaine the VP?

seems like warren was angling for the job and got stabbed in the back.

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They got her to endorse and then left her as road-kill to be abused by The People who see her now as a sellout.

Ah, but....well, you lay down with dogs, you might getcha some fleas. I hope she can bounce back...

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They do have ways of making people endorse - and it struck me that Wall St. objecting to Warren as VP and wanting a Dempublicrat, (also as Republican-appealing anti-women's-right's 'balance' to Hillary, in actuality the starver of single mothers and children once getting Welfare aid for more than what - 3 years in the parent's lifetime?) and Hillary dropping all pretenses to claw at the money they threatened to pull, was entirely predictable and bound to get out. As it has.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Or something like that.

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Warren chose Hill, almost as shillishly as Clinton would have chosen Warren, if their circumstances were reversed. What is the secret sauce that Hill and Bill have that makes people who were once decent throw it all away and embrace corruption? Is it as banal as the hollow promise of money and power?

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of that hashtag all night long--it kept going back and forth between "DNCleak" and "DNCleaks". The latter here was the original, and it took off like a bat out of hell when the news first broke.

I never had trouble seeing either one--I guess whatsisname understands now that people "get" that Twitter edits and censors their "Trending" list, so rather than kill it altogether, they tried to tamp down the hits by playing spelling games.

It was fun to watch. People grokked to that shit immediately. They started tweeting BOTH tags and slagging Twitter at the same time. It was epic.

They can't keep up with it today. My PC feed on both hashes is jumping by 20 per 30-second interval (my phone gave up trying).

One beef I do have, though in this case, it might not matter....but WHY does Wikileaks do this shit on a Friday News Dump? They could have saved this for SUNDAY, ya think? Seems to me that by Monday night, it could be played out. I mean, it might not be, the way it's trending and working--cuz people are pissed about this--but still!

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stop whining about what bernie has said in the first 48 hours of dnc leaks...what about the months of silence from obama on this farce?

meanwhile, obama finds time to record ads against alan grayson, who is still preferable to me over the neolib dems who hijacked the party and consolidated their grip. sidney blumenthal is somehwere cackling .

http://trofire.com/2016/07/20/dem-establishment-afraid-alan-grayson-potu...

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did 9 months in California prison, because Neoliberal Democrats and GOP maggots work together to profit off the drug war

What else can you expect from a spineless eunuch who lets women like Valerie Jarrett control his life?

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"Keep your mouth shut and we'll let you get away once your term ends".

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Well, now people know who to vote for - assuming that massive cheating does not prevail anyway.

The last of my persistent and ever-more-illogical respect for President Obama has finally evaporated...

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did 9 months in California prison, because Neoliberal Democrats and GOP maggots work together to profit off the drug war

...the DNC leaks making the headlines today that news organizations are taking this seriously but, then again, in the 24 hour news cycle it will be done by Monday as they move on to other stories.

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but today, I'm beginning to wonder.

Then again, their 24 hour cycle and Twitter's are often two different things anymore...

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The people must not and will not let this stand as a 'done deal'. Enough is enough!

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Hillary hasn't given them permission. Those who do mention it, say it is "troublesome" or Bernie delegates. They never mention that it is a federal offense to rig elections. Besides, the Hillarybots have their heads so far up their arses, they think it's another RW witch hunt. Bunch of damn trained seals.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

...in the federal law sense? Indirectly they impact who we can vote for, for sure, but is manipulating the primary process the same thing as manipulating the general election in the eyes of the law? (Loretta Lynch excepted!)

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

Because, in America, 'the world's greatest democracy', (lol) private parties control who people have available to vote for, and can apparently control who wins their primaries due to the claim of being a private organization, I'd say that they control, rather than indirectly impact, Presidential and other choices. But going by what I've seen written by people here, it seems to be officially claimed that, being private parties and all, this is officially OK and Primaries different somehow than the General election. Boiling down to as long as big donors/TPTB approve of the selection permitted to be available in the two-party trade-off system, anything goes.

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for our states' primaries, whether we're in the party or vote.

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"joseph_b_paulsen@ who. eop .gov"

(Spaces added to keep it from being a link.)

Kaplan requested a call in one of the emails. I googled him but got nothing.

Is who, world health org? What about eop?

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White House Office dot Executive Office of the President

https://www.whitehouse.gov/redirected-from-eop
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop

My, that's fascinating, isn't it?

Great catch...

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https://www.wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/51#searchresult

From:kaplanj@dnc.org To: joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov Date: 2016-05-06 15:49
Subject:

Do you have a minute to talk.

Jordan

Jordan Kaplan National Finance Director Democratic National Committee (202) 488-5002 (o) | (312) 339-0224 (c) kaplanj@dnc.org

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Came up with this gem:

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/1098


Why?!?why?!?

From:KaplanJ@dnc.org
To: Caitria_L_Mahoney@who.eop.gov
Bobby_Schmuck@who.eop.gov
joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov

Date: 2016-05-04 12:41
Subject: Why?!?why?!?

Come on guys! Make this end.

Was this the day after another Sanders primary win?

Heh...

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Indiana Primary Results

Sanders - 52.5%
Clinton - 47.5%

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Kaplan says "MAkE this end".

Not "Will it ever end?" or "can't someone just make the madness stop?"

No, it's "DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT".

The guy's asking a few folks, including an aide to President Obama, to "do something" to stop Sanders.

How stupid are these people?

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Wow!

Wonder what happened just after that.

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The West Virginia Primary on May 10

Sanders - 51.4%
Clinton - 35.8%

LOL

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in 2009:

PAULSEN Joseph B., Employee $55,000.00 per annum DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND SURROGATE SCHEDULER

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/RCPWHSalaries09.pdf

Not sure where he is now...

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Executive Office of the President.

According to Wikipedia

Joseph Paulsen is Personal Aide to the President.

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from a media scheduler to the Inner Sanctum.

How completely fascinating.

I did a search on that Wiki engine. That search brought back every email in the archive that references anyone with a who dot eop dot gov addy. There were 844 of them...

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I guess they're all calling themselves Democrats, but still seems totally uncool.

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Paulsen is Obama's way of "staying in the loop".

So yeah, Barack Obama's very Presidency is in on this. Now, I understand that the office of the President, and everybody in it, are all very interested in a general sense, what with Obama being the de facto head of the DNC, but....wow. The things they're in the loop on are many, but this one in particular says to me that his Administration approved of the way Bernie Sanders was treated during elections. He had to know the cheating was going on.

Against a sitting Senator who has been in office longer than he has? If I had any respect for the guy left, it just went right out the window. That's pretty ugly all by itself. I haven't even gotten to the "financial" aspect of any of this.

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Maybe our out-the-window remaining respect for President Obama will unite outside our windows to sink into the contaminated oceans to mutate and ultimately thunder out as monster Outrage, or perhaps Goddamit, in honour of my old favorite nuclear-polluter-warning movie monster?

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NYT. So I guess the story does have 'legs' as the DNC emails like to say.

Released Emails Suggest the D.N.C. Derided the Sanders Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton...

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the corporate media has fucked around and pissed off both sides. it's full on , single-issue, pitchforks against the elites time.

let's face it: we're all sick of elites acting like fucking assholes. on tv, on social media, everywhere. enough.

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WikiLeaks - Search the DNC email database
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=&mfrom=kaplanj@dnc.org
WikiLeaks
51 · 2016-05-06 17:49:55 +0000, kaplanj@dnc.org, joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov. 70 · 2016-04-25 15:23:33 +0000 · Re: kaplanj@dnc.org ...
1098 - WikiLeaks
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/1098
WikiLeaks
From:KaplanJ@dnc.org To: Caitria_L_Mahoney@who.eop.gov, Bobby_Schmuck@who.eop.gov, joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov Date: 2016-05-04 12:41 ...
51 - WikiLeaks
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/51
WikiLeaks
From:kaplanj@dnc.org To: joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov Date: 2016-05-06 15:49 Subject: Do you have a minute to talk. Jordan Jordan Kaplan National ...
WikiLeaks - Search the DNC email database
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q...mto...
WikiLeaks
... GOP nominee, morningdefense@politico.com, kaplanj@dnc.org. 51 · 2016-05-06 17:49:55 +0000, kaplanj@dnc.org, joseph_b_paulsen@who.eop.gov ...

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From your first link:

Re: convention

From:KaplanJ@dnc.org To: melleithee@gmail.com
Date: 2016-05-04 12:25
Subject: Re: convention

Sure. However, I highly doubt that the clintons keep me around so you might need to email Dennis Cheng.

Jordan Kaplan
National Finance Director Democratic National Committee (202) 488-5002 (o) | (312) 339-0224 (c)

kaplanj@dnc.org
> On May 4, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Mo Elleithee

wrote: > > Tali and I are both going to be up in Philly. We wanted to try to get Sadie (now 6) on the floor for the big night.
> Any chance you can help?
> (Sorry to be that guy….)
>

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/116

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From:kaplanj@dnc.org To: lucymoog19@gmail.com Date: 2016-04-26 17:41 Subject: Re:

Ill make you a deal - now that you are a super delegate and all! Happy to meet with her, but can i get a pass to the EBC for Thursday morning?

Jordan Kaplan
National Finance Director Democratic National Committee (202) 488-5002 (o) | (312) 339-0224 (c) kaplanj@dnc.org
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Lucy wrote:
> > Hi u
> Hope all is well.
> Could you or someone from your staff meet with an awesome young person about to graduate from Duke? She is dying to get into the political world. Worked for Ready for Hillary in NYC couple of summers ago. Smart and savvy. Wants to do the DC post college political thing starting in June. Please?

> > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >

What's the EBC?

Looked her up. She's a Hillbot, but that's pretty obvious from the email.

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/380

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"reporter" named dave weigel. he is one who loved to go on twitter and call berners "paranoid".

i'm having fun with that today, given that his employer is in dnc leaks.

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I'm guessing you've looked for Weigel's name already, haven't you? Wink

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