UPDATE: It seems that Noah Cartageno took down his post at the GOS while I was composing this response. Mea culpa. I wish I had copied the entire diary. It was very nasty toward anyone and everyone in the Sanders' campaign other than Aisha Dew. But all that is left of it are the couple of fair use excerpts I've shown here.

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Please take a moment to read what Noah Cartagena has to say in defense of Aisha Dew. Here are some excerpts:

... I would like to go ahead and put [claims Aisha Dew may have been working for the DNC and/or HRC] down as not just partially false, but as complete fiction. There is nothing even remotely true about Aisha Dew intentionally throwing the election in North Carolina.

[W]ith the exception of maybe one person (who I will leave unnamed for his/her own safety—yeah guys, you have successfully made some of us fear for our own safety, so congratulations) I was with Aisha Dew more than anybody in this Primary season in NC. She worked 90-100 hours a week alongside me, and she sacrificed a lot to do what she could for NC. She was always stressing about the numbers because nobody could figure out why we had an average 92% flake rate (not lying here, 92% of any of you who signed up to volunteer ended up not doing your part and ultimately failing yourselves).

So, all you Bernie Sanders volunteers, who knew that 92% of you were flakes and failures? You guys were the ones who all by your lonesome screwed the pooch for Bernie in North carolina. I didn't know this. Quite the damning accusation. But let's hear what Mr. Cartagena has to say for himself ... er, I mean has to say in Aisha Dew's defense, since she isn't talking, at least to my knowledge:

... Someone [pretended] to be Rev. Barber. Someone did call from our national team to take our events down. But, of all the people involved, two people kept faith more than anyone else: Aisha Dew and the unnamed person from earlier. We had already rented busses so we changed the event to become a day of action and then headed to Raleigh to canvass.

Okay then. An imposter pretending to be Rev. Barber called someone (a person Mr. Cartagena fails to name, unfortunately) and it was someone from Bernie's "national team" who called to order Aisha Dew to take all the events regarding the HKonJ People's Assembly Coalition led by Rev. Barber. Except Mr. Cartagena does not provide any supporting documentation for this claim. He doesn't name names, he doesn't provide us with emails where Aisha Dew communicated that she was not the one who decided to cancel HKonJ events and cancel transport for NC volunteers who were looking forward to marching with Rev. Barber. He just makes bald assertions.

Here is my response to Noah Cartagena.

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Let me get this straight. First the volunteers in North Carolina were 92% flakes? It was all their fault for any problems the campaign had winning in North Carolina? Are you really sure you want to go there?

Second, from what you understand, Bernie’s national team cancelled the event after after speaking someone posing as an imposter for Rev. Barber? You know this how, exactly? Did you speak to the “imposter?” And how do you know someone from Bernie’s national HQ told Aisha to cancel the event with Rev. Barber? Do you have any documentation that someone from Bernie’s National HQ sent this order? Do you have the name of the person who called Aisha from Bernie’s “national team?” And if you do not know this directly, who told you?

Because I have seen the email Aisha sent out on February 11th. I received it from several people to whom it was sent and I made a screenshot of it. Here is what it says:

Aisha Dew Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:31 AM
To: Altriese [last name deleted] , Patric [last name deleted] , Noah Cartagena , Noah Cartagena , Sara [last name deleted] [email addresses deleted for protection those who received it; Noah is listed twice as the email was sent to two separate email accounts for him.]
Cc: [Other recipients were known volunteers and their names are deleted to protect their identity]

Hello All:

Please take down all HK on J events from social media. Rev. Barber does not want us to attend the event. He asked us to take the event down off of all social media.

We are still going to do something.

Stay tuned!!

Do you have an email that shows she said it was not her decision, but came from higher up? Because the email I saw (the text of which I placed in quotes above) does not say one word about anyone from Bernie’s national team calling to make her do this. So please, provide documentation to support your claim.

In addition, the NC volunteers I have spoken to about this matter never mentioned that she said anything to them about the “national team” giving the order to cancel HKonJ events. Why wouldn’t she want them to know it was not her decision? A lot of them were certainly confused by the decision and the cancellation of bus transport to Rev. Barber’s event.

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Oh, and regarding the subject of Aisha Dew and her loyalty to Bernie, can you please explain this tweet from Aisha during the Democratic Debate in November?

@HillaryClinton enters the room. It's electric! #FirstInTheSouth pic.twitter.com/dT1H35YYSI

— Aisha O. Dew (@AishaDew) November 7, 2015

How did she get a ticket to a DNC sponsored event where all the tickets were gone five minutes after they became available online, anyway? Lucky I guess. And please explain this selfie with Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the Winthrop University Campus where the debate was held.

I assume you know that Bernie has not been a favorite of DWS, to put it mildly.

These are all matters that raise suspicions about Aisha Dew’s true loyalties when she took the job to be the State Director for Bernie Sander’s North Carolina Campaign. There are other possible conflicts of interest, as well. Aisha’s consulting firm, The Dew Group, was working for at least two other state campaigns while she was Bernie’s State Director in North Carolina. This leads to a concern about whether her focus was solely on working for Bernie, and also whether the other candidates for whom she was working were Hillary supporters or endorsers. Further investigation on that is required. Obviously, if she was working for campaigns that supported Clinton that would raise conflict of interest issues.

Of course, there is one person and only one person who can clear these matters up. Her name is Aisha Dew. Aisha can fix all of this by coming forward to defend herself and answer these questions. She is the one who should provide the evidence to show that it was primarily the fault of actions by volunteers and Bernie’s national staff that caused the mishaps and blunders that hurt the North Carolina campaign, rather than her. Only she can provide credible evidence showing that, despite signs she was very enthusiastic about Hillary and chummy with Debbie Wasserman Schultz back in November 2015, once she took the job with the Sanders’ campaign, her loyalty was solely to him.

Maybe she has good answers to the questions her actions raise, before and after she became Bernie's NC state director. Maybe the problem was the conflict with merging a grassroots volunteer organized campaign model with a top down traditional model. Maybe that had something to do with why so many volunteers have told me they felt abandoned and dismissed and often ignored by Aisha. But those are matters that she should address, and I'd like to hear them from her, not someone who posts a lot of accusations without providing anything to back them up. She is, after all, an adult and a veteran political campaign worker and consultant. She is in a far better position to defend her record as the NC State Director for the Sanders’ campaign than anyone else.

So, why are you here as her surrogate? What was your position with the NC campaign anyway? Why isn’t Aisha standing up for herself? Why does she need you to do that for her?

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I cannot wait to hear his response.