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Letter dated May 27, 2016 from Attorney Brad Deutsch on behalf of Bernie 2016 to the co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws committees at the Democratic National Convention.

Re: Credentials Challenge to Platform Committee Co-Chair Dannel Malloy and Rules Committee Co-Chair Barney Frank

This firm serves as legal counsel to Bernie 2016, Inc (the Campaign), the official campaign for Bernie Sanders' 2016 U.S. presidential bid. We submit this letter on behalf of the Campaign, pursuant to Rules II(A), II(C), VII(B)(5), VII(F)(3), VII(G) and VII(H) of the DNC's Call for the Democratic National Convention (the "Call"), and Regulations 3.1(C) and (D) of the Regulations of the Rules and Bylaws Committee (the "RBC Regulations"), to commence formal credentials challenges and contests against Governor Dannel Malloy, appointed Co-Chair of the Standing Platform Committee, and former Representative Barney Frank, appointed Co-Chair of the Standing Rules Committee for the 2016 National Convention (the "Convention"), or alternatively to seek advisory opinions concerning the fitness of these individuals to serve in their appointed roles.

Both Governor Malloy and Mr. Frank (the "Chairs") have been harsh, vocal critics of Senator Sanders, and equally active supporters of his challenger, Hillary Clinton. While it is expected, acceptable, and even desirable, that committee members and leaders at the Convention will represent a diversity of political views and presidential preferences, the preferences of party officials must not interfere with the fair and neutral administration of Convention business and procedures.

Governor Malloy and Mr. Frank have both been aggressive attack surrogates for the Clinton campaign. Their criticisms of Senator Sanders have gone beyond dispassionate ideological disagreement and have exposed deeper professional and personal hostility toward the Senator and his Campaign. The Chairs therefore cannot be relied upon to perform their Convention duties fairly and capably while laboring under such deeply held bias. The appointment of two individuals so outspokenly critical of Senator Sanders, and so closely affiliated with Secretary Clinton's campaign, raises concerns that two of the three Convention Standing Committees are being constituted in an overly partisan way designed to exclude meaningful input from supporters of Senator Sanders' candidacy. The Campaign respectfully but emphatically requests under the qualification standards clause of the Call, that both Governor Malloy and Fr. Frank be disqualified from their respective positions with the Standing Platform and Rules Committees.

The letter goes on to note specific comments made by both individual.

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I am always so overwhelmed at how much "we the people" are suppose to "make them do" while they get the paycheck and the pension. If it isn't crowdfunding people who should have a safety net, it is funding political elections, saving the whales, running for office, etc. Just what in the hell are we paying for?

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