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SleeplessinSoCal

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2. Then lasso the Sanders holdouts. I smell Floriduh
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 06:17 AM
Jul 2016
As the fractured Democratic National Convention gradually unified behind Hillary Clinton over the course of the week, Bernie Sanders' frustrated supporters were left to wonder what was next for their would-be political revolution. An obscure political party thinks it has the answer.

Leaders of the Working Families Party, a progressive party backed by labor unions and community activists, were in Philadelphia this week to make the case to Sanders supporters that the WFP should carry the torch. Unlike the Green Party, whose presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has attracted some Sanders backers and threatens to draw votes away from Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump, the WFP sees itself as a complement to the Democratic Party, working to pull the party to the left.

"We are not the Green Party," said Dan Cantor, WFP's national director, shortly after arriving in Philadelphia on Monday. "We are not running noble but doomed people. We are trying to win Democratic primaries. We want to replace bad, corporate, or inert Democrats with progressives, and then we work to defeat Republicans."

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/future-bernies-revolution

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