The huge problem we are seeing right now, is that Hillary Clinton is trying to get all the superdelegates to endorse her publicly as well as pledged to cast their superdelegate votes for her at the 2016 National Convention. She is evidently going as far as having her husband and former President, Bill Clinton, have weekly national conference calls with all superdelegates, asking them to endorse his wife, Hillary, and to pledge their superdelegate votes to her and no other candidate (such as Bernie Sanders, or Martin O'Malley -- with Bernie being her main concern)[ii]. She is doing this because in 2008, she had a majority of superdelegates endorsing her and pledging to cast their special votes for her at the 2008 National Convention, but at the last moment evidently, most of the 750+ superdelegates changed their minds and cast their votes for Obama instead of Hillary, pushing the total number of votes to Obama, and causing him to win the nomination. Hillary does not want this to happen again. She is determined, evidently by hook or by crook, to win the nomination, even if she has to use dirty backdoor tricks to do it. Hillary BRAGS about her unethical behavior with superdelegates on her own campaign website. [iii]
It's also important to clarify that it is not illegal, nor is it apparently against internal Democratic Party rules and by laws, for Hillary or any other candidate to attempt to persuade superdelegates, using any means necessary, to endorse and cast their special votes for her. We believe that Hillary and Bill Clinton are offering "bribes" to superdelegates to get their endorsements and their precious superdelegate votes, in the form of Bill and/or Hillary offering to endorse the superdelegates in their own re-elections, to contribute to their campaign finance funds and/or pet causes, or offer superdelegates positions in a Hillary presidential administration (Cabinet positions, other lofty appointed positions in the federal US government at various agencies under the President's direct control).
This is UNDEMOCRATIC and unethical, and if we do not stop what Hillary and Bill Clinton are doing in coercing or bribing superdelegates, even if Bernie were to win the popular vote in the state primaries and caucuses, if the difference in regular convention delegate votes is less than the number of superdelegates, these superdelegates could and presumably would, given what we know at the moment, OVERRIDE THE POPULAR VOTE and nominate Hillary Clinton to be on the General Election national ballot in November 2016, despite the People of America having potentially and hopefully decided to nominate Bernie Sanders.
It is IMPERATIVE that we bring a high level of scrutiny to this undemocratic, smoky backroom "good old boys'" network, deceptive and unethical behavior amongst Democratic Party elites, who evidently see the enormous groundswell of populist support for Bernie Sanders, and are evidently trying to shut him out of the General Election, "by hook or by crook."
I formed an EMERGENCY National Superdelegate Task Force a few short days ago, in close cooperation with many of my Bernie grassroots activist and organizer friends scattered across the entire United States. In less than 24 hours, we had over 600 activists offering to help us discuss this CRITICAL obstacle and strategize in solidarity on how to overcome it. We are dedicated to contacting all 750+ superdelegates via phone, fax, e-mail, regular "snail" mail, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, websites, mainstream and alternative media, online petitions, in a MASSIVE way, by countless thousands of Americans and Bernie supporters to LOUDLY and publicly call out this unethical and undemocratic, crooked behavior by the Clinton campaign, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Democratic Party elites.
Please join us in our Emergency Superdelegate Task Force [iv] to help combat this obstacle. We are calling on all superdelegates (who by Democratic Party rule definition itself are called UNPLEDGED delegates) to side with the American PEOPLE in this presidential nomination process, and not kow tow to Wall Street Hillary Clinton, whom the overwhelming majority of Americans find UNFIT to be President of the United States, for multiple reasons (legal problems, accusations, investigations, indictments, her NOTORIOUS connections with corporations, lobbyists, Wall Street and the 1%, etc.).
You may join our rapidly growing Superdelegate Task Force as soon as possible by going to https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bernie4PresidentTaskForce/ in order to join our private/closed Facebook group. Our website which just came up and is being improved upon moment by moment is viewable at www.berniecentralhq.com , which is our central nationwide Bernie organizing hub for this and other nationwide and regional activist projects related to the nationwide grassroots Bernie Sanders presidential campaign inspired REVOLUTION. If you'd like to sign up to help us contact all the superdelegates, please also use the signup sheet available at https://goo.gl/9eOBbR . We need all the help we can get! The more, the merrier! The more, the "Bernier!"
Explain this superdelegate problem to your friends, family, co-workers who support Bernie. Get them to join and help us as well. If we don't stop Hillary from "buying" superdelegates, even if Bernie wins the popular vote in the primaries and state caucuses, which we believe he WILL, based on currently available polling and survey, as well as focus group, data, the Democratic Party superdelegates plan to shut him out of the nomination and General Election so they can put their Wall Street candidate, Hillary, in the White House. We don't want Hillary. We've already had one Clinton presidency which gave us Republican-esque and Third Way [v] policies and laws such as DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), DADT (Don't Ask Don't Tell), NAFTA, three strikes you're out federal sentencing laws, repeal of Glass-Steagall, and more. That was enough. Bernie Sanders is the ONLY presidential candidate (even amongst competing GOP candidates) who can get votes in the General Election not only from Democrats, but also VERY IMPORTANTLY, from the 40% of Americans who are Independent voters, and even votes from moderate GOP voters. Democrat voters only make up slightly less than 30% of the American public, same with Republican voters being just under 30%. Independent voters make up 40-43% (based on recent studies and data [vi]) of the American voting public. Independents and moderate Republican voters simply would NOT vote for Hillary in the General Election, and this would cause us to have Trump or Carson as POTUS. Can you IMAGINE what a nightmare that would be? Either of them would make G.W. Bush look like FDR.
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