Florida Democrats sue to keep Bernie Sanders off primary ballot

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Get the popcorn and champagne, people. And duck.

Florida Democrats sue to keep Sanders off ballot

By Victor Morton – The Washington Times, February 25, 2020

Two Florida Democrats have filed a lawsuit to keep Sen. Bernard Sanders off the state’s presidential-primary ballot because he’s not a member of the party.

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The lawsuit, which was filed this week in Leon County, argues that Mr. Sanders of Vermont is an independent and thus ineligible for the March 17 primary.

“Florida is a closed primary state, yet here we have someone who is an independent on the Democratic ballot,” Karen Gievers, attorney for the two plaintiffs, told Politico for a report filed Tuesday. “You can’t be an independent and be a member of the party.”

While Mr. Sanders caucuses with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, he runs for election in Vermont as an independent and formally declares himself one in that state’s elections paperwork.

According to Politico, more than 244,000 Florida Democrats already have voted by mail, and the lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the state’s Democratic Party against counting any of them for now.

Under Florida law, the parties have wide discretion on who gets on their primary ballots.

According to the lawsuit, the two plaintiffs are Frank Bach and George Brown, both of Tallahassee. According to Ms. Gievers, they are both registered Democrats and military veterans.

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Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

I’m somewhat in agreement with the plaintiffs. Under those self-same circumstance, couldn’t President Trump be on the Democrat Party primary ballot?

Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin'
4 years ago

These people filing the lawsuit have a deep contempt for democracy. Hopefully this stupid lawsuit gets tossed out.

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

And now it begins. Time for Bernie to bend over and assume the position again, courtesy of the DNC again.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Or is HIllary angling for a VP position?
Bernie is in poor health and I doubt she disgrees with Bernie if she is capable of being honest about positions.
Elizabeth Warren may also be looking for a VP spot with him.
Or would Bernie tap Stacey Abrahams a black women who still can’t get over losing her election in Georgia
Can it get much more insane?
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Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

@felix; You spelled “hillary” wrong. It must be spell HilLIARy to keep pace with her professional political career way-of-life.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago

I wonder IF ‘b.sanders’ will gain ANOTHER piece of water front property? He is already became a MILLIONAIRE who ONLY SUCKED the TEAT of the American Peoples’ government – – – – his entire life?!?!?!?!?!

Millionmileman
Millionmileman
4 years ago

Bernie is pissing off Jewish and Cuban Floridians. I don’t see how he could win. In fact casting a vote for Trump would give him a message

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

Berne is turning out to be quite the MONSTER!

tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He’s been a monster forever. Which normal man has no job till 50 yrs old and lives in his parents basement? Not even talking about the honeymoon in Soviet Union. He was born as a monster.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

@felix1999: Which of the DemocRAT national communist runners IS NOT a MONSTER. All of them want to DESTROY our Constitution. All of them want to CONFISCATE LEGALLY bought materials which THEY are AFRAID of. All of them want to change America into ameriKa – a communist country ran by TYRANTS.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

My sentiments exactly. Since this lawsuit has zero chance, leave Sanders on the ballot and let Trump beat his ass severely in the general election in November.

Touting Castro in FL is like wearing snowshoes and dribbling a basketball blindfolded through a minefield.

Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin'
4 years ago
Reply to  Millionmileman

He’s pissing them off by supporting increasing literacy rates? Are you against improving literacy? Why don’t you want people to be able to read and write?

mackykam
mackykam
4 years ago

Headline:
“Cubans Taking to Rickety Boats to Escape Literacy!”

mackykam
mackykam
4 years ago

Congrats! So much A-Holeness in one person. Who’d a thunk it?

mackykam
mackykam
4 years ago

Congrats! So much A-Holeness in one person. Who’d a thunk it?

mackykam
mackykam
4 years ago

Congrats! So much A-Holeness in one person. Who’d a thunk it?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

The PRETEND “engineer” references literacy? Too STUPID to pass the P.E. and types about “read and write”.
TOO forkin’ funny.
By the way, how ARE things in Make Believe Land?

Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin'
4 years ago

I didn’t take the PE because there was no reason to do so. I got hired without taking it, and my company doesn’t care.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

There are kids that have a job at Burger King. But, they don’t pretend to be an engineer. In The Land of Make Believe, ANYONE and EVERYONE can be a physician and an attorney-at-law. Of course, there are those that are Napoleon Bonaparte.

itchy
itchy
4 years ago

Hmmm. stwong iz da fours hin dis wun

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

The more that surfaces about Bernie the more horrifying he is.
I can’t imagine THIS as “satire.” This is sick!

Bernie Sanders‘ Sexually Explicit Essay Resurfaces
The campaign calls it “a dumb attempt at dark satire.”
By MARYALICE PARKS
May 29, 2015, 11:57 AM

Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign was thrown a curveball this week after an essay he penned in 1972, at the age of 30, about gender stereotypes and sexual fantasies resurfaced.

Titled “Man-and-Woman” the short essay includes graphic sentences about male and female rape fantasies. “A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes about being raped by 3 men simultaneously,” it reads.

Written in a stream-of-consciousness style with incomplete sentences and partial dialogue, the short seems to present a couple struggling with ideas of gender roles, sexuality, and female submissiveness.

The essay was published in an alternative newspaper, Vermont Freeman, according to the news outlet Mother Jones, which featured an image of the essay in a profile piece this week about the senator. (See image below)

According to campaign spokesperson Michael Briggs, it was “intended to attack gender stereotypes back in the 1970s, though it is as stupid today as it was back then.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-sexually-explicit-essay-resurfaces/story?id=31391231
Where is the Me too movement on this?

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150528170109-bernie-sanders-man-woman-essay-lead-05-28-exlarge-169.jpg

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Not only is Bernie a communist he is a very sick man when it comes to
sex and children! Mother Jones, a lefty rag also had problems with it.

BERNIE SANDERS HAS AN UNNATURAL OBSESSION
WITH UNDERAGE SEX

BY BRIAN ANDERSON

Not too long ago it was revealed that socialist kook Bernie Sanders wrote an essay on how women fantasize about being raped. As terrible as that seems, Mother Jones has dug up some other writings from the 2016 democratic hopeful in which he advocates for underage sex, including toddler sex. Don’t worry; because he’s a liberal no one will fault him for having such outrageously inappropriate views.

In one essay from 1969, Sanders is convinced that cancer is caused by,
“the link between emotional and sexual health.” He writes:

It means, very bluntly, that the manner in which you bring up your daughter with regard to sexual attitudes may very well determine whether or not she will develop breast cancer, among other things.

He was apparently serious about that:

How much guilt, nervousness have you imbued in your daughter with regard to sex? If she is 16, 3 years beyond puberty and the time which nature set forth for childbearing, and spent a night out with her boyfriend, what is your reaction? Do you take her to a psychiatrist because she is “maladjusted,” or a “prostitute,” or are you happy that she has found someone with whom she can share love? Are you concerned about HER happiness, or about your “reputation” in the community.

In other words, he was telling the parents of America to let their underage daughters have wild uninhibited sex or they would get breast cancer. This seems like the right guy to run our country and the health care system.

As if that weren’t offensive enough, Sanders also felt we, as a society, need to loosen up a bit when it comes to toddlers getting it on:

In Vermont, at a state beach, a mother is reprimanded by Authority for allowing her 6 month old daughter to go about without her diapers on. Now, if children go around naked, they are liable to see each others sexual organs, and maybe even touch them. Terrible thing! If we [raise] children up like this it will probably ruin the whole pornography business, not to mention the large segment of the general economy which makes its money by playing on peoples sexual frustrations.

That’s an even more preposterous theory than the slutty daughter equals cancer-free daughter one. Sanders is actually saying that if we allow little children to explore each other sexually they won’t grow up to be frustrated perverted porn watchers.

Mother Jones reached out to Sanders’ campaign about these dangerous views and were told:

“These articles were written more than 40 years ago. Like most people, Bernie’s views on many issues have changed over time,” wrote Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs in an email.

(How can anyone normal EVER have these views? They don’t.)

I call BS. Sanders wrote this stuff when he was in his late 20’s. That’s old enough to know better and certainly old enough to have formed his worldview and core beliefs.

The biggest crime here is not that Sanders wrote in support of underage sex, but that he gets a free pass from the media for having done it. If a Republican had written something similar to this, the media would skewer that candidate. Hell, the New York Times slammed Marco Rubio for getting 4 traffic tickets in 18 years. Imagine if Jeb Bush wrote something about letting toddlers engage in sexual exploration.

Luckily, you don’t have to imagine that because conservatives aren’t amoral sexual freaks like liberals. Maybe these Sanders writings indicate the next democratic perversion battleground. With gay marriage now legalized, perhaps they will go after those pesky age of consent laws.

https://downtrend.com/71superb/bernie-sanders-has-an-unnatural-obsession-with-underage-sex/

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
4 years ago

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Hillary endorses BERNIE!

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tatka150
tatka150
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Hilarious! Sharing!

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Reply to  tatka150

Bernie’s Best Bimbo Bombs Brother Blabber:
Somali Activist Receives Threats After Reporting on Ilhan Omar’s Marriage to Brother
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

She looks better like that.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

FElix 2024

Thurston Howell III
Thurston Howell III
4 years ago

This is GRRRREAAATTTT!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

Modern “heroes” no longer see rejection or resistance as an honor or a challenge, but as a flaw. From this deformity a human being can never arise.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

What are truly free citizens: wild people, constantly questioning themselves.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

The chicken coop says more about the farm.

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

There are NO MORE heroes anymore, especially in Congress. I cannot name one!

However, I can name a great President hero: DONALD J. TRUMP, who has done more in 3 years FOR AMERICA(NS) than ANY PRESIDENT IN OUR HISTORY!

As for Congress and politicians, well, THEY WILL BE JUDGED HARSHER BY GOD THAN ANY CITIZEN BECAUSE THEY LEAD those CITIZENS in one direction or another. Of course, the citizen is also responsible for who they vote for, so if they are not doing their due diligence, they will have to account for that to God. Politicians and ALL Leaders will be judged up there with MURDERERS, I believe, IF THEY WERE KNOWINGLY DERELICT OR IMMORAL IN THEIR DUTIES AS A POLITICIAN and we all KNOW who are politicians in Congress are and the crimes they commit every day against Americans and our President, who is trying to do his best FOR AMERICA(NS) AND NOT for any other reason.

THIS IS WHY HELL HOLDS MORE SOULS THAN HEAVEN.

IF you like your sin on earth, you can keep your sin in Hell.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Tom: The “hero” was always there : He RESURRES in the hell of earthly impositions. Whoever doesn’t want to put up with all this inevitably becomes a hero. “For what and for whom, if nobody cares?” is the question we deal with.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

We are dealing with complete destruction of reality. Those who survive in it, and are a support to others, are postmodern “heroes”.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

We live in a kind of totalitarian egoism. They talk about “individualism”, but that’s what they’re fighting against.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

“But where is danger, the saving also grows” said Holderlin. What do postmodern heroes look like? Isn’t the concept of the hero already misleading and removed from our time? Tina Turner sang, “We don’t need another heroes.”

Why must a few die for many others? Since no one is willing to do so anymore, we have to pay other tributes that limit us in our own way of life. You might say our cowardice is getting to us.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

We’ve all been seduced. It is the fruit of the “digital revolution”. While African heroes learn that there is rich booty to be had in Europe, European heroes learn that they are powerless. So who does all this ultimately serve?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

All that can be recorded with certainty is that we are “masses of people led by certain people”. The complexity of today’s power relations could not be defined more specifically. One factor in the game should be given closer attention: economic power.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

We’ve all been seduced. It is the fruit of the “digital revolution”. While African heroes learn that there is rich booty to be had in Europe, European heroes learn that they are powerless. So who does all this ultimately serve?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

“But where is danger, the saving also grows” said Holderlin. What do postmodern heroes look like? Isn’t the concept of the hero already misleading and removed from our time? Tina Turner sang, “We don’t need another heroes.”

Why must a few die for many others? Since no one is willing to do so anymore, we have to pay other tributes that limit us in our own way of life. You might say our cowardice is getting to us.

Watchers
Watchers
4 years ago

I think this is the first time in history I am aware of that a non Democrat has run for President as a Democrat and taken over the Party. Doesnt seem right.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Watchers

Bernie does represent what DEMS stand for. The only difference between Bernie and another DEM is Bernie is in the OPEN about their positions.

Watchers
Watchers
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Spot on

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago

Hey wait!!!!!!

CAN WE TRUE CONSERVATIVES SUE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO KEEP MITT ROMNEY OUT OF CONGRESS OR AT LEAST MAKE HIM GO TO THE DEMONRAT PARTY?

wparkman
wparkman
4 years ago

Sitting around with old friends getting stoned and listening to Pink Floyd.
Do not underestimate our legacy.
We are still here. We survive. The 60s psychodelia lives in the kids from the 50s. The kids from the 50s inherited the empire of our parents. A dominant empire. We have an instinct for survival.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

If my sister is not a lesbian, my brother is not a homo, my son is not a pedo and my father is not a Nazi: what reason is there to communicate with the world?

Well … maybe something … narcissistic?

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Common girls, let’s not just joke around here, it’s a real serious issue! Of course, we all owe our interest only to “humanity”!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

“Humanity” primarily means providing Central Africans in Central Europe with weatherproof clothing.

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

SHUUUUUUTTTT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

Neva drink’n’blog Edgina!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  ed

Neva drink’n’blog Edgina!

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

SHUUUUUUTTTT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4 years ago

Emperor Bernie was expecting a coronation from the Democrats. He thought wrong.

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4 years ago

Emperor Bernie was expecting a coronation from the Democrats. He thought wrong.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

The Commiecrats are desperate to derail Bernie who is equally determined to fully take-over and transform the Democratic Party into the Communist Party. Bernie is an unabashed Communist,there is not a Communist regime past or present that he does not defend. Anyone who supports his candidacy is ergo a Communist or at the very least a knowing fellow-traveler voting to live in a Communist society.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Looks like Bernie will say anything, be anything, believe anything to get what he wants. Good for the Florida Democrats! More people should sue Bernie.

Political_qrm
Political_qrm
4 years ago

I don’t think he should be on any ballot, period. He’s a Communist.

Every one of his basic tenets and beliefs dictates taking down any capitalist, free thinking society, and replacing it with a government who controls every aspect of the peoples’ lives..

Nori
Nori
4 years ago

It sounds presumptuous, but what if Jews in America do not find intellectual opponents and wither away? How can that be? Jews belong to Europe, they are a part (also of me) and have to become a part again.

Without Jews, Europe is exactly what it is: NOTHING.

“We” have scared them off, they are holed up in the Middle East, where they think their “home country” is. Of course it’s an incredible lie. Their “homeland” is the heart of Europe.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Maybe I’ll be the first to see that. Although all Jews know it. You can’t fool Jews. Can you? They are as shy as deer, and yet our collective memory.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

What could Jews do in the heart of Europe? They could bring about a humanization of the inhuman gentile society. This appeals to every Jew. It’s his job. Instead of hang around together in Israel and degenerating.

I am ashamed to know that Jews, who were the most valuable asset of Europe, were in Israel. Jews are Europeans. They will never really be happy there, even if they tell themselves they will.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Jews must reclaim their territory! It is not acceptable that Hitler has the last word! I ask you on my knees: Don’t leave Europe to the Muslims, because without you Europe has no backbone!

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

America must be incredibly boring for Jews. Because they have no job there and get stupid ideas. They found a film company and indirectly convey their contempt for America and their admiration for Europe.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Maliciously interpreted one could even attribute Pam’s zeal to an intellectual underchallenge, which then, turned aside, has a destructive effect.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Maliciously interpreted one could even attribute Pam’s zeal to an intellectual underchallenge, which then, turned aside, has a destructive effect.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Maliciously interpreted one could even attribute Pam’s zeal to an intellectual underchallenge, which then, turned aside, has a destructive effect.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam fights for Israel and drives Jews into the “Holy Land”. But fear has never been a guide. She’s a cool personality, relatively few Israelis will consider her a Jew. In real Judaism women have to subordinate to men.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam needs a Jewish man to tell her, “Cut the crap!”

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is not Jewish per se by what she does.
She must not even have read the scriptures.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

I like Pam, I think she’s Zionist, not Jewish, although she may be Jewish, which is wonderful. She knows it herself.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is a typical product of western liberal society, as a member of a Jewish family she would never have appeared. What she considers specifically “Jewish” in herelf would be worth knowing.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is a typical product of western liberal society, as a member of a Jewish family she would never have appeared. What she considers specifically “Jewish” in herelf would be worth knowing.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is a typical product of western liberal society, as a member of a Jewish family she would never have appeared. What she considers specifically “Jewish” in herelf would be worth knowing.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is not Jewish per se by what she does.
She must not even have read the scriptures.

Nori
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to  Nori

Pam is not Jewish per se by what she does.
She must not even have read the scriptures.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

TheDemorats and Pelosi produced a monster and they can’t change it,

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

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santashandler
santashandler
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Good one!

created4el
created4el
4 years ago

The Democrats show their colors (their lack of honesty and integrity) yet again. If the Democrats think they’ll get Bernie voters then they’d rather keep Bernie on the ballot and take him out in the primaries so he won’t take any of the Leftist votes in the national. But to their shock and dismay, Bernie seems to be emerging as the front runner so now they don’t want Bernie in their primaries because he is taking votes from their pool of favored choices. So the spoiled brat Democrats, when it looks like they’ll lose, tries to cheat and change the rules.what a shocker! Not!

One wonders if things would be different for the Dummycrats if they didn’t legitimize Bernie in 2016 by allowing him a platform on their ticket.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Sanders uber alles! :))

Ruckweiler
Ruckweiler
4 years ago

This ought to be fun to watch.

UR.carrion
UR.carrion
4 years ago

Comrade Sanders is a treasonus communist.

A Nightmare on Prog Street
A Nightmare on Prog Street
4 years ago

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