Bernie's new group Our Revolution is off to a rocky start. Half the team has quit...the main reason is: Jeff Weavers
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, his presidential campaign behind him, looked to advance the movement he built during the Democratic primary race, with the public unveiling on Wednesday of a political organization focused on addressing economic inequality and taking on special interests.
But while the establishment of the new group, Our Revolution, had been eagerly awaited by many of his most ardent supporters, it has been met with criticism and controversy over its financing and management.
A principal concern among backers of Mr. Sanders, whose condemnation of the campaign finance system was a pillar of his presidential bid, is that the group can draw from the pool of “dark money” that Mr. Sanders condemned for lacking transparency.
The announcement of the group, which was live streamed on Wednesday night, also came as a majority of its staff resigned after the appointment last Monday of Jeff Weaver, Mr. Sanders’s former campaign manager, to lead the organization.
Several people familiar with the organization said eight core staff members had stepped down. The group’s entire organizing department quit this week, along with people working in digital and data positions.
After the resignations, Mr. Sanders spoke to some who had quit and asked them to reconsider, but the staff members refused.
At the heart of the issue, according to several people who left, was deep distrust of and frustration with Mr. Weaver, whom they accused of wasting money on television advertising during Mr. Sanders’s campaign; mismanaging campaign funds by failing to hire staff members or effectively target voters; and creating a hostile work environment by threatening to criticize staff members if they quit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us...ion-group.html
I remember the black Sanders campaign members said they booked Bernie some important slots with their community and even some with black celebrities, but that was put on hold and instead the bigwigs preferred to spend funds on TV ads and stadiums instead of try to win over young black voters
Hopefully this is the last election that Weaver is a part of
Imagine what a mess of a candidate he would have been? Im starting to think that this "revolution" was all a sham.
Every time I would see him on TV I would cringe. I could tell that he was the puppet master of the campaign and I feel like he took Bernie in the wrong direction. I mean people quitting an entirely new project because of him? I feel like he has some dirt on Bernie and that's why Bernie wont fire him.