{"id":182096,"date":"2015-12-19T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/19\/sanders-campaign-gets-data-access-back\/"},"modified":"2015-12-19T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:29:00","slug":"sanders-campaign-gets-data-access-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/19\/sanders-campaign-gets-data-access-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Campaign Gets Data Access Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/12\/sanders-campaign-to-regain-access-to-democratic-voter-information-on-saturday\/\">DNC blinked<\/a>, notwithstanding their protestations to the contrary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign overnight Friday night reached an agreement on voter data access, after a day of acrimony between the sides.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even in the wake of a deal, the DNC and Sanders\u2019 team have differing stories on how it was settled. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a statement shortly after midnight, the Sanders campaign said the DNC \u201ccapitulated and agreed to reinstate Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 campaign\u2019s access to a critically-important voter database.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The statement said that the campaign\u2019s filing of a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington brought about the change.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe are extremely pleased that the DNC has reversed its outrageous decision to take Sen. Sanders\u2019 data. The information we provided tonight is essentially the same information we already sent them by email on Thursday,\u201d said Sanders\u2019 campaign manager Jeff Weaver.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a statement released at about the same time, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz explained the resolution differently, saying it came after the Sanders camp \u201ccomplied with the DNC\u2019s request to provide the information that we have requested of them.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe Sanders campaign has agreed to fully cooperate with the continuing DNC investigation of this breach,\u201d she added. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe fact that data was accessed inappropriately is completely unacceptable, and the DNC expects each campaign to operate with integrity going forward with respect to the voter file.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that anyone with a Glasgow Coma Scale score above 3 believes DWS on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Once the lawsuit was filed, and it was clear that the DNC was violating the terms of the contract, there was a 10 day waiting period required before taking action, and that the optics were rebounding to Sanders&#8217; benefit, they had no choice.<\/p>\n<p>Could someone please fire the frowzy headed albatross around the Democratic Party&#8217;s neck that is Debbie Wasserman Schultz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the DNC blinked, notwithstanding their protestations to the contrary: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign overnight Friday night reached an agreement on voter data access, after a day of acrimony between the sides.Even in the wake of a deal, the DNC and Sanders\u2019 team have differing stories &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,972,977,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-justice","category-presidential-campaign","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}