And no, I'm not just bitching to bitch. These are Missouri specific issues that should be a priority for Dems because they sure as shit are a priority for the MO GOP.
Pamela Merritt does not hold back, as she hits more than one nail on the head with her latest blog post on Angry Black Bitch.
When I wrote The Missouri Experiment a couple of days ago, which Pamela links to, I had not yet read the resolutions passed at the MDP's state convention. That's right. I, along with more than 300 other Sanders delegates, voted for something we hadn't read! What does THAT sound like?
Turns out there is no reference to LGBTQ issues, reproductive rights or any of the many other issues that matter to most of us in the resolutions we were so excited about that we didn't even read them first! Had we known that, I would like to think that we would have appealed to the convention to accept additional resolutions from the floor, even if it meant having to suspend the rules of the convention. We surely had the votes to do just that.
I'm still trying to get factual information about what went on in the Resolutions Committee meetings, which, if not held in private, certainly were not well publicized, nor was there much sunshine in the room, if you get my drift.
The most common version of the story I've heard is that of the eight members, four were supposed to be Hillary folks and four Sanders members, including the chair. In reality, some of the Sanders members voted in lock-step with the Clinton side.
Regardless of which presidential candidate they support, the fact is, these Democratic committee members chose not to approve well-written resolutions submitted by Sanders delegates that addressed these issues and more. In fact, the committee received more than 80 resolutions for inclusion in the MDP's resolutions for consideration by the Platform Committees. It is hard not to think we may very well have been hoodwinked by far more experienced political players in the party's establishment, including the chair, Roy Temple.
The other fact of the matter is that the Sanders delegation was so caught up in the proceedings and emotions of the day and followed the lead of a handful of unelected leaders, without doing one of the most basic acts of due diligence: knowing what the hell we were voting on. Because of that mistake, we failed to even attempt to accomplish far better and greater things than we did. This is not to blame those who worked tirelessly to get our issues before the committee and the convention, but rather owning up to our failures as well.
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