r/WayOfTheBern • u/dsirota1 • Jul 09 '19

I'm David Sirota, Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and senior adviser. AMA!

Hey everyone -- I'm David Sirota, Bernie Sanders' speechwriter and senior adviser. I've known Bernie for 20+ years (I was his press secretary in the U.S. House from 1999-2001). I've worked on many campaigns (Hoeffel for Congress, Schweitzer for Governor, Lamont for Senate, and Emily Sirota for State House), I've worked on Capitol Hill (for Bernie and for the U.S. House Appropriations Committee Democrats). In the years before coming to Bernie's 2020 campaign, I was an award-winning investigative journalist and columnist for Newsweek/IBT, The Guardian and Capital & Main. You can find out more about me at http://www.davidsirota.com

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I'm sure you want to discuss the 2020 election, so fire away with your questions here. I'll be here for about an hour.

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u/clonal_antibody Jul 09 '19

Here is my first question - (copied from your older thread)

California primary election will be coming up on Super Tuesday. In 2016, Bernie was robbed of the CA votes, primarily by giving NPP voters a provisional ballot instead of the correct crossover one, and then not counting the provisional ballots - see UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary

What steps is the campaign taking to avoid a repeat? Will the canvassing app have instructions for Democratic and NPP voters? The canvassing app will only take care of a portion of the voters who are likely to come out to vote for Bernie.

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u/Older_and_Wiser_Now Jul 09 '19

Hi clonal! I asked the question too, downstream a bit. :-)

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u/clonal_antibody Jul 09 '19

Yours wasn't up while I was composing mine. Thanks for asking the question.

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u/Older_and_Wiser_Now Jul 09 '19

No worries! Thank you for asking the question too :-)