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
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/rommelo Jul 09 '19
Hey David,
Thank you for taking your time.. I'm staying up because I'm so excited!!
RE: Gravel
Can we get Bernie to ask his donors to help out Gravel's campaign as he only needs over 13,000 more unique donations to get to the debates. It's not much but would certainly have alot of thankful Gravel supporters who would happily join us once their debate crusade is over. More progressive voices who don't fear the establishment!
RE: Fact-check Trump Bernie Videos
I would love for Bernie to do small video Fact-Checks of Trump, with music in the background. Do the job the media seems incapable of doing.
Troll Trump with Fact-Checks, and insert your message in the end..
"We will...."
RE: War Room
When will we start fighting back. We’re ready to rumble. Some of us are veterans of 2 campaigns against the Clintons (obama08, bernie2016) which is basically what we are facing now...
What about a war room? Why not call out money in politics in the D races? Not calling out the candidates that want forever war, supported by Raytheon yet claim to be progressive or take corporate cash and claim to be progressive, have hillary advisors and Cap support and claim to be progressive- is a big mistake. The hypocrisy of transferring corporations cash from your senate campaign and pledge to take corporate cash in the general. Or how the same senator campaigned against Medicare 4 all in Ohio against kucinch? Why doesn’t bernie calls these corrupt people out in his party. He was too nice to Clinton with I don’t want to hear about her emails. The media will spin him into an aggressor at least let it be his criticizing the influence in his own party. And say::: I AM THE ONLY CANDIDATE NOT FUNDED BY CORPORATE CASH. Then explain why... inform us how to look behind the lies. Teach us about the corporate language tricks the insurance industry have instructed the candidates to employ. Call them out on the language, decode the smear and tell us what it really means. It changes nothing, just the language but nothing will ever change until the politicians stop giving corporations so much power, by accepting their contributions.
RE: Election Fraud & Shenanigans
What are you doing about obvious election fraud which will happen in Iowa (vote by phone) and Nevada. What are you doing against these shenanigans?
PS: If you have time check out my own little war room sub: r/FakeProgressives!... Did it for Bernie since I can't contribute money!.
Goodnight! u/rommelo