By Sophie Cocke scocke@staradvertiser.com
Posted on October 14, 2016 12:05 am
Updated on November 11, 2016 at 1:32 pm
U.S. Rep Tulsi Gabbard received a scathing email from longtime Hillary Clinton supporters, including a former director of the Clinton Foundation, the day after she announced her resignation as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in February to endorse Bernie Sanders’ bid for the presidency.
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Seventy percent of Hawaii Democrats voted for Sanders in the primary election. Gabbard’s support for Sanders is an accurate reflection of the views of most Democrats in Hawaii. She is accurately representing her constituents.
Hillary Clinton has accomplished nothing noteworthy in her time as a senator and secretary of state.
Tulsi Gabbard supported Bernie Sanders because she hoped to be his VP choice. It was never going to happen but she followed her lofty ambitions anyway.
Utter nonsense. Tulsi supported Bernie because he is against interventionist wars like Iraq and Syria and Clinton was and is for them. If she’d wanted a career-boost, going against the Clinton’s isn’t exactly the way to do it – as evidenced by the ‘hammer falls’ letter.
I think it’s kind of “noteworthy” that she got a U.S. Ambassador killed.
Keolu: Actually, Hillary has done a lot of noteworthy things: Benghazi disaster and cover-up, national security e-mail blunder and cover-up, survived FBI investigation and criminal indictment via coersion, bullying of Hawaii senator, etc. Wow, just think of the things she’ll do as our next president – yipee!
No, seventy percent of people who took the time to go to the caucus voted for Bernie. This has nothing to do with the number of people who consider themselves democrats. If this were held during the primary election you won’t find that kind of numbers for Bernie. This is old news anyway, get over it since Bernie isn’t the democratic candidate in the general election.
Old news is still news. Very weak excuse. If this were held during the primary election it would be more like 80%. Lying crooked HiLIARy has been exposed for what sh is.
No excuse, just fact. Bernie isn’t the candidate in the general election. You may think Hillary is crooked but she will be the next president so get over it.
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/another-clinton-associate-found-dead-bill-hillarys-body-count-increases/
*yawn*. more boring news from sarge.
I love it. Spread the word…Judge Jeanine Pirro said on Fox & Friends that she questions the timing of the new allegations from several women against Donald Trump.
Pirro pointed out that the hacked WikiLeaks emails – which exposed the inner workings of the Clinton team – quickly took a backseat in terms of media attention.
True control. Hawaii waited for the general for Clinton. Sneaky Finger flippers voted for Sanders.
even If Hawaii had supported sanders at the convention, he still would not have won the nomination. so you point is moot. so you sanders supporters don’t have anything to complain about. sanders was a loser when he started and ended up a loser as predicted.
You sound like Hillary, “what does it matter anymore “. Well you know what it does matter. If Clinton was so confident on her nomination why did they have to do anything underhanded? Answer me that.
Go Tulsi!
Hacked means illegally stolen. Hackers also steal identities,money ,savings and people’s lives. Yeah, go believe a bunch of criminals. Julian Asage is wanted for Rape of a minor and like Snowden, a fugitive on the run. Very credible, honest ppl. Right.
The ole saying, “no honor among thieves” applies. Sad that all the candidates are flawed with baggage no one in his right mind could support. The end result is that we are to judge. “the lesser of the 2 evils”, sad. The vice-presidential candidates appears preferable/suitable?
I salute Tulsi for standing her ground and supporting the candidate she believed would be the best president of the U.S. The DNC, as previously revealed in leaked emails, worked hard to sabotage Sanders’ campaign. The nomination outcome was rigged by Clinton’s “well-oiled” machine; thus American voters have to choose between a Cheetos-colored racist sexual predator/demagogue and the ultimate insider with decades of political baggage.
Same here. Nothing speaks ‘integrity’ more than standing your ground in the face of adversity.
The fact that Strom and Kives wrote “Hammer dropped!” to top aides Podesta and Abedin makes it very clear that the Hillary campaign asked them to do what they did. “Hammer dropped!” means they’re reporting back, “Mission accomplished. We carried out your mission.”
Tulsi’s dad is a career politician. Went from a republicans to a democrat. Tulsi was groomed for the same. State,City Council,etc. Even the National Guards was good political timing. All stepping g stones. This last step with Sanders, no go. It’s politics. Time for a new Senator.
Are you suggesting that Tulsi run for the U.S. Senate?
You really believe she supported Sanders because he was the best candidate? Do you understand politics? She did it to gain national exposure and power. There was no room for her in the Clinton campaign.
I’m not sure about Gabbard. I definitely don’t like the reaction from the Democratic Party. I find it odd she releases this now.
Bdpapa did you read the article? She didn’t release it, thank wikileaks for this revelation. Do not vote for Hillary, with her reputation she is way more dangerous to our country than Trump. At least Trump loves lour country, Hillary loves Hillary and that is all she cares about.
The wikileaks head is a Trump supporter. They are trying to keep the emails in the spotlight so they are releasing Clinton’s emails a little at a time leading up to the election so expect more of these types of emails to start to come out in the next 4 weeks. Nalogirl is being duped by a con artist – Trump. He will lie and say anything just to get your vote. He is more dangerous to our country and the world because he doesn’t think before he says anything, he is vindictive, immature and basically will alienate all our allies.
The same could be said about Clinton.
Not as much as Trump.
The Wikileaks head is a Trump supporter and MSM supports Clinton. So now what. It’s the content of the emails that is important not who released them.
Nalogirl, what makes you think the Donald loves our country? Seems he just loves groping women, which I can understand. lol
Fact remains that Hillary is qualified to run the country while the Donald just is not. Why would anyone go to the Town’s butcher for brain surgery?
Why would anyone go to the town liar for brain surgery?
No thank Putin for hacking into political system.
You talking about the Donald Hakuna? 🙂
Good question.
This letter was released by Wikileaks – not Tulsi.
Bernie disappoints. Go Tulsi. Wasn’t a fan, but now I am.
This just proves how dangerous Clinton is. These people won’t comment because they are afraid. Also, I find it interesting that they said Clintonwill be our nominee, while tSanders was still in the race. The nomination was rigged. All Bernie supporters please do not vote for Clinton, she is a criminal.
You’ve got to be kidding. You are a girl and you vote for a pig like Trump for president. A sexual predator and pedophile that uses his celebrity status to look at topless or scantily clad underage girls. Normally people would be arrested for doing that but Trump uses his celebrity status to get away with it, saying that as the pageant head he has the right to just go into a woman’s dressing room without announcing it and not allowing the girls time to cover up. I don’t see anything wrong with the Gabbard email as Bernie wasn’t the democrats candidate.
Trump never raped anyone. He also never attacked and destroyed the reputation of sexual assault victims. For that, you’d have to look up Bill and Hillary.
Not to mention Shillary went on the attack against bill’s victims.
Yeah, Trump was just uncle pervy that used his position to be a pedophile and gave him access to go into women’s dressing rooms without getting arrested. Hillary never raped anyone either, she stood up for her man. Trump is a sexual predator, period.
So who should the Bernie supporters vote for then? Do I need to remind you that even Bernie Sanders has come out for sweet Hillary. Fact is there really is no one else to vote for if you want to vote for someone who has a realistic chance of becoming president.
We live in Hawaii so it does not matter who you vote for – Mrs. Clinton will win. However, this thing could get really interesting if Evan McMullin and Gary Johnson win their home states . . .
I think that Bernie would rather have Hillary as president because he fears what will happen if Trump is elected president. Like most of us we aren’t very keen on Hillary either but we are choosing the lesser of 2 evils and are more afraid with Trump as president.
Why does this come as a surprise to anyone? The democrats wanted Clinton to be their nominee from the getgo. Bernie is an outsider, an independent who decided to run as a democrat. The DNC and mainstream democrats didn’t support a Sanders bid. When Gabbard threw her support to Bernie she also knew the consequences of doing it, that she was going against the Democratic party heads and would be subject to retribution for doing so. Big deal, this was expected, happens all the time, even in local government like when people like Ed Case went against democratic party votes. The democratic party shunned him when he tried for congress and went with the other candidate. Nothing new, this is politics as usual. Each party wants their representatives to vote along their party lines and don’t like it when that person doesn’t.
While I have had my doubts about Tulsi, I think she has turned out to be a pleasant surprise. For example her office holds quarterly meetings in the community where pone can go and discuss their problems with a staff person. The last one I went to was run by her assistant Ali. He appeared very concerned when he was talking with a vet regarding his problems with the bureaucracy. I also like the fact that she has been supportive of the legislation I have been pushing such as sponsoring two bills dealing with mass incarceration. I am also glad that she showed some independence and backed Bernie Sanders. She has my vote come November.
I’m with Tulsi….she appears to do the right things and don’t let party get in the way of decision making.
Tulsi is nothing but a superficial phony and opportunist. Nothing more and nothing less. She wants to get her name out there in the spotlight as she has higher ambitions than being a congressional delegate representing Hawaii. She is not interested in Hawaii….not one bit….she is only using Hawaii as a stepping stone to higher and bigger things…….give me a break!!! You might say well, what’s wrong with that….the higher office she can get the more beneficial it will be for Hawaii…yeah, right….it will only serve her personal and selfish interest….hey, i initially was a very strong and loyal supporter but as I got to know her and her underlining motives, I reconsidered my position…………….
Classic case of DNC corruption….
No, classic case of a political party supporting their favorite candidate. The repubs also didn’t like Trump either, would be interesting to see the RNC emails on Trump. I bet they are just as bad as the Clinton emails.
Let’s just deal with what we have in front of us first.
And yet, the thousands of Democrats here in Hawaii will mindlessly vote for such a flawed candidate.[Hillary] A candidate that could not even win the primary w/o cheating. Hillary is disgusting and should never be considered appropriate for this Country. Trump 2016
You have to a very persuasive argument for me to vote for Trump, other than Hillary is a flawed candidate.
I want Hillary to lose more than I want Donald to win. I will do what most democrats have done in the past and vote for the creep over the crook. FDR, JFK, and Bill Clinton all had wild affairs WHILE IN OFFICE, and were still supported by the dems! So please stop with the sanctimony about Trump’s behavior. And please don’t tell me Bill isn’t running so it’s not an issue-Hillary said she will let him run the economy! He will have a lot of influence.
Most of us want Donald to lose, period. We are more afraid of Trump ruining America. while Hillary isn’t the best choice many of us see her as a better president then Trump would be. Look how Trump treats anyone who doesn’t agree with him, we don’t need an immature brat like Trump ruining America.
The timing of all of these women coming forward at the same time that the wikilweaks dump is happening is more than a coincidence. If you can’t see that the media is complicit in keeping the status quo power structure in place, then sadly, you are one of the sheep that have been hoodwinked.
I bet you said the same thing when allegations came forward about Bill Cosby.
The wikileaks will be continuing because the owner is a Trump supporter. He wants to keep the emails on everyone’s minds so he is slowly releasing emails until the general election.
As for the women coming forward, I think it is more of a response to the Trump video and his denial during his debate that he wasn’t a sexual predator. Notice you didn’t hear anything until after the video and the debate came out. This is the same as the Cosby allegations, once people started coming forward it gave the other women more confidence to come forward, knowing that they weren’t alone with what Trump did to them. Not a matter of the media being complicit, it is just as with Cosby more women are coming forward because they want everyone to know about the guy and don’t want a sexual predator to be president.
The Wikileaks head is a Trump supporter and MSM supports Clinton. So now what. It’s the content of the emails that is important not who released them. Judge Jeanine Pirro said on Fox & Friends that she questions the timing of the new allegations from several women against Donald Trump.
Pirro pointed out that the hacked WikiLeaks emails – which exposed the inner workings of the Clinton team – quickly took a backseat in terms of media attention.
Well I am against the Donald as his election would just signal a return to Voodoo economics on steroids. He will make GW look sane by comparison. I just don’t understand why anyone especially “conservatives” are so against Hillary? Hillary will probably give us balanced budgets by the end of her first term. We will probably have good economic growth. Neither would happen under the Donald who will plunge this country into the worst recession ever.
Boots, I understand what you are saying. Here is my logic. Successful people do not get there on their own. They use their influence to surround themselves with others that make sound decisions for them along with collaboration. They do what they have to do and say what they have to say to get where they want to go and also to get the job done. Your fears of what Trumpy may or may not do is just a fear of the unknown. Reality is you don’t know what either will accomplish. People want a change from the status quo. He may not win but the amount of support behind such an alternate personality tells you something about the state of well being people are not feeling for our current government. This forum is proof.
If you talk about a flawed candidate, that can only be the Donald. A person with zero political experience. Hillary did not cheat. There is a difference between cheating like what GW did in 2000 and tough politics. Voting for the Donald is disgusting. Fortunately it looks like he is really going to get clobbered. lol
Bernie Sanders would have 50 point lead over Trump now if he had been nominated. Trump has copied Sander’s ideas on labor, big business, and free college education and infrastructure spending and gotten the Sanders supporters to sit this out and not vote for Clinton (a very few may vote for Trump to spite Clinton).
Free this and free that, who’s going to pay for it.
No he wouldn’t. Many democrats wouldn’t support Bernie and they don’t support Trump’s and Bernie’s ideas.
Get over it, Sanders isn’t the general election nominee. The question is which of the 2 “evils” people will elect as president. Right now Trump is showing more character flaws than Hillary is. IMHO, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel this year as neither candidate is that great a pick. Too bad but we only have ourselves to blame for picking these candidates.
Actually the democrats had a great line up. I think they had 4 candidates and any of the 4 would have been fine. Then you have the republicans. Close to 20 candidates and the best they came up with was a person with zero experience.
I also don’t consider this a race between the lesser of two evils. I consider it simply between a person who is qualified and will do a good job and a complete idi*t who will drive the economy into the worst recession ever.
Do a good job? It was Bill Clinton’s deregulation of wall street that allowed the subprime loan crisis to happen in 2008. That fact that it happened after he left office doesn’t change the fact that he created the conditions that lead to the great recession. Wall street owns the Clintons, but then you know that already. Hillary has 2 positions, one for wall street and one for everyone else.
lol, Saywhatyouthink, you ignore the fact that republicans are generally the ones against regulations and who were pushing to do away with it since it was implemented. You also ignore the fact they took over the government in 2001 after stealing the election and immediately threw out republican values of fiscal responsibility, and state and individual rights. But this didn’t have anything to do with the big crash that was to happen. Wake up.
I hope that anyone who thought that only repubs play hardball, will now get their heads out of the sand!! This is our political system at its glorious worst!
One of the reasons I considered voting for Trump (until he lost his mind).
It would be best for Gabbard to vote for Trump.
Why, she is a democrat and thus more than likely will pick the democratic nominee since the republican nominee doesn’t reflect “democratic” values. But she has not endorsed either candidate so we can’t say which way she will be voting.
In every political ad of Gabbard, she states or it states that she is a “combat war veteran.” I would like to know what qualifies her to be a combat war veteran. Was she on the front lines engaged in operational tactics and engaged in firefights with the Talibans or Isis fighters or rebels or was she there just as a pencil pusher trying to take credit that she served in Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan. So please, all you Gabbard supporters, tell me exactly what she did over there as many of my friends and two of my neighbors actually served in Afghanistan and was almost lost his leg due to IED while as a gunner on a MV leading a patrol. Now that girl from Hawaii who was in the midst of a battle and actually was in the middle of a firefight and now lives in Chicago and won the Representative election, THAT IS A COMBAT VETERAN………so how does this pretty face aka Gabbard qualifies as a combat veteran. I dislike Clinton as well as Trump just as much as I dislike that socialist/communist Bernie Sanders and Gabbard should know the consequences when she threw her support behind Sanders…..nothing more and nothing less.
IRT HOSSANA, I was awarded the CIB (Combat Infantryman Badge) on orders in March 1969 for duty in Vietnam as an 11C40. The U.S. Army introduced the Combat Medical Badge (CMB) and the Combat Action Badge (CAB) following Vietnam. I believe the CMB was awarded because many of us Infantry types had tremendous Aloha and Mahalo for the Medics in Combat. Rep. Tulsi was awarded the CMB which was earned and on orders during combat duty. Mahalo Rep. Tulsi for you military service.
HOSSANA
Tulsi won a medal for training counter-terrorism squads in Kuwait. The first woman ever awarded.
About Tulsi’s deployment to the volatile “Sunni Triangle” in Iraq:
“She along with the soldiers of the 29th didn’t spend all their time inside the wire, and witnessed the horrific Muslim on Muslim violence and carnage in the name of Allah,” said retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert G.F. Lee, the adjutant general for Hawaii during Gabbard’s deployment.
Tulsi said, “During my first deployment to Iraq, I served in a medical unit where every single day I saw the real cost of war. One of my jobs was to go over a list that named every single injury and casualty in the entire theatre of operations, to ensure that injured soldiers in our unit were either getting evacuated or receiving the in-country care they needed.”
The Cost of War:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEy0mxfFaM
Oh, please, give me a break. Just like in grade school, they give a medal for every little iota just for being there……when you are actually engaged in combat etc….that is a combat war veteran….my neighbors laughed when they saw your comments about Tulsi being a combat war veteran…….give me a break. Oh, and he also was part of the 29th……….
Let me guess: you never were inconvenienced by serving one day of your life either on the front line or as a pencil pushing REMF, right?
Any soldier entering a war zone is likely to be able to claim “combat war veteran” status. That doesn’t mean the Army would send a woman to fight on the front lines or on door to door searches for insurgents. The fact is they wouldn’t.
Female soldiers getting killed in actual combat would be a political nightmare situation for any politician, Dem or Repub.
IRT SWYT, all combat veterans are awarded the “Combat” designation by the Higher authority and not claimed by the veteran. The veteran will have orders cut from Higher naming the awardee for service in “Combat” authorizing the wearing of the “Combat” award. This is reason “Combat” veterans have great respect for a fellow “Combat” veteran.
Gabbard is a DINO
Wrong. Tulsi is a strong progressive with the track record to prove it. Her positions, her votes and her strong activism show she is a true progressive fighting for the people – whether it’s fighting for LGBT equality, standing up to corporate favoritism, breaking up the big banks, working towards sensible gun control, fighting to protect civil liberties, etc.
Gabbard like Sanders is just a DINO. They both use(d) the party as a means to their own personal ends.
EXACTLY.
Exactly…and Bernie fled the party when it was no longer convenient for him to be called a Dem.
You have your facts wrong. Tulsi has been endorsed by multiple progressive organizations, such as Progressive Democrats of America, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, VoteVets, Ocean Champions, etc. She also has a progressive Democrat lifetime “rating” of over 90%.
A communist in every respect like Sanders. Nothing more and nothing less.
Tulsi is a war veteran. An experienced person associated with our military. Our country will continue to send our men and women into the Middle East and will try to have us think it’s a good idea. Hawkish to the point of depleting our armed forces and dollars with nothing to gain but more debts and deaths! A vote for Clinton will continue this aggressive and stupid agenda. The ugly behavior toward Tulsi is just a dot in a world of Ms Clinton’s retaliation against whom have crossed her path. It seems nothing can stop the borderline insanity of a woman scorned, from achieving the highest office of our country.
Clime father, like daughters?.
Rep Tulsi Gabbard does indeed possess morals. That’s the reason she ‘saw the writing on the wall’ and endorsed Uncle Bernie. Many Hawaii residents also endorsed Bernie.
It will be a major upset if ‘Bernie’ followers here in Hawaii voted for Trump instead of Hillary.
Unfortunately, Hawaii residents are dedicated to the party (DEMS) and will turn a blind eye while voting for ‘Crooked Hillary’.
John Podesta will have egg in his face due to the emails released by WikiLeaks.
I wonder if Huma is seeking therapy for her husband yet ?
The price for seeking fame and fortune. But kudos to her for going with someone who may have been closer to her political views. I only hope she remembers that, although many liked her, a lot of votes she got was because the majority was so against Mufi. Then the Republicans had no one except a homeless individual to run against her. I think she only had to spend twenty dollars for a few posters to run against the guy. I hope that when she looks into the mirror, she sees the people she represents and not only herself. I hope all our politicians at any level do the same.
Tulsi for Potus?
That email was hardly a reprisal, I don’t think it makes a difference to Gabbard if these two do PR marketing for her.
But a headline of Disappointment for Supporting Sanders would not catch many readers.
How vindictive of Hillary to try and destroy a vet and honorable person like Gabby! How on earth do we expect her to be the Commander In Chief with such a loathing for a true American hero such as Gabby?
True American Hero like Gabby……ha..ha…gimme a break. Hey, Tammy Waters, a former resident and who now lives in Chicago has more worthwhile credentials than Gabbard and is a TRUE COMBAT WAR VETERAN. Gabbard is nothing but a PRETENDER taking advantage of having gone to Afghanistan and coming home with that resume. Tammy was actually a female gunner in a combat zone and got her leg blown away……and you’re comparing a TRUE COMBAT VETERAN LIKE Tammy Waters to Gabbard….give me a break. Oh, wait, she was in a combat zone training counter-terroism squads in Kuwait……..WOW!! a true combat veteran.