Cory Booker blames DNC for lack of diversity of DEM presidential candidates.

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OH HO...this is Rich!

The Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic: ‘It’s a shame’: Castro, Booker blast potential all-white Democratic debate lineup after Harris drops out.

After Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday she was ending her campaign for president, some supporters were shocked and some megadonors were frantic, trying to get their recently donated money back.

But to many — including several other presidential candidates — the immediate reaction to her departure was what it meant for the Dec. 19 Democratic debate: Namely, that the event may now have an all-white stage.

“I’m a little angry, I have to say, that we started with one of the most diverse fields in our history, giving people pride,” Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), who is among the nonwhite presidential candidates who have yet to qualify for this month’s debate, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday night. “And it’s a damn shame now that the only African American woman in this race, who has been speaking to issues that need to be brought up, is now no longer in it.”
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For many critics, the question was how this historically diverse class of candidates has faded to white — at least on the national debate stage — before February’s Iowa caucuses. To Booker, part of the problem is that this cycle’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee’s qualifying rules are “preferencing millionaires and billionaires.”

 Yeah, it's the DNC's fault. Blame them. But - but - Diversity is their Strength!

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Castro stands on box to appear taller at Thursday's DEM debate circus.

How embarrassing.

Washington Examiner: Castro stands on box to look taller in Democratic debate.

Julián Castro stood on a box during the third Democratic primary debate to help him look taller alongside the other candidates.

Castro joined nine other Democratic presidential candidates on the debate stage in Houston on Thursday. Castro, who is 5-foot-9, was one of possibly several candidates that stood on raised platforms behind their podiums. It was not immediately clear whether other candidates were also on boxes.

He uses one of these, too, at the table so he can reach his Sippy cup.

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Sanders and Castro to Speak at ISNA, "Radical Islamist Convention".

D.C. Presswire: AMCD Blasts Gov. Inslee, Sen. Sanders and Julian Castro for Pandering to Islamists.

WASHINGTON, DC, USA, August 8, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro are scheduled to speak at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)’s convention in Houston on August 31. ISNA has been designated a Muslim Brotherhood entity by the US Justice Department.

Ares and Athena: Are these two [Sanders, Castro] brain dead, misinformed, or traitors? 

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro have agreed to speak at the convention of a radical Islamist group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and hostility towards progressive Muslims and values.
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The U.S. Justice Department lists ISNA as an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical and often violentarm of the Islamist global political project. The Brotherhood’s goal is a worldwide caliphate with all of humanity living under sharia law.
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Sanders and Castro, [are] apparently unaware of—or is unconcerned with—ISNA’s radical ideology, including expelling Muslims for Progressive Values, a pro-LGBT group, from its conference in 2017 or the fact one of ISNA’s past presidents endorsed the execution of homosexuals by sharia-based governments.
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By speaking at the event, [Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, also slated to speak at the ISNA convention], Sanders and Castro are helping ISNA appear as moderate leaders of the Muslim-American community (not to mention helping ISNA raise money through ticket sales) [sic].

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