Friday, October 14, 2016

From Wikileaks: ‘I Need Zephyr To Not Be A Pain In The Ass to Hillary’

 



A pair of Hillary Clinton supporters swapped emails in March worrying whether Democratic congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout might act like what one termed “a pain in the ass” by supporting Bernie Sanders just as the progressive Vermont senator was coming on strong in his presidential primary bid, according to an email string including in the Wikileaks hack of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

The twist ending: Teachout had already endorsed Sanders three months earlier.

The discussion of events in the 19th Congressional District race comes in an exchange between attorney Koethi Zan, a member of the Town of Ghent’s Democratic apparatus and an accomplished thriller author, and Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress. (The exchange begins as a larger conversation about the 20th reunion of their Yale Law School class.)

“Is terry teachout running in your CD?,” asked Tanden, mistaking the author of “Corruption in America” for the Wall Street Journal drama critic and Duke Ellington biographer.

“Zephyr. Yes. Big problem,” Zan replied before appearing to allude to Zephyr Teachout’s primary opponent Will Yandik. “But I got mad at our guy bc he has weak political instincts. I set him up with great connections (not just donors but real strategists) and he failed to follow up etc. Zephyr is going to lose big time here. Our guy would have won but he has no path to win the primary. Ugh. I could go on and on. See I am learning politics from the ground level up. Haha.”

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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)

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