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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