Philadelphia (CNN)Wikileaks
released a series of voicemails Wednesday from the Democratic National
Committee hack showing donors plying top-level officials for favors, and
one donor expressing outrage that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had won a
say in the drafting of the party's platform.
In
one of the 29 voicemails released, a woman who donated $300 to Clinton
called the party finance director Andrew Wright and said she was angry
the party was acquiescing to Sanders by allowing liberal activist and
prominent Sanders surrogate Cornel West to have one of 15 seats on the
party's platform-writing panel.
"I'm furious about what you are doing
for Bernie Sanders, he's getting way too much influence. I'm on a fixed
income, I spent over $300, donated to Hillary, what I see is the DNC
bending over backwards for Bernie and Bernie is the worst person in the
world to even be running in the Democratic Party, because he's not a
Democrat," said the unidentified woman in a voicemail that was sent to
Wright's DNC email account.
In
another voicemail, Bill Eacho, a longtime Democratic donor and former
U.S. ambassador, inquired about the details of a "small dinner with
President Obama."
The voicemails
are related to the batch of about 20,000 leaked emails WikiLeaks
published earlier this week, which revealed that elements within the
supposedly neutral DNC were in fact working to help Hillary Clinton
secure the Democratic nomination.
Those emails ultimately led DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing her resignation.
But
most of the released voicemails amount to innocuous messages from one
person trying to reach someone else. A few of the messages highlight the
relationships between donors looking for favors and goodies, and the
party officials trying to bring in money to their coffers.
Source: CNN
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