Keep the Damn Mailing List Away from Clinton and the DNC

It appears that people are starting to consider what to do with Sanders formidable mailing list, and giving it to Clinton Evil Minions^™ is not high on this list:

One of the open questions in Democratic politics right now is what will happen to Bernie Sanders’s huge email list, which he’s used to raise more than a hundred million dollars from grassroots Democrats and independents all over the country.

So far, according to a senior Sanders campaign official, there’s been no discussion between the campaign and Hillary Clinton’s about what will happen to the email list.

But at least one of the Vermont senator’s top supporters is already arguing that Sanders should refuse to give the list to Clinton.

Monday, the head of the main labor group behind a pro-Sanders super PAC pledged that Sanders will not provide access to the list to Clinton.

“Bernie has run a populist campaign and the campaign is not over,” RoseAnn DeMoro, the executive director of National Nurses United, told BuzzFeed News. “The campaign’s in its nascent stages, really. He’s sitting on the greatest populist list in the history of this country. And he wants to use it for populist reasons.”

Asked whether Sanders would give the list to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, DeMoro said he would not, “Because he doesn’t want to hand it over to Wall Street.”

Given my experience as a Howard Dean folder in 2004, where I seemed to get way too much in the way of fundraising calls and letters from the DNC and the usual center-right suspects, I do not want either Hillary or the DNC to get their claws into that list.

They will suck the marrow out of list, and leave it a husk.

Keep the list, and use it as an effort for real Democrats, not New Dem Wall Street pukes.