Original Emails Between Delegate Sacha Millstone and Colorado Democratic Party
By Uppity Woman on August 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM in Delegates, Democratic National Convention
[SusanUnPC's Note: Next Tuesday (August 18th), DCMediaGirl will interview Sacha Millstone on her NoQuarter Radio program, "Hour of Power," at 10:30 p.m. ET. As always, an archived copy of the show will be available at NQR (aka No Quarter Radio).]
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Frequent No Quarter writer Bud White contacted Sacha Millstone, the Hillary Clinton delegate who displeased the Democratic Party by having the audacity to privately express doubts about Barack Obama to another delegate.
Ms. Millstone was concerned that it was implied that she did not respond to the letter sent to her by the Political Director of Colorado’s Democratic Party, William Thompson. Ms. Millstone stated that this was not true and forwarded all pertinent emails to Bud White.
Ms. Millstone also says that the Denver and Colorado Democratic Party leaders involved did not respond to her email, nor did they respond to her lawyer’s letter. In order to clarify, Ms. Millstone has asked that we publicize all actual correspondences involved.
I have XX’d out email addresses so that the parties involved are not harassed in any way. We all understand first-hand what people are capable of. Also please note that one of the original story links — to the “Denver Post” — which was used in the story, is no longer available and clicking on it yields an “Access Denied” page. In order to avoid conspiracy theories, please note that while all things are possible, it is also possible that there was too much traffic to the story and they decided to deny access to it. The Denver Channel 7 Investigative Report page, however, is still standing and open to readers. This is the article that also includes the video of Ms Millstone. Correspondences between Ms. Millstone and a Denver Post reporter (denied story link) are also included below. :
Here is the email sent to Sacha Millstone by William Compton, Political Director of the Colorado Democratic Party:
—–Original Message—–
From: Bill Compton [mailto:XXXXX@XXXXX]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 5:10 PM
To: Sacha Millstone
Subject: Urgent Matter
Importance: High
Dear Ms. Millstone:
A complaint has been filed with the Colorado Democratic Party, by a fellow Democratic National Convention delegate, regarding your position as a Delegate to the National Convention in light of the disparaging public remarks you have made and continue to make regarding our Party’s presumptive nominee for President, Sen. Obama. Therefore, you are hereby directed to come in to the Party Headquarters and explain your comments and why you should remain a national delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in light of these comments. I can be reached at XXX-XXX-XXXX. Your immediate attention to this urgent matter is requested.
Sincerely,
William C. (Billy) Compton
Political Director
Colorado Democratic Party
(XXX)xxx-xxxx (O)
(XXX)xxx-xxxx (Fax)
:::Shiver::::
Below is a copy of Sacha Millstone’s email response to Mr. Compton.
—–Original Message—–
From: Sacha Millstone [mailto:XXXXX@XXXXX]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:10 AM
To: ‘Bill Compton’
Subject: RE: Urgent Matter
Dear Mr. Compton,
I am in Florida taking a professional training and exams this week. Frankly, I was stunned when I received your email. I have not responded until now as I have been seeking the advice of many people whose counsel I think is important. I am still in the process of talking to a number of people about the best way to respond.
I will get back to you early next week.
Sincerely,
Sacha Millstone
Sacha Millstone, infuriated at Mr. Compton’s intimidating email, also hired an attorney, who also responded to Mr. Compton with the following letter:
—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Aubrey Ardema
To: Bill Compton
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 8:56:00 PM
Subject: Sacha Millstone
Dear Mr. Compton,
I am representing Ms. Sacha Millstone regarding the matter addressed in your email of Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 (included below). Because your email is not exactly clear on why Ms. Millstone is being summoned to the Party’s headquarters, I would like to ask you for a few things:
1) Please send me a copy of the complaint that was filed against Ms. Millstone.
2) Please provide me with the relevant rules that allow you to threaten Ms. Millstone’s removal from the Colorado Delegation to the DNCC.
3) Please provide me with the relevant rules that require Ms. Millstone to explain her comments and justify why she should remain a national delegate.
Once we have had the chance to review these materials, we will be able to respond to your email more fully. Please direct all further comments or inquiries to me. If you have any further questions or comments, I can be reached at (XXX) XXX-XXXX.
Sincerely,
Aubrey L. Ardema
Attorney, Ardema LLC
William C. (Billy) Compton
Political Director
Colorado Democratic Party
(XXX)XXX-XXXX (O)
(XXX)XXX-XXXX (Fax)
Ms. Millstone also emailed the Denver Post reporter who covered the story to clarify that she did indeed respond to Compton. Below are the correspondences between them.
From: Sacha Millstone [mailto:XXXXX@XXXXX]
Sent: Tue 8/12/2008 10:54 PM
To: Sherry, Allison
Subject: RE: Sacha Millstone contact or attorney?
Allison,
I did want to correct one thing. Pat Waak says I never responded to Compton’s email letter, but I did and I am forwarding the two responses, one from me and one from my attorney, to you so you can see that I did. My attorney asked for information so we could prepare for a meeting. The Colorado Dem Party never responded to either of those two emails from us.
Best,
Sacha
Allison of the Denver Post responded with the following email:
From: Sherry, Allison [XXXXX@XXXXX]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:54 AM
To:Sacha Millston
Subject: RE: Sacha Millstone contact or attorney?Hi Sacha,
Thanks for the copy of the letter. When I asked Waak about it, she says she “didn’t know anything about it.” Has Susan Greene reached out to you?
[...] Who knows. in a few weeks we may read that…it had been always the plan. And while safeguarding the truth, let’s not allow Sacha Millstone go in the memory hole. [...]
She is a smart woman for getting legal advice and for her initial, cautious response.
I’m all for getting legal advice, but where is the democracy in the Democratic Party process?
Poor Sacha - she’s back in the USSR of the DNC.
hope floats — What Compton didn’t put in his initial E-Mail to Ms. Millstone — Ve have Vays of Making You Talk.
This really burns me! Those freaking intimidating a-holes! Maybe Obama should ask Putin to be his running mate, since they use the same tactics and US citizenship is no longer a requirement to run for POTUS!!!
Oh, PUHLEEZ!
Before you perpetuate that old bone, why don’t you get some facts? I’ve included a link for easy reference..
Was Happy to see Fox news was covering this story this morning. I emailed them a link regarding this issue and I am sure they got flooded from all of us! I also emailed the story regarding the school registration of Barry. If everyone would copy the link from here relating to that story maybe we can make the media cover this as well!!! Our movement is astonishing and I am proud to be a PUMA!!!!!
I am a Hillary supporter and am still not totally comfortable Obama leading our country. But I am getting there and will vote for the party. I think this has all gotten out of hand! I think Mr. Compton was doing what he was supposed to do and following the rules of the party. He was supporting the party for goodness sakes. Has anyone asked him whom he supports instead of just deciding he supports Obama? With all of these Democrats out here saying they will vote for McCaine, can you blame them for wanting to talk to her? And why would this woman not want to step up to the plate and speak to them instead of hiring an attorney? Let’s face it people, Hillary is not going to be our president! And what a lot of these supporters of Hillary’s aren’t understanding is that by doing the things they are doing, they are splitting the party, making the party look bad and making Hillary look bad (Because she could stop all of this and she hasn’t). This also will not look good for her in 4 years. And let’s not forget that some of these “PUMA’s” are not Democrats but Repulicans out there trying to tear our party apart! So come on people, let’s act like adults and get a Democrat in the White House. It won’t be Hillary this time but if we really unite as a party, it could be in 4 years!
all I can say is I PRAY the dem party goes down in FLAMES! They are the biggest losers on the face of the planet…and now they’re just a big bunch of fascists too. I’m disgusted by the these strong arm tactics…they should be asking what’s wrong with their candidate that makes NO ONE want to support him!
Well said cc, well said.
I couldn’t agree more. I am angry and ashamed that this party had me fooled for this long. Sacha did the right thing by contacting a lawyer. These party fools think that we’re all a bunch of gun totting, hicks who can easily be intimidated. For that, I give them both of my middle fingers. Instead of bullying two delegates, they should be worried about their fraud of a candidate named Barry Soetoro. My protest vote will go McCain and all the way down ticket.
it is wasted energy trying to discuss the many reasons why Obama is not fit for President. They are just like him that is why they are supporting him. They think rules are made to be broken, it is ok to be sexist and degrade women and call them bithces and ho’s. They think it is ok to cheat, intimidate, bully and lie. There is no moral compass there. God is watching.
God isn’t the only one watching, wodie. The latest polls in Colorado for senator, Mark Udall(D) and Bob Shaffer(R) show a tie. Two weeks ago, Udall was leading by double digits. Obama has to win Colorado and this kind of publicity will BRING HIM DOWN!
cc — They are living in a fool’s paradise and anyone who tells the truth is banished. I can’t believe this is the Democratic Party I knew and loved.
Agree as well. I’m voting Republican in the hopes that with a big enough loss the Dean Cabal will finally be ousted and he, Donna, Nancy, et.al. will just be a memory in the resonance of time.
Now, there’s a productive thought..
I suppose you would prefer another four or eight years of the “Decider” making choices for you?
how much is nobama paying you?
A lot more than he’s worth, apparently.
Umm Uppity.
http://www.politicswest.com/27964/explain_yourself_dems_tell_delegateAndAccess
take a look at your link.
‘AndAccess’ is an addition. try removing those words and ta da the story is still there.
NObama in NOvember
I just tried yours, it didn’t work.
my link is the link from the op. Take off the andaccess part.
oops, I didn’t look.
thx
The Colorado Democratic Party would like Boulder delegate Sacha Millstone, who is devoted to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to give up her spot as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, reports Allison Sherry.
Party officials said Monday that they won’t insist Millstone resign. But in an e-mail last week, Billy Compton, state political director of the Colorado Democratic Party, ordered Millstone into his office to explain disparaging comments she made about Barack Obama.
Compton said the party had received a complaint about Millstone from another delegate.
“You are hereby directed to come in to the party Headquarters and explain your comments and why you should remain a national delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in light of these comments,” the letter said.
Millstone, who has hired a lawyer, was infuriated.
“Isn’t there a right to free speech? Isn’t this right in line with our time-honored tradition with the Dems?” she said. “These intimidation tactics have a chilling effect on people feeling comfortable speaking up.”
Millstone’s lawyer wrote Compton asking for the rules that allow the party to threaten removal from the state delegation.
State party officials said Monday that the issue has been dropped.
“We wanted to explore with Ms. Millstone the possibility of her voluntarily resigning her position,” Compton said. “I simply wanted to discuss the matter with her.”
This week’s back and forth underscores the escalating tension across the country among Clinton delegates.
Most loyal to Clinton say they simply want their vote for her to count at the convention, and then they’ll get behind Obama before his acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Aug. 28.
“It’s inevitable within a party of this size that there will be different views about the merits of the candidates that the parties put forward,” said Daniel Kagan, a delegate representing Denver.
Kagan, who is circulating a petition among delegates nationally to get Clinton’s name on the convention ballot, said it’s “autocratic” of the party to force support of one candidate.
“It’s ludicrously overambitious and an unattractive goal,” he said.
Though Clinton could agree for her name to appear on the ballot, party insiders say that is unlikely.
A delegate from Wisconsin, Debra Bartoshevich, was kicked off her state’s delegation after she vowed to support Republican presidential front runner Sen. John McCain when Clinton suspended her campaign.
Natalie Wyeth, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Convention Committee, said she was unaware of any other such cases.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Shannon Gilson issued a statement Monday saying it was the campaign’s “priority to ensure Ms. Millstone’s delegate status was not in jeopardy.”
State Democratic Party chair Pat Waak, who said it would be nice to have a united delegation when 50,000 conventioneers arrive in Colorado, called the Millstone matter “moot.”
“We’re getting too near the convention, and she’s refused to come in,” Waak said.
Any effort to intimidate Clinton supporters won’t work, at least not on at-large Clinton delegate Sonya Jaquez Lewis, who lives in unincorporated Boulder County.
“It makes me angry,” Jaquez Lewis said. “It makes me want to now really be even louder about issues and concerns that before I was willing to look the other way.”
Allison Sherry: 303-954-1377 or asherry@denverpost.com
Sacha Millstone of Boulder has hired a lawyer after a Democratic Party e-mail ordered her to come to headquarters and explain disparaging remarks she made about Barack Obama. A Clinton supporter, she hired an attorney who wrote the party asking for the rules that allow the party to threaten a person’s removal from the state delegation. Party officials say the issue has been dropped.
I think she is going to be on No We won’t radio.
I guess you missed this at the bottom of the page:
Link to the article and copy 2-3 paragraphs in quotes or a blockquote (as I did above) to avoid a copyright violation.
http://www.politicswest.com/27964/explain_yourself_dems_tell_delegate
Dritches,
Do you really think there is anything you could say to change one’s opinion of BOBO here? While I like to see your post at times, I can’t understand why you aren’t posting on BOBO’s sites. We’ve made up our minds here; but thanks for writing and enjoy your fractured party.
Are we really living in a democracy or what?
People wake up and smell the coffee. This seems like gestapo tactics.
This kind of treatment is scary to say the least.
I will never be a democrat again. Ever since Donna Brazille told me there was a train leaving to catch it, I caught that train and I feel sooo relieved, not to be a part of this soooo called democrat party anymore.
THEY HAVE GONE BONKERS.
We don’t need you. We have the youth vote to replace all of you.
Exactly where do you vote in Toronto ?
I am an American citizen as well as a citizen of the world.
Bullshit
That is zee pretending to be me. I answered your question below.
And a citizen of Mars, Jupiter and several other planets I suspect.
Citizen of the World of Bullshit maybe!
How much are they paying you Trolls these days? It seems you have been putting in some over time for your Lord and Master!
You know of whom I speak….
You ‘Bots are so transparent!
I will gladly vote for Barky if you can answer me one question okay?
What has O’blama done to deserve my support?
name one significant piece of legislation that he AUTHORED. Not one he ATTACHED his name to after the fact but one he ACtually authored that made a difference?
Just one!
anything?
One
I’ll give you a second to think.
Think of one yet?
Not one?
Please.
Just one?
No?
Then get LOST BOT!
last time I checked, the President doesn’t author legislation.. not a requirement for the position.
On the other hand, George W. never authored legislation, either.. maybe he shouldn’t have been President.. YA THINK?
And just to anticipate the next idea, that somehow Bush’s inexperience was balanced by Dick Cheney’s dynamic influence, here’s a link attesting to that remarkable legislator:
http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/dick.html
Oh zee how childish.
I am 53 years old. There isn’t an Obama supporter under 40 on my block full of Obama supporters.
What we won’t need to win in November is you republicans pretending to be democrats.
Can you name a single elected Dem not supporting Obama? Remember Lieberman was elected as an independent.
I can name several republicans that have endorsed Obama.
Same Duddley Doo Right
Colin Powell
Powell has given $2,300 to McCain and $1,000 to the RLC this year. He has given nothing to either the democrat party or Obama. His spokeswoman has said the following.
“There’s absolutely no truth to it whatsoever,” Cifrino told FOXNews.com. “Colin Powell will not be at either convention. There’s absolutely no truth to this.”
And Powell said this yesterday.
“I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol’s musings,” Powell told ABC News. “I am not going to the convention. I have made this clear.”
Debunked there sweetie …. still livin’ in the 60’s?
A lie by omission: you left out the part about your being dumber than a coal bucket.
You are KIDDING yourself if you think these people and myself are republicans.
THat will be to your detriment in November.
-typical white person
-cigar chomping cracker
Hey Dritches,
Is it true that Obots can’t get it up when they’re scared? You’re probably a load of fun.
If you do your research, you will find plenty of elected officials whose support was bought by either money or political favor!
dritches is a right wing troll. A true piece off the administration shit pile. Ignore it, it will go away. Oh, and under no circumstances vote for either obama or McInane.
You are short on history knowledge. If you weren’t you would know that adults don’t let children and radicals pick presidents. This tune has been played before. Youth vote. All righty then. How many of them are there again? Don’t bother to answer. There are less of them than there are seniors. And those old folks all hate barky. Guess you will just have to gas them, right junior?
Let me guess. your parents pay for your food, your car, your cell phone, the house taxes, your dumbed down college, and pretty much everything else while you pretend to be “upscale”. And you think you ought to pick a president.
Is this the game you play?
Impersonate Obama fans and then answer yourselves?
Sad.
Obama is losing the youth vote.
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDk5Y2QxMmI4NmNiYmI0MjkxZjY2YTQ3N2MzYWQ4NmU=
lol Thank you for the link. The college students here in Southern CA are apparently very fickle. The very minute Obama flipped on FISA I stopped hearing the chants/chatter. I live really close to two campuses and a third is not much further away. Then when he flipped on NAFTA it wasn’t a day I saw them walking around in berets with camouflage shirts on chanting/chattering for Ron Paul to run as an Independent. Talking about protesting, saying Paul is the only candidate that stands behind the constitution 110 percent. Apparently the Roe V Wade threat didn’t hold for long.
As a member of the under thirty crowd who cast their first Presidential ballot for Al Gore in 2000, I will work to ensure Mr. Obama’s defeat this fall.
Ah, an intelligent under-thirty person! thanks.
PS I am very concerned about the media bias which is blocking the truth about Obama. Get the word out!
What “truth” would that be? The mindless slander and innuendo, or the outright lies?
I think the Young Republicans were playing some really fun games in States with open Primaries.
We know you, the DNC and Obama doesn’t need us.
Granted. You (and DNC and Obama) shell not have us.
sorry, ’shall’
You’re a fool!
You’re a fool! youth vote makes up like what? 10-12%??
Women make up for 56-60% of the votes..dig a hole and bury the Democrat party. The party leaders are dumber than a door knob.
Another sterling point for discussion..
Let’s see, we’re pissed about Hillary not being nominated, so to show how pissed we are, we should vote for the old white-haired dude that will certainly set back women’s rights by thirty years or so..
Not to mention get us engaged in another testosterone contest with either Russia or Iraq, take your pick.. no, wait.. why not do BOTH? After all, George W. did.
Oh, YES. The YOUTH.
Sorry, Britches.
You were outed in one of the threads below when you repeated the TYPICAL RIGHTWING TALKING POINT that only “law breakers” would be caged up in Denver during the convention.
No known YOUTH would say such a thing.
You are a bulging red rolls of fat spilling out your tighty whitey collar Rove-bot.
The RNC used the NYC police as their personal bouncers during the rethug convention in 2004, and they scooped up entire streets of both protesters and pedestrians and threw them in those abandoned bus terminals as holding pens in order to intimidate the peaceful lawful protesters.
Obama’s apparently getting his Denver MO from the likes of these thugs like Britches.
Does anyone wonder why the email that got her ‘in trouble’ in the first place isn’t being made public by Ms Millstone?
I mean she sent it to a ‘friend’, and that person was so appalled they sent to the state party.
Anyone else think the email was of the typical offensive nature, like so many other anti-Obama ra’cist lies and innuendo riddled emails?
Same Duddley Doo Right.
harp that Dritches you responded to before wasn’t me. That was zee being childish.
As to your question, I live right downtown. York and QQ.
You in the area and want to get together to talk policy?
Why would I do that? You have all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
You could come over.
Oh zee just stop.
Well why are you asking me where in Toronto I live?
You don’t live in any for-itself way. You are the in-itself, consisting of matter and occupying space. If you need help with that, look up Sartre, spend a few years understanding what he meant, and then come back here in, say, 4 years.
Whoever some of these people may be, if they exist at all, they do not yet understand that the sole action they are truly free to make is to recognize that they have no free will.
I’m way too computer illiterate to impersonate O-Fluffers.
I’m always Zee, unless there comes a Zee-clone.
But, it’s nice to see that I’m getting under that tighty whitey collar of yours, however much room there is amongst your bulges of aging beet-red neck flesh.
Canada, huh?
Obama has to import trolls?
Sweeties! Stop this fighting and focus your hate on those that won’t bow before me. Focus your hate to those under my big magical yellow bus.
Dritches, spread the word, I want you as my VP, because, uh, you, uh, are so good with , uh, words
Why would it matter if we are still living in America, asshole? We are still living in America aren’t we? Why don’t you call headquarters and check, I’ll wait. America: Where a personal email that criticizes a jerk who’s running for president SHOULDN’T get us into trouble. Right?
Asshole?
Aren’t you a front pager here?
If you are a republican delegate and you are forwarding emails claiming McCain is a traitor for giving info to the veit cong, you think they will sit back and say,’oh well’ the constitution and all’?
These are political parties.
You know, it never ceases to amaze me how some spoiled punk can make a comment like this…..
if you are a republican delegate and you are forwarding emails claiming McCain is a traitor for giving info to the veit cong, you think they will sit back and say,’oh well’ the constitution and all’?
Now there is a small problem with this Troll!
One:
How do you know he gave info to the Viet Cong? Were you there? Did you witness this or just repeating Obama’s Talking points?.
Two:
Have you ever been tortured?
If not…SHUT THE FUCK UP!
TorontoTurd:
John McCain never had anything to do with the VC unless he dropped bombs on them. He was shot down over North Vietnam and held captive and tortured by them.
Oh, and you definitely are an asshole.
You seem to be trafficking in lies and innuendo yourself. But that’s par for the O-team. Accuse others of what you’re doing.
Like what?
Like PUMA paying off Hillary’s debt.
Like dressing up your Anointed jackass in a cheap suit and calling him presidential material. He’s still a jackass and you’re a loser, bot. Oblahblah may win the nomination but he won’t get the prize. And you’ll be back to panhandling.
We have a whole stack of horrifying emails much worse than Ms Millstones. Her email goes into the pile with the others. So much for Democracy.
I recently quit the Democratic Party after 36 years. If this is the kind of party you want then you’re welcome to it.
Yeah, and McCarthyism was justifiable too. NOT!!!
Every time I read one of these incredible posts I keep thinking of the Nazis.
Are they going to request everyone “goosestep” from the floor of the convention to the Stadium for Obama’s speech.
These people make me so angry that they pretend to be for democracy and the American people and act like a bunch of Marxists.
I am amazed that the people who support Obama cannot get a clear picture of the type of person he is by the actions he has condoned and perpetuated on the DNC. It is no longer the Democratic Party. It is a tool to take over the nation by someone who was in reality not even elected by their party.
Who is he to determine who should be a super delegate and who is he that he should decide if Hillary’s name should be put in nomination? He has not officially been nominated. He did not receive the required delegate vote. The superdelegates can change their mind at any time.
I wonder if we are feeling the same outrage that the Germans’s felt under the assumption of power of Hitler.
I hope to God our country does not regret going into this election with their eyes closed and their brains apparently numbed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIChPmCMkw
You know Ummm - I feel sorry for you that you do not have enough patriotism or concern for you country to be alarmed by the tactics that Obama and his campaign have used to win the election.
You really need to get out some books and review what our forefathers went through to create this great country that we live in - It was not an easy battle and if not for the grace of God we would not be enjoying the freedoms that we now have.
It is a shame that democracy can be so easily scoffed at by the likes of you and your ilk. It will be very sad for you if you wake up one day and it is gone and you realize that you have ridiculed the very people who were trying to bring out the truth about a very real threat to our basic principles of freedom - the sanctity of our vote and theft of our democratic system of selecting our candidate for president.
I don’t get it.. you people are all obviously capable of making a coherent argument, but all I see here is innuendo and sniping. No facts at all to back up your positions on ANYthing.
Pray tell, then, exactly what “tactics” Obama and his campaign used that are so offensive to your sensibilities?
And exactly how did he “decide” that Hillary’s name should be put into nomination? From all I’ve read, it was a decision by the DNC after consultation with both Clinton and Obama.
You do make one valid point, that the superdelegates can change their mind at any time.. although I doubt we will see that happen. Obama might not be a unanimous choice, but he is apparently more unanimous a choice than Hillary. That’s what democracy is all about, the last time I checked.