![]() ![]() He contributed a biography of folk artist Woody Guthrie to the Postmaster General (1980), which helped result in a commemorative postage stamp of Guthrie as part of the Folk Musicians series. Supreme Court agreed and overturned the ban in 1995. to overturn a prohibition on compensation for freelance writing and speaking for all federal employees the U.S. He has published occasional essays in newspapers including the Daily Item (Lynn, MA), the North Shore Sunday (Danvers, MA), the Salem Evening News (MA), and The Bridgton News (ME), an d Lake Living Magazine (ME).īollen initiated a lawsuit - eventually joined by more than a dozen plaintiffs - against the Justice Dept. He was editor of the Lynnfield Beacon (MA), a trade labor journal, in 1989, and editor of The Northeast News Service (MA) from 1989-1996 (editor emeritus since 1996). Navy from 1968 to 1970, and attended North Shore Community College in Beverly, MA. They include Attorney General Maura Healey, vice-chairwoman of the Credentials Committee, state Democratic chair Gus Bickford, a member of the Credentials Committee, and James Roosevelt, Jr., co-chairman of the Credentials Committee.ĭNC Chairman Tom Perez has sought to make the 2020 convention and nominating process more fair, weakening the power of superdelegates and creating transparent rules for which candidates qualify for the debates.īut he’s going against the ornery Sanders forces - “Bernie bros” - who believe going in that the deck is stacked against them.Peter Bollen, born in Main Lynn, MA, and raised there, has lived in Bridgton, Maine since 2003. “I don’t have a problem with Bernie getting in the race, ‘when is he getting out’ is probably a better question,” Sellers tweeted in February of last year.Ī number of other Democratic officials and operatives with Massachusetts ties also landed appointments to the DNC committees on Rules, Platform and Credentials. They include Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman, John Podesta, who in leaked DNC emails trashed Sanders and said he should be “ground to a pulp.”Īlso landing a seat on one of the DNC convention committees is Bakari Sellers, a former surrogate for Clinton in 2016. Sanders forces are already outraged by Frank’s appointment to the Rules Committee, as well as other appointments for former Clinton supporters to committees that will influence the convention. “Bernie Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years with little to show for it in terms of his accomplishments,” Frank said in a Slate interview four years ago.įrank has also attacked voters who are drawn to Sanders.įrank’s emergence is actually good for the media who like to blow up big battles within the party, but bad for any hopes for a smooth convention. The abrasive Frank, a Newton Democratic congressman until retiring in 2013, was one of Clinton’s leading surrogates in the 2016 race and in the past has blasted Sanders’ “holier-than-thou” attitude and penchant for calling both political parties corrupt. ![]() ![]() The appointment has escalated tensions between the DNC and the Sanders campaign, which are already beginning to divide the party. ![]() Barney Frank - has surfaced as a new flashpoint in the battle between Bernie Sanders and establishment Democrats, winning a powerful DNC post at this summer’s nominating convention.įrank has long been a thorn in Sanders’ side but was just named co-chairman of the DNC Rules Committee, a position that could give Frank considerable say over the Milwaukee convention. One of Hillary Clinton’s top attack dogs - former U.S. ![]()
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