Bernie Sanders cancels meeting with HIV activists

Our friend Ernest Hopkins, Director of Legislative Affairs at San Francisco AIDS Foundation, writes:

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am. The group pulling this set of meetings together went out of their way to accommodate Senator Sanders such was the interest in presenting our recommendations to him and his staff. Advocates even relented to a demand that only Sanders supporters be invited to the meeting. To my knowledge, no such bizarre demand was made by the Clinton campaign and now, there is no Sanders meeting. When you cut yourself off from the expertise on an issue, and predicate your engagement to the degree supporters can make the case, you come off as very thin skinned, a bit petty, and ‘political’ to the extreme. The Clinton meeting is Thursday in NYC, and I will report back.

Sanders diminishes himself the more he behaves like this. Meanwhile, Jane Sanders urges the FBI to speed up its investigation of Hillary’s email scandal. Bernie’s issue-driven campaign is sinking more and more into desperation and meanness.