SHE'S NOT A PROGRESSIVE:

When contentious Democratic Party platform negotiations finally came to a close late on Saturday, progressives again left disappointed. 

"I'm so disappointed that I walked out, as many of my friends as well did ... [We] walked out in disgust."

--Steve Wisniewski, Communications Workers of America Local 3108 

At the committee's final meeting in Orlando, Florida, supporters of Hillary Clinton successfully voted down amendments supporting a single payer healthcare system, a nationwide ban on fracking, as well as an amendment objecting to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and characterizing the settlements as illegal.

The losses stung progressives already dismayed by the committee's refusal to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in the platform earlier that day, among other defeats.

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