Marianne Williamson's Campaign Suspension Letter, Meme Account Battle, Opponent Hacking Accusations, and a 7-Day Work Week
This is ... a lot
Let me start by telling you that Marianne Williamson has not suspended her campaign yet, but that’s not even close to being the weirdest part of this story.
Marianne Williamson’s Campaign Suspension Letter
Here’s the suspension letter she wrote. But never sent (not…really). I’ll get to the rest after you read this.
As of today I am suspending my campaign for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. While I hoped we could create a breakthrough in New Hampshire, in the final analysis we could not compete with million dollar SUPER PAC-funded TV and internet ad campaigns. I couldn't do it in New Hampshire, and I would not be able to do it in Nevada or beyond.
I want to deeply thank all of my supporters, volunteers and donors for the extraordinary encouragement you have shown me over the last few months. What ends today is a Presidential campaign, but not my advocacy for those who live their lives at the effect of a soulless system that simply does not care about them. I believe in that message as much today as I did on the day I announced my candidacy. And I have no doubt that had I been able to reach enough Americans, would have been able to create a coalition of conscience powerful enough to override the layers of economic, criminal, racial and environmental injustice that plague our country now.
"A government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations" is an assault on everything this country is meant to stand for, and it is our duty as Americans to rebuke it. This I will continue to do in whatever way I can, and I look forward to working alongside those who feel as I do that such is our moral duty at this time in our history.
There are no words that can express the depth of my gratitude to those of you who supported me on this journey so far. I say "so far" because while this campaign is over, the larger effort to course-correct this country is not. I will play whatever part I can to help it along.
With true love and affection,
Marianne
P.S. As of today, any donation given to the campaign will go towards retiring our considerable campaign debt. For that, I deeply thank you.
Image source Organizer Memes
All signs point to Marianne having intended to send this letter. She told some of her plans to suspend, as a power move, in her words, days ago.
“I don’t want the press to be on this” ~ Marianne Williamson
“This is how I’m feeling now. And please, I’m asking you, not to repeat this. I don’t want the press to be on this, doing something. This is really a sacred confidence that I’m sharing with you. My thoughts are now that the power move is to suspend the campaign.”
Video source Organizer Memes
Back to the Suspension Letter…(AKA Mad Online at a Meme Page)
Marianne Williamson never “sent” the suspension letter she wrote, not really. It was uploaded onto her ActBlue page and discovered, later causing Marianne to get mad online at a meme page in ways she apparently regretted and deleted. She called the finding of the actually very public letter that she wrote “hacked disinformation.”
Organizer Memes’ response to Williamson’s allegation that the letter, which she admitted to preparing, was “hacked disinformation”:
“That’s ridiculous. It was publicly available info if you searched her ActBlue account. But Marianne, a consistent popularizer of mistruth and quack pseudoscience for her entire career is more interested in protecting her reputation than recognizing her own campaign mistakes.
An unserious allegation by an unserious campaign.”
Additionally, here is a video by former Marianne Williamson staffer Tim Cox showing that finding the letter took absolutely zero hacking. To be clear, the letter was not “hacked.”
Video Source Tim Cox on Twitter.
Can’t a Woman Change Her Mind and Not Suspend?!
She sure can! It’s her party and she can suspend when she wants to!
Except it’s your dollars she’s using to keep this campaign afloat.
Except, she admitted on video days ago that she doesn’t have the funding to keep going.
Except, she’s claiming that her fundraising account is “hacked” and yet she’s still accepting donations right where it’s supposedly “hacked.”
Marianne Williamson is claiming that other campaigns have hacked her with no evidence. She deleted this claim. She didn’t claim it anywhere else. Is she alarmed or not?
Yep.
“Anonymous campaign staffers…are hacking into our campaign account…”
Marianne Williamson claimed on Twitter (and later deleted) that:
Some anonymous campaign staffers from God knows who's [sic] campaign are hacking into our campaign account and doing all kinds of mischief.
This is sound-the-bells alarming. Five alarm fire.
You can’t make these accusations without proof.
You can’t make and then delete these accusations without a word.
If you do think it’s true, you need to alert your supporters on all platforms and in all ways available to you and take serious action.
I left in the tweet from ChoiceCut here because it’s spot on. Like…what!?
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7 Day Workweek (Also, hey…where’s that union?)
Marianne Williamson is supposed to be a pro-labor candidate, right?
She isn’t. If you have any doubts, read my original piece, here. Then come back and get ready to be shocked even further with new revelations.
Those who chose to work for Marianne Williamson’s campaign didn’t do so to get rich. I’ve talked to dozens of them. Many through tears. Many traumatized. Many now newly ill either physically or mentally or both.
They wanted change and they thought they could help bring that by working for Marianne, a candidate they truly believed in. Some are so disillusioned they don’t know that they will ever work in politics again.
Everyone’s story is different, yet it strikes me how, in the end, their stories became so similar. Trauma. Pain. Heartbreak. And a sort of camaraderie out of what they went through.
I want to emphasize there are people still in it who very much don’t want to be. (I’m thinking of you)
And yet, Marianne very publicly continues to see herself as a victim. Through the grapevine I hear that she very much sees herself as a victim of me. That woman (me).
I digress.
“I would not agree to 7 Day work weeks with no time off”
I’m going to let this next story, Alex’s story, speak for itself. Because his story shows so clearly what you’re dealing with when it comes to Marianne Williamson.
“In June 2023, I was fired from the Marianne Williamson campaign without warning because I would not agree to work 7-day workweeks with no time off. It's not a serious progressive campaign and l've let people know. This is how Marianne decided to respond to my ‘unkind tweets.’“
~ Alex Furlin, former staffer
Did I treat you badly, Alex...? You've been so unkind and I don't remember doing anything to cause that. I thought we got along fine but clearly I misunderstood.
~
Marianne
Marianne,
I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
I also thought we had got along fine until I was fired from the campaign, without warning, for refusing to work 7-day workweeks with no time off for weekends or holidays - - all while you were in London.
To me, that is pretty unkind.
~
Alex
Wow. I'm really sorry if you were put upon, Alex, and with the unkind things you've said on social media can we consider it even?
~Marianne
"Consider it even"? What?
Do you know how you sound right now?
Marianne, you took away my source of income because I was not willing to work every single day with no break and no healthcare. And you're supposed to progressive and pro-labor?
I am *still* dealing with the chronic stomach pain I developed from the stress of working on your campaign.
That's not "even.”
~
Alex
Note that Marianne doesn't even attempt to refute the bullshit reason I was fired. She thinks that me tweeting about her unserious behavior now makes me "even" with her ripping away my income for the high crime of... wanting time off. Like... WHAT??
~
Alex
Marianne Williamson isn’t the woman, candidate, or progressive you want her to be, and that makes me, for one, very, very sad. I liked her.
For those who’ve been through so much–her staff especially–I am with you. Those I’ve talked to, and it’s many more than anyone will ever know, I’m here for you. Those who’ve waited, I’m still here for you.
jenn@couragenews.com
Note from Jenn: Marianne Williamson has not yet responded to a request for comment on a tight deadline due to timeliness of story. I will update the story immediately if I receive a response from her or the campaign.
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Marianne was never a serious candidate. She's just on a publicly paid for book tour of the country.
Good on the former staffers for exposing her machinations. Thanks to you, Jenn, for your great reportage.
She was resonating with me as well But my 1st choice of 3rd has always been Jill Stein. The Greens are viable in all 50 states.