Wikileaks Uploads DNC Voicemails from Annoyed Donors

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In one of the 29 hacked Democratic National Committee audio messages released, a funder complained the party was pandering to then presidential nominee Bernie Sanders.

The series of voicemails show funders “plying top-level officials for favors,” CNN reports.

For example, a woman supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton phoned the party’s finance director and said she was angry the party was letting liberal activist and prominent Sanders surrogate Cornel West have a seat on the party's platform-writing panel.

"I'm furious about what you are doing for Bernie Sanders, he's getting way too much influence. I'm on a fixed income, I spent over $300, donated to Hillary, what I see is the DNC bending over backwards for Bernie and Bernie is the worst person in the world to even be running in the Democratic Party, because he's not a Democrat," said the unidentified woman in a voicemail sent to the director’s DNC email account.

The voicemails are related to the 20,000-some hacked DNC emails that WikiLeaks published earlier this week, which indicated that elements within the supposedly neutral DNC were working to help Clinton clinch the nomination.

Most of the released voicemails amount to innocuous messages from one person trying to reach someone else.