When Democratic Party platform committee members arrived at the committee’s final session in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday morning, 700,000 signed petitions against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement had been delivered there to meet them.

“We want unity, but we want it real. We do not want it on the backs of working people,” said Dr. Cornel West, who was selected to serve on the committee by Bernie Sanders. “We want opposition to the TPP in this platform.”

Yet despite such passionate arguments and widespread public opposition to the deal, the committee voted down an amendment that would have opposed a Senate vote on the agreement.

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The amendment was introduced by activist and author Jim Hightower, who called the TPP “manure” in his argument for his amendment:

A chorus of boos erupted as the votes came in, and Sanders supporters turned their backs to speakers in protest.

Opposition to the TPP is a cornerstone of Sanders’ presidential campaign. While Hillary Clinton campaigned for the deal in her role as secretary of state, she switched her position several months ago and now publicly opposes the TPP.

“Hillary Clinton opposes the TPP so strongly that her apparatchiks at the Democratic platform meeting voted down language to oppose it. Integrity!” commented The Intercept reporter Zaid Jilani in response to the platform committee’s decision.