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The NV Democratic Party has lodged a formal complaint to the DNC about the Sanders camp.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/312844982/160516-Letter-DNC-RBC-NVDemsConvention<snip>
We believe, unfortunately, that the tactics and behavior on display here in Nevada are
harbingers of things to come as Democrats gather in Philadelphia in July for our National
Convention. We write to alert you to what we perceive as the Sander Campaign’s
penchant for extra-parliamentary behavior—indeed, actual violence—in place of
democratic conduct in a convention setting, and furthermore what we can only describe
as their encouragement of, and complicity in, a very dangerous atmosphere that ended in
chaos and physical threats to fellow Democrats. Indeed, the threats to the Chair of the
Nevada State Democratic Party are ongoing at time of this writing, as Sanders activists
have posted her cell phone and home address online, and have bombarded her with
threats to her life and the safety of her family. We have attached some examples of this
conduct, which is not merely offensive but obviously criminal in nature. We can provide
audio of threatening phone calls made directly to the Chair, which now number in the
hundreds.
The explosive situation arose in large part because a portion of the community of Sanders
delegates arrived at the Nevada Democratic State Convention believing itself to be a
vanguard intent upon sparking a street-fight rather than attending an orderly political
party process. Surprised and outraged at the idea of being out-organized and thus
outnumbered in the convention hall by Clinton delegates, a portion of the Sanders
delegation rushed the dais immediately upon the opening of the convention and halted the
progress of any convention business for much of the day. Indeed, every point during
which Sanders delegates did not agree with any aspect of the proceedings saw them press
up against the dais and scream obscenities and threats at the Chair, First Vice Chair, and
any other speaker. In fact, event security provided by the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
took it upon themselves to increase the security perimeter around the dais so the
convention could simply move forward with its routine business in relative safety. In
other words, the hour-to-hour business of Nevada Democrats was necessarily conducted
in an atmosphere of impending eruption of physical threats and intimidation for more
than 12 hours. Scuffles, screams from bullhorns, and profane insults marked nearly the
entirety of the event. Numerous medical emergencies among delegates pressed up against
the dais had to be attended to throughout the day.
To the great embarrassment and revulsion of the vast majority of attendees, Sanders
delegates crowded the dais and shouted down universally-respected U.S. Senator Barbara
Boxer of California, who had arrived as a guest of the party to deliver a keynote address
in support of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Sanders Campaign spent its time either ignoring or profiting from the chaos it did
much to create and nothing to diminish or mitigate. It was clear to the NSDP that part of
the approach by the Sanders Campaign was to employ these easily-incensed delegates as
shock troops to sway the convention proceedings. At the very least, these delegates
became a way for the Sanders Campaign to seek the advantage of disruption at any
particular moment while trying to disavow any responsibility for their actions even as it was ongoing. At no time did any Sanders representative make anything more than token
gestures towards peace in the hall, and at the times of most intense crisis offered little
more than shrugs and smirks.
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Pretend he's telling ghost stories around the campfire in the woods...!!
Surprised and outraged at the idea of being out-organized and thus
outnumbered in the convention hall by Clinton delegates, a portion of the Sanders
delegation rushed the dais immediately upon the opening of the convention and halted the
progress of any convention business for much of the day. Indeed, every point during
which Sanders delegates did not agree with any aspect of the proceedings saw them press
up against the dais and scream obscenities and threats at the Chair, First Vice Chair, and
any other speaker. In fact, event security provided by the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
took it upon themselves to increase the security perimeter around the dais so the
convention could simply move forward with its routine business in relative safety. In
other words, the hour-to-hour business of Nevada Democrats was necessarily conducted
in an atmosphere of impending eruption of physical threats and intimidation for more
than 12 hours. Scuffles, screams from bullhorns, and profane insults marked nearly the
entirety of the event. Numerous medical emergencies among delegates pressed up against
the dais had to be attended to throughout the day.
They got some of that damn Instant Karma we hear about from the way they tried to manipulate the county Convention.
Mahalo, Starry~
This is Good News!
outnumbered in the convention hall by Clinton delegates, a portion of the Sanders
delegation rushed the dais immediately upon the opening of the convention and halted the
progress of any convention business for much of the day. Indeed, every point during
which Sanders delegates did not agree with any aspect of the proceedings saw them press
up against the dais and scream obscenities and threats at the Chair, First Vice Chair, and
any other speaker. In fact, event security provided by the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
took it upon themselves to increase the security perimeter around the dais so the
convention could simply move forward with its routine business in relative safety. In
other words, the hour-to-hour business of Nevada Democrats was necessarily conducted
in an atmosphere of impending eruption of physical threats and intimidation for more
than 12 hours. Scuffles, screams from bullhorns, and profane insults marked nearly the
entirety of the event. Numerous medical emergencies among delegates pressed up against
the dais had to be attended to throughout the day.
They got some of that damn Instant Karma we hear about from the way they tried to manipulate the county Convention.
Mahalo, Starry~ This is Good News!
Attachments
Examples of some of the thousands of crude, threatening text messages and voicemails from Sanders Campaign supporters against the Nevada State Democratic Party Chair can be found here: https://goo.gl/QpHNc5
Example text messages
