2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMichigan Mayor: Security Threatened To Kick Me Out Of Debate For Vocal Bernie Support
FLINT, Michigan After expressing vocal support for Bernie Sanders during Sunday nights debate, the independent mayor of Michigans third largest city says security warned him that he would be booted from Sundays Democratic debate here if he did not quiet down.
Jim Fouts, the 74-year-old three-term independent mayor of Warren, told BuzzFeed News Monday that he attended both the Republican and Democratic debates in Michigan over the past week. The audience at the GOP debate at the Fox theater in Detroit Thursday was loud. But the mood in the Whiting Auditorium on the campus of the Flint Cultural Center, where Sanders and Hillary Clinton met in one of their sharpest-elbowed debates to date, was very different, he said.
The Democratic debate is totally controlled by Hillarys [sic] good friend DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Fouts wrote on Facebook Monday. No commentary is allowed by the audience. Particularly if you are cheering Bernie Sanders. Persons who do not adhere to Hillarys [sic] rules are threatened with expulsion.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/michigan-mayor-security-threatened-to-kick-me-out-of-debate#.xvNlENv7v
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)cheering & calling out is frowned upon.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)but you knew that already...........
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)bc then it becomes a sign that the tides are finally turning & ppl are finally getting to know Sanders, right?
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)If BS wins, it's the people's choice. If HC wins, the fix is in. It's become boorish.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Hillary bends the truth and the media carries her water yet there is no bias................
elleng
(130,974 posts)Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Fouts wrote on Facebook Monday. No commentary is allowed by the audience. Particularly if you are cheering Bernie Sanders. Persons who do not adhere to Hillarys rules are threatened with expulsion.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Segami
(14,923 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)that Bill thought this might of been a good idea.....
Segami
(14,923 posts)provide desperate advise......
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)Not fall in line. The nerve.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)And shocked to find out people around him wanted him to shut up? People are there to hear the candidates not his running commentary.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)How dare they!!!!
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)The nerve!
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)know their place..........