Some Democrats accuse Sanders supporters of harassing convention delegates

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Some Democrats accuse Sanders supporters of harassing convention delegates

By Anne Gearan, John Wagner and Abby Phillip April 12 at 12:01 PM

Sen. Bernie Sanders and his boosters are intensifying their courtship of convention delegates who could determine the winner of the Democratic nomination this year, prompting some party leaders and supporters of front-runner Hillary Clinton to claim harassment.

The Sanders campaign says it has no connection to the efforts of outside supporters to lean on superdelegates, the party leaders and elected officials who can cast nomination votes for any candidate and could become pivotal in the nominating contest.

Among those efforts is a website created last week under the name “superdelegatehitlist.com,” providing phone numbers and addresses for superdelegates and encouraging users to submit further contact information, presumably to help advocates pressure them. Site creator Spencer Thayer, a Chicago activist, described the goal this way in a Twitter message: “So who wants to help start of a new website aimed at harassing Democratic Superdelegates?”

Longtime DNC member and superdelegate Bob Mulholland wrote a letter to Sanders last week excoriating the candidate for failing to call out his supporters for their “bullying” of superdelegates.

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[geek tragedy]

1. Sanders is encouraging with this open convention talk even if Clinton wins pledged delegates nt

[DebbieCDC]

2. Call the whaaaaaaambulance

for those poor little superdelegates. Being bullied by all those bad citizens.

[Lucinda]

7. You may not have a problem with voter intimidation, but I do. n/t

[Romulox]

3. The hoi polloi are speaking to us! How dare they! nt

[DrDan]

4. nothing wrong with this . . . good heavens - let them have some fun

[mooseprime]

5. why

don't they just buy them through the DNC like like everyone else?

[BernieforPres2016]

6. Poor things, trying to steal an election and people are harrassing them for it

It has going to do nothing but get worse. The pitchforks are coming for them.

[mythology]

8. How exactly are they trying to steal the election?

You do realize that Clinton is ahead in the pledged delegates and the popular vote. These constant claims of the election being stolen by super delegates are tiresome when the voting shows that to this point Clinton is substantially ahead.