What are the facts in Nevada?

[JDPriestly]

Thom Hartmann invited a supporter of the Bernie campaign who is also an established member or the Democrat Party.

She explained that the rules required that in order get a vote to change the rules at the floor of the convention, petitions signed by 20% of those attending had to be submitted by something like 9:30 a.m. (I'm not certain about the exact time.) That was the rule.

Bernie supporters, including millennials, claim that they presented petitions that satisfied the requirements on time and that Lange rejected them without cause.

That is what angered the Bernie supporters.

Lange refused to allow their petitions to be recognized and refused to allow them to be heard.

I would like to hear Lange's response to this rather serious allegation of unfairness at the Nevada convention.

This is what I heard on Thom Hartmann today.

cross-posted from a response in another thread.

[YouDig]

1. What rules did they want to change?

[DURHAM D]

2. Well, probably the part about being registered Democrats

and the need to be Nevada residents.

[JDPriestly]

3. Good question. I think they wanted the standard Roberts Rules of Order.

I am reporting on the bit I heard on Thom Hartmann. Perhaps someone who knows more about it or heard the entire Hartmann show will respond to your question.

This definitely needs to be investigated further because serious charges, some of which have already been proved to have no basis in fact (like the throwing of chairs) have been brought.

We should ask Lange and the Bernie supporters to discuss their understandings of what happened.

I am embarrassed at the lack of self-control, consideration for others and maturity on the part of the leadership of the Nevada convention.

A church supper has to be better organized to consider the feelings and ideas of everyone. When it comes to politics, as in our justice system, we have an obligation to be civil with each other. This makes the entire Democratic Party look bad.

From what I saw, it appeared that the organizers of the convention were quite unfair.

When you have a group voting that is pretty close to evenly divided on their votes, on their opinions, you do not hold a voice vote. You count the votes so that everyone feels they have been heard.

The right to appear and to be heard. That's the basic right in our legal system and should be applied in situations like the Nevada convention especially when the minority voters or attendees are very close in number to the majority.

This scene has sown a serious amount of distrust among Bernie supporters.

[DURHAM D]

4. If Hartman is your source it is no wonder that you have

a problem with facts.



Done

[JDPriestly]

5. It was not Hartmann himself. It was an interview with a responsible person.

I don't have a problem with facts. I am interested in finding out the true facts.

People who know me on Democratic Underground know that I am a reasonable person.

Do you have any first-hand knowledge about what happened at the Nevada convention?

I'm sure that the person who was interviewed by Hartmann will be further interviewed.

[RobertEarl]

6. Lange is a false Democrat

She is history.