Boxer: "I feared for my safety" Weaver: "No One Had The Right To Feel Threatened' At NV Convention"
Progressive Man ?@WeNeedHillary 17h17 hours agoCA-Sen Barbara Boxer: "I feared for my safety" "It was frightening, scary" at NV convention http://bit.ly/22gq6h2
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Sanders Adviser: 'No One Had The Right To Feel Threatened' At NV Convention http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/weaver-nevada-convention?utm_content=bufferafba6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Big surprise.
You'll of course, point to any specific inaccuracies in her statement, yes? Or was yours merely an implication lacking any objective or substantive evidence?
Big surprise, part two.
global climate change, lack of healthcare, crushing debt, low wages, politicians who look out for corporations, banks and Wall Street instead of the needs of the people. But hey you got a job, security and shit most Americans don't have. Now pull up your big girl panties and deal with it. If you can't handle the heat get the fuck out of the kitchen is a very old saying that fits your situation perfectly.
the truth from the General Counsel, Nevada State Democratic Party:
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.
The most egregious instance of the Sanders Campaign inciting disruption—and yes, violence—came as the State Convention’s Credentials Committee completed its work. Adam Gillette, part of National Delegate Operations Team for the official Sanders Campaign, drafted and arranged for a member of that committee to attempt to deliver an incendiary, inaccurate, and wholly unauthorized “minority report” charging that the Credentials Committee had fraudulently denied 64 Sanders delegates their eligibility. The final delegate count had provided the Clinton Campaign with a 33 delegate advantage in the hall; one can imagine the rage occasioned by this inflammatory charge, tossed into the tinderbox of a tense convention hall. Not only did this discredit the work of the Credentials Committee—which featured five Sanders delegates and five Clinton delegates and a Sanders co-chair, and who worked all day under extremely trying conditions to be fair and diligent in their duties—it called into question the entirety of the proceedings because it indicated to an irrational minority that the proceedings had been rigged against them. Forcing their way onto the dais to deliver this paranoid fantasy of fraud and delegate theft was clearly intended to throw the proceedings into disarray.
It succeeded. From that moment on, there was little hope for any peace or mutual understanding and respect between Sanders delegates and the NSDP; the mantra became simply that the convention had been stolen from the Sanders Campaign. Never mind that six of the 64 potential Sanders delegates referenced had been seated after investigation, or that most of the remaining 58 potential delegates had been disqualified—appropriately, and by a panel evenly split between the campaigns—for not being registered Democratic voters in Nevada. Never mind that the same Credentials Committee had disqualified Clinton delegates for various reasons as well. Never mind, further, that just eight of those 64 potential Sanders delegates even attempted to register for the State Convention. All that mattered was the creation of a narrative of fraud and dispossession, which the Sanders Campaign fomented intentionally for its own political gain. This was an unconscionable act by an official Sanders Campaign representative, with full knowledge of its likely impact on the convention.
read more: https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/nv-democrats-file-complaint-against-sanders-campaign-dnc
Carissa WomanCard ?@bluelyon
On the left, patient @HillaryClinton supporters. On right disruptive Sanders supporters. #nvdemconvention
There is no justifying the behavior of that angry mob.
Their conduct, as I've said elsewhere, was the first of the last ragged breaths of the Sanders "revolution."
They did their part in ensuring he will be a very small footnote in history. Like clueless people confuse Gene McCarthy with Joe McCarthy, clueless people in the future--maybe on this very board--will confuse Bernie Sanders with Colonel Sanders, and believe that the beginning of the end of his campaign was that he couldn't "win his own state of Kentucky!"
Clinton by two years and just 4 years younger than the 74 year old Sanders, but no one crabbed about his age--was it the young wives, or the dyed hair, that fooled people, I wonder?) or the new-agey and thoughtful Linc Chaffee (5 years younger than Hillary). Joe Biden (73) might have had ambitions, but he's had two brain surgeries, has run twice and couldn't get out of single digits, and he is regarded as a great bridesmaid but a poor bride. Way too much baggage. Neil Kinnock, Anita Hill, coming from the Credit Card state, etc.--plus, he's "gassy" -- and his enthusiasm for chat and bonhomie can get his ("big fucking deal"
mouth out ahead of himself at times.
Those guys just got the hand when they promenaded on the runway--it wasn't the fault of the party, or a desire for "coronation," either--the voters simply didn't want 'em. They didn't like what they were selling. The voters decided that the other ones just weren't different enough to matter, and they narrowed it down in short order. Clinton is the heir to Obama, and Sanders (who has not been aggressively vetted yet) represents "change" of some amorphous sort. And Trump (70, vetting underway now) is a lunatic.
And no one else wants the job--it's thankless. If you are a candidate, you're investigated up the wazoo, every detail of your past is turned over and examined and you spend all your time on the defensive. If you're a serious candidate, you have to stay focused, if you're unserious, like Trump, you just keep lying and bullshitting.
Plus, at the end of the day, no matter what team you play for (Dem or GOP), there's always a legislature that is half full of (from your point of view) assholes that wish you ill. Of course, in the case of Trump, the legislature would be entirely full of legislators with at least half a clue who wished him ill, or at least wanted to try to use that egomaniac for their purposes.
You'd probably need to be aware of "KFC culture" though, because there's no bucket o'chicken in the pic!
had to deal with" but I like what you said better.
