Democrats consider new rules to avoid convention chaos

[portlander23]

Democrats consider new rules to avoid convention chaos
Alex Seitz-Wald
MSNBC

Still reeling from the chaos surrounding last weekend’s Nevada Democratic State Convention, party officials considered new guidelines Friday that would bar interruptions of any kind at upcoming state conventions

The guidelines called for cost sharing for extra security, more meetings to hammer out issues ahead of time and for senior officials with both campaigns to be on the floor of the convention to help reign in supporters if need be.

He also called on all parties to agree that conventions should proceed “without interruption or interference of any manner,” including “auditory or visual distractions.”

Somehow I think last minute rules changes to tamp down on dissent isn't going to work any better at the national level than it did in Nevada.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Nothing like consistency. The fly-by-night rules are half of the problem.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. National publications should ensure their writers know the difference between rein and reign.

[Codeine]

4. The curse of spellcheck and the death of proofreading. nt

[CobaltBlue]

3. One step toward irrelevance.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Weirdos, men with long hair, and anyone from a state west of Nebraska will not be admitted

[Shandris]

6. Lol. 'Rules'.

There's a word we won't see too much longer now that it's been shown to be a complete sham. This year has cost the hidden globalists quite dearly, even if the """""election (lol)""""" is lost by us.

Glad to see them doing it so clearly and openly.

[highprincipleswork]

7. New Rules - making way for the new, more "Democratic" police state?

Oh how i long to be governed by party bosses.

You'd think they would try to remove the comparison to Donald Trump and the Republicans as much as they could. But perhaps they've just spent too long imitating them.

[bjo59]

9. Yep. You got that straight.

[bjo59]

8. Using the trumped up narrative about Nevada to clamp down hard in Philly. Why is this

not surprising in the least? I think the "chaos" at the Nevada convention was planned by Roberta Gustav Lange, the Nevada party committee, and Wasserman Schultz & co. at the national level. How hard is to crank up tensions? Not hard at all: lock out over 50 delegates for not being correctly credentialed with no recourse for those locked out, hold the first vote half an hour before the scheduled start time of the convention, make it difficult for people to leave to go to the bathroom, make it very difficult for people to have food sent in (one delegate reported eating one piece of pizza in 16 hours), hold a voice vote that the "nays" won and bang the gavel to the announcement that "the yays have it," make it almost impossible for delegates to bring a motion for a recount and then when they finally manage it (conforming to the new rules that were rammed through), call the convention adjourned while the motion is in process. Yep, looks like a screw job to me. A set up so that Wasserman Schultz, Comcast, and the rest of the head honchos presiding over that Democratic National Convention can set rules to marginalize, infantilize, and disenfranchise Sanders delegates at the DNC. So pathetic and obvious... but, then, why not be pathetic and obvious when the entire corporatized power structure of the country is behind you? Is this the USA or Zimbabwe?