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Actor

(626 posts)
1. What exactly, without commentary, bias, etc., was the leadership doing that
Wed May 18, 2016, 01:55 PM
May 2016

the Bernie folks were upset about?

Were they not allowing a vote on something?

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
7. The credentials committee made up of equal number of clinton and sanders supporters
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:43 PM
May 2016

announced that the clinton supporters outnumbers the sanders supporters by about 30 delegates.

Note that the credential committee excluded both clinton and sanders delegates using the same rules.
And that 85% of the excluded sanders delegates didn't contest it most probably because they didn't have a leg to stand on.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
2. So the Sanders supporters basically blames the bad behavior on people only having access to a bar.
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:14 PM
May 2016

So this is all another alcohol-related incident?


 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
3. yep I saw guy with chair there in the air. Someone grabbing chair from him.
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:19 PM
May 2016

And in between people I see chairs overturned on the floor.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
5. This convention footage...
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:39 PM
May 2016

is contrary to everything being put out by Bernie supporters now - "since there is no footage."

If I were standing on the stage, and saw that chair up in the air and that foul ruckus, you'd bet I'd think it had devolved to petulant chair-throwing!

And MSNBC has the footage!

DLCWIdem

(1,580 posts)
12. inevitable conclusion to a chair being brandished in the air
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:34 PM
May 2016

I wonder if it has occurred to anyone that the person who saw the cair in the air didn't rush off to alert security and didn't stay to see the inevitable conclusion to a chair brandished threateningly high in the air....... that of the perpetrator being talked down and given a big ol' hug. Yep who would know how that would end.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
15. It wasn't a made-up fiction.
Wed May 18, 2016, 05:05 PM
May 2016

There was a basis to the initial accusation of "chairs being thrown" and the threat of violence - and the fear some felt.

This kind of belligerence started at the caucus, carried through the district county conventions and culminated at the state convention.

Now they want to carry it to the national convention.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
9. And, I wouldn't describe what ...
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:07 PM
May 2016

the person that took the chair from the guy, did as "giving him a hug" ... It looked to me to be him restraining the guy.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. Yea I read that. Supposedly BS supporters dranked booze without eating
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:25 PM
May 2016

for approx. 15 hours. Oh man, what else will be there excuse.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
8. They could have simply said...
Wed May 18, 2016, 02:45 PM
May 2016

"Come on, folks! It's a weekend in Vegas!"

We'd have understood!

But no - denial, mistreatment, rigged party, "she must die," fire DWS, national corruption, big buts from the candidate!

You know what? It still sounds like explaining a very bad weekend in Vegas!

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
11. Well, that was wicked Clinton's plan all along. Set 3 bar JUST for Sander supporters,
Wed May 18, 2016, 03:37 PM
May 2016

Get them drunk so they'd cause chaos and mayhem...

Is there no limit to that woman's evilness?

ismnotwasm

(41,977 posts)
14. Next convention put some 12-step programs in the convention center
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:56 PM
May 2016

So the participants who can't control their drinking have an...outlet.

And what was that woman babbling about? Petitions?

caquillo

(521 posts)
13. The Nevada fracas and Sanders' indifference...
Wed May 18, 2016, 04:49 PM
May 2016

... have been all over the news for days. It didn't have much effect on OR or KY (too soon?), but I'm willing to bet that he'll start losing support as a result. In three weeks' time (June 7), he's gonna be dealt a major defeat.

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