Kander will skip Democratic convention, cites scheduling conflict

[pstokely]

"CLEVELAND
Jason Kander, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, now says he won’t attend his party’s convention in Philadelphia next week.

“This was purely a scheduling decision, nothing more,” Kander spokeswoman Anne Feldman said. Kander has endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Kander’s decision is part of a pattern of elected officials in both parties — skipping their conventions. Sen. Roy Blunt, Kander’s opponent, isn’t in Cleveland. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, is also back home."

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article90481222.html#storylink=cpy

[liberal N proud]

1. A pattern?

Many republicans and 1 or 2 Democrats does not a pattern make.

In fact this is the first Democratic candidate that I have heard not going.

The media and their fucking "both sides do it shit" is old and worn out.