Democrats not staying quiet during GOP convention

[TexasTowelie]

CLEVELAND — Used to be that, out of courtesy, the political parties essentially would go dark during the other side’s political convention.

But that's so 20 years ago.

Not only are Hillary Clinton’s supporters here to rain on Donald Trump’s convention coronation, they have set up what they’re calling a “counter-convention.”

“There’s just too much at stake to step back and let the American people hear the nastiness and venom that is being spewed from that podium,” said Debbie Wasserman Shultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, in a press conference today not far from the convention center.

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