The Nevada Democratic Convention turned into an unruly and unpredictable event, after tension with organizers led to some Bernie Sanders supporters throwing chairs and to security clearing the room, organizers said.
Friction between Bernie Sanders’ supporters and state Democratic Party leaders had flared throughout the day on Saturday. The convention was scheduled to end by 7 p.m. and when it hadn’t wrapped up by 10 p.m., authorities at the Paris Las Vegas casino informed party organizers they could no longer provide the security necessary to handle the crowd.
Sanders national communications director Michael Briggs didn’t have immediate comment on the events in Nevada when reached by phone on Sunday morning.
The hostilities began when Sanders supporters accused state party leaders of putting them at a disadvantage, and they objected to procedural votes to approve the rules of the event on Saturday. They also questioned a credentials committee’s disqualification of 58 would-be Sanders delegates. State party officials said the would-be delegates didn’t provide acceptable identification and did not meet the May 1 deadline to register as Democrats.
State party officials said some Clinton-supporting delegates were ruled ineligible too, although in lower numbers.
Clinton has a five-delegate advantage over Sanders in Nevada, 20 to his 15, and is expected to win a majority of the state’s eight unpledged superdelegates — party officials who can vote for the candidate they choose. Going into Tuesday’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, Clinton has 1,716 pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, compared with 1,433 for Sanders.
Some Sanders supporters upset with Saturday’s proceedings protested against state party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, outside the Nevada State Democratic Party headquarters on Sunday. Her cellphone number was posted on social media and officials said Lange had received hundreds of phone calls and text messages, including death threats.
Sanders tried to tamp down the tensions roiling even before the convention. He issued a statement on Friday, reminding supporters that all Democrats shared the common goals of defeating Donald Trump and electing Democrats to office.
“Working together respectfully and constructively on Saturday at the Nevada Democratic convention will move us closer to those essential goals,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Lol,hehehehe,lol…….. I thought that the Democrats were supposed to have their act so together? “DEMOCRACY……. A charming form of government filled with variety and disorder and offering a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike”. (Plato)
When asked of democracy shortly after the constitutions signing, it was quoted Democracy’s ever spectacles of spoil are tyrannical in their uprisings as they are tragic in their deaths. Thomas Jefferson, co orator with james Madison. Jefferson had no regard for democracy, seems Plato didn,t either. Thousand years or more separate both societies, yet America didn,t learn a lesson seeing how history was unkind to both
Democracy is fine ’till they run out of other people’s money. That’s why we have a 19 trillion dollar debt. America is a Republic, but the Demrats have taken it over and now the Country is almost destroyed from within, just like The Roman and Greeks. Obama said in 2008 that it was unconstitutional to have a 2 trillion dollar debt, but now we don’t have NASA anymore, the military is a skeleton of what it once was, and we are not financing a war like in the Bush administration but, even so he has out spent all other presidents combined by a factor of at least three. What’s wrong with that picture?
“While America Burns, Obama ……………. (You fill the blank)
We The unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, with so little, for so long, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing!
This is not quite accurate. There are plenty of live feed Videos of the convention happenings posted on social media showing countless individuals reporting of illegal practices. The room was available until midnight, but, it was decided to end everything after 10 PM.
Intolerant left can’t stand their own kind. LOL
Amen Len, lol.
I hope the Sanders supporters come to realize that the whole process is rigged to make Hillary the nominee and they do that with their super delegates and by selecting delegates that support whoever they want supported, in this case Hillary. It doesn’t matter what the voters say. It is what the party bigwigs want that is important. The voters are crap under their feet in their view. The Republican Party has tried to do the same thing, but the voters have crushed all their BS candidates and chosen Donald Trump because he is the only one currently in the race that does not represent just the same old crap we have had to put up with for many years now. There seems to be a major split in both parties. The most rabid commies and NAZIS and socialists and fascists are rebelling in the Commieonazicrat party and the conservative base is rebelling in the Republican party. Trump is the only candidate that is for America, the rest are only in it for themselves be they Clinton or Sanders or Romney or Biden.
You nailed it.
don’t you that is what they have been doing with all these rioting that is in play to keep Trump away this is what they have drumming up since Trump was ahead of the Republican party even Obama has been on the canpaign trail telling voters they need to vote for Hillary or be are non Americans
Absolutely and 100% correct WhiteFalcon. You are a great American Patriot.
Your so right. There once was a great country, with freedom from all the so called POLITICAL CORRECTNESS that keeps being shoved down our throats. The gay rights, the black lives matters, the gender rights, and the government bull that we are better offer than we were 8 years ago. NONE SENSE that’s the craziest statement I have ever heard in my lifetime. Our children are being dumbed down to believe whatever the Liberian teach them in the school system of recent years. They don’t have a clue of why they are voting for the lib candidates. Ask them who our forefathers were they look at you like your crazy.
Our country is in turmoil and NO ONE seems to care until now. TRUMP cares and I the only one who is not going to be bought by the special interests or the lobbiests to buy him out. He doesn’t need them and thank God that he doesn’t.
Just wish that those that hate for no reason other than their uneducated in the truth would get educated on what’s really happening in this government and why it needs to be changed before its to late. As they say there is no turning back.
Go Bernie!!!
Athanasios1:
I prefer the Stars And Stripes over the Hammer And Sickle!
All the Demwits have running is a murdering criminal or a Socialist Commie. If you want a free Country, you had better stay away from any of these!
Unfortunately, you won’t get Stars and Stripes with either, or any, Democrat candidate.
You sure got that right Ron, Lord bless you.
Never Slick Hilly!!!
The dems showing their true colors just like sending rioters and demonstrstors to Trump rallys.
LOL, AGREE WITH MOST OF THE ABOVE, IT LOOKS AS IF THEY MAY HAVE TO PUT BARS ON THE WHITE HOUSE, SO SHILLERY CAN SERVE, HER TIME FROM THERE!
BUT THEY (CLINTONS) WILL SKATE OUT OF THIS ONE, AGAIN, .. OBAMA’S WILL EXERCISE HIS PARDON POWERS, I AM SURE!
He needs to have a cell next to theirs.
I bet you wont hear about this little scuffle on any of the left wing media !!
Its the Dems system, go protest at DNC Hqs alone or other state Dem Party offices.
Take issue to DC alone.
Blame the Dems You Dumb Voter mindset too.
Yea the Dems think U voters for them are ” Stupid”.
Your call, any Dem voters out there. for Hillary or Sanders.
Hang on just a darn minute… Are not these and other Dem protestors the same group of people who called the Trump supporters all kinds of names when Trump supporters protested the delegate stealing in Colorado??? Are not these the same group of folks who called Republican Trump supporters “whiners” and told us that we “should know the rules”???? YOU BUNCH OF HYPOCRITICAL S.O.B’s!
It appears that The Horn does censor posts….They arbitrarily took this one down and when I try to re post it they say that the comment is a duplicate….OK smart guys… if it is a “duplicate”, then where is the original???(riddle me this Batman).
Hang on just a darn minute… Are not these and other Dem protestors the same group of people who called the Trump supporters all kinds of names when Trump supporters protested the delegate stealing in Colorado??? Are not these the same group of folks who called Republican Trump supporters “whiners” and told us that we “should know the rules”???? YOU BUNCH OF HYPOCRITICAL S.O.B’s!
So I guess you didn’t see your post….I saw it two times. So I guess your wrong. Oh well. Maybe you should have have liked closer.
Yeah, the same thing happens to me quite often. Sometimes I find my post later and sometimes I don’t.
BTW, good post anyway, lol.