Dkos: No, Senator Sanders; YOU are out of touch (opinion piece)

[Gothmog]

387. They were delegates to the national convention and so should have represented sanders base

Normally one has to work ten or twenty years inside the party to warrant a slot to a national convention. I had a lady who was jealous that I got to be a delegate after only 15 years of working inside the party because it took her almost 30 years. Under party rules, the candidate is supposed to vet and approve all delegates. At the Texas Democratic Convention, a Sanders delegate was elected by his local Senate District but was replaced with a BOB type on the orders of the Sanders campaign. The Sanders delegates were not vetted or briefed at all as to how the process worked.

The Clinton delegates were all extensively vetted and then briefed. Clinton had a whipping infrastructure in place and so we knew and saw the weak text message that Sanders sent to his delegates asking them to not act up too much. The Friday before the convention, we were told by the whips to expect up to 5 floor votes on Sanders floor fights. A friend/person from Texas was the co-chair of the Rules Committee and she told me that they worked from early Saturday morning until after 2:30 AM Sunday morning to avoid a floor fight.

The examples listed above are not isolated. Do you approve of the Sanders delegation booing Congressman John Lewis at the National Convention. The Sanders supporters on JPR are proud of the booing of Congressman John Lewis and blame Lewis for not convincing African American voters to vote for Sanders. http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/bernie-swiftboater-john-lewis-heckled-during-msnbc-interview/ and https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/thank-you-rep-john-lewis/

If you want another example, the Texas Democratic Party State Democratic Executive Committee meeting back in September and the top four candidates for the DNC chair spoke. The Sanders Texas group (Our Revolution/Texas) attempted to turn the event into a sanders rally with Sanders signs and loud applause. I have heard that this backfired and pissed off people in the party. I know of at least one of the Texas DNC members who is supporting Perez after this event.

Another example is that one of the people at the above SDEC event actually bragged to my daughter that she was trying to convince voters to vote for Stein while block walking for down ballot races. I have seen enough bad behavior that the above examples are not isolated.

I hate to break it to you but the posts on the JPR site and the conduct that I have seen show that these are not isolated incidents