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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Gothmog
(145,054 posts)I live in the real world. It takes a great deal of work in the real world to be a delegate to a national convention. Under DNC rules, each candidate has absolute approval rights over their delegates and all campaigns carefully vet their delegates. I was carefully vetted by the Clinton campaign. The Sanders campaign used one criteria to vet delegates. They had to hate Hillary Clinton. At the Texas State Democratic Convention in 2016, a delegate was removed and replaced by the Sanders campaign because that delegate would not state that they hated Clinton (that poor kid was a guest of the Texas Democratic Party to the National Convention to make up for the shabby treatment by the Sanders campaign). There was a ton of poor conduct at the convention including a number of sanders delegates yelling obscenities at my child (who was my guest) and calling her the C-word for not agreeing to get me to change my vote.
There was a planned stunt by the sanders delegates at the National Convention to boo Congressman John Lewis. I was warned of this stunt 20 or 30 minutes in advance by my whip. Sanders evidently knew of this stunt and refused to stop it. Again candidates should be responsible for the bad conduct of their delegates. Sanders did nothing to control his delegates and that hurt the convention and the campaign. I also was the convention breakfast where jpr types called on the Texas delegation to condemn Hillary Clinton and vote for sanders
I saw sanders delegates at the national convention who were so full of hate that it was not funny. Again, the real world is a nice place. I have to deal with JPR types in the real world but people are not ignoring them.