The Clark County Democratic Convention was full of controversy from the beginning.
On Friday night, accusations of cheating came from both sides, which resulted in the attempted removal of credential committee chair Christine Kramar.
“We caught the Hillary campaign cheating, we caught the Nevada Democratic Party secretary cheating,” said Angie Sullivan, another member of the credentials committee for the Clark County Democratic Convention. “When it was apparent Bernie started winning, they really turned up the heat.”
Sullivan alleges that the Clark County Democratic Party (CCDP) was sharing information with the Hillary Clinton campaign that was not being shared with the Bernie Sanders campaign, and this is why Kramer copied a Sanders campaign contact on an email correspondence with CCDP officials and Clinton campaign officials.
However, Clinton campaign attorney Marc E. Elias told a different story in a threatening email sent to CCDP Chair Chris Miller. Elias ordered Miller to remove Kramar from the credentials committee due to her sharing allegedly proprietary information belonging to the Clinton campaign with the Sanders campaign.
But Kristal Glass, a Sanders delegate who was also a member of the credentials committee, told US Uncut that Kramar was simply acting as an independent arbiter in accordance with party bylaws by making sure all parties were included in conversations about the convention.
“It was her job to make sure everything was fair leading up to the Friday night early registration,” Glass said. “[Kramar] CC’d the Sanders campaign about a conversation happening that they weren’t included in, which was against the convention process.”
Then, Glass alleged that Michelle White, political director for Hillary Clinton’s Nevada campaign, was pressuring volunteers at the registration site to register alternates as delegates.
“We had a member of a campaign walking around with a computer showing volunteers, saying, ‘They’re approved, so go ahead and add them,'” Glass told US Uncut. “It has to be brought to the credentials committee to vet the entire thing, that’s what our responsibility is.”
“You don’t change the rules at the 11th hour to favor your candidate,” Sullivan said.
After Kramar reminded the Clinton campaign and CCDP officials of the party bylaws, all hell broke loose when CCDP officials attempted to act on the orders received from Marc Elias to remove Kramar as chair by calling an executive session.
“The Sanders campaign attorney came by and told Christine, ‘They had some meetings about you and they’re going to remove you,’ they said they didn’t like her tone, and all of these excuses, and it was just lies to get the delegate count their way,” Glass said. “They wanted all the people who came to the caucus as alternates so they could be converted over.”
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newtboyTHIS is why so many people who want to vote for Sanders say they won't vote for Hillary. Her campaign has been caught repeatedly being underhanded and 'cheating' to win any way they can. That puts her in the same untrustworthy camp as most republicans. If she ends up being the nominee, we may well end up with president Trump BECAUSE of bullshit like this.
newtboyNow, under this video on YT, the description reads-
Christine Kramar has been removed as Clark County's chair of credentials committee after an Emergency meeting by Hillary Clinton supporters on the executive board.
At the convention, she was removed from the convention center and is currently being arrested.
bobknight33Stuff like this makes people stitch to Bernie.
Dirty politics.
newtboy*promote
This is important information about the destruction of our election processes.
Far from 'transparent and upfront', this is one more example of a single candidate misusing their power to attempt to secretly sway the pre-election in their favor, and a clear indication that SOME believe in an 'ends justify the means' type of administration.
Scary to think of what might happen if they run the country in this same manner.
EDIT: Doing the numbers, if you take out the super delegates, or assume they'll mirror the voters as they normally do, Sanders only needs 56% of the remaining vote/delegates to win, and that's a likelihood at this point. Fingers crossed, knock on wood, may we all be touched by his noodley appendage.
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newtboy*promote again, because attempts to change election rules after the vote and bully election officials is an important story for the entire planet, since it might end up deciding who's our president. Trying to remove the HEAD/CHAIR of the credentials committee based on instructions from one candidate's lawyer? That's election tampering plain and simple.
It's also important because it exemplifies how totally screwed up our election processes are. There's no legitimate reason for it to be so convoluted and easily tampered with. This and other stories do not bode well for November. It's like they're prepping us to not be surprised when every state has 'irregularities' that leave us all wondering who was really elected, and who was just handed the election.
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MordhausWell, that's Hillary. If you can't win by the rules, change the rules.
*promote again, because attempts to change election rules after the vote and bully election officials is an important story for the entire planet, since it might end up deciding who's our president. Trying to remove the HEAD/CHAIR of the credentials committee based on instructions from one candidate's lawyer? That's election tampering plain and simple.
It's also important because it exemplifies how totally screwed up our election processes are. There's no legitimate reason for it to be so convoluted and easily tampered with. This and other stories do not bode well for November. It's like they're prepping us to not be surprised when every state has 'irregularities' that leave us all wondering who was really elected, and who was just handed the election.
More follow up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-vbFNu628
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