Who else is watching the opening hour of the DNC? Seriously — it’s a shitshow. TONS of booing from random people while the new chair (who has had the job for like a hot second) was gavelling the convention open. Tons of legitimate signage (anti-TPP) and other body signage (Bernie or Bust) attracting the press to the loudest naysayers. Interviews with people who are Sanders delegates who won’t vote for Trump, but don’t know if they’ll vote for Clinton.
It looks bad. And I’m far from a concern troll.
More troubling — a text message that Sanders sent to delegation leaders urgent them to get supporters in line and to not protest on the floor of the convention.
"I ask you as a personal courtesy to me to not engage in any kind of protest on the floor," Sanders wrote in a text message blasted to delegates, including Gwen Snyder, a Philadelphia-based grassroots activist. Snyder, a whip over Sanders delegates in southeastern Pennsylvania, said the blast came from the same phone number she'd seen on earlier campaign instructions.
"Its(sic) of utmost importance you explain this to your delegations - Bernie," the text message said.
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Updating as I follow the news coverage. Apparently, there was a Jane Sanders hot mic moment after Sanders’ earlier address to supporters that has everyone on the Sanders side up in arms, convinced that Sanders “is still in this”:
But it was after the boos subsided and Sanders wrapped up his speech with a call to “defeat right-wing extremism,” that the Vermont senator’s wife, Jane Sanders, came on stage and made a curious statement that was accidentally caught on the microphone.
While the crowd again cheered for Sanders, Jane Sanders leaned in an said:
“They don’t know your name is going to be put in nomination. That’s the concern.”
But according to NBC, there will be no attempt to derail the nominating process.
That prompted some speculation on social media immediately following the remark.
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After the debacle that was the RNC, for the love of all that’s sacred — we can’t look equally as enraged, equally as angry. I understand the anger. I do. I’ve supported HRC from the beginning, but with a great deal of respect towards Sanders supporters and towards Sanders himself.
For the first time, I’m worried.
Updated: here are a few choice tweets from the #DemsInPhilly hashtag:
Well. Never did I think that news confirming official suspicion of state-sponsored hacking of the DNC emails would be a good thing — but to change the media narrative, I think it is. Source.