What Happened at the Nevada “Democratic” State Convention?
... All of this happened because there has been a bit of a misunderstanding between the “Democratic” Party and ourselves — they’ve been laboring under the impression that we — you know, the people — are supposed to subserviently accept what the democratic party officials have decreed but — meanwhile — we (having been misled by the word “democratic” being in their name) thought that we would get to have a say in choosing our nominee for president. As you can guess, this embarrassing miscommunication has led to a lot of confusion — but worry not! I believe that we can clear all of that up in this article by taking a look at a few numbers. First up, let’s talk about…
1,693 and 1,662
Those were the numbers of both Clinton and Sanders delegates that were at the state “democratic” convention in Nevada on Saturday — well, actually, those are the numbers of delegates that were allowed to participate in the convention on Saturday — and, as you can see:
1,693 – 1,662 = 31
Clinton had 31 more delegates inside of the convention — which wasn’t very good news for the Sanders supporters yesterday. But wait! There’s another number that you should probably know about and that is…
64
64 is the number of Bernie Sanders delegates that were not allowed to participate — this is because they were de-certified and denied entry into the convention. I’ll only point out the obvious — that 64 delegates would have been immensely useful for the Sanders-supporters, who were 31 short of Clinton’s suddenly higher delegate count.
UPDATE: 5/16, 2:06pm PDT, 64 delegates were originally denied delegate status, 6 of whom were later admitted, for a total of 58 delegates that were de-certified. These delegates were rejected by committees made up of officials that Roberta Lange had chosen. As Chair, Lange was empowered to do this by an illegitimate rule change that Sanders’ delegates had attempted to contest, both with a petition to the Nevada State Democratic Party and by attempting to challenge the decision in court prior to the convention. To better understand the illegitimate rule changes, I suggest you examine this petition to the Nevada State Democratic Party, which describes how Lange accomplished the takeover in detail and was begun before the convention on Saturday.
Now, at this point, many of you may find yourselves wondering, “what do you mean ‘de-certified?’ How does that work?” Well, it’s really quite fascinating — let me tell you!
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