Reid urges Sanders to condemn violence in Nevada

[YouDig]

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) had a 10-minute conversation with presidential contender Bernie Sanders Tuesday to discuss the violent outbursts by his supporters at the state party convention in Nevada over the weekend.

Reid made sure that Sanders was aware of just how ugly things got — including incidents of chair throwing — and expects his colleague will condemn the violence soon.

“He and I had a very long conversation,” Reid told reporters. “I laid out to him what happened in Las Vegas. I wanted to make sure he understands what went on there, the violence and all the other bad things that have happened there.

“He said that he condemns that. I’m confident he does. I’m confident he’ll be saying something about it soon,” added the Senate leader, who endorsed Hillary Clinton for president after she won the Nevada caucuses in February. “I’m hopeful and very confident that Sen. Sanders will do the right thing.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/280206-reid-urges-sanders-to-condemn-violence-in-nevada

Harry Reid seems to think he was able to talk some sense into Bernie. Hopefully he's right, and Sanders will condemn the actions of his delegates, and apologize for that delusional press release he put out.

[auntpurl]

1. I hope so.

I think it's very damaging if Bernie does not say something about this. Violence has no place in politics.

[JimDandy]

23. This was a rumor started by a reporter who is a Hillary supporter.

He, nor anyone else, has produced any evidence that violence occured at the convention. Many, many videos of the convention are on the net, including a series of them that captured tbe proceedings from start to finish. None show any violence. PERIOD.

The real story is the undermining of democracy by the Clinton camp at that convention. The corruption is voiced in detail by Roberta Lange in video after video of the Nevada State Convention. They are all available on Youtube now.

The most egregiously corrupt part of that whole convention was when the Chair created a "temporary" rule to make the results of all the delegate voting at the County Convention level in NV null and void because it didn't favor the chair's candidate.

That "temporary" rule is very reminiscent of the Bush v Gore SCOTUS decision in 4 ways:

1. The court, like the Chair above made the ruling to "elect" their candidate;
2. The two rulings were deemed "temporary" and not to be used in any other decision;
3. The corrupt decisions were openly displayed to the whole world in all their naked guile and
4. Both are unprecedented in the history of the US.

Unprecedented.

No other State Dem Party has ever declared the legitimately arrived at delegate counts of their 2nd tier convention to be null and void and to instead use the delegate count from the caucuses because it favored their candidate.

[Land of Enchantment]

55. + 1,000,000,000

The truth hurts.

[hill2016]

2. me too

I urge him to condemn the violence as well

[yeoman6987]

28. Maybe at his victory speech tonight?

That might be a good time to say something about it.

[Bill USA]

3. only responsible reaction.... too much to ask??

[Skwmom]

4. What a surprise from the corrupt corporate tool who wants to hide records from the IGS.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511965028

[Joob]

5. OH! There was violence!? Where? You'd think some Hillary supporter would jump on recording that.

No, no violence. You have an actual Hillary supporter that was arrested for punching a woman who was Bernie supporter. THAT'S VIOLENCE.

Only thing there was disfranchised voters that were angry, FOR good reason.
Look at all the videos, no violence. Maybe harsh words. THAT'S IT.

But let me make it clear. Violence is WHEN someone actually HURTS someone, like that Hillary supporter

[joshcryer]

6. Reid is the angel on Sanders shoulder. Weaver is Satan.

I really feel for Sanders. Weaver has convinced him to go to really low places. For no reason but to line his and Tad Devine's pockets.

[auntpurl]

8. It really does feel like Reid is trying to save Bernie from himself

and his more extreme, thuggish supporters.

[joshcryer]

9. He absolutely is.

He has nothing to gain from this. There will be a walk back.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Reid called in favors in Nevada to cheat on behalf of Clinton.

Jon Ralston / USA Today (February 20, 2016):

I’d like to congratulate the winner of the Nevada Democratic caucus: Harry Reid. The story of the Nevada caucus is that a lame-duck senator and a self-neutered union conspired to revive the Clinton campaign in a remarkable bit of backroom maneuvering that helped Madame Secretary crush Sanders in Clark County, the key to winning almost any statewide election. [Because the city of Las Vegas with all the big casinos are in Clark County.] The senator decided he would single-handedly save the state for Clinton. A gamble? Yes. But like going all-in with a straight flush. And it paid off.

Clinton voters bused in to caucus w/o registering:

“They’re letting them into the caucus right now without registering them,” a woman can be heard yelling as a steady line of people stream by.

“They’re going to do the count. They’re all going to be part of the count,” anther woman can be heard saying in reply.

“But they’re not registered,” a man says.

“They will register after this,” the woman can be heard saying.

“Clinton supports caught BREAKING the rules,” Porter writes in the video description. “This just happened at caucus location in Nevada. Hillary supporters were not registering to caucus, which is NOT allowed by the Democratic Party.”

[JimDandy]

10. No apology needed. No chairs were thrown and no violence occured at all.

Not a single incidence of violence can be found on any of the dozens of videos of the convention. And the convention was filmed all the way through.

This rumor was started by a reporter who supports Clinton and he hadn't produced any evidence for what he said.

[YouDig]

11. Denial of facts works as an internet poster. Not a presidential candidate.

[ThePhilosopher04]

17. There is no evidence of violence. NONE.

[YouDig]

18. Well, if you ignore the multiple independent reports from credible journalists.

The adults in the room know what happened. The internet conspiracy theorists will never accept that, but what else is new.

[ThePhilosopher04]

19. They've produced nothing other than heresay from Clinton campaign

Zero evidence to support the bullshit narrative by David Brock and Hillary Clinton.

[YouDig]

21. Of course, it was David Brock. He controls everything.

See my last post about the adults in the room.

[ThePhilosopher04]

22. Hi David how are you?

[YouDig]

24. And this is why nobody believed what Bernie supporter say.

[ThePhilosopher04]

25. Whhhaaaaahh!!!whaaaahh!! Whaaaahhhh!! Bunch of fucking

Whiny babies

[YouDig]

26. That was, umm, different.

[Grassy Knoll]

54. LOL, I Think He Told You To Get Off His Lawn....

[AgingAmerican]

60. Here is your 'Chairs thrown' video

Now do you feel used?
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/732618967181746178/pu/vid/190x180/8dyLZHoQhOqf1kkl.mp4

[JimDandy]

39. They are simply repeating the claims of the one reporter who started the rumor: Jon Ralston.

That reporter has produced zero evidence of his claim and there are dozens of videos of the convention out there. Not a single one shows any violence.

At this point, lacking any evidence, this claim of violence can only be found to be false.

This poorly researched claim from a single reporter (who is a Hillary Shill), and and its repeating, sans evidence, throughout the main stream media, is very reminiscent of what Capehart did. Capehart's claim that it wasn't Bernie Sanders in the photo of the university student's protest over housing discrimination on campus in Chicago was printed in all the big media too.... and proven to be absolutely false. The media all had egg on their face. That's what happens when we no longer have a robust '4th estate' in the US.

[YouDig]

44. And I believe you, since you were there in the newsrooms of all the different journals.

And because none of them ever gather facts for themselves. Not the NYT or AP or any of the others.

And obviously Jon Ralston is part of the conspiracy. It goes without saying.

You see, it's a very very big conspiracy. Really, other than the people throwing chairs or calling in death threats, everyone else is part of the conspiracy.

[JimDandy]

51. You are being obtuse. No conspiracy required. Simply the will to repeat unconfirmed info from one

source without any corroborating evidence.

If they had evidence, such as photos, videos, eyewitness reports those media outlets would have produced it.

How embarrassing for Rachel Maddow that she sunk to showing stock footage of chairs thrown around at some other event, because she had nothing else.

If you have proof of violence at the convention, please produce it. You would be the HERO of the HillBill Camp if you could.

[sadoldgirl]

40. Okay, then show the video, instead of insulting Bernie!

YOU don't have it?? Nobody has it either.
Therefore it should be called a lousy smear!

[auntpurl]

12. You think the NY Times, Rolling Stone, and AP are all lying?

When everyone in the world seems to be against you, it might be paranoia, you know?

[JimDandy]

14. They are simply repeating the claims of the one reporter who started the rumor.

That reporter has produced zero evidence of his claim and there are dozens of videos of the convention out there. Not a single one shows any violence.

At this point, lacking any evidence, this claim of violence can only be found to be false.

This poorly researched claim by a reporter, and its repeating throughout the main stream media, is very reminiscent of what Capehart did. Capehart's claim that it wasn't Bernie Sanders in the photo of the university student's protest over housing discrimination on campus in Chicago was printed in all the big media too.... and proven to be absolutely false. The media all had egg on their face. That's what happens when we no longer have a robust '4th estate' in the US.

[AgingAmerican]

33. Were the NY times, Rolling Stone, or AP present?

There were dozens of video cameras rolling, but no chairs or punches thrown. The whole thing is made up.

[Number23]

13. Good luck with that, Harry!

Hope you got through.

[nc4bo]

15. I'd love to ask Reid did any of those casino workers ever register?

HA! Did they?

[scscholar]

20. The chair?

What about the chair? Or, the threats?

[nc4bo]

29. Hard to believe this got hidden when I've seen HRC supporters call Sanders similar.

Yea some DUers, showing out and not in a good way.

[dchill]

27. I urge Reid to condemn the Nevada Democratic party.

Then he would be credible.

[Karma13612]

30. Hey Reid, how about you condemn the travesty that occurred at the

Nevada State Convention.

Get your priorities straight.

Oh wait, that's right, your priority is Hillary.

Nuff said.

[AgingAmerican]

31. There was no violence in Nevada

Hillary supporters made it all up to avoid discussing the cheating done in their candidates name

[YouDig]

32. Of course, all those independent reports were all part of the conspiracy.

It's so convenient to have a conspiracy theory to blame all those pesky facts that you don't like on, I can see why the Bernie crowd relies on it so much.

[AgingAmerican]

36. "Independent reports" Um, Hillary supporters are not 'independent reports'

AND zero evidence exists. This is because Hillary supporters made the whole thing up to cover up the cheating done in their candidates name by the Nevada Democratic party.

[YouDig]

37. NYT, AP, WP, even the Nation reported it.

But I get it, David Brock just made a couple phone calls and got all those journals to publish false stories. There's nothing that the conspiracy theory can't take care of.

[JimDandy]

46. They were bamboozled by their sole source: Jon Ralston a Hillary Shill.

The same way they were with the Capehart debacle. Our main stream media has long ago given up the pretense of impartiality, quality research or the journalistic standards of decades past.

[YouDig]

49. Yes, they are the ones bamboozled. Obviously.

Bernie supporters on Reddit are never wrong about anything, it's always those journalists with their "sources" and "witnesses" who get bamboozled.

[JimDandy]

52. Be the HillBill Camp HERO and produce the evidence of violence at the convention.

No one else has, but hey, you may get lucky!!

That's my last kick to this sorry OP.

[coco77]

34. If he does or not...

It will not shut us up. No going along to get along. What happened in New York and who knows where else..

[YouDig]

35. The chair-throwing contingent will keep throwing chairs, but it will be good when Bernie

leaves them behind.

[AzDar]

38. Dirty Harry ... so DIRTY, the corrupt State Senator in Nic Pileggi's "CASINO" is based on Reid.

GTFO, Harry...

[lumberjack_jeff]

41. You can put an eye out with sidewalk chalk, you know. n/t

[senz]

42. There was. no. violence. Video evidence proves it.

Why all the lies about it?

[YouDig]

45. You should call the NYT and AP and the Nation and WP and explain that to them.

I'm sure they'd love to learn about journalism from anonymous Bernie supporters on the internet.

[senz]

47. Links?

[YouDig]

50. Here's the NYT story. "Thrown chairs" is the first sentence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/bernie-sanders-supporters-nevada.html?_r=0

Google the rest yourself. It's been widely reported.

[senz]

53. NYT is in the bag for the corrupt establishment candidate.

And it has been from the get-go. The Nation would never push Hill camp lies.

The "violence" meme is a coordinated attempt to cover up election theft and try to finish off Bernie Sanders by demonizing his supporters.

The Hillary campaign is getting very nervous.

[lumberjack_jeff]

43. When will Reid and Clinton apologize for the violence they've perpetrated on democracy? n/t

[sadoldgirl]

48. Was Reid there? Was he a witness?

Just a typical play for HRM.

[Vattel]

56. Sanders has already made it clear that he opposes violence of any sort by his followers.

[Jester Messiah]

57. Why don't you go another round with your treadmill, Reid? n/t

[prayin4rain]

59. I thought Bernie has condemned the violence? ? I'm a Hillary person, but

I don't understand what Bernie, himself, is supposed to do about what happened? Bernie didn't do it. He released a letter saying that he doesn't condone violence. What else is he expected to do? Gravel? Beg forgiveness for something that he didn't do?