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JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
Tue May 17, 2016, 07:30 PM May 2016

Shots were fired into Bernie Sander's Nevada Campaign Office - staff living quarters were ransacked.

“Within the last few days there have been a number of criticisms made against my campaign organization. Party leaders in Nevada, for example, claim that the Sanders campaign has a ‘penchant for violence.’ That is nonsense. Our campaign has held giant rallies all across this country, including in high-crime areas, and there have been zero reports of violence. Our campaign of course believes in non-violent change and it goes without saying that I condemn any and all forms of violence, including the personal harassment of individuals. But, when we speak of violence, I should add here that months ago, during the Nevada campaign, shots were fired into my campaign office in Nevada and apartment housing complex my campaign staff lived in was broken into and ransacked.

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/statement-nevada/


Now that is REAL violence, and backed up by real evidence, unlike Jon Ralston's circulated rumors of.. wait for it... Chair Throwing!


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Shots were fired into Bernie Sander's Nevada Campaign Office - staff living quarters were ransacked. (Original Post) JimDandy May 2016 OP
yeah grasswire May 2016 #1
Months ago? Txbluedog May 2016 #2
Sanders doesn't make waves or conjur up Brockaganda. n/t JimDandy May 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #13
The old, the "other campaign" fired shots into my campaign office trick itsrobert May 2016 #3
The culprits drove off in a minivan plastered with Hillary stickers. oasis May 2016 #7
Put's you HillBill supporters to shame working sooooo hard to grab sympathetic media attention JimDandy May 2016 #11
Bullet hole? Where's this "Magic" bullet that has not found? Why did no one hear gun shots? itsrobert May 2016 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #14
OMG, that his awful. Just awful, period. musicblind May 2016 #4
Where is the report of this? Jackie Wilson Said May 2016 #5
Bernie never advertised it. JimDandy May 2016 #10
Wow. Waiting For Everyman May 2016 #8
Puts to shame HillBill Camp's manufactured stories of violence... in the face of real violence. JimDandy May 2016 #9
There are local media reports nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #15

Response to Txbluedog (Reply #2)

oasis

(49,330 posts)
7. The culprits drove off in a minivan plastered with Hillary stickers.
Tue May 17, 2016, 07:39 PM
May 2016

Video to be realeased along with Bernie's income tax records.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
11. Put's you HillBill supporters to shame working sooooo hard to grab sympathetic media attention
Tue May 17, 2016, 08:43 PM
May 2016

for Hllary, by generating faux outrage over manufactured claims of violence by Sanders supporters at the convention.

Takes the wind out of your sails doesn't it?

itsrobert

(14,157 posts)
12. Bullet hole? Where's this "Magic" bullet that has not found? Why did no one hear gun shots?
Tue May 17, 2016, 08:46 PM
May 2016

Could this hole been there for some time and only found because of a sweep of the office prior to Bernie's arrival? A lot of holes in this story.

Response to JimDandy (Reply #11)

musicblind

(4,484 posts)
4. OMG, that his awful. Just awful, period.
Tue May 17, 2016, 07:32 PM
May 2016

Whether you support Clinton or Bernie, you have to admit this is awful and I pray for all of the people who experienced this.

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)
10. Bernie never advertised it.
Tue May 17, 2016, 08:35 PM
May 2016

He's not willing to use incidents like this simply to get media attention or to bolster his campaign.

The comparison to Clinton's camp on this is pretty stark, isn't it--that they were so desperate to manufacture incidents of violence against them at the convention, in order to distract from their very real robbery of democracy in Nevada.

You can order the police reports yourself.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
15. There are local media reports
Tue May 17, 2016, 08:50 PM
May 2016

and I did look for them once I read that.

These people will fight against that... very real acts of violence. Shots fired, versus chalking, no comparson

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