Barbara Boxer: I Feared for my safety

[book_worm]

WASHINGTON (CNN) - California Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday that she felt threatened after outbursts and threats at the Nevada Democratic Convention from supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders over the weekend.

"I feared for my safety and I had a lot of security around me," she told CNN's Kate Bolduan on "At This Hour." "I've never had anything like this happen."


"It was a scary situation," said Boxer, a Hillary Clinton supporter. "It was frightening. I was on the stage. People were six feet away from me. If I didn't have a lot of security, I don't know what would have happened."

Boxer said she expressed her concern to Sanders in a phone call Tuesday night. Sanders released a statement Tuesday to say that he does not support violent behavior from his supporters, but also sharply criticized the convention process from Nevada's Democratic party.

"He knows how I feel. He knows that I felt threatened. He knows that it was wrong," Boxer said. "Now we will see, but in my mind when he says he does not support any type of violence, I believe him. And he's got to make sure it doesn't happen. People will follow his lead."

Boxer wasn't the only Democratic senator to condemn Sanders' supporters behavior over the weekend. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine slammed Sanders' statement in response to the outbursts.

"What he did yesterday was sort of say it's the party's fault," Kaine told CNN. "That deflection of responsibility is not leadership."



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[Maedhros]

1. Right, Barbara. Right.

[kiva]

2. Ha, ha, ha...good one, Barbara.

Oh, wait, she's serious? Damn, the Senate must be a sedate place where no one ever, ever raised their voice.

[2cannan]

12. Guess she's never protested anything in her life. nt

[arcane1]

3. Sure you did, Barbara. All those chairs and bottles flying about.

[Segami]

4. lol......what a load!......she feared for her safety and yet...

she kept hammering away with her taunts about 'booing'......sit down!

[DrDan]

5. Bernie and Jane must be so proud

[nc4bo]

6. Somewhere there is a play book missing it's chapter.

So many delicate flowers in the least likely of places is absolutely terrifying.

These folks are responsible for making life changing decisions that effect the health and welfare of individual citizens and they decide what the effect this country's actions (or inaction) have upon the world's population. These folks' decisions send our people to fight for wars created to appease the 1%ers not our country's safety.

Spare me terrified and distressed noblewoman and nobleman bullshit.

People boo.

People also do other stupid shit but until you have identified these people or have someone arrested for threatening someone, don't you dare find fault in our inability to believe your gospel.

[reformist2]

7. A politician who can't deal with being booed and yelled at needs to pack it in.

[Ferd Berfel]

8. Where's my shovel - It's gettin deep

and BOxer is part of the Problem - not the SOlution

[B2G]

9. "So I kept taunting the crowd"

[Trust Buster]

10. Oh look at all the Sanders "human rights" supporters above. These people care for no one but

themselves. Total phonies.

[One Black Sheep]

11. Sure, that is why she kept taunting the pro Bernie crowd

as if she was a stage comedian taking on hecklers...

[mmonk]

13. +1

[Throd]

14. And dodging bullets on the tarmac...

[NurseJackie]

15. "That deflection of responsibility is not leadership."

Exactly!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. another delicate flower? so disappointed in her today

[AzDar]

17. Clutch Those Pearls, Barbara..Tell Me, If You Were SOOO Frightened, Why Keep Spewing Offensive Crap?

?1



Such UTTER BULLSHIT...