Reid: Nevada convention was 'fair' to Sanders

[portlander23]

Reid: Nevada convention was 'fair' to Sanders
Jessie Hellmann
Politico

"I can't speak for the DNC — I can speak for Nevada. We went out of our way to be fair to Bernie, even though the caucuses were won by Clinton in February," Reid told MSNBC's "AM Joy" in an interview aired Saturday.

"I made sure that the convention was not favoring Hillary Clinton. ... Even though she won the state in February, I wanted to make sure that no one could criticize what went on there."

Sanders and his supporters blasted the Democratic Party last week for what they say was a tipping of the scales in Clinton's favor at the convention.

Pushed by party leaders to condemn the outbursts and threats from his supporters at Saturday's convention, Sanders instead issued a statement accusing the Nevada Democratic Party of using its power to prevent a "fair and transparent process from taking place."

It looks like the media has downgraded "chair throwing" and "violence" to "outbursts and threats".

[Skwmom]

1. I watched Reid being interviewed this morning. Impression: A sly snake in the grass.

[Cheese Sandwich]

2. It wasn't fair to the delegates who were there. That's why they were quite upset.

[Trust Buster]

3. Hillary won the Nevada primary. I know, just a silly detail.

[YouDig]

4. It wasn't fair to Hillary though. The people disrupting should have been thrown out, according

to the very clear rules. They broke the rules to help out Bernie people.

[Sparkly]

11. Good point, although

throwing them out would have made the "outrage" worse. ("Look at me! I'm a victim of the Establishment!!&quot

[YouDig]

12. Yeah she's got delegates to spare. Toss them a couple, sure.

[onecaliberal]

5. Someone should tell him to shut his pie hole.

Is this what national dems call uniting the party?

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

6. Am I supposed to care what some blowhard like Reid has to say on the matter?

The same Reid who threw the original caucuses for Hillary by calling in Casino worker reinforcements.

[2cannan]

7. Is he just ignoring what happened in April? Didn't Bernie win that one?

[bjo59]

8. That's hilarious. Like anyone would take corrupt

Harry Reid's word for anything.

[demwing]

9. "We went out of our way to be fair to Bernie"

WTF? Your "way" was supposed to include a fair, Democratic process for all candidates. If you feel that you had to go "out of (y)our way to be fair to Bernie" then that tells us something about how you defined your "way."

Sorry our democracy was such a damned inconvenience, Harry.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Democracy by cop.

[AzDar]

13. Dirty Harry: Nick Pileggi's Inspiration...

[Barack_America]

14. Certainly wasn't fair to ANY of the delegates...

...considering national delegates weren't even selected due to the abrup adjournment once a recount was called for.

This isn't all about the candidates, delegates on both sides got screwed by this.