"There were death threats to me, death threats to my husband, death threats to my 5-year old son" [View all]

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Democratic official slams Sanders’ response to convention threats as ‘pretty weak


“His statement was pretty weak that came out yesterday, and you can say you condemn the violence but until you say you’re sorry, until you say what happened in Nevada should not have happened and it was wrong and it was fueled by your senior campaign staff people, then that’s an apology and then I think that there’s some responsibility is taken,” Nevada State Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange said on CNN.

Ms. Lange said the situation has nothing to do with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, and everything to do with what happened in Nevada “and what has continued to happen to me in the days following the convention.”

“Actually, the phone calls have escalated,” Ms. Lange said. “The longer this goes on and the Sanders campaign doesn’t take responsibility for what happened in Nevada, I think it’s going to continue.

“I think he should acknowledge that there were death threats to me, that there [were] death threats to my husband, that there [were] death threats to my 5-year-old grandson, that they called my work and tried to ruin … like I said, this is my volunteer job being chair,” she said.

“I have a full-time job where single mothers and people trying to pay off their school loans work, and it hurt our business,” she said. “People were calling our business so much that they had to unplug the phone.

“I think they owe an apology to me and then I can give it to the owner of the business,” she said. “I mean, I think those kinds of apologies need to happen and I think they need to recognize that this is not laughable — these are threats to people’s lives that are very serious.”


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