Subject: Re: AP: Nevada Democrats: Sanders Campaign Has Violent Streak
From: Stewart Boss <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>, Maureen Garde <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 18:08:24 -0700

I thought this was handled hours ago when I talked to Walter on the phone

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Stewart Boss <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I was told Patrice was giving it to you. That was my understanding with
> Walter when we were on the phone. Our ED sent it this afternoon and we were
> told by Patrice not to share until they reviewed it.
>
> Either way here it is.
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Stewart, it's unacceptable this is in the press and you continue to
>> refuse to send the letter to us. We expect accountability and
>> responsiveness.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "Berns, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
>> Date: 05/16/2016 20:51 (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
>> Subject: AP: Nevada Democrats: Sanders Campaign Has Violent Streak
>>
>>
>>
>> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nevada-democrats-sanders-campaign-violent-streak-39157813
>>
>> Nevada Democrats: Sanders Campaign Has Violent Streak
>>
>> Nevada's Democratic party
>> <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/democratic-party.htm> on Monday
>> warned the Democratic National Committee
>> <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/democratic-national-committee.htm>
>> that Sen. Bernie Sanders' supporters have a penchant for violence and may
>> seek to disrupt the party's national convention in July, as they did during
>> the Nevada convention Saturday.
>>
>> The allegation is the latest fallout from a divisive Nevada Democratic
>> convention that had to be shut down because security at the Paris Las Vegas
>> hotel could no longer ensure order on Saturday night. The gathering closed
>> with some Sanders supporters throwing chairs; later, some made death
>> threats against state party chairwoman Roberta Lange.
>>
>> Sanders' backers had been protesting convention rules that ultimately led
>> to Hillary Clinton
>> <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/hillary-clinton.htm>
>> winning more pledged delegates. Clinton won the state's caucuses in
>> February, 53-47, but Sanders backers hoped to pick up extra delegates by
>> packing county and state party gatherings.
>>
>> Sanders had released a statement Friday night asking supporters to work
>> "together respectfully and constructively" at the convention. But the state
>> party alleged in its letter to the co-chairs of the DNC Rules and By-laws
>> committee, "The explosive situation arose in large part because a portion
>> of the community of Sanders delegates arrived at the Nevada Democratic
>> State Convention believing itself to be a vanguard intent upon sparking a
>> street-fight rather than attending an orderly political party process."
>>
>> Michael Briggs, a Sanders campaign spokesman, said, "We do not condone
>> violence or encourage violence or even threats of violence." He added that
>> the campaign "had no role in encouraging the activity that the party is
>> complaining about. We have a First Amendment and respect the rights of the
>> people to make their voices heard."
>>
>> On Saturday, Sanders backers shouted down the keynote speaker, Sen.
>> Barbara Boxer, and others they thought were tilting the rules in Clinton's
>> favor. Protesters shouted obscenities and rushed the dais to protest
>> rulings. The letter by the state party's general counsel, Bradley S.
>> Schrager, warns that similarly chaotic scenes could unfold in Philadelphia,
>> site of the Democratic National Committee's July convention.
>>
>> "We believe, unfortunately, that the tactics and behavior on display here
>> in Nevada are harbingers of things to come as Democrats gather in
>> Philadelphia in July for our National Convention," Schrager wrote. "We
>> write to alert you to what we perceive as the Sanders campaign's penchant
>> for extra-parliamentary behavior — indeed, actual violence — in place of
>> democratic conduct in a convention setting, and furthermore what we can
>> only describe as their encouragement of, and complicity in, a very
>> dangerous atmosphere that ended in chaos and physical threats to fellow
>> Democrats."
>>
>> Several Sanders backers have condemned some of the threats against Lange
>> and other actions Saturday. Former state assemblywoman Lucy Flores, a
>> current congressional candidate, said in a statement: "There were actions
>> over the weekend and at the Democratic convention that very clearly crossed
>> the line. Progressives need to speak out against those: Making threats
>> against someone's life, defacing private property, and hurling vulgar
>> language at our female leaders."
>>
>> State party offices remained closed Monday for security reasons after
>> Sanders supporters posted Lange's home and business addresses, email and
>> cell phone number online. Copies of angry and threatening texts to Lange
>> were included with the letter.
>>
>> Lange said she'd been receiving hundreds of profanity-laced calls and
>> texts from inside and outside of the U.S., threatening her life and her
>> family. Lange said the restaurant where she works has received so many
>> calls it had to unplug the phone.
>>
>> "It is endless, and the longer it goes the worse it gets," Lange said in
>> an interview. "I feel threatened everywhere I go."
>>
>> ——
>>
>> Associated Press Congressional Correspondent Erica Werner in Washington
>> contributed to this report.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
>
>
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> *Stewart Boss*
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> Nevada State Democratic Party
> (704) 733-0313
> @stew_boss <https://twitter.com/stew_boss>
>

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*Stewart Boss*
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Nevada State Democratic Party
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@stew_boss <https://twitter.com/stew_boss>