Sanders delegates, outraged that their attempt to overturn the results of the Nevada caucus was thwarted, are not content with causing chaos at the convention, vandalizing the Democratic Party headquarters, and lobbing vile, abusive messages and death threats at Nevada Democratic Party officials. No, now they’ve decided to widen the circle of abuse to, well, anything they can think of. Jon Ralson reports:
Business state Democratic chairwoman oversees targeted by Berners by Jon Ralston Tue, 05/17/2016 - 06:46Tom Gallagher, the former Caesars CEO and congressional candidate, said that his son's tavern, the Porchlight Grille, began receiving threats shortly after the convention ended in chaos Saturday. Lange is the day operations manager there.
"Beginning about 3am on Sunday morning our bartenders at Porchlight Grille began getting non-stop phone threats from Bernie partisans," Gallagher told me via email. "The level of threats including death threats and vitriol was astonishing. One of our bartenders was actually a Bernie supporter and was stunned at the threats he was hearing on the phone. He began to respond telling people that he was just trying to do his job and pay off his student loans and their tactics were harming his livelihood. It made no difference to the callers. Their goal was to harass and as became clear....to shut down the business and Roberta’s job with it."
"At one point on Sunday before we unplugged the phones, I took a turn at answering and experienced such a nasty call that a Metro officer who happened to be in the tavern as a customer picked up the call and attempted to encourage the woman to stop, explaining that what she was doing was unlawful harassment," Gallagher told me. "It made no difference. She actually responded that it was her right of free speech."
There is more, go to the link to read on Ralston’s blog.
This is all due to a complete failure of leadership on the part of Bernie Sanders.