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Feinstein cites '68 chaos in warning against Sanders convention planBy Eugene Scott and Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 2:28 PM ET, Wed May 18, 2016
Washington (CNN)California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is warning that Bernie Sanders' intention to take his candidacy to the Democratic convention in July could spark unrest similar to the chaotic 1968 convention in Chicago and the riots surrounding it.
"It worries me a great deal," Feinstein told CNN's Manu Raju. "You know, I don't want to go back to the '68 convention, because I worry about what it does to the electorate as a whole -- and he should, too."
Earlier Wednesday, California's other Democratic senator, Barbara Boxer, said Sanders supporters should attempt "to change the primary process, but not to go out there and throw chairs and to put people's lives in danger because the democratic process as put forward and ratified by the two parties is being carried out."
Boxer said she felt threatened after outbursts and threats at the Nevada Democratic Convention from supporters of 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."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/politics/barbara-boxer-nevada-convention/index.html
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)But this is about swiftboating Bernie out of the convention
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Go figure.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Come on, wcz.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)YMMV though
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Don't you think that just feeds what's happening to the party? Do you think it *helps*?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I will try to dial it down a touch, sorry.
Just a touch.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)to elect Trump.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)They come here to lecture us about history.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)What did they all expect back in April '15 when they were saying "let's let Bernie have a role"? Had they not been listening for the last 24 years? Or did he find some way of scaring them into going along?
w4rma
(31,700 posts)They want to set up a pretense for their violence against Sanders's folks at the convention. Maybe they *want* Trump to win the general election. I think Trump would be a better candidate for Democrats to rally against, than Clinton is to rally for.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,436 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Here you go, Hill, we'll soften up the crowd for you.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Skwmom
(12,685 posts)Response to workinclasszero (Original post)
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Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Thanks to that "real Democrat" Mayor Daley.
It was a nauseating spectacle of crushing dissent against the establishment.
ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)this year.
Humphrey won on the first ballot, but Eugene McCarthy did NOTHING to support unity behind the nominee.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)She's quite the revolutionary, that one. Power to the people!
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)She's a definite corporate Democrat aka Bechtel Democrat.
jillan
(39,451 posts)Simple. She was a leader speaking to both sides.