Henson says many Sanders supporters had been accused of paranoia for the past few months because they claimed the DNC had preferred Clinton all along. The hacked internal communications were mostly boring stuff, but key messages confirmed a bias toward the Hillary Clinton campaign among Schultz and her DNC staff.
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The statement was signed by Interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile, a veteran Democratic campaign operative who ran Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign andwho has stepped in to lead the party after former Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz announced she was stepping down last weekend.
“Everybody thought we were conspiracy theorists”, said Alera Henson, of Tulsa.
High dollar donations allegedly fueled the DNC’s decisions, with some emails indicating that the party used President Obama as a means of attracting deep pocket donors.
Delegate Taz Tally says he has always been a nonpartisan but got involved in the Democratic party because of Sanders. “She never takes the easy way out”.
Soon after Wasserman Schultz was booed Monday during a Florida delegation breakfast in Philadelphia, Canova wrote to his 20,000 Twitter followers, “It’s time to end her political career for good”, and shared a link to his campaign fundraising webpage.
People waving signs emblazoned with the word “email” were booing and shouting at Wasserman Schultz as she took the stage Monday as a featured speaker.
The kickoff of the Democratic National Convention didn’t go quite as expected after the resignation of DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “I think we’re going to register somewhere around 1,900 votes tonight”. Still, the taint of bias meant Wasserman Schultz’s resignation was inevitable.
Alera Henson, the Sanders delegate, sees it differently.
Most people still believe that Wasserman Schultz is the most likely to win in November.
The Sanders for President campaign has been complaining about Clinton favoritism at the DNC, and it was right. “I’m glad she stepped down she should not be in charge but it’s not going to do anything”, lamented delegate Monica Thomas from Roanoke, VA.
Sanders supporters certainly weren’t amused.
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Republicans, too, have tapped into viral fundraising with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leading the pack.
