Cops called on Bernie backers after bullhorn protests at officials' homes

[RandySF]

Last edited Wed Feb 26, 2020, 11:14 PM - Edit history (1)

The night before the Nevada caucuses, the chairman of the state’s Democratic Party called police after several supporters of Bernie Sanders gathered outside his home at 11 p.m. with a bullhorn to issue a warning about the next day’s election.

“I want assurances that there isn’t going to be any shenanigans going on tomorrow. The Democratic Party does not control what happens,” Maria Estrada, a self-described “Berner” from Los Angeles, said into the bullhorn, according to a Facebook Live video she streamed on her personal page. She repeatedly said she didn’t want to see a repeat of the 2016 election, which she insinuated was rigged against Sanders.

At least three other times in recent days, Estrada led a group of Sanders supporters who gathered late at night outside the homes of Democratic Party officials and California lawmakers, including those of Secretary of State Alex Padilla and state Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks. Police were called at least twice.

“Protesting is our right — whether they called the police or not is irrelevant,” Estrada, a longtime progressive activist, told POLITICO in a Facebook message. Estrada waged a surprisingly competitive primary against California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in 2018 — losing 54 to 46 percent — and is challenging him again in 2020. Estrada is not employed by the Sanders campaign and said none of the fellow protesters were either.

William McCurdy, the Nevada party chair and a member of the state Assembly, confronted Estrada and the other Sanders supporters outside his home nearly an hour after they arrived. He told them they had “crossed a line.”


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/cops-called-bernie-backers-protest-117782

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[BilltheCat]

1. This has gotten completely out of hand

It's past time for Senator Sanders AND the majority of his supporters to put a stop to this.
What's next? Trump/Nuremberg style rallies?

Clue phone. You can't intimidate me into voting for anyone. Not Trump and not Sanders.

[Gravitycollapse]

3. Are you really comparing Sanders to Hitler? Is this a thing now?

[BilltheCat]

9. read it again. the only one mentioning Hitler is you.

[Gravitycollapse]

10. You suggested Nuremberg style rallies are next. Your words.

Anyone not thick as molasses associates the Nazi Nuremberg rallies with Adolf Hitler. But you already know that because that is why you posted it.

[BilltheCat]

16. wrong again

The implication* is Dotard's rallies are much like Nuremberg rallies. The only one who brought Sanders and Hitler into was YOU. Bluntly it's all too typical of my experience with Sander's supporters so good-bye.

[Gravitycollapse]

17. Everyone here can read what you posted and insinuate what you meant.

[BilltheCat]

18. Wrong again

and you were reported for falsely twisting my words.

[Gravitycollapse]

23. I'm petrified. Btw, welcome to DU.

[ChubbyStar]

29. Indeed, they seem swell!

[ehrnst]

40. Why hasn't this spark caught flame in the last 30+ years he's been a career politician?

[redstatebluegirl]

11. No but you can make me dislike your candidate

and work like hell to defeat him.

[rzemanfl]

26. Bookmarking. n/t

[David__77]

12. Yeah, that's not very courteous to be there that late.

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[David__77]

14. Too early, in my opinion!

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[RandySF]

31. And shine a flashlight into the house.

That might have gotten someone killed if they chose the wrong house.

[RandySF]

33. No, but a gunshot could have.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. Around here, that would be the likely response to a bullhorn at that hour.

[msongs]

5. "we must love bernie" - stalkers nt

[highplainsdem]

6. Disgusting people.

[evertonfc]

7. Most of these types arnt Democrats

Just looking for a movement so they can raise hell

[mysteryowl]

8. I am so sorry this is happening!

I remain firm convinced it is NOT actual Bernie people. They are hired disrupters.

[uponit7771]

15. Those are bots dammit !!!! / sarc

[betsuni]

35. +1

[aikoaiko]

19. This is what democracy looks like.

[RandySF]

20. Where do you live?

I'll come by at 11 with a bullhorn.

[aikoaiko]

22. I'm sure.

[BilltheCat]

24. I know right

It's an intimidation tactic. period.

[Demsrule86]

27. Protetesting your own party is stupid...so I dislike those people and their candidate. He gets my

vote in a general if he wins...tired of the anti-Democratic Party nonsense.

[Cha]

21. KR!

[question everything]

25. This is their purpose. To disrupt and destroy the party

The question is - is this what Sanders’ supporters want? On these pages?

[oasis]

28. Disgraceful. Bernie should address this immediately. Publicly.

[R B Garr]

36. LOL!

[Cha]

38. Right!

[betsuni]

37. "whether they called the police or not is irrelevant."

But one cannot be repressed by "speaking truth to power" unless the police are called. They probably begged to be arrested. Police said no so they went home and ranted about conspiracy theories on the computer machine all night.

[Cha]

39. Because..

of course they did!

[Blue_Tires]

41. kick