Nevada State Democratic Party: Sanders supporters' have 'a penchant' for 'violence'
Counsel for the NSDP sent a letter to the co-chairs of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee to lodge a formal complaint over the "conduct" of the senator's supporters as well as his campaign staff at the convention, The Washington Post reported.
"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," the letter says, "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."
The letter refers to the chaotic scene at the state's convention on Saturday where Sanders supporters, who felt that the event had been rigged against them, repeatedly disrupted the proceedings by shouting over speakers. State senator Pat Spearman (D) reported seeing an elderly woman hit with a bottle.
Read the full letter below:
Nevada State Democratic Party Letter