A group of loyalists to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is planning to try and disrupt the big moment tonight. They won’t say exactly what. But they managed last night to unfurl a banner during vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine’s speech that said “ELECTION FRAUD #WikiLeaks.” They managed to have it up for 30 to 45 seconds before security nabbed them.
Members of the group — Caitlin Glidewell, 20, an alternate delegate from Colorado, North Carolina delegate Joshua "Fox" Brown, 34, and Tennessee delegate Katie Cowley, 39, — tell USA TODAY that they are fed up with the Democratic Party’s treatment of Sanders and they signaled they would be part of a sort of Democratic tea party movement, agitating for more progressive policies going forward.
They want everyone to read the nearly 20,000 hacked emails released last weekend by WikiLeaks showing some DNC officials have been biased toward Clinton all along and attempted to undermine Sanders by proposing to push stories in the media saying his campaign was a mess and questioning his religious beliefs.
“The Democratic Party think that we’re just going to forget about this and act like it’s nothing, and we’re not,” Cowley said. “We’ve got proof, we’ve got evidence that this election was not fair.”
They say they have three demands if Democrats want them back in the fold: a more forceful acknowledgment of what happened, a better apology than the one issued earlier this week, and a cleaning house – consequences for the staffers who participated.
It begins ...
Meanwhile in the California delegation, "Hillary" signs being changed to "Liar." #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/MtIepm68CK
— Brad Mielke (@TheBradMielke) July 29, 2016
