Notice our Occupy/BlackLivesMatter/Arab-Association friend, Bernie delegate, Linda Sarsour. DNC better be ready to rumble.
Via Politico:
Call them Hillary’s home-state haters.
A group of rabble-rousing Bernie Sanders supporters from New York is headed for the Democratic National Convention next month as hand-picked, at-large delegates — and they’re threatening to make trouble for Hillary Clinton at the very moment she hopes to make history as the first female nominee of either party and unite Democrats for the coming battle with Donald Trump.
The disgruntled Sanders delegation, heading to Philadelphia with deep reservations about Clinton’s brand of center-left pragmatism, serves as a reminder of how contentious the four-day meeting could become, and a warning to Democrats of the importance of bringing Sanders happily into the fold.
Some 20,000 protesters are reportedly planning anti-Clinton protests outside of the convention hall. But interviews with members of Sanders’ New York delegation reveal that supporters of the Vermont senator are also considering bringing some of those protests inside the Wells Fargo Center itself — raising the prospect of an embarrassing spectacle on prime-time TV.
These are not the kind of people who just fall in line.
One Sanders delegate, a longtime LGBT activist named Allen Roskoff, is known in New York City for taking on quixotic causes against Democratic politicians — like the morning of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in 2013, when he stood outside Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s apartment building in Chelsea with signs protesting her candidacy, even after it was clear she would not win. Roskoff, president of the local Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, was charged last year with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct for protesting an awards dinner attended by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — he dressed up in prison stripes to rage against the governor’s refusal to grant clemency to convicts.
*Note: Within the story, Politico references a story about Sanders supporters throwing chairs at an event in Nevada. That story has been debunked and did not occur.