Anger, protests erupt over results of the California Democratic Party's election of a new leader

What is it with the left these days that they do not understand how elections work and when they lose they lose. And isn't it just rich that they are complaining they lost BECAUSE ID's WEREN'T CHECKED!!

Anger, protests erupt over results of the California Democratic Party's election of a new leader

Supporters of the losing candidate in the California Democratic Party’s race for chairperson were out en masse early Sunday morning at the state convention in Sacramento, many calling for an investigation of the party’s voting process.

Longtime Democratic leader Eric Bauman eked out a victory Saturday to be the party’s next chairman, beating rival Kimberly Ellis by just more than 60 votes, according to the state party.

A spokesman for the Ellis campaign on Sunday said they are consulting with legal counsel to determine their options. Ellis has not conceded.

The race, between a party insider and a progressive organizer, was a heated battle between divergent forces that are racking the Democratic Party nationwide. Bauman was a favorite of the party establishment, while Ellis drew the backing of liberals who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders in last year’s presidential primary.

Party delegates are scheduled to meet Sunday morning at the convention, a meeting expected to grow testy.

Ellis supporters were gathering outside the Sacramento Convention Center just after 7 a.m., many expressing outrage about the outcome and demanding a recount.

“We got shafted,” said Alexis Edelstein, founder of Berniecrats of California.

Mani Kang, 41, a Democratic delegate from Orange and another Bernie Sanders supporter, said the result was too similar to the presidential race. Sanders supporters blamed the leadership of the Democratic Party, including former party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of undercutting the Sanders campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton.

Kang said the Democratic Party establishment did the same to Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a favorite of Bernie supporters who ran for Democratic National Committee chair but lost to former Obama administration Labor Secretary Tom Perez.

“First it happened to Bernie in Philadelphia. Then it happened to Ellison. Now this is the third attempt,” Kang said. “Kimberly had all the momentum in the last few weeks. This is a big deal. We need more transparency in the process.”

A few Ellis supporters complained that Democratic Party officials did not check identification when delegates were voting.

Ellis was the director of Emerge California, a Bay Area nonprofit organization that trains Democratic women to run for office.

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In California, the Democratic Party majority is Still At War with Straight White Men.
So the choice was a Black chix or Eric whose husband's name was Michael.
I really would not care if the discrimination by the Democratic Party against Straight White Men was not so obvious.

Moi

r > g

Make Pay Its' Fair Share​

 

Constant sour grapes and inability to accept any outcome that isn't to their liking. Children.

 

Oh, I guess the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic party isn't the majority after all. By just a few votes.

 

Well, haven't they been protesting the outcomes of lost elections since Abraham Lincoln? Shoot, look at how they whined over Scott Walker.

 

More election fraud from the corrupt establishment democrat party. No way in hell are enough people supporting the establishment status quo, and the only way the corruption remains in power is by fraud. We saw it in the primaries and it is just continuing on.

The democratic party since Clinton, as been the party of the upper middle class and upper class neocon, neoliberals. The only way they can remain such a party, representing only those two classes is by corruption and fraud. The democrat party looks like a crime syndicate, by ruling elites, and does not represent the poor, nor the lower middle and middle middle class. People are finally waking up to that, and only fraud will keep the current democrat party in place.

 

Absolutely. Good catch. Legitimacy IS important...to those who care about right and wrong, security, the future, and establishing good basic habits of self governance.

 

How is one viper in this pit any better than another?