Her interview starts at 4:55. I’m paraphrasing bits of it. I add one note below. Otherwise, these are offered without comment.
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Interesting tidbits — (parenthesis are approximate start time for the tidbit)
The biggest new bit of information: Lange was placed in a secure room or “safe room” for much of the convention by “Metro” — presumably meaning Las Vegas Metro PD because they feared for her safety. (18:47) This was due to the chairs being raised, as well as reports of death threats from the floor. She was accompanied by Metro to the bathroom for much of the day.
She thinks the Sanders people came into the convention with the intent to “take down the convention.” (5:50) Ralston points out that she’s talking about Joan Cato (6:20). They sought the unity statement from Reid and Sanders because of the meeting and the lawsuit and the complaints about the rules.
Every committee was staffed with an equal number of Clinton and Sanders people (8:30) — this included rules committee, credentials committee. And, they’d been working together for weeks leading up to the convention — since the county conventions.
Lange is an unpledged delegate, she has not committed to Hillary or Sanders (9:30).
The voice vote to approve the rules — she was in possession of the preliminary report of the credentials committee and could see from that report that there were more Clinton people than Sanders people in the convention hall. The people speaking for the rules were Clinton delegates and those speaking against were Sanders delegates. It was obvious that the Clinton people were voting as a block for the rules. The volume wasn’t a determining factor. (11:53) There was also no practical way to divide the vote on every decision.
No valid motion to amend the rules ever made it onto the floor (12:55). Some (2/3) didn’t meet the threshold for consideration — not enough signatures. The Sanders team was told, for those that did meet that threshold, that they would need to move for consideration during the time they were speaking against the rules. When they failed to do that, they lost their opportunity to amend the rules.
They operated under Robert’s Rules. (15:35)
“There were chairs being thrown, we all know that there were chairs that were thrown...” (17:04)
Angie Morelli was using a bullhorn — which was specifically forbidden by the decorum rules [note: one of the rules the Sanders folks wanted changed] to shout at the chair. Two security guards had to wrestle it away from her. (17:12)
Motions could only be taken from the microphone, not from people shouting from the floor. (18:00)
At around 9:55 Lange was told by security (and they had hotel security, Metro, and private security) that they needed to shut things down now, or security would. (19:50)
The vote to adjourn — the Clinton delegates voted en masse for the closing motions. The Sanders delegates were not meaningfully participating at this point. (20:15)
She was scared. (21:20) One of her staffers had to disarm a chair-wielder to stop a chair from being thrown at her and the Exec. Director. (22:40)
She did receive death threats. (23:00) Metro was involved. She didn’t sleep at night because of these. She fears a messy convention in Philly. (23:50)
She wants to continue as chair, and invites Sanders supporters to help her strengthen the party. (24:25)