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Nevada Mayor John Lee Says He Left Democratic Party Over Senseless Devotion to Cancel Culture
On 4/8/21 at 1:26 PM EDT
North Las Vegas John Lee penned a
Fox News op-ed Thursday that accused newly elected Democrats of having one clear goal: ending the America we know and love. He repeatedly stated in separate interviews during the past week that cancel culture has become his biggest problem with politics. I will not let the America I love be hijacked by an extremist left-wing mob that blacklists, bans, shouts down and cancels anyone who disagrees with them, the Democratic Party defector wrote. That is why I am switching to register as a member of the Republican Party. Though I ve been a registered Democrat on paper, I made the switch in my heart a long time ago, because on some things, there s simply no compromise.
The 2016 Nevada Democratic convention ended in chaos. Bernie Sanders state delegates, who’d tried to out-organize Hillary Clinton delegates to eke out a few more spots to the national convention, felt the party establishment had rigged the process against them, just as they felt the party establishment had rigged things during the caucuses a few months earlier. “he state party chair received death threats, and the convention had to be wrapped up abruptly because things had gotten so out of control. Democratic Party officials worried about whether this would be a prelude to a messy Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia later that summer. Itwas.
Progressive Takeover of Nevada Democratic Party Leads to Mass Exodus of Staff
Joined by members of Make the Road Action and his supporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in a “March to the Polls” on February 15, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Shortly after a slate of insurgent progressives endorsed by the Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America pulled off a clean sweep in Nevada State Democratic Party elections over the weekend, the party’s executive director notified newly elected chair Judith Whitmer that the entire staff, as well as every consultant, was quitting.
The “mass exodus” of party staffers following the progressive takeover of the Nevada Democratic Party leadership, as well as the establishment’s funneling of hundreds of thousands of dollars out of party coffers in anticipation of the results, is detailed in new reporting by