Pay to Play: The DNC Ends Amid Controversy, Empty Seats & White Noise

‘It was a tough week for the Clinton ‘change makers’ as Bernie Sanders delegates staged a mass walkout after a series of email leaks disclosed that a Clinton lawyer gave the DNC strategy advice on Sanders. There were also claims of white noise machines used to quell any anti-Clinton dissent inside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Now there’s controversy over a Craigslist ad stating that “actors were needed for a national convention” – prompting critics to suggest empty seats had to be filled prior to the end of the convention and that the July 27th ad was at the behest of the DNC.
Whether or not all or some of the claims above are fully accurate, 2016’s DNC was unquestionably a contentious affair filled with a heavy dose of identity politics.’
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