{"id":181820,"date":"2016-03-09T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/09\/debbie-wasserman-schultz-needs-to-be-fired-out-of-a-cannon-and-into-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:30:00","slug":"debbie-wasserman-schultz-needs-to-be-fired-out-of-a-cannon-and-into-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/09\/debbie-wasserman-schultz-needs-to-be-fired-out-of-a-cannon-and-into-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Needs to Be Fired \u2026\u2026\u2026 Out of a Cannon and into the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the audience members at the Democratic debate in Flint, was the Mayor of Warren.<\/p>\n

He’s a Sanders supporter, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz had him threatened by event security because he was a Bernie supporter<\/a>: <\/p>\n

After expressing vocal support for Bernie Sanders during Sunday night\u2019s debate, the independent mayor of Michigan\u2019s third largest city says security warned him that he would be booted from Sunday\u2019s Democratic debate here if he did not quiet down.<\/span>

<\/span>Jim Fouts, the three-term independent mayor of Warren, told BuzzFeed News Monday that he attended both the Republican and Democratic debates in Michigan over the past week. The audience at the GOP debate at the Fox Theatre in Detroit Thursday was loud. But the mood in the Whiting Auditorium on the campus of the Flint Cultural Center, where Sanders and Hillary Clinton met in one of their sharpest-elbowed debates to date, was very different, he said.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThe Democratic debate is totally controlled by Hillarys [sic] good friend DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz,\u201d Fouts wrote on Facebook Monday. \u201cNo commentary is allowed by the audience. Particularly if you are cheering Bernie Sanders. Persons who do not adhere to Hillarys [sic] rules are threatened with expulsion.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Fouts has not officially endorsed Sanders, but he is a big fan. He told BuzzFeed News that if he does vote in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary, \u201cit\u2019s going to be for Bernie Sanders.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>At the debate, Fouts sat in the center section of the hall, directly behind Wasserman Schultz, the DNC chair. Next to him was his longtime executive assistant. Fouts told BuzzFeed News that at multiple times during the beginning of the debate, he turned to his executive assistant, praised Sanders\u2019 performance, and said the Flint debate \u2014 added to the calendar after the initial set were announced \u2014 proved that more debates were a good idea.<\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>During an early commercial break, security confronted Fouts, roused him from his seat, and pulled him and his assistant off to the side of the hall. He was told there had been \u201ccomplaints\u201d about his behavior and that security had been ordered to throw him out.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThe sergeant at arms said, \u2018The people that run this want you ejected, they don\u2019t want you here,\u2019\u201d Fouts recalled. He said his assistant asked if the complainer was Wasserman Schultz.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThe security guy said, \u2018don\u2019t say I said it,\u201d Fouts said.<\/span>

<\/span>Fouts was outraged by the evening. He called for Wasserman Schultz to step down in the Monday interview. After the conversation with security, Fouts said he returned to his seat and took extra care to be quiet.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Petty, paranoid, and stupid is no way to go through life, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the audience members at the Democratic debate in Flint, was the Mayor of Warren. He’s a Sanders supporter, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz had him threatened by event security because he was a Bernie supporter: After expressing vocal support for Bernie Sanders during Sunday night\u2019s debate, the independent mayor of Michigan\u2019s third largest city says security …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}