When Bernie Sanders’ supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party two years ago, progressives across the country were thrilled. Now, there are regrets.
Bernie Sanders speaks during the “Our Future is Now” tour at the Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino on October 28, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. | David Becker/Getty ImagesWhen Bernie Sanders’ supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party two years ago, progressives across the country were thrilled.
“There just has been a complete lack of competence or ability to accomplish anything significant,” said Peter Koltak, a Democratic strategist and former Nevada senior adviser for Sanders’ 2020 campaign, of the current state party leadership. “Look, there’s a lot of well-meaning activists involved there, but they don’t understand the ins and outs of how you build modern campaigns.”
Former Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak “lost by a very small minority,” said Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom, a Sanders-supporting Democrat. “If we could have gotten our voter registration or get-out-the-vote efforts sooner, he could have won.” | John Locher/AP Photo They’ve bashed her over the state party’s decision to back a sheriff who appeared to support chokeholds as well as a lieutenant governor candidate, Debra March, who primaried the sitting Democratic lieutenant governor, who had been appointed by then-Gov. Steve Sisolak. They also accused her of trying to rig the March 4 election for state party chair by removing members from the state central committee, which chooses the chair.
But it’s not just establishment types who have gripes. Kara Hall, a leader in the Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, said Whitmer also hasn’t kept up relationships on the left. “She never once after she was elected spoke out and talked to the chapter,” Hall said. “The state party has never invested resources in rural communities,” she said. “We actually provided resources and sent computer equipment and printers to each one of our rural county parties.”
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