Michigan Mayor: Security Threatened To Kick Me Out Of Debate For Vocal Bernie Support

[UglyGreed]

FLINT, Michigan — After expressing vocal support for Bernie Sanders during Sunday night’s debate, the independent mayor of Michigan’s third largest city says security warned him that he would be booted from Sunday’s Democratic debate here if he did not quiet down.

Jim Fouts, the 74-year-old 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 theater 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.

“The Democratic debate is totally controlled by Hillarys [sic] good friend DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” Fouts wrote on Facebook Monday. “No 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.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/michigan-mayor-security-threatened-to-kick-me-out-of-debate#.xvNlENv7v

[giftedgirl77]

1. It's a debate not a NASCAR race

cheering & calling out is frowned upon.

[UglyGreed]

3. It's a rigged primary

but you knew that already...........

[giftedgirl77]

5. Of course I did. Unless BS wins that state

bc then it becomes a sign that the tides are finally turning & ppl are finally getting to know Sanders, right?

[UglyGreed]

7. .

[grossproffit]

10. Ain't that the truth.

If BS wins, it's the people's choice. If HC wins, the fix is in. It's become boorish.

[UglyGreed]

16. Yeah yeah

Hillary bends the truth and the media carries her water yet there is no bias................

[elleng]

2. “The Democratic debate is totally controlled by Hillarys good friend DNC Chair

Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” Fouts wrote on Facebook Monday. “No commentary is allowed by the audience. Particularly if you are cheering Bernie Sanders. Persons who do not adhere to Hillarys rules are threatened with expulsion.”

[grossproffit]

4. I rather not have any audience participation during debates. It's distracting.

[Segami]

6. We'll tell you when to clap and cheer....OK!

[UglyGreed]

15. I can't get over

that Bill thought this might of been a good idea.....

[Segami]

17. Desperate people...

provide desperate advise......

[noretreatnosurrender]

8. How Dare He

Not fall in line. The nerve.

[UglyGreed]

13. He's lucky could of been removed

[tammywammy]

9. So he was speaking in a "normal conversation"

And shocked to find out people around him wanted him to shut up? People are there to hear the candidates not his running commentary.

[grossproffit]

12. Yeah, those elitist audience members wanting to actually hear the candidates speak.

How dare they!!!!

[Lizzie Poppet]

11. Who does he think he is, a democratically-elected public servant or something?

The nerve!

[UglyGreed]

14. Some people don't

know their place..........

[WillyT]

18. K & R !!!