Today's Must-Read: Threats and Intimidation (Updated)

No, it's not about Donald Trump. It's about Bernie Sanders.

This, via The New Civil Rights Movement:

Rachel Maddow Friday night broke news that attorneys for the Bernie Sanders for President Campaign have just sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee formally demanding the disqualification of two Democratic Party platform committee chairs: former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. . . .

She adds, "the Sanders Campaign then ends this letter with a threat. If the Committee doesn't kick Gov. Malloy and Barney Frank out of those leadership positions the Sanders campaign will essentially grind the process of the convention to a halt."

"They will gum up the works so nothing happens."

For the video of Maddow, click through to NCRM. (Once gain, Blogger does not want to accommodate MSNBC's clips.)

NCRM has also posted the letter (which I attempted to do, but Blogger insists on displaying it at a size that's too small for clarity, no matter how I fiddle with it in Photoshop).

And do keep in mind that Sanders is not a Democrat and has never been a Demnocrat.

Update:

The DNC has reacted:

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has responded quickly to the Bernie Sanders for President Campaign's demand that two high-profile Democrats, Gov. Dannel Malloy and former Rep. Barney Frank be removed as co-chairs of the convention's platform and rules committees.

“Having carefully reviewed your challenge, we find that it fails to meet the criteria for the foregoing reasons and pursuant to the Regulations and Bylaws Committee for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Reg. 3.4(G)(i) we are compelled to dismiss it,” Jim Roosevelt and Lorraine Miller, co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee wrote to the Sanders Campaign, according to The Hill.

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