Voices of the Democratic National Convention
ERIC BAUMAN
57, Los Angeles County Democratic chairman “That was the most incredible and intense speech I’ve ever heard Michelle Obama give .... When she talked about Hillary Clinton and breaking that glass ceiling, you could actually hear the glass breaking.”
VICKE KEPLING
50, college teacher from Springfield, Mo. On the ouster of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I got one word: Cheater. They’re using [Schultz] as a scapegoat. It wasn’t just her. It was Hillary too.”
VICTORIA BARD
50, a delegate from Longmont, Colo. “I am a Bernie Sanders national delegate. Which is what I will do the entire convention. Sen. Sanders votes his values .... There is no other candidate we have had in my lifetime that I could vote for.”
JULIE PERRY
51, labor representative for National Nurses United from Kansas “We were selected as Sanders delegates, and we plan to leave as Sanders delegates.”
ANN RICHARDSON
62, a lawyer from Sacramento “We got the right to vote after men did. And now we’ve waited long enough to elect a woman.” This convention is “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
SANDY PINA
69, from Murrieta, Calif. Sanders supporters are throwing “a tantrum.” “It’s like a bad divorce. Who’s going to get the kids and the dogs?”