Just a very short diary to put the final punctuation mark on the Dolores Huerta Twitter kerfuffle. According to Buzzfeed, which broke the story with Huerta’s original tweet, Huerta said the following in a later interview with CNN (emphasis mine):
“What happened is the person who was running the caucus said we need a translator and he said the first person that comes to the stage can be the translator,” she said. “So I walked up to the front and then some of the organizers, the Bernie organizers, decided to shout ‘no, no, no.’ Then a Bernie person stood up and said, I can also do translation. So then the person running the caucus said we won’t have a translator.”
Compare that to the original tweet:
The lady in her own words. Call it what you will, but the lies about Sanders’ supporters need to stop.