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To say the Democratic establishment has not given Senator Bernie Sanders a fair chance is an understatement—at every step of the way the Democratic elite have taken cheap shots at the candidate advocating “a fair chance for everyone.”

Hillary Clinton’s supposed grassroots fundraising is comprised of one third donations over $10,000 to her super PAC Ready for Hillary. She silenced Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams at a $500 per person private fundraiser in South Carolina last week, reacting sharply to the nonviolent protestor who asked Clinton to account for her 1996 comments as First Lady, when she called African American males “super-predators.”

And now it seems her husband Bill is blocking access to polling places.

Bill Clinton arrived to New Bedford at approximately 1:30 pm according to local media in order to campaign for his wife Hillary Clinton in her bid for the White House; there are 91 delegates up for grabs in Massachusetts.

But according to Massachusetts native and Bernie Sanders volunteer Angela Grace, Bill Clinton stumped for his wife directly in front of the Buttonwood Park warming house, which served as today’s polling place.

When Clinton did arrive, the secret service caravan walked him the whole distance down the road to a crowd packed into the parking lot of the park.

“He completely blocked this poll for a good half hour at least,” Grace told AHTribune.

“Buttonwood Park is a really big park ... and a street runs right through it, on both sides. That would have been the perfect place because it would not have affected the polls.”

*(Video courtesy of Angela Grace.)

Clinton wound up speaking for approximately 25 minutes in front of the polling place, a problem in and of itself, but exacerbated by the massive traffic jam the ex-president’s presence created.

“This is a big city,” Grace continued. “There was no reason whatsoever to take up the parking spaces and block off the streets.” Grace said she did not see a voter walk into the polling place for a full two hours in the lead up to Clinton’s speech.

The conflict of interest between polling place and stump speech was likely not just bad planning either. Mayor Jon Mitchell endorsed Hillary in 2015 as her campaign was getting off the ground and introduced Bill Clinton today. It stands to reason that even if Mitchell did not decide on the polling place, he could have changed the location of Clinton’s speech.

Massachusetts election law is extremely clear about this: “Within 150 feet of a polling place...no person shall solicit votes for or against, or otherwise promote or oppose, any person or political party or position on a ballot question, to be voted on at the current election. No campaign material intended to influence the vote of a voter in the ongoing election, including campaign literature, buttons, signs, and ballot stickers, may be posted, exhibited, circulated, or distributed in the polling place, in the building where it is located, on the building walls, on the premises where the building stands, or within 150 feet of an entrance door to the building.”

The mayor did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.

But in an interview with the New York Times, William F. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of state said “We had to remind some of our poll workers that even a president can’t go inside and work a polling place."

“We had to remind everybody what the rules are, that there is no campaigning within 150 feet of the voting booths because people are entitled to their privacy," added Galvin.

Bill Clinton continued his stops at polling places across Massachusetts, including one in Boston.

Not only did his New Bedford appearance hinder voters, but Clinton is clearly within 150 feet of the polling place.

From 9:30 to 2 pm when Clinton left, voters were unable to drive into the parking lot, instead they were forced to park elsewhere and walk a long distance to the polls.

“Mayor Mitchell was instrumental in putting this whole thing on, and he endorsed Hillary right smack in front of the doorway to the voting poll,” Grace said.

All those years at Oxford and Yale surely didn’t make Bill Clinton dumb. That’s what made his actual speech in New Bedford so ironic.

“Thank you all for participating,” the former president said through a megaphone. “I especially thank those of you who are supporting Hillary, but we ought to give the others a [chance].”

But as long as Clinton, Hillary and the entire Democratic Party elite continue this type of behavior, their attempts at sounding inclusive ring false.

Whether or not Sanders wins the Democratic nomination—and a Suffolk University poll had Clinton at 50 percent support, while Sanders had 42 percent in the state as of Sunday—this election will be memorable for the sheer obstructionism of the Democratic establishment against Sanders, the first true progressive candidate in recent memory.

“I’m sick with how much corruption there is going on. I don’t know what the answer is but we’re going up against a lot,” Grace concluded, before she got back to work at the local Sanders headquarters “wherever needed.”