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Just as Trump is falling apart, Mueller is closing in and the GOP is infighting, the democrats are going to go into stupid by this boneheaded move.
Tom Perez has decided to play purge the ranks.
And the DNC, as well as rank and file democrats are going to explode.
I don't know what possess Perez to decide to stack the DNC and purge the voices of those who are not in agreement with neoliberal centrism.
We need all ideas and voices of the party. We need to grow and we need to listen to the people and be responsive to those everyday needs and ideas.
Face palm for what Perez is doing.
Read the article.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nbc-longtime-dnc-officials-ousted
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Completely opposite of what I want in the party. More Clintonism? No.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,109 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND
While Nazi's occupy the WH.
Dear god do we DESERVE to be annihilated if we keep attacking the ONE thing standing between us and certain death!
p.s. I support the Democratic party, no matter what.
No matter what.
But then I understand the 2 party system.
Ace Rothstein
(3,109 posts)We don't have to support EVERYTHING the party does, no.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)dont get it, amazing.
Simply amazing.
I dont care if they appoint all delegates from an insane asylum, I dont care if all candidates work on Wall sTreet, as long as they are not NAZI'S, I vote for them
Then
Then (How many FUCKING ways is there to say this, someone help me please)
THEN you refine the party AFTER the NAZI'S are GONE!
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,109 posts)Because this is how you fuck up 2018.
FSogol
(45,360 posts)You're all falling for classic division topics. Perez ousted some people for newer and younger folks. Among those added:
From the Hill:
Perezs delegate slate also includes Ellie Perez, a so-called Dreamer an immigrant brought to the U.S. without legal permission as a child from Arizona, and Marisa Richmond, a transgender African-American woman. If Perezs slate of delegates is approved, it would bring the total number of unions represented by at-large DNC members to 21, which the source said was the highest mark in years.
This years slate of at-large DNC member nominees reflects the unprecedented diversity of our partys coalition, DNC national press secretary Michael Tyler said in a statement to The Hill......................................
Perezs slate of delegates also includes several names that will be familiar in Washington and in Democratic circles, including former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile.
Several supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are also on Perezs list, including former Sanders spokeswoman Symone Sanders.
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Two people who challenged Perez for DNC chair have been nominated Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and former South Carolina Democratic chairman Jaime Harrison. ..........................
Labor leader Randi Weingarten, who backed Ellison in the DNC chair race over Perez, is also nominated.
These are great changes, imo. Don't fall for divisive tactics.
nini
(16,670 posts)I'm guessing there was probably too much bidding by the Bernie folks and it was getting disruptive. However, that's my assumption. Time will tell why this happened.
SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)Who you support/supported during 2016 doesn't guarantee that your head won't be on the chopping block when it's time to make a change.
He gets rid of a swath of longtime operatives (something DU has been clamoring for), increases the diversity (age,race,sexuality) of at-large members and it's the apocalypse because 4 of them that got pushed out to make room happened to support Bernie? Heck, even Ellison and Symone Sanders got added to the roster of at-large delegates.
seaglass
(8,170 posts)still fighting 2016.