Slate - "The DNC "Cancer" Is Donna Brazile"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/the_dnc_cancer_is_donna_brazile.html

Craven insiders—not joint fundraising agreements—are what’s destroying the party.

By Osita Nwanevu

“Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music.” So begins, absurdly and promisingly, the most intriguing part of former DNC interim chair Donna Brazile’s already controversial and appropriately titled new book Hacks, which features a parade of Democratic consultants, DNC officials, and party insiders who Brazile blames for Hillary Clinton’s loss last November.

At the center of the book are three individuals Brazile calls the party’s “three titanic egos – Barack, Hillary, and Debbie,” who, according to her, “stripped the party to a shell for their own purposes.” Brazile’s allegations have roiled Democratic circles since Thursday, when Politico published an excerpt of the book detailing Brazile’s discovery of a joint fundraising agreement between the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign that she says granted Clinton effective control of the party a year before she actually won the nomination. “The agreement [...] specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile writes. “Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff.”

Brazile calls that agreement a “cancer” and claims that her conversation about it with Bernie Sanders, whose supporters have long accused the DNC of tilting the primary in Clinton’s favor, left her in tears. “When I hung up the call to Bernie, I started to cry, not out of guilt, but out of anger. We would go forward. We had to.”

Brazile’s melodramatics cast a purposeful haze over a few important details. She writes that she learned about the post-2012 debts that motivated the DNC’s agreement with the Clinton campaign after becoming interim chair in 2016. In fact, the DNC’s financial woes were widely reported in the years after the 2012 election. The murky specifics she describes of the joint committee’s fundraising arrangements—99 percent of gathered funds, which should have been split between the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and state parties, were only shared between the campaign and the DNC—would not have been news to the Sanders campaign. Their lawyer, Brad Deutsch, sent a pointed open letter accusing the joint committee of violating campaign finance law in April 2016. That, too, was reported on.

snip - lots more to read at the link

[NCTraveler]

1. Your link goes to a different article. Nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. fixed -thanks! (too many windows open at once__

[Wwcd]

3. I can't believe someone finally stepped up to say enough &.enough

Time to call out the bull crappers who think nothing of the words they say, as though is one big school yard & the bullies can't shut their mouths long enough to see the damage they do is destroying our society.
Its a a juvenile & ignorant game they play & the cost is not even a consideration.

I want this country to grow up.

"Brazile’s melodramatics cast a purposeful haze over a few important details..
Ya, no shit it was purposeful.

Will be quite telling as to where Brazile lands herself a new home after this purposeful b.s.

[Sunlei]

4. the cancer is Republicans going after our best, hardest working Ds one by one...

people who have worked decades on the D side.