This is not a responsible article. This spreads anger about the DNC

madfloridian

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Tue Feb-14-06 11:56 PM
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This is not a responsible article. This spreads anger about the DNC

when it is not a true statement. It confuses people who trust writers like this, and makes them angry toward the wrong people in the party.

This is the author:
"Dave Lindorff, grudging treasurer of the Philly
Local of the NWU, has been a journalist since 1973
and a full-time freelancer since 1979. A founder
of the National Writers Union, he was active in the
union's formative years in New York, as a member of
the New York local's steering committee.

A writer for such publications as Salon.com,
Business Week, The Nation, In These Times, and
others, he is also author of "Marketplace Medicine:
The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains" (Bantam
1992). He recently published "Killing Time," the first
independent book about the death-penalty case of
Philadelphia journalist and former Black Panther
activist Mumia Abu-Jamal (Common Courage Press, 2002)."
http://www.nwuphilly.org/dave.html

And this part of the article sounds almost like things I read here and at other blogs, a misunderstanding of the DNC. This spreads discontent, and it is not true in light of the powerful way Howard and Jim Dean came out for Hackett today. Not fair, Mr. Lindorff.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_060214_democrats_2c_like_chen.htm

For months, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee chair, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), have been working behind the scenes to undermine Hackett's campaign in favor of Rep. Sherrod Brown. When Hackett announced his intention to run, he met with party leaders, and with Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown, and won a commitment from Brown not to enter into a primary fight for the Democratic senate nomination. Later, the party leadership undercut him and had Brown go back on his promise, forcing a primary battle. The undermining effort continued and Hackett finally decided Monday he didn't want the fight.

Saying he had been betrayed by his country when he was sent to Iraq, and now by his party, Hackett, a Marine reservist and a lawyer, said he was quitting politics in understandable disgust, but would continue to speak out against the war. I'm sorry he decided not to fight, but understand his disgust.

Only a few days ago, I received a call from a fund-raiser for the DNC asking me to help the party elect a Democratic Congress in 2006. I told the woman she was wasting her time, and that I would not give a penny to a corrupt and self-destructing organization that was so afraid to be a genuine opposition party that it would sabotage its own best candidates. She indignantly asked me who the DNC had sabotaged and I ran a whole list by her, from Cynthia McKinney to Cindy Sheehan. Now we can add Paul Hackett to the list.

This is so sad from a well-known writer, and I see why people get confused easily on the subject...if our progressive writers don't take time to look at the divisions of the Democrats.