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Peter1469
10-17-2015, 07:16 PM
The DNC isn't getting along with (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-16/insurrection-erupts-at-the-democratic-national-committee) one another.

It appears the leadership is alienating many of the members.


Before things went awry, Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii had been planning to be in Las Vegas for her party’s first presidential debate. Gabbard is one of five vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee; of course she would be there. But instead of talking up her party’s prospects on the Strip earlier this week, Gabbard was in Honolulu. Her presence in Sin City was strictly virtual, and anything but boosterish: She spent debate day giving cable-news interviews via satellite, claiming that, as retribution for loudly calling for more Democratic debates than the DNC currently envisions, she was deemed unwelcome in Vegas by the committee’s chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz—who Gabbard suggested is an enemy of free speech, as well as a liar.

For most debate viewers and Democratic voters, the Gabbard flap, if it registered at all, was little more than a sideshow. But among Democratic officials and strategists, the dust-up was an embarrassing public spectacle—a boiling-over of long-simmering frustrations and resentments within the party hierarchy at a highly inopportune moment.


Of two dozen Democratic insiders with whom I spoke this week, including several DNC vice chairs, not one defended Wasserman Schultz’s treatment of Gabbard. Most called it ridiculous, outrageous, or worse. Many argued, further, that the debate plan enacted by the chairwoman is badly flawed—an assessment shared by many party activists, left-bent supporters of Bernie Sanders (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-candidate-profiles/bernie-sanders.html) and Martin O’Malley (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-candidate-profiles/martin-omalley.html), and those candidates themselves, all of whom see it as a naked effort to aid and comfort Hillary Clinton (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-candidate-profiles/hillary-clinton.html). And they maintained that the plan was a clear reflection of Wasserman Schultz’s management style, which many of them see as endangering Democratic prospects in 2016 and beyond.

Green Arrow
10-17-2015, 09:54 PM
Of course. The DNC establishment is going hard for Hillary despite the fact that almost no Democrat actually wants her. The DNC is about to have its GOP Civil War moment.

Crepitus
10-17-2015, 09:59 PM
Of course. The DNC establishment is going hard for Hillary despite the fact that almost no Democrat actually wants her. The DNC is about to have its GOP Civil War moment.
I have to agree, Hillary looks less and less attractive as a candidate to me at least.

Private Pickle
10-17-2015, 10:01 PM
Long way to go.

Tahuyaman
10-17-2015, 10:28 PM
The women who are in charge of the DNC will not accept a nominee other than Hillary Clinton. She was unfairly denied the nomination last time, but they had to remain silent then. Now they are going to exert their will, no matter what.