DNC considers holding new vice chair election after audio leak
On Sunday, Politico published a clip from a May 15 DNC discussion about vice chair David Hogg’s role in a PAC that might fund primary challengers.
DNC chair Ken Martin said that the controversy surrounding Hogg “destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to.”
Uhh then I think he needs to look up the word “leadership” in a dictionary. Good leaders don’t usually blame their subordinates for their own deficiencies. Hogg isn’t doing anything that would prevent Martin from growing a backbone and actually leading the party.
Blaming Hogg for Martin’s shitty instincts is childish and transparently ineffective. I was always against Martin as chair, and he continues to make all the mistake we knew he would make.
It's also interesting that he sees his own leadership in the party as being hopelessly undermined - yet he hasn't resigned for the good of the party. That's so fucking telling.
We need an actually left party instead of the Democrats.
We need to take the Democratic party away from the weak and disconnected fools and shills that run it. Third party strategies in a first past the post system are self defeating. What this call shows is that the establishment can't cope with strong progressives in the party. Outside the party, we just make a great excuse every time Republicans win.
I agree but do not think that the powerful and wealthy that control the DNC top leadership will ever allow for that to happen. In most other countries the DNC platform would be the conservative party. They are too captured by corporate america. We probably need to collectively walk away. There is never a worse or better time than now.
I'm pretty sure the establishment leaked the audio where incumbents were complaining about Hogg. I know this because they're accusing Hogg of leaking the audio. What an odious bunch.
Yes this is a crisis of the DNCs own making. If there was good leadership. Then what Hoagg is doing would not be a threat to it.
just like the gop they are the old guard DNC showing thier true colors under trump again.
In the next few months, watch how democrats treat elon musk and compare it to David Hogg's treatment.
they will probably do to people like hoagg, like they did with bernie.
At least with Sanders, they had the excuse that he was an independent. They have no such excuse with Hogg.
But there are already rumblings that they're willing to work with elon. There are centrist democrats in office right now that are not only willing to work with a literal nazi, but are willing to say as much to the press.
They need to consider holding a new Chair election, because Martin sounded like whiney child in that audio.
When the new struggles to be born, and the old refuse to die, monsters appear
Many Democrats said party officers shouldn’t take sides in primaries, and Martin proposed requiring party leaders to remain neutral in them. Hogg had pitched a compromise, suggesting an internal “firewall” that would bar him from access to sensitive information in primaries his group, Leaders We Deserve, were involved with. But Martin rejected that deal.
“Party officers have one job: to be fair stewards of a process that invites every Democrat to the table — regardless of personal views or allegiances,” Martin said, urging Hogg to stay neutral.
IMO this is what it's all about. They can talk about 'procedure' and 'distractions,' but at the end of the day Hogg has committed to running primary challengers against dead weight Democrats.
Democrats have spent decades with their thumbs on the scale against progressives.
Selectively-enforced "neutrality" is just more of the same.
Which ironically would be easy to defeat if they weren't dead weight.
Neo-libs going to neo-lib.
A better way to say this would be "DNC is still holding a new vice chair election after audio leak"
Because this has been going on for months and nothing has changed since before this call was leaked...
I don't know how people can say in one thread that MSM is owned by billionaires who manipulate us, then turn around and believe MSM that the DNC is corrupt and we shouldn't support them.
They wouldn't say shit when neoliberals ran the DNC, and they're saying shit now because a progressive can win the next primary with this DNC. They'd rather have a third term of trump than a progressive.
Don't fall for it.
“For weeks I’ve pointed out David’s causal relationship with the truth,”
Causal or CASUAL?
destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to.
need to what? I don't understand what's even being talked about in this poorly written article
Clarifying rewrite:
I need to show leadership as Chair of the DNC. He destroyed my chances of that.
Ahhh. Thank you!