DNC Picks a New Leader!

[JackLuis]

Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez picked to head DNC

Perez beat top challenger U.S. Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota, who was backed by liberal leader U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, on a 235-200 vote. Perez is the son of Dominican immigrants, while Ellison is the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress.

The showdown between candidates backed by the establishment and progressive wings of the party echoed the bitter 2016 primary between Clinton and Sanders, a rift Democrats will try to put behind them as they turn their focus to fighting Trump

Another Milchtoast firebrand that will lead the Democratic Party once again in to the fields of Brie and Chardonnay. The Anti-Rience Prebus, all the charisma of a wet mop. How much are the Republicans quaking in their boots?

 

[Rightguide]

It was a choice between two radical Marxists, one was a racist balck Muslim the other a racist Latino. Either one has enough wacky ideas to sink the Democrat Party agenda for another generation.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Don’t get too happy’ because I’m ‘your worst nightmare’: New DNC chair Perez fires back at Trump

Newly elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez wasted no time in opening verbal fire at Pres. Donald Trump on Saturday.

After Trump tweeted that he “couldn’t be happier” that Perez had been elected chairman of the DNC, the former Secretary of Labor told the chief executive via Twitter not to get too comfortable, according to TheHill.com.

“Call me Tom. And don’t get too happy. @keithellison and I, and Democrats united across the country, will be your worst nightmare,” wrote Perez.

Perez was elected on Saturday after a contentious race against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) for committee chair. After his victory, Perez suspended the committee rules and named Ellison as his co-chair, hoping to send a message of unity to a party struggling to find its identity in the wake of a bruising campaign year.

Let us reserve judgement, it seems he has some spark. Let's see if the Establishment will fan the flames. Will he promote Gabbard, Sanders, Warren, or other Progressives, or will he fall back to Hillary 3.0?

 

[Wrong Element]

Another Milchtoast firebrand that will lead the Democratic Party once again in to the fields of Brie and Chardonnay. The Anti-Rience Prebus, all the charisma of a wet mop. How much are the Republicans quaking in their boots?

My position all along has been that this is a non-story being hyped up in part by the party itself (which ought to know better) and in part by a media always eager to promote a new "the Democrats are fighting again" narrative. (And if you disagree with me, ask yourself if you can recall a single detail from any party chairman contest in American history. It's literally never been a big deal before.)

I didn't really have a dog in the fight except for enjoying the spectacle of the cry-babiest of the Sanders people crying yet again. If you're madder at Tom Perez, Hillary etc. than you are at Trump, then you're of no use to anyone.

But seriously, as long as Perez is not totally incompetent, and nothing in his record shows that's the case, what difference does it make? Party chairman is a technocratic job; it's not about agenda-setting or being the public face of Democrats. The fate of the Dems in 2020 depends primarily on Trump and secondarily on the next presidential nominee. Perez won't make any difference, in the same way Priebus had almost nothing to do with the story of the 2016 campaign.

 

[JackLuis]

Key Question About DNC Race: Why Did Obama White House Recruit Perez to Run Against Ellison?

The New Republic’s Clio Chang has a great, detailed analysis of the contest. She asks the key question about Perez’s candidacy that has long hovered and yet has never been answered. As Chang correctly notes, supporters of Perez insist, not unreasonably, that he is materially indistinguishable from Ellison in terms of ideology (despite his support for TPP, seemingly grounded in loyalty to Obama). This, she argues, is “why the case for Tom Perez makes no sense”: After all, “if Perez is like Ellison — in both his politics and ideology — why bother fielding him in the first place?”

???

In other words, Perez, despite his progressive credentials, is viewed — with good reason — as a reliable functionary and trustworthy loyalist by those who have controlled the party and run it into the ground, whereas Ellison is viewed as an outsider who may not be as controllable and, worse, may lead the Sanders contingent to perceive that they have been integrated into and empowered within the party.

But there’s an uglier and tawdrier aspect to this. Just over two weeks after Ellison announced, the largest single funder of both the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign — the Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban — launched an incredibly toxic attack on Ellison, designed to signal his veto. “He is clearly an anti-Semite and anti-Israel individual,” pronounced Saban about the African-American Muslim congressman, adding: “Keith Ellison would be a disaster for the relationship between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party.”

Oops, too bad Keith and Progressives.

When Clinton, during the campaign, denounced the boycott movement devoted to defeating Israeli occupation, she did it in the form of public letter to Saban. To believe that Democrats assign no weight to Saban’s adamantly stated veto of Ellison is to believe in the tooth fairy.

So says Glen.

 

[JackLuis]

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