She joins a wide field of candidates who previously announced their bids for chair, including former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Minnesota Democratic Party Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler, New York state Sen. James Skoufis and former Maryland Senate candidate Robert Houton.
Here’s Winkler’s Jon Stewart interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBtlvfysjw
And here’s his Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wikler
This is one of those things most people won’t pay attention to, but if this guy gets DNC chair…
We could actually cause lasting change and pull up from the nosedive
This is one of those things most people won’t pay attention to, but if this guy gets DNC chair…
Pelosi has already thrown her weight around for a lower position. She will here as well.
Eh, at least this time there’s a chance.
When a dem wins the presidential they pick someone and no one else gets any votes.
It’s a deep cut, but my biggest criticism of Obama (and I have a good amount) is he just ignored the DNC instead of of appointing someone who shared his vision of the party.
That allowed Tim Kain (Hillary’s VP pick) to take the reigns and then DWS who resigned and was awarded with an easy House seat after it came to light she was directly coordinating the DNC with Hilary’s primary campaign in 2016.
Like…
I honestly don’t think people understand that getting Obama elected got us right up to the finish line for real actual change…
And at the last second he just didn’t follow thru.
A progressive DNC chair from 08-16 that let the primary be a fair fight and Bernie would have followed and we’d be exiting from his second term right now. The Republicans would have likely pivoted back to center and Trump running for president would be a forgotten memory from almost a decade ago.
So much shit and pain caused cuz Obama was bitter the DNC opposed him in the 08 primary for Clinton and then didn’t support him in the general. Obviously it’s more the fault of Hillary and her people, but we really rallied around Obama, got him elected…
And he just didn’t follow thru for whatever reason.
I honestly don’t think people understand that getting Obama elected got us right up to the finish line for real actual change…
And at the last second he just didn’t follow thru.
Democratic Party in a nutshell, from 1948 to 2024.
Democrats can’t get anything done, Republicans get bad things done. Tale as old as time.
Obviously it’s more the fault of Hillary and her people, but we really rallied around Obama, got him elected…
And he just didn’t follow thru for whatever reason.
Well, it wasn’t very long that he had much of an opportunity, but also:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/henhouse-meet-fox-wall-street-washington-obama/
This is not some bothsiderist thing. I’ll gladly take Obama over the wrecking ball coming in January. However, he was really center-right when it comes down to it…
This is one of those things most people won’t pay attention to, but if this guy gets DNC chair…
We could actually cause lasting change and pull up from the nosedive
I remember feeling that way back in 2008 when Howard Dean took the chairmanship. Then the party donor class kneecapped him at every turn and booted him for a conga line of hacks the first chance they got.
Fuck all the way off.
Yeah this bitch is nuts
In a move I expect to have an equal impact on the world, I’m proud to announce that I’m running for the papacy.
(No, I’m not Catholic. Does that matter?)
There have been no public forums yet where the candidates have met and taken questions from members of their party, but those meetings are slated to start in the new year. The official election for the next DNC chair will be held on Feb. 1.
This is actually incorrect. There was one hosted by the Young Democrats of America on December 7th with four candidates there answering questions. Is literally listed on the Wikipedia article for the DNC Chair election and the video is linked
Direct link to the video (and cut to the timestamp when it starts): https://youtu.be/Z1sip1hofdk?t=840
I’ve actually hardly heard democrats ever speak like they did in that setting (in a good way). Way more conviction behind what they are saying (as it goes along at least), generally more progressive, and overall more populist
Egad.
Why is there even an article on this?
