he Rep. Wasserman Schultz played games with the party’s voter database, restricted the number of Democratic candidate debates and scheduled them at days and times to minimize viewership all in favor to Hillary Clinton, who would be the presumptive Democratic nominee, but for Wasserman Schultz. At the height a disingenuousness, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper that super-delegates — almost all of whom are strongly supportive of the structural leadership establishment and overwhelmingly pro-Clinton — are more necessary than ever because the party must rely on currently elected and often high-ranking incumbent officials to ward off those pesky “grassroots activists.”
In Nevada, Wasserman Schultz jumped into a melee concerning what did or did not happen when Sanders supporters loudly and vehemently objected to the arcane and obscure rules at the Nevada State Democratic Convention.
To be fair, some Berniecrats behaved poorly at the convention, while some made aggressively negative and occasionally obscene threats to Nev. Dem state chair Roberta Lange via phone, email and social media. Such conduct cannot be excused and Sanders quickly and directly apologized for the behavior of the raucous and disruptive folks channeling their inner Trump.
However, one must ask why well-behaved Sanders supporters shouldn’t feel angry at the pervasive and clandestine political process by which Wasserman Schultz and the Clinton machine has manipulated the delegate-selection process to benefit of the former Secretary of State (which is an entire and lengthy topic in and of itself).
Wasserman Schultz has gone to great lengths to convince anyone who will listen that the rules over which she has presided and manipulated, are “eminently fair.” By attempting to quell unruly Sanders’s supporters so high-handily, her rhetoric has fallen flat.
A few days later and feelings still raw, the DNC Chair was said to not be, “helping her friend Hillary Clinton with her attacks on Sanders. … Wasserman Schultz’s defiant rebuke to the Sanders camp has made it worse.”
Another related matter at a time when money in politics is a top Democratic Party issue, Wasserman Schultz repealed the Obama-initiated ban on lobbyists and PACs giving money to the party.
In addition, it’s been revealed that a number of the members of the Philadelphia host committee “are actively working to undermine progressive policies achieved by President Barack Obama, including health care reform and net neutrality. Some... are hardly even Democratic Party stalwarts, given that many have donated and raised thousands of dollars for Republican presidential and congressional candidates this cycle.”
This is not just a slap in the face to progressives who have been calling for a halt to big money and allowing lobbyists to buy elected officials, it’s also contrary to what Hillary Clinton herself said about money and politics on the campaign trail.
Unless Rep. Wasserman Schultz steps down now or if Hillary Clinton has her removed, Philadelphia will be dominated by a person who represents everything that’s wrong with the Democratic Party and Washington. At the convention’s opening session, Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be bringing the gavel down squarely on progressive hopes of returning the party to its legacy as champion of working people and the dispossessed.
It’s past time for her to go.
In Nevada, Wasserman Schultz jumped into a melee concerning what did or did not happen when Sanders supporters loudly and vehemently objected to the arcane and obscure rules at the Nevada State Democratic Convention.
To be fair, some Berniecrats behaved poorly at the convention, while some made aggressively negative and occasionally obscene threats to Nev. Dem state chair Roberta Lange via phone, email and social media. Such conduct cannot be excused and Sanders quickly and directly apologized for the behavior of the raucous and disruptive folks channeling their inner Trump.
However, one must ask why well-behaved Sanders supporters shouldn’t feel angry at the pervasive and clandestine political process by which Wasserman Schultz and the Clinton machine has manipulated the delegate-selection process to benefit of the former Secretary of State (which is an entire and lengthy topic in and of itself).
Wasserman Schultz has gone to great lengths to convince anyone who will listen that the rules over which she has presided and manipulated, are “eminently fair.” By attempting to quell unruly Sanders’s supporters so high-handily, her rhetoric has fallen flat.
A few days later and feelings still raw, the DNC Chair was said to not be, “helping her friend Hillary Clinton with her attacks on Sanders. … Wasserman Schultz’s defiant rebuke to the Sanders camp has made it worse.”
Another related matter at a time when money in politics is a top Democratic Party issue, Wasserman Schultz repealed the Obama-initiated ban on lobbyists and PACs giving money to the party.
In addition, it’s been revealed that a number of the members of the Philadelphia host committee “are actively working to undermine progressive policies achieved by President Barack Obama, including health care reform and net neutrality. Some... are hardly even Democratic Party stalwarts, given that many have donated and raised thousands of dollars for Republican presidential and congressional candidates this cycle.”
This is not just a slap in the face to progressives who have been calling for a halt to big money and allowing lobbyists to buy elected officials, it’s also contrary to what Hillary Clinton herself said about money and politics on the campaign trail.
Unless Rep. Wasserman Schultz steps down now or if Hillary Clinton has her removed, Philadelphia will be dominated by a person who represents everything that’s wrong with the Democratic Party and Washington. At the convention’s opening session, Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be bringing the gavel down squarely on progressive hopes of returning the party to its legacy as champion of working people and the dispossessed.
It’s past time for her to go.
