Embattled DNC Asks All Staffers For Resignation Letters

[FDRsGhost]

Source: NBC

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has launched a major overhaul of the party's organization, which has been stung by recent crises — and the DNC has requested resignation letters from all current staffers.

Party staff routinely see major turnover with a new boss and they had been alerted to expect such a move. However, the mass resignation letters will give Perez a chance to completely remake the DNC's headquarters from scratch. Staffing had already reached unusual lows following a round of post-election layoffs in December.

Immediately after Perez's selection as party chairman in late February, an adviser to outgoing DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile, Leah Daughtry, asked every employee to submit a letter of resignation dated April 15, according to multiple sources familiar with the party's internal workings.

A committee advising Perez on his transition is now interviewing staff and others as part of a top-to-bottom review process to decide not only who will stay and who will go, but how the party should be structured in the future.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/embattled-dnc-asks-all-staffers-resignation-letters-n739676

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[RKP5637]

1. Excellent!!! n/t

[zentrum]

2. Yes---need new people

...and fresh ideas to have it ready by 2018.

[Plucketeer]

3. Fresh faces are nice

Open minds are essential.

[pecosbob]

4. All that I can say is

that I was so appalled by the conduct of some 'Progressives' when I went to caucus here in Las Vegas that I don't think I will ever go to another. The Democratic Party is not the party of bullying, intimidation and rat-f*ckery...that's the Republicans. I say some of you need to change your behavior or change your party affiliation.

[elmac]

5. parties don't change people

people change the party. In this case, more progressive, no more right lite.

[KPN]

20. I kinda like that.

[ronnie624]

59. +1. n/t

[StevieM]

6. I see what you are saying but don't you think it is better not to let the bullies

take your vote away? If you don't caucus again then that means that they are rewarded for their behavior in terms of future outcomes.

Do you mind if I ask how you were bullied? And by whom?

[pecosbob]

10. My experience at caucus is not important.

What is important is that local Democratic Party officials open doors for candidates instead of placing roadblocks in front of them as was done during this past election. I have to give credit where credit is due, as Nevada remained blue, but the adversarial nature of the whole business here really turned me off to the whole process.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Caucuses are not run by the DNC or state party. County parties run them.

[Jim Lane]

12. I oppose intimidation and I oppose lying about intimidation.

I was appalled that the false report of chairs being thrown was made in the first place, and I was even more appalled that it was so widely repeated and given so much undeserved credence. The incident certainly suggested to me that some elements within the party were predisposed to believe anything bad about the progressives (with or without the scare quotes).

Please note that my criticism is about that particular falsehood concerning the Nevada caucus process, not about your post. I've heard allegations of misconduct from both sides, but I wasn't there.

[murielm99]

30. Chairs were raised over people's heads.

They picked up chairs and held them up. Do you go to meetings and hold chairs in the air? The gestures were threatening, whether or not the chairs were thrown.

[Jim Lane]

31. Your statement is accurate. The widely published statements were lies.

I'll agree with you that people at party meetings shouldn't raise chairs over their heads as a way of emphasizing their points. Will you agree with me that the statement that chairs were thrown was false? Will you further agree with me that people shouldn't tell falsehoods?

[murielm99]

32. Who were the people holding up those chairs?

I am not going to let bullies off the hook, nor am I going to let you back me into a corner. A way of emphasizing their point? It was threatening behavior, pure and simple.

[Jim Lane]

33. I already said it was wrongful. Do you think lying is wrongful?

Incidentally, I'm not 100% sure it was "chairs", plural. I remember seeing brief footage of one attendee raising a chair over his head. There may have been others; I haven't investigated this point, because it's inconsequential, because even one chair raised once would be inappropriate behavior.

I also can't give you an exact count of the number of people who spread the lie about chairs being thrown. I can't give an exact count because there were so many of them.

And, to mirror your question, who were the people spreading that lie? And do you join me in condemning their behavior?

[murielm99]

35. Do you know anyone personally who was there?

You are becoming tiresome.

[Jim Lane]

37. I probably don't know anyone who was there.

I know a few Nevadans but I've never asked them if they were there. Odds are they weren't.

Frankly, the relevance of that question completely escapes me, but you have your answer for whatever it's worth.

The raising of the chair by a Sanders delegate did not further Sanders's political interest. In fact, it would have been harmful to that interest even if it had been accurately reported, i.e., if it had not been lied about. So it's easy for me to condemn it on pragmatic grounds. Beyond that, however, even if there had been an instance of physical intimidation that actually helped my candidate, I would have opposed it. To condemn intimidation or lying only when done by the other side is to maintain an unacceptable double standard.

I've written a really trenchant concluding paragraph, but it would probably get my post removed. At this point, therefore, I'm punching out.

[KingCharlemagne]

44. Her continual evasions and deflections are what is tiresome. - nt

[snooper2]

56. negative

[calimary]

17. Welcome to DU, pecosbob!

We could get into a big discussion here. Longer than I have time for (or time to bore you with), and some of it will surely be taken as - well, counterproductive.

[JHan]

27. sounds like the usual busterisms.

last thing we need. Hope it doesn't permanently turn you off - sane people need to stay involved.

[KingCharlemagne]

43. Can you please be more specific? - nt

[lapucelle]

8. Embattled? Ellison and Perez? The media needs to stop

pimping that narrative. They've done enough damage.

[rpannier]

11. It does say Embattled DNC

which has been true of the past year

[PdxSean]

14. Ya beat me to it.

[lapucelle]

40. So much for Perez being the "establishment" candidate.

Luckily for ratings the media is well-equipped with alternate narratives that support their alternate realities. Will the MSM pundits acknowledge their error in judgment now that the man they cast in the role of establishment tool has blown up the establishment?

Facile, lazy standard scripts served up by the media as insight and punditry were a major problem during this campaign season. It's one of the reasons why we have President Trump. I didn't play then, and I'm not playing now.

[former9thward]

52. The large donors are the establishment.

Not lowly rank and file staff people who just do the shit work to carry out the policy of the powers.

[lapucelle]

71. Then it seems that either the establishment is powerless

against the Putin / alt-right coalition or that the establishment has joined forces with them against Democrats. After all, Trump has been installed in the White House and we do have a Republican house and senate.

More knowledgeable people than I are suggesting that cleaning house is an excellent way to get rid of any moles without specifically targeting them or arousing suspicion. I can't wait until they finally get around to investigating exactly why Dr. Stein was important enough to be seated at Putin and Flynn's table at the RT dinner and whether her sowing of division was part of a larger plan.

As for Democrats being embattled, I spent most week-ends in September and October traveling from from my solidly blue state to swing state PA as part of the DNC voter registration/GOTV effort. On my own four person team, there were two people who worked for Hillary in the primary and two who worked for Bernie. We agreed on some issues and disagreed on others, but we were all Democrats working towards a common goal, and we were stronger together.

Volunteers are lower than the lowly rank and file because we are the stupid idiots working for free, but I do take issue with anyone characterizing our efforts as "shit work". It may have been grunt work, but I was always aware that my doing it freed up the time of those with more expertise to do the work I didn't know how to do., When Hillary emerged on the stage at the convention, I remember thinking, "She's there to do what she can do because I did what I can do."

Media outlets pushing a story line that Democrats are "embattled" are doing us a disservice, especially after Sanders was named to a leadership role and Perez and Ellison committed to work as a team. The MSM did enough damage this year. We have to start calling them out when they reduce the growing pains of a political party in transition to a gossipy soap opera plot line.

[Renew Deal]

9. I wonder if they know who the Russian moles are

[mopinko]

21. this

i hope that is part of what is going on here.
considering the investigations into that hack, they have to have a clue who has been into anything hinky.

[former9thward]

54. There never was any "hack".

The FBI determined John Podesta opened up an phishing email saying he should change his password. He did and that led to all his emails being released.

[mopinko]

55. you dont count that as a hack?

i sure do.

[Bradical79]

64. That's a hack.

Most hacking is a combination of software tools and social engineering. It's not a movie with people typing away furiously at a keyboard in some epic battle of tech geniuses.

[renegade000]

70. though for a laugh...

http://hackertyper.net/

Flail away at the keyboard!

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Excellent point

given something like that was mentioned in the Steele dossier.

[Alice11111]

13. Bernie should be head of the DNC, and Perez and Ellison,

assistant co-chairs, the top managers. Bernie is the real head anyway! (I was a Hill supporter, so this has nothing to do w the primaries.)

[calimary]

15. Let's agree to disagree.

[Alice11111]

23. Certainly

[PdxSean]

16. Bernie didn't run for the position.

I still have my Bernie! t-shirt, but this fight isn't about Bernie. Bernie learned what it was like to be an independent trying to host a party of democrats. When Bernie lost I became a Hillary supporter, first reluctantly, then enthusiastically. As it stands, no single individual has my undying support. I've voted straight democrat ticket for 32 years, but if our leadership doesn't quit bringing plastic spoons to congressional gunfights, I'm gonna be batshit crazy and living off the grid before this is all over.

Sorry for rambling. I should probably go eat something.

I didn't follow the DNC elections, but I'll be sending a somewhat fat check along shortly. Right now, the DNC is the only entity that has my undying support. Everyone else, including Bernie, will need to reapply.

[Alice11111]

22. I get it.

[Thor_MN]

24. Bernie Sanders is not a member of the Democratic party...

He ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President, but if you look at a current list of US Senators, you will see an "I" after his name.

I like Sanders, but don't see how an Independent could be the head of the DNC.

[Alice11111]

25. You are correct. Problematic. He is doing more to lead us out of the wilderness than anyone though.

[KittyWampus]

34. Really? It seems to me Pelosi holding her caucus together against repealing ACA was a lot more

than anything Sanders has done recently.

[Alice11111]

36. Pelosi is great!

[FDRsGhost]

41. It's not as if she had to try hard

There was never any Democrat who was going to side with Trump over repealing the ACA.

[obamanut2012]

48. Wrong -- Franken and Pelosi are

Ridiculous.

[Alice11111]

58. Why do you think that?

They are both experienced. Bright. Used to the Repub tricks and breaches of trust. Pelosi is a master at holding her caucuses together.

[KingCharlemagne]

45. +Infinity! - nt

[JTFrog]

26. Why should the head of the DNC be anyone other than an actual member of the party?

Not bashing Bernie, just curious as to your reasoning here.

[Flaleftist]

61. It should be the person who can best take it in the direction needed

and get enough support to take back control of the government. I'm not sure who that is yet, but politicians who have fought for the right things their entire lives should be considered. IMO

[JTFrog]

62. No. If they want to head the DNC, they join the party.

End of.

You don't Head a Party from the fucking outside.

[pnwmom]

28. LOL. Only a Democrat can be the head of the Democratic National Committee

and Bernie has no interest in becoming one.

[ATL Ebony]

38. Excuse my ignorance but he isn't a Democrat, is he?

Thought he joined Dems for the election then returned to "Independent" status. Either way, I'd have to disagree -- not on the "Bernie Bandwagon" so don't really follow when he "is Dem" and when "he's not".

[obamanut2012]

47. Sanders is not a Democrat -- this is ridiculous

[Demsrule86]

50. No .... just no.

How could someone head something he does not belong to?

[Bradical79]

65. It would be kind of ridiculous

It would be ridiculous to put an Independent firebrand in a mostly administrative position as head of the national party comitee. There's a reason he didn't seek out the position himself.

[R B Garr]

68. lol

[calimary]

18. Welcome DU, FDRsGhost!

I don't know a whole lot about Tom Perez, at least not yet. But so far, I like what I've heard when I've seen him interviewed.

[FDRsGhost]

42. I personally see him as iffy myself

I can take him or leave him. I like what he's doing though with this. I don't share in some of his views however.

[obamanut2012]

49. He isn't the least bit "iffy" -- stop it

[FDRsGhost]

51. Stop what? Do you blindly agree with everybody? Of course not.

I'm not a bot, I have a brain and think. Easy as that.

[KittyWampus]

63. Funny your first comment is "i'm not a bot". I would never feel compelled to write that

for any reason. It would never cross my mind.

[Bradical79]

66. Hmm...

"I'm not a bot" sounds like something a robot would say
It's all right though, I'm about ready to accept our new AI overlords at this point.

[FDRsGhost]

67. only the sex ones though, right? rofl

[Starry Messenger]

53. Iffy how?

His record at Labor was second only to Frances Perkins.

[FDRsGhost]

57. I agree he was great at Labor

but I disagree with him on TPP. I like what he's doing now though, I'll say that! We can't have too many irons on the fire to fight Frito Finger!

[Starry Messenger]

69. Well, TPP is dead now, so....

[PatrickforO]

19. Well, I've been thinking of donating some money...

guess now's the time.

[Duppers]

29. Same here.

I feel safe in doing so now.

[calimary]

60. Yep. Me too.

[KewlKat]

46. well i hope they go to an email system that encrypts all the emails........sick of seeing all the

dem emails, true or not, spread around the media. We need a better system for ALL dem campaigns to implement if they've not already done so.