McAuliffe joins ex-DNC chairs backing Clinton campaign vet for party role

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post

By David Weigel January 15 at 11:17 PM

Adam Parkhomenko, the co-founder of “Ready for Hillary” and a lifelong supporter of defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, is being endorsed by three former chairmen of the Democratic National Committee for a role in the party’s leadership. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, former Pennsylvania governor Edward G. Rendell and longtime South Carolina party operative Don Fowler will announce their endorsements Monday.

“To be endorsed by my governor, by Ed Rendell, by Don Fowler — I mean, that’s something I couldn’t have dreamed up 10 years ago,” said Parkhomenko, 31, a candidate for vice chairman in the most crowded DNC campaign since 2005.

The DNC is electing a new leadership team next month, and the candidates for five vice chair slots, as well as the candidates for chair, secretary and other roles, met over this past weekend in Phoenix. It was one of four planned forums, and Parkhomenko and his rivals campaigned face to face with the DNC members — state leaders and sometimes-obscure committee members — to lock up support.

Endorsements from nonmembers of the committee do nothing for the vote count, but demonstrate both momentum and how the candidates identify themselves. Parkhomenko, who parlayed his work for Clinton into a role on her primary campaign and a late-election role in the DNC, is pitching himself as a unity candidate who tried to heed the warnings of activists in Rust Belt states. In an interview Sunday night, he rejected the idea that the endorsements of McAuliffe and all made him the party establishment’s candidate. “I’m 31. I’m a millennial,” he said. “Has anyone gone back and looked at who the youngest vice chair of the DNC was? This is a race about the grass roots, and about changing the way the party works.”

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[Gothmog]

1. I do not know Adam Parkhomenko but will listen to him at the DNC forum in Houston

I still like Tom Perez

[DonViejo]

2. Parkhomenko's running for one of five party vice chair positions, not chair of the Party

[Gothmog]

5. Thanks

[Historic NY]

3. He was very active on twtter and other places during the election...

he has a head on his shoulders.

[OKNancy]

4. I like him

I've followed him on twitter since I first got on, and he is always interesting. Smart guy.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. Perez and Parkhomenko

will be great together IF they - and all others in DNC management - bring back and fully implement Howard Dean's 50-state strategy, which means rebuilding state and local Dem networks beginning NOW and continuing - not just dusting them off for a Presidential election and concentrating resources on "key" states ONLY.

If the DNC does NOT do this, we'll go down the same rabbit hole that Dems have since Dean left the DNC in 2009.

PLEASE!!!!

[Cha]

15. Sounds Good!

[Ford_Prefect]

7. If he continues down the same road that got us here...

[pnwmom]

9. James Comey's letter bomb campaign is what got us here.

It was an unprecedented intrusion by the FBI and no one could have prepared for that.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. There were many hidden players along the way who interfered: Comey was the most visible and vile.

I do not understand why he is not under arrest.

I am speaking about the road by which the party became divided between progressives and the PTB Third way. That kind of division is not going to win any more elections. The unresolved issues cannot be left along the road regardless of whom you voted for in the primary. Democrats cannot be herded by fear like Republicans. You must acknowledge those issues honestly or it will fail to persuade those who aren't being served by the PTB , and who see the Third Way compromises as lack of faith in Democratic values and a pronounced lack of backbone when it comes to standing up for them. That is the road to what we have now.

We've seen what this kind of compromise produces in NC. That won't fly here anymore.

[pnwmom]

11. Russia was involved in promoting that division, in trying to separate

Bernie supporters from the rest of the party -- and they largely succeeded.

[Ford_Prefect]

13. I'm sorry but that lie won't hunt. Russia was not controlling or steering Brock's harassment program

The divisive actions by the DNC leadership and the HRC campaign to deny any progressive participation? Those activities were real and documented. It was a party putsch where conservative democrats refused to let anyone else into the party, including those like myself who have been marching in the rank and file since King and Nixon. I saw it happen in person and up close. Don't ever bring that down here again because we aren't gonna buy it.

The Russians and the GOP played very dirty and largely got away with it. I still do not understand why there was no response from the DOJ or the White House since they were aware of it so long before election day. Why was Trump's financial empire of Debt not a subject of official comment?

[pnwmom]

14. I'm not lying. That was part of what was in the dossier that was summarized by the CIA

for Obama and Trump.

"conservative democrats"? Such as who? Certainly not Hillary or her campaign staff. And there was no "party putsch" either -- just a very organized campaign.

The leaked emails were from April and May 2016, when Bernie no longer had a mathematical chance of winning and the DNC was trying to figure out how to support Hillary against DT, who had already secured the nomination.

Greenwald and others with influence among gullible Democrats used those Russian-hacked emails to attack Hillary and divide her from Bernie supporters.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. The Russians were responsible for Brock's dirty tricks team? Tell me another one.

The DNC decided long before the leaks that they would NOT have anyone in the party that didn't march to their tune every step of the way. We didn't need nor did we have leaked info on that. We saw it happen. It began at least 6 months to a year before the primaries, some have asserted it began as far back as the 2008 campaign. I saw it on the ground and in meetings and it was sadly not a surprise. You call it organized, I can think of several other terms. It was what it was and that included excluding every day Democrats from fundraisers held in country clubs for thousands a plate to meet face to face with the star. Early on it was very clear just which select Democrats were to be included in the campaign. No weatherman was required to see how the wind blew there.

Mr.Brock's pedigree for dirty politics has a well documented history. That HRC Campaign would hire him said much about the nature of the enterprise.

Last time I looked the Clinton Family do not own the party, although they had much to say about who was allowed into the meetings.

I voted for her this time, and I voted for him twice. I have issues with how that turned out, but I did not expect we would still be arguing about that today. I have marched, and picketed, and called and visited Congress any number of times. I have registered voters in rural and town districts going door to door. It's my family and party heritage that we do this. My parents marched in Arkansas, Philadelphia, Baltimore and DC when it was a dangerous thing to do. They worked to organize for Civil Rights, Peace and Justice within the United Presbyterian Church and along with other mainstream protestant faiths. We do not sit on our hands in this clan. We expect that the party leadership and our candidates should be just as committed the same ideals with some justification.

[Tatiana]

8. I like that he's young.

Looking forward to listening to what he has to say.

We need to get the millenials as well as our base energized.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Ed Rendell?

Sends meh down my spine.