Posted on 11/20/2016 9:45:34 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Keith Ellison, an early favorite to become the next Democratic National Committee chairman, has hit his first roadblock. The Minnesota congressman and Bernie Sanders ally is facing growing resistance to the idea of electing another party chairman who is a sitting member of Congress.
On the heels of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s troubled tenure as DNC chief, the issue of whether Ellison will commit full-time to the job poses a threat to his candidacy — even as he enjoys significant support in his bid to become DNC chairman.
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. Wasserman Schultz drew criticism in party circles for how she handled the two demanding roles, and Democrats privately grumbled that she sought to leverage her position as party chairman to give her congressional donors plum spots at DNC fundraisers with President Barack Obama and solicited DNC donors for contributions to her campaign.
“I think we all watched at DNC meetings a chair trying to do both, and both is a matter of the amount of time being taken but also, if you are a sitting officeholder, there's potentially some separation between your interests and the interests of the national party," said Ohio Democratic Party chairman David Pepper.
Already, two of Ellison’s opponents for the top DNC job — former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison — have made the point that congressional responsibilities would dramatically undercut the ability of the next chairman to do the job effectively.
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That’s true, and even worse, their racial politics have created an environment where two groups (legacy blacks and the numerically superior Hispanics) are demanding increasing shares of a very finite pie. After the 2000 census, I thought black votes would take a back seat to Hispanics, but Hispanics themselves are not so easily bought; they’ve shown consistently that they aren’t owned by either party (voting by class instead of race).
All three of these douchebags are NUTJOBS and incompetents and will do nothing to pick up seats for the democrat communist party of the USA.
TRUMP must INSIST on nuclear option in SENATE For LEGISLATION and Appointments.
NO WAY will American people tolerate the democrat communist minority stopping anything that needs to be done to make America great again!.
GO NUCLEAR!!!!!!
Excellent choice, I hope he does become the leader and the face of the dem party.
A militant, global-socialist, muslim-adoring, half-black, gay-cross-dressing homosexual?
Already elected him! He’s getting out of office in a few weeks - available for the job.
Annnnnnd Planned parenthood...
Ellison is just what they need to officially become the party of Allah (Satan)
I hope Ellison wins.
Darn. I was hoping the DNC would get the leadership it deserves - Ellison or Gutierrez...
The worst possible choice. No muzzards, please! We just got rid of jarrett and abedin. No more.
[facing growing resistance to the idea of electing another party chairman who is a sitting member of Congress. ]
So THAT’S the excuse.
Methinks that Ellison is someone the rich white liberals can’t control.
Also getting attacked from the left over his support for the same new wars that Hillary wanted: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/17/the-skeletons-in-keith-ellisons-display-case/
If the democrats were not a bunch of racist islamaphobes they would already have chosen him by unanimous declaration...
;-)
Bull.
The DNC doesn’t want a Black moslem.
ellison would be the BEST head of the DIMs. He has my support. If they don’ elect him they are mooslumophobes and racists. Go ellison, you waste.
Ellison..the IslamoNazis who’ve purchased the DNC are about to commit their political suicide
YIPPEE!
Why those racist Islamophobe DNC bigots!!? How dare they!?
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