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Progressives threaten revolt after DNC vote
CNN ^ | Feburary 25, 2017 | By Gregory Krieg

Posted on 02/26/2017 1:26:11 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee

ATLANTA (CNN)--Progressive activists lashed out at the Democratic Party on Saturday after their choice to lead its national committee, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, was defeated by former Obama administration Labor Secretary Tom Perez in a tight and unexpectedly contentious contest.

After the results were announced, angry Ellison loyalists rose from their seats in the back of the ballroom at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel and tried to shout down outgoing interim chair Donna Brazile, chanting, "Party for the people, not big money!"

"This shows that the Democratic Party didn't learn their lesson," said Alexa Vaca, an Ellison backer and supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during the party's divisive 2016 primary race. "They are not going to be in touch with the people and they are not ready to move in a new direction despite the rhetoric."

Perez came up a vote short of a clinching majority on the first ballot, then captured 235 of the 435 votes cast on the second. In between votes, the Ellison camp sent out a text message to DNC members claiming that South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of the running before a vote was cast, had endorsed him. But the information was incorrect, and Buttigieg confronted Ellison backstage. A correction was sent out with an apology. . .

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To: Brad from Tennessee; ExTexasRedhead

Racist, Hardcore Marxist Tom Perez Wins DNC Chairmanship

• Perez is a radical on immigration, having prosecuted Border Patrol agents and served on the board of a radical group to help Central American illegal immigrants.

• Perez is a radical on racial issues, having used disparate impact theory to assess civil rights and discrimination cases.

•Perez lied about his family history in order to further a political narrative of public service.

•Perez used his private e-mail 1,200 times to conduct official business – taking a lesson from his party’s failed presidential nominee.

• Helped Rigged DNC primary results for Hillary Clinton.

• Perez also dropped the DOJ case against the Black Panther Party for voter intimidation because he doesn’t believe that civil rights laws can be race neutral.

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• Ellison is a long time collaborator with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whom Ellison claimed was not anti-Semitic but a "public servant."

• Ellison is a radical Marxist, participated in crimes as a student including trespassing, vandalism, and imtimidation.

• Ellison is a friend to Islamic murderers, Holocaust deniers, and possesses extreme hatred of all Jews and Israel.

• Ellsion took his oath of office with his hand on the Koran (Quaran).

• Ellison paid homage to Malcolm X by previously writing under the pen name Keith “X” Ellison

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If these are "Democrats" then I am now rolling over in my grave.

21 posted on 02/26/2017 3:41:27 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ah, yes... the party of the “Invisible Empire” returns to it’s racist roots to put down the black man again! This was a political lynching of another “uppity” Negro who dared to challenge the Clinton/Obama death grip on the Democrat Party.


22 posted on 02/26/2017 3:51:41 AM PST by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yea!!! It’s working! They will hopefully remain as disjointed and unfocused as this past year!!


23 posted on 02/26/2017 4:04:55 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: SkyPilot
Eh, JFK is just a dead white male.

I'm waiting for the snowflakes and...admit it, racist white extinction fans, in the Dem party, to decry him as such and justify it on grounds of his sexism.

While still pushing Hillary who enabled Bill.

Our real goal is to figure out how to set the various splinter groups within the party at each other's throats, while still keeping in mind the adage:

"But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam; and it has spread to every corner of it. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But you can't get much hope out of it. They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead."

24 posted on 02/26/2017 4:07:22 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Bring back institutionalizing of the insane. That should bring the Dhimmicrat Party back to about 1960.


25 posted on 02/26/2017 4:13:58 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Reminds me of the time that we caught two mice in the same glue trap, and as we gingerly carried the mess to the garbage, they were tearing at each other. This is too good. And it’s true:E)


26 posted on 02/26/2017 4:24:20 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: grey_whiskers
Our real goal is to figure out how to set the various splinter groups within the party at each other's throats

Nope...our real goal is and definitely should be to move the congressional Republicans in our direction so they get off their asses and pass President Trump's agenda. So far the Republicans in Congress haven't done squat this year.

27 posted on 02/26/2017 4:25:11 AM PST by Avalon Memories (If Dems want to be purveyors of unverifiable sewer trash, we can play the same game.)
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To: Drango

Progressives are revolting? This has been known for a long long time.


28 posted on 02/26/2017 4:28:19 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Dog
Rise up Ellison people they did a Bernie on u....lol Fight take it to the streets. ..lol

In Mississippi we call that being "McDanieled via Cochran"

29 posted on 02/26/2017 4:31:47 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: dowcaet
Bernie Sanders’ third home puts a new spin on ‘socialism’ in America
30 posted on 02/26/2017 4:32:35 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Fresh Wind

31 posted on 02/26/2017 4:39:12 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Helicondelta

His email says “mother load”? That’s not a typo, that’s him not knowing the correct word.


32 posted on 02/26/2017 4:44:47 AM PST by hadrian
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To: grey_whiskers

I’m a long time Tolkien fan, and am struck by the similarity of that with a famous Leon Uris passage:

“...before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”


33 posted on 02/26/2017 4:59:25 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Zuse
Surely Perez must have some outstanding qualities. Is he LGBQWERT

Ha...you left out (no pun intended) the key designator...the H factor

Hermaphrodites all....so they can F each other.

34 posted on 02/26/2017 5:09:43 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
...and President Trump leans into the curve!
35 posted on 02/26/2017 5:10:39 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Alexa Vaca, an Ellison backer ..."They are not going to be in touch with the people and they are not ready to move in a new direction despite the rhetoric."

Put the car in drive, and pull the wheel hard to the left. After a while, see where you at, and see where you are going.

36 posted on 02/26/2017 5:26:32 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Progressives are revolting!

They soitenly are!


37 posted on 02/26/2017 5:29:27 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Candor7

We can only hope they have a good, old-fashioned Stalinist purge.


38 posted on 02/26/2017 5:32:47 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Candor7

——Democrats still do not want to join the real world——

I would argue that there is the belief that the Cities, the source of the winning majority popular vote, are the real world.

What is interesting to me is the fact that the party is split down the middle. The split was obscured in the primaries by the superdelegates. The Clinton wing did not have the super delegate anomaly in the election for party chair. The one vote margin displays the split as it really exists. The rancor is going to grow rather than be pacified


39 posted on 02/26/2017 5:38:30 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Couldn’t have pick a better sleazeball, evil, slimy looking rodent to represent the Demorat party.


40 posted on 02/26/2017 5:46:00 AM PST by jetson
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