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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
Alexa Vaca, an Ellison backer and supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders

Bernie abandoned the democrat party months ago, and returned to his independent socialist roots. Ellison is a muslim marxist. Perez is a crony marxist.

The democrat party has become a regional, urban, ethnic, communist party.

41 posted on 02/26/2017 5:46:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Zuse

Perez makes John Podesta look like an alpha male. I wonder how he swings.Very creepy guy.


42 posted on 02/26/2017 5:49:01 AM PST by surrey
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Fake election. Were the Russians involved??? Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.


43 posted on 02/26/2017 5:53:57 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: surrey

>Perez makes John Podesta look like an alpha male. I wonder how he swings.Very creepy guy.

I’d say he swings for 10 year old boys.


44 posted on 02/26/2017 5:54:20 AM PST by RedWulf (a)
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To: mewzilla

The DNC is a train wreck.


45 posted on 02/26/2017 5:57:54 AM PST by FreedBird (m)
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To: SkyPilot
Voter I.D. laws:

The Obama administration directed Perez and the Civil Rights Division in challenging South Carolina’s 2011 voter ID law, over concerns that the law violated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[107] Perez successfully blocked the law from taking effect, after the Justice Department alleged South Carolina of failing to prove that the law wouldn't have a disproportionate effect on minority voters.[108] In a letter to South Carolina’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General, C. Havird Jones, Jr.,[109] Perez questioned whether 81,000 registered voters, all of whom were minorities who didn’t have government-issued or military photo identification, would be able to exercise their right to vote, citing “significant racial disparities in the proposed photo identification requirement."[109] Perez also oversaw the Obama administration’s efforts in challenging a 2011 voter ID law signed by Texas Governor Rick Perry, the second voter ID law consequently found to have violated Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.[110] Addressing the Supreme Court case Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, where the court upheld the constitutionality of Indiana’s photo ID requirement, Perez argued that “[Texas’s] submission did not include evidence of significant in-person voter impersonation not already addressed by the state's existing laws.”[111] Perez also stressed data from the Texas Department of Public Safety that found that registered Hispanic voters were 46.5% to 120% less likely than non-Hispanic voters to have a government issued driver’s license or state required photo ID.[11

46 posted on 02/26/2017 5:59:39 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (WE WON. GET OVER IT.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Progressive activists lashed out......

Bring it on RATS - let's have an all out war and destroy your party! Better yet leave the RAT party and join the CPUSA.
47 posted on 02/26/2017 6:15:26 AM PST by Cheerio (The unknown President #44)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Never happen.

The Bernie bots have been purged.

“Daniel Ortega” and “Muhammad Morsi” run the party now.


48 posted on 02/26/2017 6:16:07 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Democrat Rats are eating each other!!! What a sad show they projected yesterday...with that incompetent moderator, Donna Brazile. The room was filled with ugly men & women, overweight, old, gay...whatever all....collecting their welfare checks from “We, The People”!!! No real Americans there...only freeloaders, government workers, and deadbeats!!!


49 posted on 02/26/2017 6:19:14 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Cheerio

” Better yet leave the RAT party and join the CPUSA.”

They might as well since the CPUSA endorsed the Dem platform for 2016.


50 posted on 02/26/2017 6:34:32 AM PST by twoputt
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To: Bobalu

What a great graphic! Hope we’ll be seeing a lot of that in the next few years.


51 posted on 02/26/2017 6:40:32 AM PST by Moonlighter
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So called Democrats are showing the American People in this DNC fight that the historic party is NOW paralyzed by marxists socialists who smell the blood of establishment democrats and are going for Total Control.

Establishment Dems can’t fight back because they are physically intimidated by the loudmouths. We know this because of all the times the loudmouths wrestle the mike away at rallies while timid, self loathing establishment Dems, including Hillary herself, standby and do nothing.

So, put a fork in the dems. 2018 will reduce their elected officials to a pittance.


52 posted on 02/26/2017 6:48:36 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Miguk

Great post!

I’m starting to think I may need a flow chart to follow all the machinations of the Left—because all rat crap looks and smells the same to me!


53 posted on 02/26/2017 7:02:06 AM PST by homegroan
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To: hadrian

What is the correct word? “Mother load” is the origin of something valuable such as gold.


54 posted on 02/26/2017 7:02:46 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Dems, you drove away White working class Americans...and you still are not getting it...


55 posted on 02/26/2017 7:08:09 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They’ll fall in line. What else are they going to do?


56 posted on 02/26/2017 7:20:44 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Rusty0604

The correct word is Mother lode, not load.


57 posted on 02/26/2017 7:31:35 AM PST by ponygirl ("Our violence is speech. Your speech is violence." ~The Left)
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To: Zuse

LGBQWERTY! LOL!


58 posted on 02/26/2017 7:49:37 AM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Democrats playing the anti-Muslim card.

Ellison was discriminated against.

Ellison should be the leader of the DNC. Ellison is the epitome of what the democrats represent, so, he is the only candidate that made sense to lead them.

Democrats need to riot and protest and burn down democrat party headquarters. Ellison needs help from his Muslim buddies. Islamaphobia from democrats cannot be allowed to stand.


59 posted on 02/26/2017 7:59:14 AM PST by adorno (w)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
****The Price is Right sad trombone****


60 posted on 02/26/2017 8:03:59 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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