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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Exactly why my 77 year old Aunt left the party after a lifetime of voting Democrap. Said she will never vote Democrap again. She probably won’t vote Republican either, but the Democraps can count on a lost vote from her and I know she is not the only one. When Steve Bannon said “The next time a Democrat is elected President will be in 50 years” he wasn’t kidding. That party is now completely and utterly overrun by absolute psychopaths and they are losing moderate Democrats by the boatload and all I can say to that is GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!
“How do the dems keep the support of both”
It’s inevitable that a party based on the identity politics of “minority” group aggrievedness will fly apart as the various aggrieved “minorities” fight each other to achieve dominate “minority” aggrievedness.
This is a never-ending battle because as soon as one “minority” group “wins”, they then become the “majority” which is subject to attack by all of the losing “minorities”.
And the real beauty is that they conduct their internecine warfare with the same riotous, cacophonous and Alinksyesque battle tactics that they’ve been taught to use against their external opponents.
That is exactly what we witnessed with the Perez/Ellison battle and the subsequent fallout currently underway. We can expect to see much more of this in the interceding months.
You are right, it was misspelled. I should have caught that, since I lived near mother lode country in CA.
Blacks represent 14% of the US Population, but they represent fully 50% of the DNC rank and file.... Imagine a political party hijacked by BLM, Black Panthers, Black Muslims, etc., and you see why they are become a party similar to what Rev. Wright preches.
Thank God we have a president who can do both of them at the same time.
Perez is like George Zimmerman-—a white Hispanic.
Electing him instead of the Black Muslim is racist.
LOL.
I know I will never vote Democrat again. I don’t know about the rest of you.
Democrats screw over black people all the time... what are you talking about?
The Progressives have a hard-on for Islam. Imagine that.
You’re forgetting “do horrible things to sheep”.
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