BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has been OUSTED from his position after a late-night vote despite considerable last minute lobbying from Tim Walz and James Carville.
Hogg now holds the record as the shortest tenure of a vice chair of the DNC.
A Democratic National Committee panel on Monday recommended a new election for the post held by Vice Chair David Hogg, whose effort to challenge "asleep at the wheel" Democrats sparked a firestorm in the national party.
Hogg and DNC chair Ken Martin have been dueling over Hogg’s plans. Most recently, Martin said Hogg should either sign a neutrality pledge or step down from his post.
On Monday, the DNC Credentials Committee committee heard a complaint that alleged the body bungled its own rules when Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta were elected as vice chairs in February. To move forward, the full national body would have to sign off on the resolution the committee approved. If it does, it would call for a new election for the two vice chair posts in question and therefore would remove Hogg and Kenyatta from their posts.
The challenge was brought by Oklahoma DNC member Kalyn Free, who argued that the party violated its own rules and made it harder for a woman to be elected vice chair.
The party’s rules state that the DNC’s governing body should achieve gender parity or get as close to it as is possible. Free argued, according to her initial complaint, which was shared with POLITICO, that Kenyatta and Hogg had access to more votes than Free and two other women running for the slot because the DNC’s rules were not properly followed and “made it impossible” for any woman to win the race.
“I have always known that the Democratic Party is the party of free and fair elections. Today, the credentials committee of the DNC confirmed that correcting mistakes in process, and protecting democracy is more important than saving face,” Free said in a statement after the vote
In a statement, Martin said he was “disappointed to learn that before I became Chair, there was a procedural error in the February Vice Chair elections.”
“The Credentials Committee has issued their recommendation, and I trust that the DNC Members will carefully review the Committee’s resolution and resolve this matter fairly,” he said.
In the hearing on Monday, Free’s lawyers called in Hofstra professor Daniel Seabold, an expert in parliamentary procedure, to give testimony on Free’s behalf, and his expertise seemed to sway some members of the committee.
“I’m gonna take the guy who wrote the book,” said former Oklahoma Gov. David Walters, a committee member.
On Monday, the DNC Credentials Committee committee heard a complaint that alleged the body bungled its own rules when Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta were elected as vice chairs in February
I doubt it was bungled beyond the fact that David was too White to have any leadership role in the woke party, yet won the most votes anyway. He wanted to push the party even more left which I'm sure they'd be happy with if it was a brown woman saying it
Yeah the party has gone completely anti-merit even within their own internal machinery. Not saying David is the best for the job but the people that participated in that election clearly thought he was. Says more about the loonies he was competing against than anything else (and there were some doozies on that stage)
In this case, it wasn't even his straightish white maleness that was their problem with him. It was that he used DNC email lists to raise money for his own foundation, which he was going to use to primary Democrats. None of this is about rules or diversity. It's about money.
This is the same gun control activist guy right? With the extremely punchable face? He really rode the makeshift career ladder of unfortunate deaths of others like a true politician, but hopefully that has come to an end for him and he needs to work in a factory somewhere now.
I forget, hasn't he only had the position for around 4 months?
Aaaand he gone.
https://xcancel.com/joma_gc/status/1922127763424629018
Dammit!
From a purely humor perspective, I was really hoping he'd stay.
There could also have been some political capital at stake if they took him down during a campaign season.
He was gone before this post was even made.
This thread was made about 11 hours ago, but the story of him being gone was already 14 hours old over on T_D
https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/19BGFOuqGX/congrats-to-dnc-vice-chair-david/c
Tim Walz thought he was just too weird.
Wrong way around. Walz was backing him.
Probably because both encompass the "ideal" kind of masculinity.
Oh crap totally misread that. Yeah those freaks must be perfect for each other.
Crazy how quick I forgot about that guy. I had to think for a second to remember who he was.
Highlights:
I doubt it was bungled beyond the fact that David was too White to have any leadership role in the woke party, yet won the most votes anyway. He wanted to push the party even more left which I'm sure they'd be happy with if it was a brown woman saying it
The complaint was that he was a man and women need special privileges in the DNCs “fair” elections
Yeah the party has gone completely anti-merit even within their own internal machinery. Not saying David is the best for the job but the people that participated in that election clearly thought he was. Says more about the loonies he was competing against than anything else (and there were some doozies on that stage)
In this case, it wasn't even his straightish white maleness that was their problem with him. It was that he used DNC email lists to raise money for his own foundation, which he was going to use to primary Democrats. None of this is about rules or diversity. It's about money.
For real though, if he likes girls I'm a monkey's uncle.
This is the same gun control activist guy right? With the extremely punchable face? He really rode the makeshift career ladder of unfortunate deaths of others like a true politician, but hopefully that has come to an end for him and he needs to work in a factory somewhere now.