This is NOT how we will win elections...

[Highway61]

The members of the left wing of the Democratic Party are furious at Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez for removing party officials who backed Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison’s chairmanship bid from key party committees.

“It’s a slap in the face to the activists in the party that are working so hard to make the party more responsive to the grassroots,” said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America, a digital grassroots group. “The idea that you’re going to purge Ellison supporters and bring the party together doesn’t make any sense at all.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-perez-ousts-keith-ellison-loyalists_us_59ea6a44e4b0a484d0634a08
I am speechless.....we need to WIN seats back....we need to win period! What are they thinking? We need everyone.

Our note to Tom this morning...
I want the Democratic Party to return to being the party of the people, specifically the party that represents the interests of the middle class while lifting up the poor. We are the party of FDR, not Bill Clinton. No more middle of the road and the DLC.

I am very upset that the DNC under your stewardship decided to purge the leadership of progressive members. This is not the way forward and this action needs to be reversed today.

The only way for us to win elections is to become a stark alternative to the GOP, not some watered down version of the right.

I, for one; will not send a dime to the Democratic Party unless this purge of progressives is reversed.

We got rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her despicable actions in 2016 and we will rid ourselves of anyone who wants to return us to the "pink" policies of the DLC.

https://www.tomperez.org/contact-1/

[CentralMass]

1. Business as usual for the DNC. They are wasting no time restacking the deck.

[stonecutter357]

2. Democratic party members only thanks...

[Break time]

3. Same old same old

They have not learned anything at all, complete ignorance is still in place...

[MrsCoffee]

4. This is still just a bunch of bull. There were several Ellison and Sanders backers nominated.

Quit stirring up the divide over something ridiculous.

If Ellison had won, he would have done the same thing. It's the job.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/355954-dnc-chairman-aims-for-diversity-with-delegate-nominations

Several supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are also on Perez’s list, including former Sanders spokeswoman Symone Sanders.

Two people who challenged Perez for DNC chair have been nominated — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and former South Carolina Democratic chairman Jaime Harrison. After a hard-fought and sometimes bitter campaign, Perez tapped Ellison, a Sanders supporter, to be his deputy chairman.

Labor leader Randi Weingarten, who backed Ellison in the DNC chair race over Perez, is also nominated.

Perez’s full slate of nominations is below:


Jan Bauer .......................................... Iowa

Artie Blanco ...................................... Nev.

Donna Brazile...................................D.C.

Roxanne Brown ............................... Md.

Calla Brown ..................................... Md.

Laphonza Butler ................................ Calif.

Maria Cardona ..................................D.C.

Leah Daughtry .................................. N.Y.

Joanne Dowdell ................................N.H.

Maria Eschaveste ............................. Calif.

Lily Eskeleson Garcia ........................ Utah

Cindy Estrada .................................... Mich.

Isabell Framer .................................. Ohio

Lorna Johnson .................................. Calif.

Paulette Jordan .................................. Idaho

Elaine Kamarck ................................ Mass.

Claire Lucas ...................................... D.C.

Juanita Luiz...................................... Wash.

Jen McClellan ................................... Va.

Lorraine Miller ................................... Texas

Minyon Moore ................................... D.C.

Margarita Nolasco ............................. Puerto Rico

Carol Pensky ................................... Md.

Ellie Perez ........................................ Ariz.

Ai-Jen Poo ........................................ N.Y.

Carrie Pugh....................................... D.C.

Marisa Richmond .............................. Tenn.

Emmy Ruiz ....................................... Texas

Symone Sanders .............................. D.C.

Lottie Shackelford ............................. Ariz.

Becky Strezchowski ............................ Ill.

Jere Talley ........................................ Texas

Amy Wakeland .................................. Calif.

Jeion Ward ....................................... Va.

Randi Weingarten ............................. N.Y.

Alexis Wiley ....................................... Mich.

Roz Wyman ...................................... Calif.

Males

Yohannes Abraham .......................... Va.

Cristobal Alex .................................... Texas

Jeff Berman ...................................... D.C.

James Boland ................................... D.C.

Tony Coelho ..................................... Del.

Larry Cohen ...................................... D.C.

David Cox ..................................... N.C.
Fransico Domenech .......................... Puerto Rico

Keith Ellison ..................................... Minn.

Hector Figueroa ................................ N.Y.

Don Fowler ....................................... S.C.

Earl Fowlkes ..................................... D.C.

Tefere Gebre .................................... Calif.

Daniel Halpern .................................. Ga.

Keith Harper......................................D.C.

Jaime Harrison .................................. S.C.

Harold Ickes ...................................... D.C.

Jay Jacobs ........................................ N.Y.

Charlie King ...................................... N.Y.

Andres Lopez .................................... Puerto Rico

Chris Lowe ........................................ N.Y.

Chris Lu ............................................ Va.

Kerman Maddox................................ Calif.

Leopoldo Martinez ............................ Va.

Robert Martinez ............................... Md.

Mahlon Mitchell ................................. Wis.

Michael Nutter ................................... Pa.

Manuel Ortiz ..................................... Puerto Rico

Marc Perrone ................................... Md.

Hasmit Popat .................................... Texas

Rion Ramirez .................................... Calif.

Ken Rigmaiden ................................ Md.

James Roosevelt, Jr. ........................ Mass.

Lee Saunders ................................... D.C.

Craig Smith ....................................... Fla.

Rick Wade ........................................ D.C.

Brian Wahby .................................... Mo.

James Zogby .................................... D.C.

[DonViejo]

7. This. Thank you!

[nolabear]

9. Thank you! Hysteria mongers are driving me nuts!

[Jim Lane]

13. Not at all bull. You're telling only part of the story.

Perez gets to appoint 75 at-large members of the DNC. You've given the list of those 75 appointees.

In addition, Perez appoints all the members of the key committees, notably the Executive Committee and the Rules and Bylaws Committee.

Now take another look (or, perhaps, a look) at the headline of the article linked in the OP: "Progressives’ Anger Over Key Committee Appointments Roils Democratic Party Meeting". Also the subhead: "Officials who backed Rep. Keith Ellison over Tom Perez were removed from crucial posts."

Scroll down and you'll see the details. Perez is getting flak about removing people from those important committees.

Consider the fierce intra-party debate about whether to reduce or eliminate the role of the superdelegates. The Unity Commission, appointed with such fanfare, is supposed to make a recommendation, but it's just a recommendation, to be considered by -- the Rules Committee. The linked HuffPo article quotes Becky Bond, who worked on the Sanders campaign:

“I don’t know what the Rules Committee is going to do,” Bond said of their forthcoming assessment of the Unity Commission’s recommendations. “But I know that there are five Clinton-appointed Unity Commission members on the Rules Committee and no Bernie-appointed ones now that Perez has shaken it up.”

A different article, "Democratic Party Drama Puts Deputy Chair Keith Ellison in a Tough Spot", reported further elaboration from Bond:

Ellison supporters are also frustrated by the repeated switching of the conversation from the executive and rules committees, which have power and matter, to the at-large members, who have very little. “The DNC is spinning it as being about diversity and focusing on at-large, but we know the real power is with the committees, and the rules committee in particular, [which] determines rules for primaries and caucuses,” said Bond.

I know how she feels. I, too, am frustrated about online comments, here and elsewhere, that tout the diversity of Perez's at-large appointments while ignoring the purges on the committees.

[krawhitham]

14. THIS!

[Madam45for2923]

5. I am with Perez & our DEM PARTY!

[coolsandy]

6. I call bullshit lies.

[oasis]

8. One ship, one captain. (nt)

[octoberlib]

10. He got rid of some progressive members

but he also added some who were younger, I believe . So, much ado about nothing.

[grantcart]

11. Your in luck Highway

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[BannonsLiver]

12. What a pant load

But hey anything to see divisiveness. Looks like a couple of gullible folks fell for it.