Debbie Wasserman Schultz Out As Democratic Convention Chair After Email Leak

[pnwmom]

Source: NPR

Amid furor over an email leak that revealed a bias against Bernie Sanders inside the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is out as chair of the convention.

In an email to NPR, the office of Rep. Marcia Fudge said she "has been named permanent chair of the Democratic National Convention."

Sen. Bernie Sanders featured heavily in the hacked Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks Friday.

The emails, which were released by WikiLeaks just days before the party's convention launches in Philadelphia, appear to show top DNC officials trading ideas on how to hurt Sanders at the polls.

In one email out of the 20,000 leaked, the committee's Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall appears to float an idea to question Sanders' Jewish faith.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487242426/bernie-sanders-dnc-emails-outrageous-but-not-a-shock

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Good decision.

[kestrel91316]

1. Good news, but I want to see DWS punished in some

meaningful way for violating rules in such an egregious way. She has been bad news from day one with her bias.

Not sure what can be done. Perhaps refuse to back her in future elections?

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Well, she's being challenged by Tim Canova. . .

Florida congressional primary is August 30th.

. . .howsabout throwing some $$$ his way?

https://www.tincanova.com
https://www.facebook.com/TimCanovaForCongress/
https://twitter.com/Tim_Canova

DU's own ActBlue page:
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4timcanova

[kestrel91316]

27. If he's a true progressive, or at least more progressive than DWS,

I may just do that.

[Iggo]

36. Not hard to be more progressive than DWS.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

40. Ding ding dong! This!

[Phlem]

83. !

[Peigan68]

68. He endorsed Bernie during the primary and considers himself a Berniecrat

I'd say he's pretty darn progressive.

[humbled_opinion]

66. Just donated.... N/T

[DURHAM D]

10. I just sent her a donation.

This whole thing is just stupid and I am not surprised at the straw grasping that is going on. Democrats are being used by Trump/Putin.

[Chicago1980]

39. I think you're on the wrong side of this one.

[Android3.14]

42. And those who undermine democracy appreciate your support

Moving on...

[runaway hero]

48. neoliberalism, etc.

[vi5]

55. How appropriate

Someone who used their power to tamper with true democracy and the people that think she should be punished are the ones on the side of facists and dictators.

I'm not even saying that Bernie would have won if DWS and her cronies had kept their hands off the scale. But it just feeds in to one of the many aspects of the HRC candidacy that people really do have legitimate gripes with (being the epitome of the "establishment" that people are tired of and who use their power to subvert democracy).

[Chemisse]

70. It no longer matters who you supported in the primary.

What matters is that what she did altered the Democratic process. Next primary season it could've been your candidate who she didn't like. The DNC chair is not supposed to make those decisions - we voters are.

[creeksneakers2]

78. There is nothing but talk among themselves

and defenses against Bernie's smears. There is nothing in the E-mails that shows an altering of the democratic process.

[BlueMTexpat]

80. +1!

I'm no fan of DWS, but this latest crap is OTT.

[PassingFair]

31. She was only following

... The play book.

[scipan]

33. she needs to be out as DNC chair

not just Convention Chair. The bias against Bernie was just blatant.

[Politicub]

50. Maybe you will see her in stocks and you

Can throw a tomato at her in the spirit of punishment.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

88. My first thoughts...

... eom.

[mrmpa]

2. I haven't read any of the leaked emails.........

just kind of did a scan read of what was being said. However, I have said previously that the DNC in 2008 made a pact with Hillary that if she stepped aside from trying to gather delegate votes for the nomination that in 2016 if she came back she would have the full backing of the DNC. I think the DNC did not think that there would be a strong candidate against her, and when one emerged they did what they needed to do, to keep their promise.

[KPN]

8. Sounds like bad judgement.

[mrmpa]

21. my take on the issue or.........

bad judgement of what the DNC did?

[Android3.14]

43. What the DNC did

[mrmpa]

44. okay, thanks........eom

[KPN]

82. Right.

[runaway hero]

3. Good

This is all her fault. All of it.

[Chicago1980]

4. Good!

I'm tired of her and her sloppy ass handling of the issues.

I'd like to see her out as chair of the DNC.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Has Brad resigned? Or Rep Wasserman-Schultz?

Both need to go. Enough of this nonsense! We have an election to win and deny the megalomaniac ANY chance of ruining the USA!

[femmocrat]

7. Neatly and quickly handled. Thanks, DNC.

[Craig234]

12. And thanks Wikileaks?

[KPN]

13. Damage control going into the convention.

Is it enough? Guess we'll find out soon.

[femmocrat]

20. Well, it is better than dragging it out through the convention.

Hopefully the media will focus on the actual convention tomorrow and during the week. They are trying so hard to gin up dissension in the democratic ranks. It is best to squelch this quickly, IMO.

[KPN]

25. There is that!

Yeah, it'll disappear like everything else of import after one or two news cycles. Don't know that the media needs to gin up dissension in the Party -- there's enough of that already. But I think Bernie will be able to cool those flames sufficiently.

[DURHAM D]

14. Don't hold your breath.

Paulites got to Paulite.

[baldguy]

85. Yea, too much to hope for I guess.

I do seem to have struck a nerve, though.

[Craig234]

16. Yes, all issues with Hillary are misogyny

And did you know all issues with trump are a secret raging hatred of all white men?

What a ridiculous overuse of the issue of misogyny.

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. ++

True.

[KPN]

17. I find that statement offensive.

Enough said.

[kestrel91316]

29. I've NEVER been anti-Clinton. I was always just pro-Bernie.

And I really hope you don't think this OLD SCHOOL FEMINIST FEMALE FROM THE 70s. is a misogynist.

[LakeArenal]

32. Wow...

Sometimes Hillary supporters (?) really say terrible stuff. "Simmering misogyny". that just makes pent up anti-supporter anger. I hadn't realized it before, but I can be pro-Hillary and anti-Hillary supporters. Sometimes the supporters' messages scream louder than the candidate's message.

[elmac]

49. They are working for Trump when they say things like that

and yet DU lets it slide.

[Ford_Prefect]

63. Politics is not Binary unless four legs = good & 2 legs =bad.

Your insistence on absolutism doesn't reflect reality. There are all kinds of people who are Democrats who will be in Philadelphia. Some of them feel as strongly as you do about Hillary. Some of them do not. That does not mean they wish her to fail, nor does it mean they desire a GOP presidency.

The same can be said for DU. Some of us have reservations about HRC and the conditions and associations of her Campaign. That does not mean we are not Democrats, nor does it mean that all of us wish her to fail, nor does it mean your insult has basis.

I hear your anger and your apparent desire for ideological purity. I suggest that is a trait of the man you most wish not to be president.

I also suggest you would be wise to consider that your neighbors here have as much right to their views of the Democratic process as do you. Do not let your fear of fascism cloud your views of those who likewise abhor it.

[runaway hero]

45. I disagree.

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[LakeArenal]

77. So much for everyone can have opionion

I see yours. Thanks, have a nice day.

[grahamhgreen]

56. Misogeny? I'm just trying to make sure she supports a public option and lowering Medicare age to 55

among other things....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

58. Misogyny? When DWS supported two GOPers for congress over Dems?

When she shut Bernie's access to state funding, donor, and voter records?
When she undermined a democratic candidate at every turn, in violation of DNC rules?

Since when do awful facts constitute misogyny?

[Martin Eden]

59. "pent-up, simmering misogyny"

Shame on you for typing such offensive bullshit.

[zentrum]

73. Most of those women and men

.....you are defaming would have supported Warren in a heart beat. Doesn't look so much like misogyny at that point, eh?

Not to mention all the support they feel for people like Barbara Lee and Barbara Boxer.

As a lifelong feminist and a female, I take great exception when the term "misogyny" is misused and actually used against people like me.

[FailureToCommunicate]

87. Do your reputation a favor and maybe consider -um-rewording your point.

[baldguy]

91. The people who should worry about their *reputations*

are those whose only motive is to trash good Democrats.

[FailureToCommunicate]

92. Wow, over a dozen posts calling out your post and mine is the one you respond to?

I guess I should feel honored.

DWS's own actions over the past several years as DNC chair made her not a "good Democrat." Criticizing her for things that are true is not "trashing."

I'll ask nicely again: please change the wording of your post. Otherwise, people may think you only stated your feeling that way to get responses.

[ozone_man]

94. Maybe, if the new DNC appointment

isn't another turd way Democrat. No to Donna Brazille.

[Attorney in Texas]

11. Thankfully, we wisely confirm party disloyalty, incompetence and rules violations have consequences

[JI7]

15. The Clinton campaign had already taken control

So this isn't really anything.

[Craig234]

19. It's a big something

It's about accountability and what the party stands for, not just the operations of the DNC.

[kestrel91316]

30. ^^^^ THIS

Violating the SPIRIT of the rules has to have serious consequences.

[RKP5637]

62. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[KPN]

18. Thank God!

[avaistheone1]

22. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be out as DNC chairperson.

She is an embarrassment and blight to the Democratic party.

[Ellipsis]

23. Hopefully that will transpire today as well.

[Still In Wisconsin]

24. Good! I am a Bernie supporter/voter who is now all in for HRC...

None of this news changes my support for our nominee. The more I know about HRC the more I like her. But DWS? This is crap, and I'm glad she's gone.

[dawnie51]

34. Manafort is the gobetween....

he comes and goes under the spotlight. There is a reason this guy is in Trumps campaign, and its nothing good for this country.....

[runaway hero]

57. nothing to do with this.

this problem was there before yesterday.

[Warren Stupidity]

35. Good news! But I thought I read here that the emails

were not a problem, a Russian plot, and should be ignored because Juluan Assange.

[pnwmom]

37. Nothing done in May affected the outcome of the election, but this was the right decision. n/t

[Craig234]

60. This is only the first set of e-mails over a time period

I think there will be earlier ones coming.

[pnwmom]

61. Once DWS has resigned, any further emails would be water under the bridge. n/t

[Craig234]

89. She's not the only one

And going after her is an effect but not the purpose of the leak.

[pnwmom]

90. The purpose is to help Trump, but the window on these emails helping him is fasting closing. n/t

[Craig234]

95. I disagree it has anything to do with helping trump

The timing more likely has to do with increasing the attention to the leak.

[Don Draper]

38. Hillary's camp doesn't want her to chair or speak at

the convention because they know that chaos and backlash would ensue on the convention floor if DWS took the stage. Being removed as convention chairperson doesn't go far enough. She needs to be removed as DNC chair

[Third Doctor]

41. I'm gonna send more cash to her opponent.

She needs to be out of congress. Then again she will just make the transition to lobbyist.

[turbinetree]

65. I'll second that small donation motion--------------------

I kinda like sending $27.00 it makes a yuuuuuuge difference

Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie

[Fritz Walter]

46. I think Ice Cube said it best

[vi5]

52. Good. Not just for this...

..but because she's horrible and ineffective as a Democrat, to the extent that she deserves not a single lick of extra power.

I'm sure she'll be getting a nice job in the Clinton administration though, if there is one.

Goodbye and good riddance though.

[RKP5637]

53. Excellent! DWS has done a lot to harm the democratic party. She should have

ousted a long time ago.

[R0ckyRac00n]

54. an appropriate move

I believe

[humbled_opinion]

64. The correct decsion is for her to resign

as chair of the DNC... nothing else will suffice.

[Equinox Moon]

67. Good, but not enough. She must resign immediately.

This action is just to 'hide' her from being booooed of the stage.
It's not enough. She must go entirely and everyone knows it.

[napi21]

71. Does that mean she won't gavel the comvention in/out of order?

I heard of several of the Sunday gossip shows that she would have no speaking spot but would still gavel the sessions .

[femmocrat]

74. Rep. Fudge is the convention chair now. DWS won't appear on stage.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/07/marcia_fudge_named_permanent_c.html

This is for the best. The sooner DWS resigns the better.

[napi21]

86. GREAT! I'm still hoping she looses her election too! n/s

[ozone_man]

93. Someone has to take the blame.

But, you know she was only following orders from higher ups, who must not be named.

[Chicago1980]

72. Washington Post is reporting her resignation from the DNC

[femmocrat]

75. Thanks.

[Duckhunter935]

76. She needs to be gone today

For party healing to begin

[Silver_Witch]

79. so much to say

Guess for now I will just see how it plays out.

[Jopin Klobe]

81. Rules? ... We don't need no stinkin' RULES ...

“The Chairperson shall be responsible for ensuring that the national officers and staff of the Democratic National Committee maintain impartiality and even-handedness during the Democratic Party Presidential nominating process.”

[BlueEye]

84. I voted for Clinton, but from a party unity perspective...

Absolutely, DWS has to go. I hope the Party can find someone who can bring unity going forward. I wouldn't mind seeing a high profile progressive senator take the job. Amy Klobuchar anyone?