NC Democratic Party ousts Richardson, shakes up party leadership

[brooklynite]

Source: WRAL Raleigh

North Carolina Democrats sent a message to the state party’s establishment: the party needs better leaders.

Members of the North Carolina Democratic Party on Saturday ousted their sitting chair, first vice chair, and second vice chair, voting instead to elect new candidates to the top four leadership positions.

The overhaul comes three months after the party failed to win a single statewide race in the midterm elections. And two months after Meredith Cuomo, who had served as the party’s executive director since 2019, announced her resignation.

The party’s executive committee elected campaign organizer Anderson Clayton, 25, to replace incumbent chair Bobbie Richardson, who sought a second term after being elected in 2021. The victory for Clayton, who chairs the Person County Democratic Party, is considered a major upset.

Read more: https://www.wral.com/nc-democratic-party-ousts-richardson-shakes-up-party-leadership/20715638/

[dsc]

1. We spend $80 million on Florida

but

Cooper addressed those losses in a promotional video endorsing Richardson that played during the Democrats’ meeting on Saturday, chalking them up to being outspent by Republicans by at least $50 million in the U.S. Senate race.

NC was left to the wolves in this election.

[brooklynite]

2. where should the extra money for NC or Fl have come from?

[dsc]

3. sorry big typo

I left out million. We spent $80 million on Florida and got outspent by $50 million in NC.

[blm]

4. Bad Senate candidate.

Cheri Beasley has a wonderful persona for a judge. She was a terrible campaigner on the trail. She had no fire on the campaign trail. People tiptoe around that fact, but, I won’t. Dems have to be great on the trail to win statewide in NC.

Best campaigner in the state, Dem or Rep, is Jeff Jackson - and there is no doubt he would have beaten Budd.

Ted Budd barely campaigned because he wasn’t forced to.

[GB_RN]

7. Agreed.

She was handed the gift of the Dobbs decision, and still botched the campaign. She let the GOPQ define her as “soft on pedophiles” in those TV attack ads, too.

Also, just having lost her re-election campaign to the NC Supreme Court in 2020 and then immediately running for US Senate?

I had real issues here. I still voted for her, but Jackson would have been my first choice if he hadn’t dropped out of the race before the primary.

[blm]

9. He dropped out because he would not split

the party going after someone he liked on a personal level. She had the party solidly behind her run in 2020 for NC Supreme Court, and running against her in 2022 would have meant going negative to contrast. He knows he is still young and the Senate is still there if he wants it. Dems have to wait till 2026 now to get a seat Jackson would have won easily in 2020, lost by Cunningham, or 2022, lost by Beasley.

NC Dems and entire Dem party lost because no one had the guts to tell Cheri Beasley, because she is such a nice, likable person, that she was a lousy candidate to be on the campaign trail for a North Carolina senate seat.

[yardwork]

18. Jackson would have won, I think.

And we wouldn't have lost the NCSC if he'd run.

[blm]

19. Exactly.

[mwooldri]

5. Not putting candidates up in all 100 counties...

... that doesn't help IMO.

Also yeah those judicial races... NC Supreme Court was flipped.

Theres this good old American saying... "If it ain't broke don't fix it". NC Democrats didn't work in 2022. So yeah needed fixing.

[GB_RN]

8. Losing The NCSC Is Going To Hurt.

Moore and Berger now have an immediate re-hearing on the Congressional redistricting case. So, you just know that’s an automatic reversal in favor of those two shit birds.

[blm]

10. We would have had so many more young voters

excited to get to the polls with Jackson, and that is what would have made the turnout difference for the court.

[GB_RN]

11. My Son Was Eligible To Vote For The First Time In '22...

He voted for Beasley, but he was pissed when Jackson dropped out, as Jackson was his first choice. Jackson excited him, whereas Beasley just came across quite blandly. She really had no energy in her campaign.

[blm]

14. I've known Jeff since 2012.He is exactly

who he is on the trail and off. And he will out-campaign anyone. He has zero interest in targeting a fellow Democrat.

We had a Dem candidate who was a sure win. I will always be angry at establishment Dems who know nothing about campaigning in the state of NC and pushed for Beasley to jump into the Senate primary when we already had a winning candidate.

[mnhtnbb]

6. As a resident of NC, leadership had to go.

The numbers are here for Dems to win, but Dems have to be motivated to get out and vote.

I hope this new leadership can bring results in 2024.

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. Best of luck to the new party leaders

I really want to like NC again.

[republianmushroom]

13. good

[SMC22307]

15. K&R

[Crowman2009]

16. NC isn't the only state party who needs new leadership.

We need to end this defeatist mentality with regards to the mid-term elections.

[moose65]

17. Good

And I say it's about time.

I don't know what has come over the NC Dem party since 2010. Always sitting around, lamenting their sad state of affairs, while seeming to be glad to get 48% of the vote in statewide elections, and acting like having a 1-vote cushion to sustain Cooper's vetoes is somehow a "good" thing. I don't get it.

When, when, oh WHEN will Dems finally realize that midterm elections are BASE elections? It's all about getting out our own voters and left-leaning independents. Whoever keeps hiring these Democratic consultants who tell our candidates to moderate their views, whoever that is, needs to GO.

Turnout in NC last November was awful. And I'm not talking about turnout in rural areas. Turnout in our strongholds like Wake, Mecklenburg, and Cumberland was absolutely atrocious. With a little more effort, we would have Senator Beasley right now.

And I agree - Jeff Jackson was a great campaigner. He visited all 100 counties during his brief Senate run. I'm glad he's in the House now, but those fuckers in Raleigh will probably re-gerrymander the districts to put him in danger in 2024.