Sanders: Replace DNC Leadership

[Purveyor]

Bernie Sanders called for the removal of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as part of a “fundamental transformation of the Democratic Party” in an impromptu news conference Tuesday afternoon.

He ignored repeated questions from reporters as to whether he'd drop out of the presidential race after he met with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Tuesday evening.

When asked whether he could see himself nominating Clinton on the floor of the party's national convention, like Clinton did for then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, Sanders chuckled and repeated his assertion that "we are going to fight as hard as we can" to change the party.

“I do believe that we have to replace the current Democratic National Committee leadership,” he said outside his campaign headquarters in Washington.

“We need a person at the leadership of the DNC who is vigorously supporting and out working to bring people into the political process.”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283462-sanders-lays-out-wish-list-for-dem-party-reform

[geek tragedy]

1. that's nice nt

[Gomez163]

2. 2 days

[NWCorona]

22. Lol

[Agony]

39. …until the "Underground" is restored!

Yee Haaa!

…JFC.

[TheBlackAdder]

55. Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues ==> SDS's Weather Underground... Turning in their graves.

[Exilednight]

3. I hope he has someone in mind that can do this. I'm scared to let Clinton

just randomly appoint someone. The last thing we need is a DWS clone.

[WhiteTara]

54. When a president is elected

s/he chooses the chair (President Obama appointed Debbie.) When a repub is in the White House, the Chair is elected. Really no matter what, Debbie is out of that job in January, unless she is reappointed by the democratic president.

[Exilednight]

60. I know how it works. I'm arguing that there will probably lust be a deal made

For Bernie's support. On his end it would be a good deal since it would allow him to attack the cancer inside my party.

[NCTraveler]

4. After the GE. Might announce a bit early with an extended transition process. Nt

[tallahasseedem]

5. Did he change his party affiliation?

[PADemD]

6. President Obama (D) can ask DWS to step down.

[tallahasseedem]

7. I wouldn't mind that...

she's a terrible chair.

[phleshdef]

8. She should've been replaced after the blowout in 2014. She isn't good at her job.

[BobbyDrake]

9. The cries for more attention are growing a bit desperate lately.

The media isn't going to enable him forever.

[Nye Bevan]

10. For someone who wasn't even a Democrat not that long ago,

he certainly has a lot of ideas about how the Dems are doing stuff all wrong.

[LiberalFighter]

28. His seniority in the Democratic Party is at the bottom.

Making demands when he hasn't given the time and worked his way up the ladder of the party is not sitting well with most of the party. Most of his expectations of what the party can do is fantasy.

[OnDoutside]

11. Bernie doesn't do Vindictive that much, does he ? ......

[cwydro]

12. My Welsh mom, who just turned 90, called him a "silly old fart."

And she almost voted for him.

He needs to give it up.

[sheshe2]

15. My mom will be 90 in July!

She is a Hill supporter.

I love your mom~

Happy, bday cwydro's mom.

[cwydro]

34. Thank you!

She really did consider voting for him.

But she's over it now lol. Even more than me.

[sheshe2]

40. Hey~

[Nye Bevan]

16. I'm sure that her and others' opinions of him would be a lot higher

if he had conceded and called for unity against Trump immediately after his spanking last week.

[cwydro]

41. For me, it's not even that so much as his truculence at having lost.

He really just seemed to become this nasty old angry man.

It was unpleasant to watch.

[sheshe2]

13. Did I miss something?

I thought Obama was the head of the Democratic party, not Sanders.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Sanders probably thinks that Obama should respect the elders.

That he has better ideas.

[Metric System]

14. Who?

[sheshe2]

18. Lol~ nt

[LexVegas]

17. He had zero say. nt

[NWCorona]

24. A little more than zero

[Warren DeMontague]

19. He's right. She worked directly with Sheldon Adelson to kill medical marijuana reform in FL

she supports putting cancer patients in prison for eating a pot brownie.

She needs to go.

[geek tragedy]

23. she does suck and should go, and will go in January. nt

[LiberalFighter]

32. You are absolutely right.

Sanders doesn't want it left up to the members of the DNC to decide it. Even though the bylaws of the DNC decides how it is done.

[Demsrule86]

47. Wrong...the loser does not get to dictate to the winner.

Obama has Debbie's back...Bernie should be careful about this.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. He "should be careful" ...or what?

You really think it's acceptable for Democrats to work with the likes of Sheldon Adelson to send medical marijuana users to prison?

Is that what you think we should stand for?

[seabeckind]

20. Isn't DNC leadership a contradiction in terms?

We haven't seen any leadership since the 50 state strategy won the house and the guy who did it was told to go sit down and not make waves.

And then we lost the congress.

“We need a person at the leadership of the DNC who is vigorously supporting and out working to bring people into the political process.”

Seeing some of the hillary people on this site they want to lock the doors.

[Jackilope]

35. Sadly, that guy learned and became a lobbyist

for the for profit health care industry. It's kinda like Breaking Bad. Good people tainted by corporate money and power.

[seabeckind]

42. Yeah, that was a bit discouraging.

I always thought he got screwed in his run by the dems as much as the repubs.

They left him OTF. He might as well get some loot out of it. Ain't gonna get anything else.

[CrowCityDem]

25. Obama appointed her, so good luck turning the party against him.

[azurnoir]

26. PaydayLoan Debbie has just been elevated in status

just as apparently she's being Berned at the stake - bucket brigade to the rescue she's the bestest of bestest leader now

Thank you Bernie and I mean that too

[DrDan]

27. starting to get personal - sad

[bigwillq]

29. I agree

Time for DWS to go

[Tarc]

31. Sanders gets zero say in who runs the DNC

2nd-place doesn't get those perks, and it's about time that he and their followers learn that elections have consequences.

[seabeckind]

46. What consequences do election losses have?

Like 2014?

[Demsrule86]

48. I guess Bernie wants to bern up the 16 electioin and elect Trump.

Great guy ....he lost and he needs to go away.

[seabeckind]

52. That's the second response you made that has no relation to what I posted

Nor do they make sense all by themselves.

[MineralMan]

33. Well, as a long-time Democrat, he has great influence

on Democratic Party decisions for sure...his decades of party leadership...

Wait...what?

[MariaThinks]

37. he definitely has a sense of entitlement

I'm really beginning to resent him.

[MariaThinks]

36. Given all the recent turmoil, isn't it petty for BS to be focused on the removal

of DWS? This seems like a trump like move.

[seabeckind]

43. She is really pretty worthless, isn't she?

Of course I'm just going by the total lack of presence anywhere other than at Hillary's hemline.

Here in my state all I got from the DNC was a couple letters asking for money. Not even an mention of the people they are backing and where the local dem office is.

[Demsrule86]

51. She is fine and frankly we don't give a damn what Bernie thinks...he is now on p;ermanent ignore.

[Warren DeMontague]

57. So you think medical marijuana users belong in prison?

Because that's the kind of shit she votes for.

[msongs]

38. if he really believed this stuff he would resign his senate seat and become DNC chair nt

[seabeckind]

44. I think he'd be better as leader in the senate.

Maybe then we might have a democratic faction that would .....

no, I better not say that.....

[bigdarryl]

45. He better talk to the current President about that

[Demsrule86]

50. Oh Bernie...are the mean DNC people not letting you turn the convention into a Bern it

down fest? How sad...um Bernie you lost now sashay away.

[rjsquirrel]

53. Democratic voters to Bernie:

You and what army?
Bye.

[madamesilverspurs]

56. Too bad.

[Maru Kitteh]

58. Democrats: No.

[ecstatic]

59. So sick of him making demands despite getting his ass kicked.

He lost by almost 1,000 delegates and over 4 MILLION votes! Who the hell does he think he is?

[LoverOfLiberty]

61. DNC Leadership: Sorry Sanders, but you don't get to tell us how to run our party

when you aren't part of it.