Ellison tells DNC members that DNC chair rival is trying to skew race

[joshcryer]

23. Obama banned corporate donations to the DNC until 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-allowing-donations-from-federal-lobbyists-and-pacs/2016/02/12/22b1c38c-d196-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

Which is precisely why the Democrats lost race after race after race after race. We didn't fight fire with fire. It's time to accept that to fight the Republicans, who have accepted corporate donations, and to return in kind. The reason the RNC could afford to pay for that down ticket race in a backwater rural town to get that district to go to a Republican is really really simple math

Ellison cannot credibly do this, he would have to create some sort of "grassroots donation drive" that would rely on meager donations from a given district (and not the corporate donors that could actually impact the fundraising drives). The RNC would still outspend you 5 to 1 in those areas.

I actually prefer Pete Buttigieg over Perez. But Ellison is a non-starter for me. He's divisive, his people are divisive, and overall he is trying to pull the whole "if I didn't win it was rigged" bullshit that Sanders people pulled.