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

[Liberaltalker]

49. The DNC has many problems...

One of those glaring problems is an utter lack of transparency in regards to the budget. The DNC raised more money in 2016 than ever before in its history but where did the money go? When you have local state parties that cant even afford to pay their own chairs and staffers let alone organize voters or support their candidates running for local and federal seats; where did all the money go? A large chunk of it went to political consultants who have large contracts with the DNC and expensive and ineffective ad buys... On top of that in many cases DNC members are also employees of these consultant companies or are invested in them. Until we as a party address all the conflicts of interests within the DNC, and until we start properly funding and supporting our local party chapters and candidates we will continue to get trounced election after election. I just dont see Perez being the one to fix the problems. The man will not even address conflicts of interest or transparency of the budget... Lot of problems in the DNC... Hell we have special elections for House seats coming up and the DNC does not even seem interested in those races. I am sorry but I am tired off lossing state elections and federal and it is my personal opinion that a hostile take over of the party is called for. "Unity" is just code for "shut up and let the status quo establishment do its thing." Well the establishment has had years to turn things around and they have failed misserably. Like it or not our party is not unified and there will be a fight ahead for the direction the party will go in. This is unavoidable and is happening right now.