Concern of Progressive Purge as Bernie Wing 'Left in the Cold' at DNC

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8. This Doesn't Represent The Changes Being Made Correctly

"The diversity that is being introduced? And while The party is doubling the representation of millennials and Native Americans on the DNC and increasing the number of Puerto Ricans.

Larry Cohen, a labor liaison for Sanders. Two other former Clinton campaign workers, Emmy Ruiz and Craig Smith, are also among Perez’s slate of new at-large members, along with Sanders’s former press secretary, Symone Sanders.

The slate includes 21 union representatives, an increase from recent years. Among them: Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, Lily Eskelsen Garcia of the National Education Association, and Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Others chosen to be at-large members are Ellie Perez of Arizona, an undocumented immigrant who arrived in the United States as a child and is enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; Marisa Richmond, a transgender African-American woman; and four people from Puerto Rico."