2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary wanted DWS gone last year. [View all]PatSeg
(51,941 posts)what I had read in an article from two years ago. Evidently she was a real pain in the neck for a lot of people.
From 2014:
<Meanwhile, the Obama team was so serious about replacing her after 2012 that they found a replacement candidate to back before deciding against it, according to people familiar with those discussions.
Obama and Wasserman Schultz have rarely even talked since 2011. They dont meet about strategy or messaging. They dont talk much on the phone.
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The White House is staring at two years of life under a GOP-controlled House and Senate. The DNC chair, however, isnt involved in the strategy talks with the president. They dont want her there.
For even the occasional Obama briefing by the heads of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, she is not invited. That includes a key session on July 31, the last day the House was in town before the August recess, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), DCCC Chair Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and DCCC executive director Kelly Ward sat on the couches in the Oval Office running through the political landscape for the president.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/democrats-debbie-wasserman-schultz-111077#ixzz4FREs8HLh
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