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The best thing to come out of Wikileaks is this housecleaning at the DNC.
Wonder why we have been losing so many elections? Hmmm... I bet the awful leadership has something to do with it.
Howard Dean was the last excellent DNC chair we had. He realized that in order to execute a 50-state strategy, we needed to have strong state and local democratic parties. He raised funds and allocated resources to struggling democratic parties across the nation. He built up the party infrastructure and we had great success under this model down ticket.
No shade to Tim Kaine, but we needed someone who was not already elected to office to continue the work Dean began. When we get to DWS, for her nearly 5 years of service we as a party have many losses to show under her leadership. Interestingly, her own stock seems to have risen during this time. DWS is out for DWS. She wants to be a party minority or majority leader. However, she doesn't seem to be very interested in electing Democrats in her own state. Why is that?
We're wondering how we had so many disruptors at the convention and how they got credentialed. Well, the local party is in charge (usually) of vetting these delegates. Part of the vetting process should include verification of registration as a Democrat, participation in the local Democratic party, and/or a documented record of Democratic voting and support. Clearly this didn't happen and I think that part of the problem was that the DNC divested of the resources Howard Dean had given to local parties in order to build up the infrastructure.
http://www.governing.com/blogs/politics/gov-democrat-howard-deans-fifty-state-strategy.html
I'm pleased that Clinton seems to want to bring back the 50 state strategy. DWS was sacked too late, in my opinion, but maybe we can get Howard to come back and help us with a "Cliff Notes" version to win this election.
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