A Democratic National Committee subcommittee on Monday recommended that the organization invalidate one of its February vice-chair votes over claims that it unfairly disadvantaged female candidates.
The move, which won’t be official unless the entire DNC votes to approve it, could open up new races for the positions held by David Hogg, a Florida activist, and Malcolm Kenyatta, a Pennsylvania state legislator.
The challenge by Oklahoma Democratic Committeewoman Kalyn Free, who unsuccessfully ran against Hogg and Kenyatta in the February race for vice chair, is not related to the ongoing tension between Hogg and the national party over his push to support primary challenges against incumbent Democrats.
Instead, it was based off Free’s claim that the handling of the vice-chair vote gave the two men an unfair advantage amid the national party’s requirements that its executive committee achieve gender balance.
“is not related to the ongoing tension between Hogg and the national party”
Yeah, imma call bullshit on that statement. I don’t agree with Hogg although I totally get where he is coming from. But this is just a way to disenfranchise someone they aren’t comfortable with.
What don’t you agree with Hogg about? Just curious.
Hogg is a single issue politician, for him it’s all about guns and ONLY about guns, for understandable reasons.
I get it given his experience, but politics is bigger than that, and if you want to primary people, you can’t limit yourself that way if you want to win a general election.
Is he only supporting gun control candidates to primary incumbents? I don’t know and am just looking to be informed.
His stated purpose is that he wants to primary “do nothing Democrats”, but on closer inspection, his issue is they are doing nothing on guns.
Yes, this is the purpose of democratic party leadership.
They have a story that the challenge started before the “tension”, but there’s no way both this vote and the revote (assuming it goes through) are not being driven by it. There’re probably too clever by half strategists thinking they’re being sneaky by using an “unrelated” vote to take him out, but no one except the shill types on Twitter is going to parse the process in that way.
People get that the vibe is hostile to Hogg and young activists in general and someone saying “technically the challenge started before the PAC announcement” doesn’t mean jack shit when it’s obvious a lot more is going on. Hell, even if it were all on the up and up, the vibe is still there and no one that matters cares about the minutiae of voting processes and challenges. Voters aren’t robots.