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.
How do you plan to succeed with a third party when the last 60+ years have.secured fewer than 1% of state and federal legislative seats and zero Electoral College votes (since 1968, and Perot even won just shy of 20% of the national popular vote)? Only 26 states have direct voter-initiated ballot initiatives (or forcing electoral reform to replace first past the post).
How do you plan to succeed with the DNC???
Replacing them internally and in the primaries, like David Hogg is trying to do.
That’s the thing-- they’re fighting him tooth and nail. I hope he succeeds but we know this party is happy to subvert democratic processes whenever inconvenient to the leadership
Then our resolve has to be stronger than theirs.
I don’t really know what that means in this context
How do you plan to succeed when the two current mainstream parties are no longer representational?
I think the only viable pathway is taking over the parties thru the primaries like the Tea Party movement. Just like Hogg is doing from inside the party. If you have the resources to work on/for a third party, those could be more effective embedding in your local/state Democratic party.
So, what’s your plan for 3rd party success?
Things become tainted and typecast in this country as a byproduct of everyone having the memory of a goldfish
I couldn’t even call myself an independent without it being assumed that it meant I must be a Bernie supporter
Hogg taking control of the DNC will still come with unwanted baggage
How do you plan to succeed with a Democratic Party that polls lower than the least popular President ever?
Replacing them internally and in the primaries, like David Hogg is trying to do.