The DNC power vacuum

Read this account of the DNC from Donna Brazile. Bottom line: no one was minding the store at the DNC between 2012 and 2015. Obama’s consultants had drained it dry and he left the organization $25 million in debt. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in charge and she was doing a shitty job with fundraising.

When Clinton’s campaign found out about it, she chipped in $10 million of her own money, put the DNC on a strict budget and signed a campaign fundraising deal with it to keep it afloat with her campaign taking a cut as if she were an incumbent president. It was highly unusual but probably necessary.

Donna also looked for proof that the primaries were rigged against Bernie. They weren’t.

Bernie lost, fair and square.

Soooo, there’s that.

You’d think that someone with as much control as Hillary had would make sure to lock Bernie out- just like Obama’s friends in the DNC locked Hillary out in 2008. But she didn’t.

As to whether the deal she made with the DNC was unethical, I dunno. She was technically and officially, the ONLY DEMOCRAT in the primaries. Bernie wouldn’t join the party. Make of that what you will but if you’re not going to join the club, you shouldn’t expect to share the spoils.

Also, Donna Brazile is partially responsible for what happened to the DNC and the anger of the “old coalition” that voted Trump into power. Dumping the working class and the south was part of her and Obama’s strategy for getting elected.

Maybe she should keep a low profile.

Just sayin’.