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lees1975

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Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:13 PM Jun 11

David Hogg exits DNC but keeps focus on replacing Democrats "asleep at the wheel" with effective leadership. [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/david-hogg-exits-dnc-vice-chairmanship.html

I'm not really clear on what the rules are at the DNC that caused a re-vote to occur, following the election of David Hogg as Vice-Chair, and Malcolm Kenyatta. Should I be suspicious that, because of his strong opinion that some Democrats are asleep at the wheel when it comes to resisting and opposing Trump's ineffective, incompetent and anti-Democratic leadership, and he's threatening some of the status-quo establishment, they are pulling power strings to orchestrate this move and get him out? Or should I just take this for what it is, and consider that a sleepy, moribund, ineffective organization like the DNC is just a political relic, and be glad that Hogg is no longer tied down by his role as one of its vice-chairs, but is now free to pursue raising money to help Democrrats awaken from their slumber and do their damn job?

I'll go with the latter option.

As a loyal Democrat, raised in a Union home, and voting straight ticket for almost my entire life, I believe making regular contributions, as much as I possibly can, is part of what helps candidates get elected. I give as much as I can, being careful to try to direct those gifts as effectively as possible. I mainly support our Presidential candidates, the Senate candidate in my state and the Congressional candidate in my district, along with making a small gift to the DNC's Congressional election fund, and occasionally, finding a candidate from another state whose election is strategic and critical to the party's ability to be effective.

I'm getting up in years, and headed toward eventual reduction and living on a smaller fixed income. So I give now while I can. The effectiveness of that gift is important to me. And so, with this news today, I have decided that the small amount I've been sharing with the DNC will now go to Leaders We Deserve. I got the message loud and clear, the DNC is committed to protecting an ineffective status quo that is asleep at the wheel, and has earned a lower job approval rating in Congress than either the Republicans or Trump.

And you can't win elections like that.
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