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@RussOnPolitics When your Chair isn't calling prominent donors, but is putting up the DNC HQ as collateral, then yeah it makes sense to change your Chair before the midterms. Get someone one a temp-only basis who has a track record of raising cash and not throwing their phone at staffers.
As I said the other day, a good DNC Chairman — or any party chairman for that matter — would have sat at his desk, called over 200 major donors and retired the DNC debt in a matter of days.
@TerryMcAuliffe could have done it with his eyes closed.
@kenmartin73 is deeply incompetent.
@AlexanderMcCoy4 Many Party Chairs, by-and-large, are not day-by-day operators at HQ. Every Chair I've worked under has either been retired or had a main career. Your EDs, Finance Directors are the primary fundraisers, along with local party orgs and investments from electeds.
The only way for the DNC to get out of this hole is to replace Ken with a competent human being who will work with (and support) DNC staff, lobby every prominent Dem (safe district Dems, former officeholders, big donors) to help erase the debt, and go for the jugular in November.
It's no secret that I was a big Ben Wikler supporter (and big Ken Martin hater) and a big reason was simple: Never once in 5 years did I have a bad experience with Wikler. Never once did I have a positive experience with Ken -- either in his tenure as DFL Chair or ASDC Chair.
My Ken Martin story. After founding Moms Demand Action, helping to raise $11 million for Kamala Harris’s campaign, hosting fundraisers at my home, donating individually, and becoming a member of the DNC Finance Committee, I assumed he’d reach out — if for no other reason than to ask me for more money. Nope, never heard from him. However, about six months into his tenure, he did have a DNC staff member call me to tell me he didn’t like something I’d tweeted. 🤷♀️
His position as the latter is the only reason he won. He cashed in all those chips, with his typical pattern of overpromising (which later turns into undercutting and under-delivering). The majority of DNC Committee Members failed us by picking a show horse over a work horse.
@shannonrwatts I'm really thankful people like you, who have a voice and a reach, are highlighting this, because this is a pattern that has extended back to his tenure as DFL Chair and ASDC Chair. Many stories of overpromising, underdelivering, and ghosting from myself and colleagues.
@arianajasmine__ Ok, Hamas, does that mythical pathway entail underperforming the Democratic line -- in one of the bluest cities in the country -- by nearly 25 points?
@umichvoter You may have missed the boat on being a 2016 BernieBro Douche, but my God have you made up for it. Nothing but misogyny and dog shit in your grifting, cloying little veins.
@polisciqueenn@AntonioBelisle I'm sure you all sat around the kitchen table, having a helping of casserole in between commentary about "oligarchs" and "AIPAC" as all working class families do.
Very telling of the DSA/Slopulist set that they'll shamelessly continue working for the candidate with a Nazi tattoo being accused of rape, but they'll resign from the State Party condemning it. This clown (and anyone working with Maine Kampf) should never work in politics again.
The Platner campaign’s organizing director has resigned from the Maine Democratic Party over their lack of engagement with grassroots organizers and volunteers in determining the nominee replacement process.