It’s been a tough time for the Democrats over the past few months. They are in chaos on the inside, constantly fighting each other.
We saw just this week that long-time DNC member and AFT leader Randi Weingarten decided that she’d had enough. She announced she would not be continuing in her at-large position, saying she had an issue with their outreach efforts. She had also been a supporter of former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg.
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If things weren’t already bad enough for the Democrats, they may be in more trouble.
Here’s the NY Times headline: “The DNC Is In Chaos and Desperate for Cash.”
If the NY Times is throwing them under the bus, they might have a problem.
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Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.
Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.
Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.
In addition to Weingarten, Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, declined to continue in his at-large seat. So there goes another big labor leader.
Mr. Martin had offered to keep the two top union leaders — Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — as members of the D.N.C. But he would not renew their plum assignments on the powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee, which controls how the party nominates its presidential candidates.
The Hogg episode also consumed and exasperated party leaders for close to two months.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) called the Hogg-Martin fight worse than a “high school student-council drama.”
But if you look at the Democrats now, it seems to be all they are consumed with – drama and embracing illegal aliens.
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The Times story went on:
Six people briefed on the party’s fund-raising, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its finances frankly, said big donors — who are an essential part of the party’s funding — had been very slow to give to the party this year as Mr. Martin solicits contributions.
So, not only are they very reliant on big donors, even as they try to paint the Republicans as the party of billionaires, but the DNC also has a bunch of insiders leaking to the Times. Is that an effort to hurt/take down Martin? Any which way you slice it, it doesn’t sound good.
Martin said it wasn’t their plan at this point to borrow and he insisted their grass-roots fundraising was strong.
He also started a new streaming show on YouTube, “The Daily Blueprint,” that the Times described as having “high-end production.” But it’s gotten very little viewership, with some shows getting fewer than 1000 views. Yeesh, that’s awful. You aren’t doing much reaching out if you can’t even draw more people than that.
Grab the popcorn, I’m sure they can always go lower, and we’ll be here for it.
