DNC Chair Race: PEREZ WINS (DNC asks all staffers to resign)

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Ellison dodges on whether he'd resign House seat if selected DNC chair
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Rep. Keith Ellison declined to answer directly on Monday morning when asked whether he would consider resigning his seat in Congress to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Asked by Mark Halperin on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” about giving up the seat for the chairmanship post, Ellison allowed that “that’s a fair conversation” but declined on commit to it.


Ellison is the favorite of some members of the party’s left wing to lead the DNC, and incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is also supporting him. But Democrats skeptical of Ellison say the chairmanship should be a full-time job. Ellison represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the House and serves as co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

“I think that's a fair conversation. I think it's too early to have that,” Ellison told Halperin before pivoting back to his candidacy’s platform — the need to focus on increasing voter turnout.

Later Monday morning, Ellison avoided directly answering a similar question from CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Ellison said he accepts that the DNC head is a full-time job but argued that “that doesn’t mean that I can’t do that job.”

Cuomo noted that serving in Congress and leading the DNC “would be two jobs,” prompting Ellison to describe himself as a “very-hard working person” before turning back to discussing the turnout issue.

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that's just something the heads are saying because they don't want him. When Debbie had the job nobody complained she wasn't full time because she did what they wanted.
 
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Dean drops like a ton of bricks. Pop off at the mouth brehs :francis: Keith Ellison taking all comers and NEVER SCARED:krs:


Dean drops out of DNC chairmanship race
BY JONATHAN EASLEY AND … - 12/02/16 04:21 PM EST
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DENVER — Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dropped out of the race to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday.

Dean, who served as DNC chairman from 2005 to 2009, announced in a pre-recorded video to a conference of state Democratic chairs that he would step aside to allow for a new face to lead the party as it seeks to rebuild.
That reduces the field of candidates to three.

The front-runner is Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who has racked up endorsements from Washington lawmakers and national labor unions.

South Carolina Democratic Chairman Jaime Harrison and New Hampshire Chairman Ray Buckley are also in the race.

President Obama’s allies are trying to recruit Labor Secretary Tom Perez for the role, and NARAL President Ilyse Hogue is also considering a bid.

Dean did not say whom he would support.

But he said the chairmanship must be a full-time job, a hurdle to Ellison's bid.

“I know this job better than anyone in this room,” Dean said. “It requires 80 hours of work a week and constant travel across the country to fundraise. … This is a full-time job.”

Dean also said the fight to be the next chairman can not develop into a proxy war between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Ellison is backed by Sanders. Harrison backed Clinton during the Democratic presidential primary. Buckley remained neutral.

During an interview on MSNBC minutes after his video announcement, Dean reiterated that he does not support Ellison's bid unless he was willing to give up his seat, noting that while Ellison has support from many high-profile Democrats, none of those politicians are DNC members who can vote in the chair's race.

And he said that the party should not only have a strategy to win every state, but to win younger voters.

"I made this decision two or three weeks ago. Once I was in, I got a quick lay of the land. I think I would have and could have won," he said.

"I really feel strongly our party needs to turn itself over to the next generation. I'm happy to stay in the background and help coach the next chair."

The former Vermont governor moved quickly to jump into the race to lead the party after a disastrous Election Day. Democrats still credit him with much of the work done to grow the party after George W. Bush's 2000 presidential victory.

The Democrats won the House, Senate and ultimately the presidency under Dean’s leadership, after the GOP controlled all three when he took over in 2005.

But in recent weeks, he began to lag behind the other candidates in the race to woo the more than 400 voting DNC members.

- Updated at 4:57 p.m.

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Grano-Grano said:
The Smear Campaign Against Keith Ellison Is Repugnant but Reveals Much About Washington
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That Saban plays such a vital role in Democratic Party politics says a great deal. To the New York Times, this is how he described himself: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.” In late 2015, Ali Gharib wrote in The Forward: “Saban’s top priority isn’t a liberal vision of American life. It’s Israel.” When Hillary Clinton in 2015 condemned the boycott movementaimed at ending Israeli settlements, she did it in the form of a letter addressed personally to Saban.
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Dirtbag Hillary :scust:


What makes him such an easy and vulnerable target for smear campaigns such as the one Saban and the ADL are pursuing is that he is Muslim — a black Muslim to boot. Just look at the obvious codes in this paragraph from Michael J. Koplow, the policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, writing in Haaretz under the headline “Keith Ellison Has a Real Israel Problem”:

Ellison is not a figure whom anyone would normally expect to be a supporter of Israel. He is an African-American Muslim who did not grow up in a particularly Jewish area of the country, came of age after 1967, when Israel’s image as a David began shifting to that of a Goliath, did not have any prominent Jewish mentors, and has a background in radical politics. As a student, he was harshly critical of Zionism and its legitimacy.

While Koplow cites these facts not to endorse the stereotypes but to affirm Ellison’s bona fides as someone one would not expect to be an Israel supporter, those are the demographic attributes giving the fuel to this revolting campaign. As Michaelson, who previously worked with the ADL, acknowledged: “There’s plenty of Islamophobia within my Jewish community as well,” and “the ADL is a perfect example,” citing the group’s shameful opposition to the construction of a mosque in lower Manhattan.

If you’re a Democrat, it’s easy to embrace the language of anti-Islamophobia when it comes to condemning Donald Trump and other Republicans. It’s more difficult, but more important, to do so when that poison is coming from within the Democratic Party itself.

One of the few silver linings of the ugly Trump rhetoric on Muslims can and should be (and has been) a unified rejection of this sort of toxicity, regardless of where it comes from. Democrats who are sincere about wanting to oppose anti-Muslim bigotry can do so by defending Keith Ellison from these incredibly ugly, baseless, and defamatory attacks.
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Be a pro-Israel black Muslim and still get shytted on ... because you're a black Muslim brehs
 
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