DCCC in 'complete chaos' as uproar over diversity intensifies

[brooklynite]

Politico

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid an outcry from top black and Latino lawmakers over a lack of diversity in the campaign arm's senior management ranks.

Bustos’ sudden return to D.C., just days after Congress left for a six-week-long August recess, comes as aides and lawmakers are calling for systematic changes to the DCCC, the party’s main election organ.

POLITICO reported last week that black and Hispanic lawmakers are furious with Bustos’ stewardship of the campaign arm. They say the upper echelon of the DCCC is bereft of diversity, and it is not doing enough to reach Latino voters and hire consultants of color. In addition, several of Bustos’ senior aides have left in the first six months of her tenure, including her chief of staff — a black woman — and her director of mail and polling director, both women.

[OnDoutside]

1. Oh, it's Politico.

[brooklynite]

3. Tell me, how much will you be contributing to DCCC this cycle?

I'll probably contribute about $10,000, and if there's a problem with the management of the Committee that can affect how that money is spent, I want to know about it.

[OnDoutside]

9. I've said how wonderful you are before, but this is Politico, who have been making a habit of

stirring the shit. I'll wait for other sources, thank you very much.

[NurseJackie]

10. Why so little?

[brooklynite]

11. Money to DNC, money to DSCC, money to DGA, money to invidual candidates, money to IEs...

Pretty soon you're talking about real money...

[NurseJackie]

14. Give 'til it hurts.

[Hortensis]

22. So why are you posting mass-media venal political spin here,

(including click-bait headlines I would have trashed) instead of using your contacts to learn and pass honest information on?

We make modest recurring auto-donations each month to the DCCC and DSCC, and I'm fine with the different factions using their group power to influence policy. Overall, large majorities of our political caucuses are strongly united against an enormous political threat, including the DCBC.

I'm NOT fine with people pushing anti-Democratic Party messages about how WE are having racial problems -- the usual "no difference," false equivalence meme meant to persuade low-information and low-conviction citizens to believe they have no good choice to vote for.

FOR shame.

[brooklynite]

25. I don't PUSH messages...

I post news -- good or bad -- about politics and the State of the Party. There's a diversity problem at the DCCC if minority Democratic House members SAY there's a diversity problem, and if the Executive Director quits abruptly, that tend to confirm the story.

I'd rather deal with reality, rather than enclose myself in a bubble of positive stories.

[Hortensis]

26. Excuse me: You're spreading THIS message, instead of

pointing out, based on your extensive knowledge of the party, that the "complete chaos" spin is effectively a massive lie, backing that up by picking up the phone and chatting with first-person sources.

Or better yet, NOT posting click-bait headlines and the articles they lead into at all and posting that first-person information instead?

Every member of the DCBC is also a member of either -- or both -- the New Democrats and the Progressive caucuses. Are our black members also throwing those caucuses into "chaos"? Inquiring mind wants to know.

If our party is the one being torn apart by racial "complete chaos," unlike the segregated and united white man's party, is it going down and will this be for the first, second, or third and last time?

[Freethinker65]

2. First I have heard of this complete chaos?

[BlueIdaho]

4. I'm waiting for a second source

Before I light my hair on fire...

[secondwind]

5. Same here.

[spanone]

6. Says politico.

[Me.]

7. 1. It's Politico

2. It's going to take more than the DCCC to reach Latino voters, 47% of whom voted for the traitor. And Frankly, what's happening at the border should be incentive enough.

3. They do need to hire consultants of color if that is lacking. Let me suggest Tara Daldell for starters.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. This is only what Politico

would like people to think.

[brooklynite]

13. Does Roll Call work better for you? Or are you claiming the story is factually false?

[brooklynite]

12. Breaking: DCCC executive director resigns

Roll Call

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Executive Director Allison Jaslow has resigned.

She announced her departure at all-staff meeting on Monday. Politico first reported the news, which a DCCC source confirmed to CQ Roll Call. DCCC leadership had come under fire from some lawmakers for not including more diverse staffers among its top brass.

DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos had flown back to Washington, D.C., to meet with committee staff on Monday.

Jaslow was close to Bustos, having served as chief of staff in her House office and having worked on her first campaign in 2012. An Iraq veteran, Jaslow was the executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America before coming to the DCCC.

Texas Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela had called for Jaslow to step down over the weekend.

Smooth saiing?

[msongs]

15. dont waste money on DCCC. donate directly to your candidate of choice nt

[NurseJackie]

17. I can't make huge donations, so I really have nothing to boast about...

... sometimes it's all I can do to fill up the gas tank.

[George II]

18. I use a thimble to fill up my tank, do you use that hypodermic needle?

[Downtown Hound]

16. Politico...

The democrats could win an election 99% to 1%, and Politico would still say the Democrats are in turmoil.

[former9thward]

19. Is Roll Call making it up also?

http://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/dccc-executive-director-resigns

[Downtown Hound]

20. Never said they were making it up

But these kinds of things are common on campaigns. It doesn't mean that they are in total turmoil. That's just spin. They say the same thing every election cycle.

[brooklynite]

21. "Larry Hogan to take over embattled National Governors Association"

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will lead the National Governors Association (NGA) for the next year, taking over an embattled organization that went through a painful leadership shakeup in recent months.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/454954-larry-hogan-to-take-over-embattled-national-governors-association

An attempt to stir things up? Or a political blog reporting stories about politics?

[Downtown Hound]

23. Shit dude, Politico has been reporting stories like this for years

You go ahead and swallow it if you want.

[watoos]

27. Bustos stepped down.

Don’t have to use the word chaos, maybe turmoil?

[brooklynite]

28. No, she didn't

Bustos is the DCCC Chair. The Executive Director stepped down.

[brooklynite]

29. Just a reminder: people here were up in arms about DCCC's new policies

Remember the blacklist of companies working for candidates challenging incumbents? Remember Bustos planning to go to a fundraiser for Lipinski?

But apparently when staff and others do the same, reporting on it shows bias?