on MSNBC right now Jeff Weaver is trashing the Democratic party

[trueblue2007]

He is trashing Dems, Hillary.

When will this stop??? Bernie is coming after Democrats again? I'm sick about this !!!!!

My heart is breaking.
Dumb Donna's book is tearing apart our party.

[comradebillyboy]

1. Of course he is...

Jeff was never one to let truth get in the way of his narrative.

[trueblue2007]

7. Weaver lied about Hillary all last year and now he is starting to do it again

I can't stand that man.

[HipChick]

2. A book cannot tear a party apart

If the party has a strong foundation, that is what we have to work on

[lagomorph777]

3. The sudden infighting looks rather a lot like what Putin did to the 2016 election.

Are we falling for more of his garbage? Again? Are we that stupid?

[Kirk Lover]

4. I don't think it's that serious....are we really fighting that much or are we just saying that we

are??

[Madam45for2923]

6. Charming. Color me charmed.

[pnwmom]

8. Maybe he's redirecting attention from any questions about Tad Devine's links to Manafort,

since Tad worked in two different campaigns for the same pro-Putin Ukrainian candidate.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029788048

[CentralMass]

9. ? The current head of the DNC purged some long serving DNC members who were Sanders supporters

and he reappointed a former vice chair and recently acting chair as a member. She as it happens just released a book about one of the last primaries candidates taking control of the DNC and alledgedly claimed that the election was rigged in her favor..

Are the russians behind this ?

[FSogol]

13. That's a lie.

Divide, divide, divide! Didn't all the Sanders supporters want the DNC to be shook up?

You're all falling for classic division topics. Perez ousted some people for newer and younger folks. Among those added:

From the Hill:

A Democratic source told The Hill that Perez’s nominees would double the number of millennials and Native Americans currently represented at the DNC. It will also increase the DNC’s LGBT presence and representation from Puerto Ricans, at a time when Trump has been criticized for his response to the hurricane that has devastated the island territory.

Perez’s delegate slate also includes Ellie Perez, a so-called Dreamer — an immigrant brought to the U.S. without legal permission as a child — from Arizona, and Marisa Richmond, a transgender African-American woman. If Perez’s slate of delegates is approved, it would bring the total number of unions represented by at-large DNC members to 21, which the source said was the highest mark in years.

“This year’s slate of at-large DNC member nominees reflects the unprecedented diversity of our party’s coalition,” DNC national press secretary Michael Tyler said in a statement to The Hill......................................

Perez’s slate of delegates also includes several names that will be familiar in Washington and in Democratic circles, including former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile.

Several supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are also on Perez’s list, including former Sanders spokeswoman Symone Sanders.
...............
Two people who challenged Perez for DNC chair have been nominated — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and former South Carolina Democratic chairman Jaime Harrison. ..........................

Labor leader Randi Weingarten, who backed Ellison in the DNC chair race over Perez, is also nominated.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/355954-dnc-chairman-aims-for-diversity-with-delegate-nominations

These are great changes, imo. Don't fall for divisive tactics.

[CentralMass]

16. I don't believe that you are correct in calling it a lie.

Several credible msin stream website reported out on it.

NBC reported that "Those ousted include Ray Buckley, James Zogby, Alice Germond, and Barbara Casbar Siperstein, NBC News reports"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/shakeup-democratic-national-committee-longtime-officials-ousted-n812126


" Those who have been pushed out include

Ray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democratic chairman and longtime DNC official who ran against Perez for chair before backing Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Buckley lost his spots on the Executive Committee and DNC Rules Committee.
James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute and prominent Sanders backer, is no longer co-chair of the Resolutions Committee and is off the Executive Committee, a spot he has held since 2001.
Alice Germond, the party’s longtime former secretary and a vocal Ellison backer, who was removed from her at-large appointment to the DNC.
Barbra Casbar Siperstein, who supported Ellison and Buckley, was tossed from the Executive Committee."

VANITY FAIR also reported on it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/tom-perez-dnc-shake-up

[FSogol]

20. Creative nitpicking, those articles are misleading & part of the scheme to bash/divide the party

For example: Zogby was named a super delegate, that hardly is a demotion. Other Sanders supporters and people who didn't support Perez were added.

The people against the status quo are now complaining that changes were made.

Bottom line: Perez’s nominees would double the number of millennials and Native Americans currently represented at the DNC. It will also increase the DNC’s LGBT presence and representation from Puerto Ricans. It also brings the total number of unions represented by at-large DNC members to 21, which the source said was the highest mark in years.

unprecedented diversity is what is being attacked. Malcontents will gripe no matter what is done. How does that differ from the GOP and other ratfuckers attacking us?

[CentralMass]

23. If NBC and Vanity Fair are being acused of dividing the party for reporting the news them we have a

a problem.

[FSogol]

24. Those stories did not originate at NBC and VF. Media outlets just play along these days.

No acknowledgment that the changes at the DNC to increase diversity were good?

[CentralMass]

25. Well, we all have to read as much as possible and form our own opinions

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Meanwhile, Trump goes on his merry way.

[Submariner]

11. Donna must be retiring to Alaska The Last Frontier

or some other off grid cave, because she certainly won't be welcome around Democratic Party circles anymore.

It's too bad because she was a good even handed commentator, now just a bitter bomb thrower I do not care to hear from again. Whatever her beef with Hillary, it could have been handled between them.....but then I guess there would not be any book money without the drama.

[trueblue2007]

15. publishing a "tell all" she gets her hands on all that $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Is she all about the money? I dunno.

[quickesst]

12. donald drump...

.... should reciprocate and send Donna a nice gift. He looks like he's really enjoying the one she gave him.

[NCTraveler]

17. Weaver is a snake. Nt

[leftofcool]

27. Except she lied in her book

[Blue_Tires]

19. The same Weaver who said early on that Bernie could win without the black vote?

Fuck 'im

[ismnotwasm]

21. That would be the one.

[AmandaRuth]

22. how anyone can trash the D's

when trump tweeted a racial slur that very morning, is beyond me - come on.....

[NCTraveler]

26. He is managing Sanders 2020 Presidential campaign.

Creating division will continue to be their goal.

[LisaM]

28. I don't think Bernie is doing it this time.....

I haven't heard anything bad coming from him on this, to his credit.

Jeff Weaver is another story.

[StevieM]

29. He is despicable. He just won't miss an opportunity to write the history books the way that he likes

and avoid admitting that he lost fair and square.

[trueblue2007]

30. Weaver hurt Hillary bad. LYING in every single tv appearance. How could Bernie choose such sleaze?

Bernie didn't like like Weaver did.

[Tavarious Jackson]

31. Bernie wants to run on the dem ticket in 2020 with Elizabeth Warren as VP.

Tom Perez said no more INDies

[StevieM]

32. And now I just heard some pundit on MSNBC repeat that lie--as if it were fact--that HRC "siphoned"

money off from the DNC. In reality she bailed them out.

But facts no longer matter.