The DNC needs to explain how it spends money! Listen to this!

[UCmeNdc]

Nomiki Konst said what needed to be said at the Democratic National Committee Unity Reform Commission. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

[wasupaloopa]

1. Cenk works for RT like Thom right?

[Liberal In Texas]

8. For the record, Thom quit RT. n/t

[emulatorloo]

14. No Cenk does not work for RT. He is funded by Republican sugar daddy though.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-young-turks-network-raises-4-million-from-former-republican-presidential-candidate/

[delisen]

2. Executive Committee derelict?

[Tavarious Jackson]

3. Cenk is a Putin puppet nt

[OnDoutside]

4. I'd put him in the same basket of assholes as Alex Jones.

[sansa]

5. Wow - that is just shocking.

If true, this is an issue that the Democratic Party needs to address immediately. Who are the Consultants who are reported to have have received the overwhelming bulk of the money (with horrendous results in the Presidential race)? Who authorized that expenditure? Why on earth would they exhibit such poor planning on the state and local levels. The Republicans built themselves up to where they are today because the focused on state and local elections because that is where you begin to really build your power. The Democratic Party has to begin to focus on the down ballot races because obtaining control of state legislatures is the only way to pass legislation to protect voter rights. The focus cannot be only on the Presidential race. What good does it do to have the White House if you lose control of the states and Congress. It is a miracle that President Obama was able to accomplish what he did in the fact of rank obstructionism on the part of the Republicans in Congress.

I think that I will focus any of my future donations directly to candidates to help them out in their races.

[delisen]

17. They are consulting firms, not individual consultants.

Two of these are: Precision Consulting and SKD Knickerbocker which consider themselves to be highly progressive firms. The even have pictures of their many employees online.

Precision was a main consulting firm for Obama/Biden2012 -they focused on re-electing the top of the ticket. It has many Organizing for America people.


The thing I find shocking is that the executive committee members she mentions and whom she said had fiduciary responsibilities did not seem to carry out their fiduciary duty.

I don't know, however, that they were actually "in the dar.k." The people she names would be well aware of these prominent consulting firms, some of their employees/contractors and would be familiar with work they were doing in 2012 and earlier

The speaker seems to imply that the executive committee members are victims. They are not.

The speaker is charging corruption but offers no evidence.

Of course there needed to have been a focus on all offices from 2009 forward but there was not.

I note that Clinton attested to the poor state of the DNC as she geared up for 2016. It was a much weaker organization than it had been in 2008.

Whose responsibility was it to have done that party building from 2010 (when Dems lost badly and through 2014 as they continued losing)?

This impassioned speech is highly misleading. What we need now is honesty.

[PatsFan87]

6. People might not like TYT but we should address the argument/content and not the person

saying it.

Nomiki is right here. This was a topic during the DNC chair/vice chair races too. Previous vice chairs didn't have knowledge of the budget and had no idea where money was being spent. We need more transparency and accountability.

And state parties are left to fundraise on their own when they're not getting money. Five consultants getting their share of 700-800 million is insane.

[superpatriotman]

7. Attacking the messenger

Standard operating procedure

[emulatorloo]

16. Sorry Cenk's hires like Tracy and Dore not credible. Dore pushed Seth Rich and Hillary Parkinson's

Michael Tracy said Maxine Waters physically assaulted him. I am sorry I will always take The Young Turks with a boulder of salt. Perhaps what Nomiki says is true perhaps it is an exaggeration. I have seen her twitter feed. Time will tell.

[delisen]

20. They are consulting firms not individual consultants

If this was the whole of Nomiki's statement it is not transparent; it is opaque.

But even from what she is saying in this clip. If the members of the executive committee had a fiduciary responsibility and did not carry it out and there was corruption-it would have been their responsibility to have prevented it, or after the fact to report it.

Corruption is a serious charge.

I have posted links elsewhere in the threadto 2 major consulting firms reported to have contracts with the DNC.. Please feel free to peruse.

[delisen]

9. J Zogby, T. Gabbard, R Buckley,, D Brazile had fiduciary responsibility

and they did not demand the information they needed to fulfill that obligation?


They surely have the right to demand the information now. Tell us who the consultants are!

Facts please!

[FSogol]

10. Ratfuckers. Each and every one of them.

Thanks for posting this on election day, btw.

[stonecutter357]

11. RT is not a legitimate source .

[emulatorloo]

15. Young Turks aren't on RT

[delisen]

12. Pecision Strategies was among the highest paid

More on Precision Strategies:

http://www.precisionstrategies.com/team/jen-omalley-dillon/

http://www.precisionstrategies.com/our-work/

Precision Strategies seems to have been heavy on re-electing Obama/Biden in 2012.

Is this corruption, as the speaker implies, or is it an example of a focus on presidential politics rather than state and local

A sitting president is considered the head of the party and selects the head of the DNC. Is this a structural problem?

Do democratic voters who focus on the presidential cycle contribute to the a lack of attention to state and local elections and party building?

[Blue_true]

13. Why do you post trash like this? Cenk is a Russian stooge. nt

[boston bean]

18. Seems like a kook.

[brooklynite]

19. The DNC Treasurer is a neighbor of mine...I'm not worried about the money handling.

...since I'm one of the few people who who actually provides the money to them.