'Its time to roll up the sleeves and fight back': DNC chair candidate vows to halt Trump agenda

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

TRAVIS GETTYS
28 DEC 2016 AT 09:36 ET

Democrats may be planning to give congressional Republicans a taste of their own obstructionist medicine.

Jaime Harrison, the head of South Carolinas Democratic Party and a candidate for the Democratic National Committee chair, compared the last eight years of GOP efforts to undermine President Barack Obama to touch it, break it, own it signs found in shops.

The Republicans have touched this government, they broke it under President Obama and now they own it, [link:http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-consider-giving-republicans-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine-842481731628?cidsm_fb_msnbcHarrison told MSNBCs Ari Melber.] Retribution is at play. We cannot allow Donald Trump and the Republicans to ramrod into this government these folks who want to bring us back to the bygone era, as it relates to the rights that so many of us all enjoy.

Melber opened the segment Tuesday night by describing GOP efforts to prevent Obama from naming a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Harrison rebuked the [link:https://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/north-carolina-is-no-longer-a-functioning-democracy-according-to-global-elections-expert/Republican takeover] of North Carolinas state government.

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[Equinox Moon]

1. Excuse my ignorance, but

who votes for the DNC chair? How do they get elected?

[DonViejo]

3. Here you go...

The DNC is composed of the chairs and vice-chairs of each state Democratic Party committee and over 200 members elected by Democrats in all 50 states and the territories. Its chairperson is elected by the committee. It conducts fundraising to support its activities.
Democratic National Committee - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee

[Equinox Moon]

7. The Chair is elected by committe.

Okay. Yet Pres. O appointed DWS. Is that because he was Pres? I will read the link as well.

[Bradical79]

12. Yes

Basically, when there is a Democratic President, the President just picks the chair.

[DonViejo]

14. Yes, I think the Prez gets to pick the Chair upon his/her election to the office...

The Committee may have to rubber stamp that appointment but, not sure.

[rtracey]

2. yes

Finally, someone who wants to actually fight for our party...

[Coolest Ranger]

4. Joy Reid

interviewed this guy on her show once. I like him and I can support him too

[stonecutter357]

5. K&R!

[radical noodle]

6. I've seen him interviewed

and liked him. He and Perez are my top picks.

[RBInMaine]

8. Don't "fight back"! Fight FORWARD! Get on OFFENSE and STAY THERE!

[Sunlei]

9. Well Harrison, WHY WAIT? PICK ONE ISSUE NOW & SHOW US how you would FILL the position.

TALK is cheap, lets see some action. Pick one issue and proveyou can do something.

[JudyM]

10. 1st state elections in '17 are Jan 10 for control of VA legislature. Some support would be helpful!

http://www.90for90.org/copy-of-u-s-senate-elect

http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Kim%20Drew%20Wright

[Girard442]

11. The Democratic Party badly needs a "Doolittle Raid" moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid

[George II]

13. Sure beats trying to fight some mythical "revolution" that will turn away more voters than....

....it will attract.

Some day some of the splinter factions of "democratic" extremists will realize that the vast majority of Americans and voters aren't interesting in their extremist policies.

[Blue Shoes]

16. You say that, but...

Donald Trump was is the president elect and he is the most radical person ever elected to the post.

[George II]

17. Extremism and radicalism are two completely different things.

[dionysus]

20. Thise damn "extremist" FDR type dems! The nerve of 'em!

[George II]

21. FDR had the backing of the majority of the Democratic Party. That's the way it works!

[Boomerproud]

15. Words matter, but actions matter more and that is what I'm waiting for.

Is Trump's selection the only thing that finally woke up the Democratic machine?

[octoberlib]

18. He was on MSNBC last night and said he wants to re-build state parties

and go back to the 50 state strategy. He was enthusiastic and had some good ideas. I liked him.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. It sets a bar now for the other DNC chair contenders

Plenty of Dems are hungry for an aggressive response to all the GOP bs that's coming. Personally, I believe Obama is congenitally conciliatory and that desire to compromise, not contest, is a big reason Dems might have stayed home, not marked the presidential ballot line, voted 3rd party or voted for Trump in Nov.

[George II]

22. "Congenitally conciliatory"?

[Tatiana]

23. Wow, this DNC chair race is really shaping up to be a COMPETITION.

I've seen a few of Harrison's interviews and I like what I have seen so far. I also like that he's from a Southern state and part of the younger set of Democrats. Though he has worked as a lobbyist, I accept his straightforward answer that he had bills to pay, including a lot of student loan debt.