Veteran Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile is an adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, television political commentator, Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National Committee, and former interim National Chair of the Democratic National Committee as well as the former chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute.

Aside from working for the full recovery of her beloved New Orleans, Ms. Brazile’s passion is encouraging young people to vote, to work within the system to strengthen it, and to run for public office. Since 2000, Ms. Brazile has lectured at over 125 colleges and universities across the country on such topics as “Inspiring Civility in American Politics,” Race Relations in the Age of Obama, Why Diversity Matters, Women in American Politics: Are We There Yet.

She first got involved at the age of nine when she worked to elect a City Council candidate who had promised to build a playground in her neighborhood; the candidate won, the swing set was installed, and a lifelong passion for political progress was ignited. Ms. Brazile worked on every presidential campaign from 1976 through 2000, when she became the first African-American to manage a presidential campaign.

More. http://donnabrazile.com/?page_id=2

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

14. No one complained about her as Vice-Chair.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 05:52 PM

Jul 2016

Donna Brazile @donnabrazile
DNC Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation. Political Strategist and Commentator for ABC News and CNN. Enjoy gardening.
Washington, DC donnabrazile.com

She can visit my garden any time she wants.

Brings lots of experience to the job. From wiki:

Political strategist

Brazile has worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Jesse Jackson in 1984, Walter Mondale–Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and for Richard Gephardt in the 1988 Democratic primary.

After Gephardt lost the primary in 1988, Brazile served as deputy field director of the Michael Dukakis general election campaign. On October 20, 1988, she made headlines by telling a group of reporters that George H. W. Bush needed to "fess up" about unsubstantiated rumors of an extramarital affair.

Said Brazile, "The American people have every right to know if Barbara Bush will share that bed with him in the White House."[6] The Dukakis campaign immediately disavowed her remarks and Dukakis fired her from his campaign staff shortly after the story broke.[7] Four years later, the same issue, the relationship of George H.W. Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald, would be briefly rehashed during the 1992 campaign against Bill Clinton, who had his own extramarital affair rumors.

In the 1990s, Brazile served as Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, where she helped guide the District's budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill. She also served as an advisor for Bill Clinton's campaign for the presidency in 1992 and for re-election in 1996.

In 1999, Brazile was appointed deputy campaign manager and was later promoted to campaign manager of the 2000 presidential campaign of Vice-President Al Gore, becoming the first African-American woman to manage a major party presidential campaign.

After the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Brazile was appointed as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Recovery Authority by Kathleen Blanco from 2005 to 2009.
Democratic National Committee service
After the post-election fight over votes in the 2000 United States presidential election in Florida, Brazile was appointed Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute. .............

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)

15. I trust Donna. I believe she will do a good job.

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 05:54 PM

Jul 2016

And lest someone bring up Selection 2000, Al Gore won and Donna did a fairly good job there too, given what she had to work with.

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)

16. She certainly was impartial during these primaries.....

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Sun Jul 24, 2016, 07:09 PM

Jul 2016

I communicated with her....and her response was simply that at the end of it all, the Republicans must be defeated.
At the time I was partial...so I didn't like her response....but looking back on it, guess it told me she had the right focus all along!