Should Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign as DNC chair?

[yurbud]

It's been pretty obvious her thumb was on the scale for Hillary from the start, but that computer kerfuffle last weekend was dropping a house on the scale.

Progressive voters are the base of the Democratic Party, but we haven't had a progressive chair since Howard Dean.

We need someone in that position who more than just the fat cat donors can trust.

Should Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign?

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	55 (92%)
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	3 (5%)
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	0 (0%)
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[Cali_Democrat]

1. The DNC screwed up by hiring a company that couldn't secure the data

Bernie's campaign screwed up by stealing data and taking advantage of a security flaw.

If DWS should step down, then Bernie should end his campaign considering the fact that stealing data is a more egregious offense.

[yurbud]

2. I don't see your vote to indicate that

[yurbud]

3. the issue is broader than this data breach, which is more symptom of bigger issue.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

13. The DNC hired a company whose vice president is DWS's nephew

and its president has had close contact with the Clintons since at least 1992.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. Aharon Wasserman is not her nephew...they're not even related

It's funny how lies like that spread like wildfire among Bernie supporters....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251924008

https://mobile.twitter.com/AharonWasserman/status/678061075926007808

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

18. Even if they are not related,

(and I will look further into that), she has done an absolutely terrible job as head of the DNC.

Do you disagree with that?

[Cali_Democrat]

20. I don't think she's done a good job, but....

That's a matter of opinion. If she should step down because she's done a poor job, then Bernie should end his campaign. Stealing data like that is a much more egregious offense.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

21. Huh?

What's Debbie's piss-poor performance as chair of the DNC got to do with Bernie's campaign????

Bernie represents the best interests of me, my sister, my nephew, and my mother. DWS represents the interests of people who have no idea what my relatives are going through.

[sonofspy777]

32. When she SMEARED Bernie

It was nothing more than another indicator of her unsuitability for
any role not in the food service or housekeeping industries

[randys1]

27. Optics are terrible. Not enough debates, debates clearly set at times when

the least amount of people would watch.

It is clear to me, undeniably clear to me that DWS is orchestrating this to try and help Hillary.

Then she made the ultimate blunder to make the data issue public as it has harmed BOTH candidates. I am sure DWS did this to only harm Bernie, but it backfired.



You know me, you know I will work for the Hillary campaign if I have to as if lives depend on it because they do, but this is an example of where it is best to admit your mistake and move on.

AGain, does NOT matter that the Bernie staffer did this on purpose. We ALL Agree Bernie himself would never knowingly allow this.

Why it doesnt matter is ONLY because if we ONLY care about occupying the WH next time around, we dont make our family business public like this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. No. We don't need DNC turmoil as we enter election year

[Bjorn Against]

6. We already have DNC turmoil and she is the primary cause of it

Getting a new chair would calm the turmoil not increase it.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. She should resign from everything possible.

I wouldn't have a problem with her no longer being a member of the Democratic Party.

[Hiraeth]

7. She could be HRC's Nanny for when Chelsea brings Charlotte to visit.

Just a suggestion

[yurbud]

10. I would trust her around kids about as much as I trust Rahm around public schools

[Hiraeth]

14. ouch

[demwing]

8. I only said "Yes"

because "Fuck Yes" was not an option

[Old Codger]

24. I said yes

Only because she should be fired was not an option, I wouldn't give her the privilege of quitting..

[reformist2]

9. She not only violated the terms of the contract, she acted like Bernie was the enemy.

Dealing with this is in private is the best practice, as any *good* leader of any organization will tell you, because you don't want unwarranted negative attention from the press. Unless of course, you want to throw someone under the bus...

[Fuddnik]

11. She should be fired and frog-marched out of the building.

[kenfrequed]

12. She should have already stepped down after 2014

Not having good software companies is really small potatos compared to utterly failing to mitigate congressional losses. Protecting her own seat and failing to support three other Democrats running in Florida would also have been good reasons.

We need a 50 state DNC plan like Dean.

Enough of this Third Way crap.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

15. Thanks in part to her bumbling,

we were thrashed in two midterm elections. She should have been kicked out after the 2014 debacle. Why she was allowed to stay after that is a puzzle wrapped around an enigma wrapped around a mystery.

[yurbud]

19. Third Way doesn't want Dems to win supermajority

If Dems had supermajority, Third Way would have no excuse for enacting corporate dictated policies.

They need the GOP so they can say those mean conservatives are twisting their arms.

[kenfrequed]

22. Hmm...

That was an argument I was making here in 2009 and early 2010.

There were a lot of goddamned blue dogs and DLC jerks giving Veto cover to the GOP. Some of the same people here screaming for party loyalty were giving cover to those same congress-people for screwing over President Obama and the party.

They were the same people shrieking at us about "wanting ponies" during the healthcare debate for wanting single payer.

I wondered if the third way democrats didn't want to carry the GOP for a bit to assure they would have people to triangulate with in order to maintain their power. Because if the GOP had been defeated more completely, then why would we bother with triangulation?

They failed to take the great blue wave of 2006 and President Obama's victory in 2008 as signs that the electorate was biting at the bit for some serious systemic change.

It was intensely frustrating.

[Dem2]

23. Fascinating theory

I'd love to see some evidence of this.

[yurbud]

36. Cuomo in NY got endorsement of Working Families Party by saying he would campaign for more Dems in

legislature (then did nothing of the sort) because he need Republicans to do the dirty work of privatizing K-12 public education among other things.

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. Of course, regardless who one supports for the nomination

It is simple reality that the DNC leadership cannot - absolutely cannot - maintain credibility as a neutral arbitrator when you have a DNC Chair so close to one of the campaign and so hostile to another of the campaigns.

This would be like having as the DNC Chair a former Sanders campaign manager who had publicly expressed disdain for the bluster of Hillary's campaign. - Sensible and fair minded people would not buy it.

[Zen Democrat]

25. The culprit here is the vendor hired by the DNC; but the DNC kept them on even

after a previous breach was reported by the Sanders campaign. Hillary Clinton needs to distance herself from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz or she'll be dragged down.

[bigwillq]

26. Yes.

She's awful. Always has been.

[earthside]

28. DWS in Incompetent and Bias

New Information Shows DNC Violated Its Own Rules When It Shut Down Sanders Campaign Data Access

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/12/19/new-information-shows-dnc-violated-its-own-rules-when-it-shut-down-sanders-campaign-data-access/

[Phlem]

29. The DNC makeup is still the same.

They'd just get another mouthpiece to replace her.

The DNC needs to be scrubbed with industrial cleanser and wire brushes!!!

[Vincardog]

30. She should be fired and have security escort her from the building.

[trueblue2007]

31. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! maybe put Howard Dean back in ??

[bvar22]

33. No, I don't support a quiet resignation "to spend more time with the family"

I support a FULL FRONTAL FIRING with Extreme Prejudice, as publicly as possible,
and a restraining order keeping her 1000 feet from ANY campaign HQ of the DNC.

She shouldn't JUST be removed from the DNC.
She should be removed from the Democratic Party:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251911615

[yurbud]

37. if she was a DU member, she would be banned for that

[sabrina 1]

38. Absolutely agree bvar! She is clearly not a Democrat, a DINO and even at that not much

of a DINO either. She has destroyed the party in so many ways, supports Republicans in Florida. I wouldn't even let her post on a Democratic forum, let alone run the DNC.

[yurbud]

43. it's funny how pols want to be tough on the rest of us but treat each other with the utmost respect

regardless of how much someone stabs them in the back.

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Ab-so-fucking-lutely. And lets not forget how she teamed up with Sheldon Adelson

to support throwing sick people in prison for using cannabis.

[joshcryer]

35. After the primary I think there's a chance.

Certainly after the general.

[bvar22]

39. I agree.

Hillary will probably move her to Chief of Staff for the fine job DSW did at the DNC.

[yurbud]

40. yep. She's an over-permed Rahm Emanuel.

[hack89]

42. Certainly she will be rewarded by the Clinton administration

that's what usually happens when you help elect a president.

[PowerToThePeople]

41. No, shitcan her.

Resign gives her the appearance of being decent.

[yurbud]

44. that would be my preference too, but that's my preference for ALL DLC/Third Way/New Dems