THE DNC CHAIR RACE HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND, HOW DID THAT TURN
OUT?
IF YOU ARE PROGRESSIVE, I WOULD ARGUE NOT WELL.
THE
ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE WAS TOM PEREZ.
WE HEAR FROM THE
ESTABLISHMENT NONSTOP THAT HE'S A GREAT LIBERAL, HE IS A
WONDERFUL PROGRESSIVE -- NOW, IS TOM PEREZ A DYED IN THE WOOL
CONSERVATIVE?
OF COURSE NOT.
HAS HE DONE SOME POSITIVE MOVEMENT
IN THE LABOR DEPARTMENT WHEN HE WAS OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF LABOR?
YES.
AT THE SAME TIME, IS HE A TRUE PROGRESSIVE?
I WOULD ARGUE
NO, HE IS COMING FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PARTY.
IN
FACT, KEITH ELLISON SEEMED TO HAVE THIS RACE LOCKED UP, DIDN'T
HAVE ANY MAJOR OPPONENTS, EVEN CHUCK SCHUMER BACKED HIM IN THE
BEGINNING, AND THEN REPORTS CAME OUT THAT THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE
-- AND BACK THEN OF COURSE THEY WERE STILL IN CHARGE -- DECIDED,
NO, KEITH ELLISON IS TOO LIBERAL.
HE'S FROM THE BERNIE
WING, WE DON'T LIKE THAT.
WE NEED SOMEONE FROM THE CORPORATE
WING.
THEY DON'T CLAIM TO BE THE CORPORATE WING -- THEY TAKE
CORPORATE CASH AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY DO POLICIES THAT ARE
IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS -- BUT NO, THEY ARE JUST THE CENTRIST,
REASONABLE WING.
I DON'T FIND YOUR CORPORATE POSITIONS
REASONABLE AT ALL, NEITHER DO A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE.
SO HE WAS
SENT IN, AND THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT PIECES WRITTEN ABOUT TOM
PEREZ'S RECORD, AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HE DIDN'T PROSECUTE
BANKERS HE COULD HAVE WHO WERE GOING AFTER VETERANS AND DOING
SOMETHING ILLEGAL, FORECLOSING ON THEIR HOUSES WHILE THEY WERE
AWAY FIGHTING IN WARS, BUT HE CHOSE NOT TO USE HIS POWER.
HE
GOES TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT, SIMILAR ABILITY TO GO AFTER THE
BANKERS AND NOT LET THEM IN ON OUR PENSIONS IF THEY WERE
INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY LIKE SETTING GLOBAL INTEREST
RATES, WHICH THEY ALL ADMITTED TO, BUT HE GAVE TO THEM OUR
PENSIONS ANYWAY.
TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, HE WAS IN FAVOR.
IF
THERE WAS A CORPORATE BACKED THING THAT NEEDED TOM PEREZ HE
WAS THERE.
I KNOW I'M THE BAD GUY FOR POINTING OUT HIS ACTUAL
RECORD.
THE REST OF THE MEDIA WILL FOCUS ON THINGS LIKE HE
FOUGHT FOR HIGHER WAGES AT THE LABOR DEPARTMENT.
WOW, HOW
PROGRESSIVE.
IF YOU DON'T DO THAT AS A DEMOCRATIC SECRETARY
OF LABOR, WHAT DO YOU DO?
HE SENT IN BY OBAMA AND GETS
ESTABLISHMENT BACKING, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A WHISPER
CAMPAIGN ABOUT KEITH ELLISON.
DID YOU HEAR WHAT HE WROTE IN
THE 1790S?
HE ONCE WROTE AN ARTICLE THAT SAID THIS, HE ONCE
SUPPORTED FARRAKHAN.
HE DOES NOT AT THIS POINT, HE HAS RENOUNCED
HIM, HAS ALL THESE JEWISH-AMERICAN GROUPS BEHIND
HIM -- OH, WHISPER, WHISPER, ELLISON, NO, NO.
THEY NEVER DO
THOSE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST REPUBLICANS.
BUT WHEN THEY ARE
RUNNING AGAINST A PROGRESSIVE, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DEMOCRATS IN
THE ESTABLISHMENT ARE VERY STRONG.
THEN THEY CAN DO HATCHET
JOBS, WHISPER CAMPAIGNS, THEY CAN SMEAR PEOPLE, THEY SENT
PEOPLE ON TV LIKE ALLENDER SCHWARTZ AS IF HE IS A PERSON
THAT ANY DEMOCRAT CARES ABOUT -- LIKE, I WILL BE LEAVING THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
WHO ARE YOU?
BUT IT SCARES
PEOPLE WHO ARE VOTING IN THE DNC, THEY ARE PART OF THE PARTY,
ALL MY GOD, PEOPLE MIGHT BE LEAVING THE PARTY, I HEAR
ELLISON HAD A PROBLEM IN THE 1690S, HE ONCE WROTE A PAMPHLET
THAT WAS WRONG OR SOMETHING AS A STUDENT IN KINDERGARTEN, MY GOD!
WHERE DID THAT START FROM?
ALL GIVE YOU AN ANSWER, IT STARTED
FROM OBAMA, BECAUSE OBAMA DOES NOT LIKE THE BERNIE SANDERS
FACTION OF THE PARTY.
HE BACKED HILLARY CLINTON 100%, THE BANKS
WERE HIS TOP DONORS IN 2008, AND LOOK AT THAT, THEY GOT THE
BAILOUT WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
NO PROSECUTIONS.
PEREZ
AND ERIC HOLDER DIDN'T PROSECUTE THEM, NOBODY DID.
AND I WONDER
WHY HE IS TOUCHY ABOUT IT?
SO A COUPLE ROUNDS OF VOTING, THE
FIRST ROUND, LOOK AT THIS, VERY CLOSE --
THE SECOND ROUND OF VOTING, AND IT'S OVER.
TOM PEREZ GETS
THE MAJORITY.
THE OTHER 12 1/2 -- NO, 11 1/2 VOTES CAME IN FOR
TOM PEREZ.
GREAT MATH ON MY PART -- 21 1/2 CAME IN FOR TOM PEREZ,
NONE FOR KEITH ELLISON.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED THAN
THAT, BUT OKAY -- IF I WERE KEITH ELLISON, AND WHAT I WILL
ASK HIM TO DO IN A SECOND, IS I WOULD IMMEDIATELY NOT JOIN THE
PEOPLE WHO JUST PUT A HATCHET IN YOUR BACK.
MAYBE YOU CAN SAY
HE'S A BETTER MAN THAN I AM OR A CLASSIER MAN, BUT TOM PEREZ
OFFERS HIM THE DEPUTY CHAIR POSITION AT THE DNC AND HE TAKES
IT.
THE DEPUTY CHAIR POSITION IS MADE UP, RIGHT NOW IT HAS NO
POWER WHATSOEVER, IT DIDN'T EVEN EXIST.
AND IN A LATER ARTICLE
THEY PRETTY MUCH BRAG ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED TO PUT HIM FORWARD
AS THE FACE OF THE PARTY.
NOT WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN
IN THE PARTY, THE CORPORATE CASH WILL KEEP FLOWING IN, BUT WE
WILL PUT OUT BERNIE SANDERS AND KEITH ELLISON AS THE FACE OF THE
PARTY WALL BEHIND THE SCENES WE CONTINUE TO DO WHAT WE USED TO.
OUR REPORTER HAS BEEN COVERING THE RACE, AND SHE WAS SO ALL
OVER IT THAT SHE TOOK THESE PICTURES JUST A LITTLE BEFORE
THE ELECTION.
ABOUT A WEEK OR SO BEFORE.
THAT IS KEITH ELLISON
AND TOM PEREZ DINING TOGETHER.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS WHERE THEY
STRUCK THE DEAL THAT IF I WIN YOU WILL BE THE DEPUTY CHAIR AND
IF YOU WIN I WILL BE -- I DON'T KNOW, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE HIDDEN
MICROPHONES THERE, BUT THEY WERE TWO POLITICIANS TALKING
ABOUT WHAT KIND OF DEAL COULD BE HAD.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
A LITTLE
MORE BACKGROUND BEFORE I TELL YOU WHAT ACTION I WANT YOU TO
TAKE, AND WHAT WE WILL ASK KEITH ELLISON TO DO --
SO THEY DIDN'T WANT ELLISON, HE WAS TOO PROGRESSIVE AND IT
WORKS.
THERE WAS A NEW YORK DNC MEMBER, JAY JACOBS, THEY ASKED
HIM --
I WONDER HOW THEY GOT THAT THOUGHT IN THEIR HEAD?
IT WAS
PLANTED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT.
OOH, BE AFRAID OF ELLISON, HE IS
TOO FAR LEFT.
IN WHAT?
NAME A POLICY POSITION KEITH ELLISON
HAD THAT WAS TOO FAR TO THE LEFT.
THE REALITY IS,
ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS NEVER NAMED THAT POSITION BECAUSE THEN
THEY WOULD GET CAUGHT BEING RIGHT WING.
SO WHAT DO THEY DO?
THEY MADE IT PERSONAL.
MAYBE HE'S ANTI-SEMITIC.
BASED ON
CHARGES FROM DECADES AND DECADES AGO THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN
LITIGATED AND RE-LITIGATED AND PROVEN TO BE NOT CORRECT.
DOESN'T MATTER, ON POLICY HE IS RIGHT, I'M WRONG, SO I HAVE TO
SMEAR HIM.
SOMEHOW IT GETS IN JAY JACOBS' HEAD, TOO FAR LEFT.
ALSO HE SAYS --
AGAIN, THE SAME CHARGES BEFORE.
THEY WERE CHEERING TOO
LOUDLY FOR KEITH ELLISON.
REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN
NEVADA, YOU GUYS WERE TOO LOUD.
IF YOU DON'T SAY OR DO ANYTHING
THEY SAY, YOU COST US THE ELECTION BY STAYING AT HOME.
IT
IS YOUR FAULT, YOU DIDN'T DO ENOUGH.
WAS BERNIE SANDERS THE
CANDIDATE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION?
NO.
WERE HIS STAFFERS
OR HIS FOLLOWERS IN CHARGE?
NO, THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
BUT SOMEHOW
YOU ARE TO BLAME, IT WAS MY PRESIDENCY.
YOU SHOULD HAVE
VOTED FOR ME MORE.
NOW YOU DO ACT UP, YOU ARE IN THE GAME --
YOU ARE TOO LOUD.
TOO BOISTEROUS.
THAT IS THE RIGHT
ANSWER?
THERE ISN'T ONE, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO KEEP TAKING THE
CORPORATE CASH.
THEY DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO, IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT
AT ALL.
IN FACT, IT WAS QUITE LITERAL.
THE CHAIR RACE WAS NOT
THE ONLY THING THAT WAS VOTED ON, NOMI DID A FANTASTIC JOB
COVERING ALL THE VOTES ON FACEBOOK ALL DAY ON SATURDAY.
ANOTHER VOTE WAS --
THAT IS A TINY, TINY REQUEST
-- OBAMA'S BAN ON LOBBYISTS WAS
FAIRLY NARROW AND NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL.
THEY STILL TOOK
PLENTY OF CORPORATE CASH IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS.
AND CHRISTINE
PELOSI'S RESOLUTION WAS NARROWER THAN OBAMA'S, BUT STILL THE DNC
VOTED NO, I NEED THE CORPORATE CASH.
HIT THE MAIN VEIN, I NEED
THE CORPORATE CASH.
THAT IS HOW YOU LOST THE ELECTION, BEING
SEEN AS THE CORPORATE PARTY, THE ESTABLISHMENT PARTY.
TRUMP
OUTDID YOU ON POPULISM, AND YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED A DAMN THING.
SO
IN ORDER TO FIGHT TRUMP YOU SHOULD BE MORE PRO-CORPORATE?
NO, YOU SHOULD BE THE OPPOSITE.
JESUS CHRIST.
NOW, ONE OTHER
THING NOMI POINTED OUT THROUGHOUT THE RACE, LET ME
QUOTE HER PIECE FOR US ON MEDIUM --
HUH.
SO THEY RAISED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, IN FACT BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS, THAT AT THE DNC THEY NEVER TELL YOU WHERE THE MONEY
IS GOING.
THAT IS INTERESTING.
THAT IS PART OF WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN THE RACE, IT'S NOT JUST PROGRESSIVES VERSUS
ESTABLISHMENT -- IT WAS STATE PARTIES, THAT WAS WHY THE RACE
IS SO CLOSE -- SAYING HEY, CAN I GET SOME OF THAT MONEY SO I CAN
HIRE PEOPLE AND DO SOME GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING WHETHER
I'M IN KENTUCKY OR CALIFORNIA?
, RIGHT NOW THE CONNECTICUT STATE
SENATE IS DIVIDED, THAT'S NOT EVEN BLUE?
CAN I GET SOME MONEY
TO KNOCK ON DOORS AND BUILD A PARTY SO I CAN WIN ELECTIONS?
NO, NO, WE WILL SPEND MOST OF THE MONEY AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL,
AND EVEN IF YOU ARE AN EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE DNC WE AREN'T
GOING TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH THE CONSULTANTS ARE TAKING.
BECAUSE
I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU, IT'S A LOT.
AND THOSE CONSULTANTS, A LOT OF
THE MADE CALLS FOR TOM PEREZ, NOMI'S PIECE, GO READ IT, THEY
MADE CALLS FOR TOM PEREZ -- LOOK AT THAT, LOBBYISTS TAKING MONEY
FROM CORPORATIONS WERE IN FAVOR OF TOM PEREZ, WHAT A
COINCIDENCE.
AT THE SAME TIME, TOM PEREZ WAS THE ONE GUY, SHE
ASKED THE SAME QUESTION OF ALL THE PEOPLE RUNNING, THE ONE GUY
WHO WAS MOST EVASIVE.
WE ARE FOR OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY.
YEAH
-- ARE YOU GOING TO US HOW MUCH COMMISSION THE CONSULTANTS GET?
WE WILL LOOK INTO TRANSPARENCY...
OKAY, THEY SAY
UNIFY, GREAT, TOM.
YOU ARE IN CHARGE NOW, SHOW US THE MONEY.
SHOW US WHAT THE CONSULTANTS GET AND YOU WILL EARN CREDIBILITY.
NO, NO, NO.
JUST FALL BEHIND ME, I DON'T NEED TO EARN YOUR TRUST
OR CREDIBILITY, I WAS SENT FROM ABOVE BY OBAMA AND THE CORPORATE
GUYS.
NO, YOU DO HAVE TO EARN THAT TRUST.
RIGHT NOW, NO, WE
DON'T TRUST YOU.
SHOW IS WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING.
MORE FROM
NOMI'S PIECE --
UNSURPRISING.
SO THEY SAY, WHAT CAN WE DO?
PEOPLE ACTUALLY
STOOD UP AND MADE PASSIONATE PLEAS FOR TAKING CORPORATE
MONEY.
LIKE, WHAT THE ALTERNATIVE?
IT'S VERY SIMPLE,
BERNIE WAS ON TV THE OTHER DAY, A QUICK SYNOPSIS, LET'S WATCH --
TOTAL TRANSFORMATION, WE HAVE TO OPEN UP THE PARTY TO WORKING
PEOPLE AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS GOING TO TAKE ON THE STREET, IT'S
GOING TO TAKE ON THE GREED OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY,
IT'S GOING TO TAKE ON CORPORATE AMERICA THAT IS SHUTTING
DOWN PLANTS IN THIS COUNTRY AND MOVING OUR JOBS ABROAD.
NOT HARD.
I KNOW WHAT THEY THINK, WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT
THE BIG DONORS.
BERNIE DID IT, HE RAISED 250 MILLION FROM SMALL
DONORS.
THE ACTUAL STRONG PROGRESSIVE WING OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, JUSTICE DEMOCRATS, HAS RAISED MORE MONEY
THAN ANYONE EVER THOUGHT WE WOULD BECAUSE IT IS A SMALL
DONORS, ALL YOU GUYS, WE HAVE AT 4000 PEOPLE NOMINATED, REAL
CITIZENS, NOMINATED TO RUN AGAINST THESE CORPORATE
DEMOCRATS, 70 OF THEM HAVE GONE THROUGH FOUR ROUNDS OF VETTING,
WE ARE COMING.
WE WILL CHALLENGE THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT, WE
WON'T ACCEPT CORPORATE BACKING AS DE FACTO, MUST HAVE IN ORDER
TO RUN RACES -- THAT'S WHAT DESTROYED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
THAT LED TO GROTESQUE INCOMPETENCE.
WHAT HAPPENED?
THEY LOST THE WHITE HOUSE TO A GUY WHO HAD A 37% POPULARITY
RATING ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION, THEY LOST THE SENATE
AND HOUSE AND SUPREME COURT, 69 OUT OF 99 STATE LEGISLATURES,
AND THEN THEY DOUBLE DOWN.
WE'VE GOT THIS.
THEY LOST OVER 1000
SEATS AT THE STATE LEVEL SINCE 2009, AND YOU DOUBLE DOWN ON
THAT STRATEGY?
YOU THINK WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING
BECAUSE WE TAKE SMALL DONORS?
NO, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE
DOING BECAUSE YOU KEEP TAKING BIG DONORS AND NOW THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE ASSOCIATE YOU WITH CORRUPTION AND A PRO-BIG
BUSINESS, MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION AGENDA THAT THEY
DON'T AGREE WITH.
WHAT YOU THINK YOU'RE SO CLEVER.
YOU ARE THE
ONE WITH RECORD-BREAKING INCOMPETENCE.
OKAY.
SO, DID THIS
TRICK OF, HEY, TOM PEREZ WON BUT THE PARTY IS NOW UNIFIED -- DID
IT WORK?
LET'S GO TO A NATIONAL NURSES UNITED BOARD MEMBER AND
PART OF THE DNC.
SHE SAID ABOUT THE DEPUTY CHAIR TITLE GIVEN TO
ELLISON --
NOW, WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS AT ALL?
WHY BOTHER EVEN TRYING
TO APPEASE PROGRESSIVES?
BECAUSE IN THE PAST THEY CERTAINLY
HAVEN'T.
HERE IS YOUR ACTUAL GOAL.
HUFFINGTON POST EXPLAINS
--
IN OTHER WORDS, COME ON, JUST LET US KEEP TAKING THAT SWEET,
SWEET CORPORATE CASH.
DON'T LOOK TO US.
TRUMP, BAD GUY.
I KNOW,
YOU TRIED THAT STRATEGY LAST TIME AND IT DIDN'T WORK.
SO IT'S
NOT THAT WE DON'T WANT TO GO AFTER TRUMP.
IS THAT WE ARE
NEVER GOING TO LET YOU RUN AGAINST TRUMP AGAIN BECAUSE YOU
DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
AND YOU ENDANGERED THE REPUBLIC
AND THE WORLD BY LOSING TO THAT GUY, AND WE AREN'T GOING TO LET
YOU DO IT AGAIN.
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
I HAVE A SPECIFIC
REQUEST OF KEITH ELLISON, AND I WANT YOU TO BACK IT UP.
SIGN
THIS PETITION, KEITH ELLISON, PLEASE LEAVE THE DNC, THEY DON'T
HAVE PROGRESSIVES' BEST INTERESTS IN MIND, THEY WILL USE
YOU TO BE THE FACE OF THE MOVEMENT BUT NOT THE BRAINS AND
IDEAS OF THE MOVEMENT.
AND CERTAINLY NOT THE SUBSTANCE AND
ACTION OF THE MOVEMENT.
SO PLEASE LEAVE THE DNC AND COME --
LOOK, WE BELIEVE IN YOU.
THE PETITION IS EXTRAORDINARY.
WE
ARE ASKING YOU TO BE THE CHAIR OF JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
I KNOW
THAT IS A BIG ASK, NO WE HAVE NOT TALKED TO HIM, LIKELY HE
WILL CONTINUE TO DO HIS PLAN, BUT IT IS ON US TO TAKE ACTION
AND MAKE THAT ASK.
SO I HOPE HE JOINS US.
GO TO
JUSTICEDEMOCRATS.COM/ELLISON TO SIGN THAT PETITION.
UP AND AT
'EM, STOP WASTING MORE TIME LETTING THESE ESTABLISHMENT
DEMOCRATS RUN RACES WHICH THEY HAVE SHOWN OVER AND OVER AGAIN
THAT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO RUN.
THEY SAY UNIFY -- UNIFY BEHIND
WHAT?
AN UNBELIEVABLE RECORD OF FAILURE?
NO, I DON'T UNIFY
BEHIND THE WRONG STRATEGY, THE CLEARLY LOSING STRATEGY.
I DON'T
UNIFY BEHIND FAILURE.
INSTEAD WE WILL BE STRONG, PROGRESSIVE, NOT
HOOKED ON CORPORATE CASH, AND WE WILL FIGHT BACK.
WE WILL FIGHT
AGAINST ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS, AND WE WILL FIGHT REPUBLICANS
AND DESTROY THEM.
JUSTICEDEMOCRATS.COM.