TownHall- In an attempt to rejuvenate the beleaguered Democratic party, DNC national chairman Tom Perez announced $10 million for state parties in hopes that the surge of cash would help rebuild the party after embarrassing 2016 losses across the board against the GOP. Yet, many state leaders are now worried that that money is never going to actually come, reports Vice News.
“What our fear is, is that no matter how high this wave is in 2018, that we won’t have the ability to take advantage of that and win governors races, congressional races, and state legislative races that would normally be out of reach but could be competitive,” Ray Buckley, New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman, told VICE News.
Democrats, who are hoping for a blue wave in response to Anti-Trump sentiment across the country, have struggled continuously with fundraising efforts since he end of 2016. As noted by Vice, the Democrat party did not even have $10 million on hand last November 30th. They had a measly $6.4 million compared to the GOP’s $39.8 million cash.
To make matters worse, according to Vice’s sources, DNC Chairman Perez hates his role. “Tom is just really miserable in the job, which is part of why it’s not going well,” said one Democratic official who has worked with Perez. “He hates the fundraising and says no to so much of the fundraising even though they are obviously not in good shape financially.”
“Clearly Tom inherited a shithole, not just in fundraising but in terms of morale as well,” Ken Martin, head of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and of the Association of State Democratic Chairs, told Vice. read more
Why should Democrats give each state party the $10million when they could fund the ‘dreamers’ directly? Those are their real constituents going forward.
If the DNC had money, Clinton would not have had to bail them out in exchange for buying the nomination.
Everyone knows what happened. Why give them anymore money?
Exit question: Why would Hillary’s DNC influence end? They had an agreement that she had final say on expenditures.
Did it have a sunset clause?
They may be close to being broke but they have the national and most local news media to make up the difference. Hard to put a price on that advantage.
This is setting the stage for Keith Ellison’s takeover of the DNC.
They’re still trying to find instructions in the dem party manual that descibes how to give rather than take.
Clinton Foundation has plenty of money.
I’m pretty sure they’ll share….
💩💩🐖🐖 DEMS are pigs . I hope people wake up and kick them all from office
chump change for the Clinton cartel. Just steal some back.