Former Secretary of Labor Tom Perez has been elected the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, grabbing the reins of the political wing of the party and emerging as a key figure in the party’s opposition to President Donald Trump’s agenda.
More than 400 party insiders gathered in Atlanta this weekend to cast their ballots after four months of debate. The former Obama appointee now faces many challenges moving forward to rally a party still reeling from defeat and crippled by down-ballot losses across the country over the last decade. Perez has promised to focus on rebuilding local party organizations that many in the party say have been deteriorating over the last eight years as resources and brain-power became concentrated in Washington.
Many in the party’s progressive wing had thrown their support behind Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, expressing their frustration with the status quo of the party. They felt strongly that Ellison better identified with the grassroots movement growing across the country in opposition to Trump.
Perez, who fell one ballot short shy of victory in the first round of voting, immediately appointed Ellison deputy chair of the DNC after it was announced that he had clinched it on the second round of voting.
“I need to tell you folks at the outset: I know that I have more questions than answers,” Perez told the crowd in a victory speech, reaching out to those who opposed his bid. “As a team, we will work together.
“We should all be able to say … the united Democratic Party led the resistance and ensured that this president would be a one-term president,” he continued.
Ellison spoke of the need for the party to unify, too.
Dang. Win for the Clintons.
Well, there goes the Raghead vote.
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Man, I was rooting for Keith X….The memes would have been awesome…plus He would have put the stake through the (cavity where the Heart is on humans) on the dhimmi’s !
Clearly a racist vote right?
Obama couldn’t let Keith win.
It’s a Suni vs Shia thing.
This only happened because the Democrat party leadership hates muslims and black people.
America ain’t gotta chance with this party pandering to everybody and their brother trying to be a “victim” to cash in on the big green gravy train while doing everything in their power to subvert, pervert and undermine this country!
Hopefully Trump can turn off the spigot. Then we’ll see who sticks around to work like an American!
America ain’t gotta chance in this party with them pandering to every victim and their brother.
Hillary Clinton all over this! Ha!
I watched some of the closing speeches of the candidates today. Talk about a clown show.
My favorite was Jamhu Green and her “We’re Democrats, y’all” speech which caught just the right mix of condescension, stupidity, irrational hatred and arrogance that has made the Democratic Party what it is today.
Go to 2:32:46 to watch this amazing spectacle.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?424411-1/tom-perez-elected-new-dnc-chair-keith-ellison-named-deputy-chair&live=&start=9166
Democrats still hiding behind a veil of respectability. Ellison would have ripped off the veil so his defeat was mandatory. Welcome back to the cotton fields my democrat negro friends. Pick that cotton and shut the fuck up while we honkies plan your future.
“More than 400 party insiders gathered in Atlanta this weekend to cast their ballots after four months of debate.”
You’d think with a muslim presence that a suicide vest would have been activated.
It was payback for all the illegal Clinton voters.
Damn. I wanted Ellison.
Guess the left realized he was such a target rich environment, that even they
couldn’t deal with him as head of the dnc Such fun we could have had.
A sad day indeed.
Hillary 2020! The fix is in.
howie dick, debbie dick, tommy dick….new dick, same as the old dick.
White Marxist hate enablers and the Supreme Court justices should be very happy. They now have one of the major political parties in America being run by minorities and which will quickly become a minority-majority party. Apartied impulses can’t be far behind!
This just in: Jill Stein demands a recount!
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Let’s be clear…they are both Democrats so they endorse murder by abortion, strive to disarm us, demand sexual perversions, and they bow to muslim apologists while hating Christians and Jews.
So either one of these bozos is a vote for one of Satan’s minions. Hey Democrats, if you dare to read this, you are NOT a God-fearing Christian.
my vote was for Abdoul Oblo N’gotta. Even still, for a paryt that denied God 3x’s they still wouldnt pick the muslim.
Cheers. The Pot beat the Kettle and WGAF!
I was watching the internet stream another reader provided and was fascinated. I still expect backlash over Donna Brazile’s last-minute change from electronic voting to paper ballots in the first round. I figured it was a nod to hysterical lib claims that the Russians hacked the election. To anyone else who watched on line, did you notice the closed captioning during Jamhu Green’s speech and how her voiced “support for millenials” somehow turned into “support for Palestinians” in the captioning?
That all said in said comments still
Perez is a treasonous pile of crap and
one of Holder’s minions.He belongs on the noose!
Keith Ellison would have been a good pick but I’d really love to see the genius Hank Johnson form Georgia in there instead. Now there’s a smart MOFO!
Get out the 2018 vote and knock them
back on their asses where they belong,
in the mud.
Perez is very boring and monotonic. Good for them.
Yeah, but no matter how fucked up they are, they got the media on their side. I just heard today that CNN will have “mavericks” John McCain and Lindsay Graham on their chat shit over the weekend.
President Trump has only us and a few patriots on his side.
Semper Fi. Stick with it.
Gosh. I really wanted Sally Ihateeveryonenot Brown to win.
Remembering when Perez ran for Maryland Attorney General in 2006 …. thrown off the ballot because he didn’t practice law.
You can’t make this stuff up as the Bern goes apoplectic!
And boy, are some of the Lefties I know on FB (and by that I mean grown men who participated in the P#$$y hat march in NYC) pissed off about this! They’re planning on protesting the DNC! Pass the popcorn!