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It is beyond critical that the entire country - not just Floridians - throw the full weight of their support behind Canova in whatever form they can. It may not be enough to prevent yet another episode of vote tampering, but it will at the very least help to expose the US Democratic process for the

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How We Respond to the DNC Purge

By Tim Canova — Candidate for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District

I was dismayed by the recent news that the Democratic National Committee has ousted a number of long-time supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders from the DNC. In what looks like a purge of the progressive wing of the party, DNC chair Tom Perez has stripped several Bernie supporters of their “at-large” delegate status and leadership positions in the party. Also removed were several party officials loyal to Congressman Keith Ellison, Bernie’s choice to lead the DNC, who accepted a DNC vice chair position earlier this year in the interests of party unity. Perez replaced these progressives with veterans of Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign and with corporate lobbyists — a reminder of why last year I first decided to challenge Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who as DNC chair had reversed President Obama’s ban on corporate lobbyist donations to the DNC. This is exactly what’s gone wrong with the Democratic Party and why so many of us are fighting back — to reclaim the party from corporate interests and to restore it to its New Deal progressive values and programs.

Among those who were purged from DNC positions: Ray Buckley, the New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman and longtime DNC official who ran against Perez for chair before backing Ellison in the DNC chair race. Buckley was removed from the DNC Executive Committee and Rules Committee. James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute and long-time supporter of Bernie Sanders. Zogby was removed as co-chair of the Resolutions Committee and the Executive Committee. Alice Germond, the DNC’s longtime former secretary and Ellison backer. Germond was removed from her at-large appointment to the DNC. Barbra Casbar Siperstein, who supported Ellison and Buckley in the DNC chair race, and was removed from the Executive Committee. Perez replaced these progressives with more than a dozen corporate lobbyists, including Joanne Dowdell, a lobbyist for Fox News, and Manuel Ortiz, a lobbyist for CITGO Petroleum Corp. Incredibly, as if to add insult to injury, Perez appointed Donna Brazile as a DNC delegate and to the Rules and Bylaws Committee. This is the same Donna Brazile who, when working for CNN just last year, leaked debate questions to the Hillary Clinton campaign to try to give Hillary an unfair advantage over Bernie in the 2016 presidential nominating contest. Brazile then went from CNN to replace Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair until Perez was installed.

Some progressives have suggested that this purge is intended to divide the party. Why else appoint someone as controversial as Brazile, and on the eve of the DNC’s Unity Commission meetings in Las Vegas. That the purpose of this purge is to fuel a so-called DemExit and drive progressives out of the Democratic Party. Although the party would be smaller and weaker, this would also make it easier for the corporate Democratic establishment to control the party’s rules and choice of nominees for offices all across the country. Let’s not take the bait by giving up on our efforts to reclaim the Democratic Party. Now is the time to fight back! Defeating the notorious Debbie Wasserman Schultz would send the loudest and clearest signal that “we the people” cannot be purged, that we are strong in numbers and unified in our vision, and that we will overcome all of their obstacles. Let us channel our righteous indignation into the constructive work ahead.

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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and The 2016 DNC Primaries: What Happened

(by Kim LaCapria)

FROM SNOPES: Issues of dispute regarding the content of the leaks were legion. Unquestionably, the e-mails demonstrated that the DNC operated as an arm of the Hillary Clinton campaign, planting information in the media to flatter Clinton and damage opponent Bernie Sanders.

Immediately, social media users seized upon what were perceived as particularly worrisome e-mails among the 20,000 released. Among them were communications heavily suggesting favor to the Clinton campaign, evidence of story-planting in concert with media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Politico, an April 2016 drafted announcement proclaiming Sanders’ ostensible exit from the race, and a suggestion from DNC CFO Brad Marshall that a member of the press be tapped to smear Bernie Sanders on his religious beliefs. Media watchdog Fair.org summarized the #DNCLeaks aftermath in a compendium piece, surmising:

“While it’s impossible to know whether systemic pro-Hillary Clinton bias at the DNC was decisive in the 2016 Democratic primary race, we now know beyond any doubt that such a bias not only existed, but was endemic and widespread. DNC officials worked to plant pro-Clinton stories, floated the idea of using Sanders’ secular Judaism against him in the South, and routinely ran PR spin for Clinton, even as the DNC claimed over and over it was neutral in the primary. The evidence in the leaks was so clear that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned her role as DNC chair—after her speaking role at the Democratic National Convention this week was scrapped—while DNC co-chair Donna Brazile, who is replacing Wasserman Schultz in the top role, has apologized to the Sanders camp.”

Pro-Clinton pundits were quick to dismiss what was literally a conspiracy to railroad the Sanders campaign as nothing more than a yawn … what was once dismissed out of hand—that the DNC was actively working against the Sanders campaign—is now obviously true, but not a big deal. This is a textbook PR spin pattern seen time and time again, what might be called the Snowden Cycle: X is a flaky conspiracy theory → X is revealed to be true → X is totally obvious and not newsworthy.

On 24 July 2016, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted on the eve of the convention and was invited to a purely symbolic role with the Clinton campaign.

On 24 July 2016, Politico acknowledged collusion between staffer Ken Vogel and the campaign on a piece prior to its submission to editors. The same outlet reported that Marshall apologized for his pitching of a religious smear. Alongside Wasserman Schultz’s ouster and an apology to the Sanders campaign by Donna Brazile, the discrete developments were widely viewed as indirect confirmation the leaked e-mails were authentic.

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Tim Canova: “Establishment Democrats Seems To Be Insane!” I’m with Tim Canova about the insanity of the Democratic Party. But the ugly truth here is there’s no end to insanity of the corrupt culture that exists within the Democratic Party. It’s worse when the hardcore establishment supporters don’t care how the Democratic Party has become as long as Democrats beat Republicans. If we expect a better future. Then the corrupt insanity needs to end. Even if it means supporting a 3rd party in a time the Democrats are failing us.