{"id":177605,"date":"2019-08-06T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/06\/never-give-to-the-dnc\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T23:02:00","slug":"never-give-to-the-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/06\/never-give-to-the-dnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Give to the DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are a number of reasons why not to give to the Democratic National Committee: It is ineffective, DNC Chair Tom Perez is clueless, and it is dominated by political consultants who make their money off the revolving door between the committee and private business.<\/div>\n

It doesn’t help that these consultants are over priced and incompetent, otherwise, I would be complaining about President Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

And now we know that the organization is completely unwilling to take even baby steps toward accountability and competence, because they just nixed an internal committee that would review spending and report to the DNC members who theoretically run the organization<\/a>: <\/p>\n

A proposal to bring unprecedented oversight to the way that the Democratic National Committee spends the billion dollars it raises between presidential elections was rejected by the DNC Rules and Bylaw Committee Tuesday, after a spirited debate highlighting that there is no independent oversight reporting back to the DNC\u2019s 450 members. <\/p>\n

The decision did not come without some Rules Committee members saying that the oversight issue was legitimate. But they did not feel that creating a new elected committee to review the DNC\u2019s spending decisions was the best approach. The oversight proposal was the last piece of business from the DNC\u2019s post-2016 Unity Reform Commission recommendations, which sought to heal the party\u2019s internal divides after that cycle. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am disappointed,\u201d said Jim Zogby, a longtime DNC member and Arab-American human rights leader, who noted that Tuesday\u2019s proposal was the latest in a series of efforts to introduce greater transparency and oversight before 2020\u2019s election. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019ve been a DNC member\u2014this is my 27th year. I was an executive committee member for 16 years. The issue of never seeing the budget, never being able as a member to evaluate the budget, sticks in my craw. I think it should stick in the craw of every member of the body,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the ability to know how money is spent, and have some say in it, or, at least, as the [DNC] bylaws call for, to evaluate it, is essential for the governing body of any organization.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

Leone\u2019s last point was referring to the current DNC leadership, under Chair Tom Perez, saying that the party\u2019s spending has been much more transparent and accountable than in previous years. Another objection came from David McDonald, an RBC member from Washington, who said looking retrospectively could distract from current campaigns. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let me get this straight:  We can’t let the members know how the money is spent, because it might distract from us spending our money in stupid ways. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [DNC] chair simply cannot appoint the committee that oversees the finances of the chair and the expenditures that are determined by the chair. That simply makes no sense,\u201d he said. \u201cWe would not get into trouble\u2014and we have had trouble\u2014if the Finance Committee\u2026 [had had] an oversight committee that can do the due diligence and report back to us, \u2018This happened. That happened. This didn\u2019t happen. That didn\u2019t happen. We make these recommendations for the future.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The DNC does not want to know when they do stupid things:  It’s how friends and relatives of current DNC staffers make their money, spending on stupid sh%$, and then getting a percentage of their ineffectual advertisement buys.<\/p>\n

Corruption is the goal, not an accidental byproduct of incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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