Being thrown off or deserting the sinking ship of state…
The DNC has seen plenty of drama, as we’ve been covering, given that DNC vice chairman David Hogg is not only out, but revealed he isn’t running again when it comes for the revote that was scheduled. He’s out for good, after serving in the role for just four months. He’s not the only one who is out, though. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), sent a letter to DNC Chairman Ken Martin indicating she would not accept a reappointment as a DNC member.
As Weingarten mentioned in her letter, she has attended every DNC as a delegate since 1992, has been an at-large member since 2002, and served on their Rules and Bylaws Committee since 2009. It’s her issues with current leadership, though, that has her wanting out.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
It’s no surprise to me that Hogg got thrown overboard. When your ‘plank’ is to go after sitting congresscritters, that’s NOT going to win you any points…
Weingarten has been on the wrong side of many things since 2019, not the least of which was the WuFlu vs. schools issue. She’s been trying to deny her participation in that whole CF, but people are bringing receipts, videos, and posts from various media.
Personally, I think this is her trying to ‘distance’ herself from the next set of failures and any blame as she tries to hang on to her seat at the AFT (and the salary of over over $560,000 that goes with it).
She’s lost the DEI ‘mandate’, losing in a number of states on charter schools, and contract talks (like Chiraq) are not going in her or the union’s favor. When you add in the loss of ‘required’ donations to unions, that is cutting into the amounts of $$$ that the union has to ‘buy’ influence.
I just wonder how long she can dodge the reckoning she has coming…
Like the rat she is, jumping from the ship requires swimming. With that swimming is the knowledge other rats will climb onto her head to avoid drowning.
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Hey Old NFO;
Also it is a signal of the coming Civil War between the Donks, between the labor donks and the activist donks. The progressive donks don’t like the labor donks, blue collar, loud, vulger…you know…”Common and uneducated”, where the progressives are university educated and “refined” that is the direction that the democrats are wanting to go, become the party of the technocrats and the elitist and cast off the chains of the labor unions that are holding them back. That is the progressive thinking anyway…and if they need street muscle, they have all those antifa and black bloc college students that will fight the ground war for them.
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My wife is nearing retirement and works for the state . She is in one of the bigger ones (union) . The monthly newsletter is trash (and that is where it goes, unread) . About 75% of her coworkers are union members , the dues aren’t much . The meetings have low attendance , and most are disinterested and join the union just to not stand out . And , nobody knows who you vote for when you close that curtain at the polls , damn near all vote Republican . YMMV.
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I mean, I could infer that Harris and Walz were not really so highly regarded by insiders as to be a certainty for 2028.
Yet it remains a bit interesting to see confirmation of how short term some of the insider claims about leadership truly were.
I wonder how long it is before we see a serious attempt at a third party? We’ve seen lots of signs of fracture over the last 20 years, and we are unusual among democracies in having only two major parties.
(The Greens and Libertarians don’t count!).
I can easily see the Democrats splitting back into Labor and Progressive parties (actual content, regardless of official names).
The death knell was when they demanded conformity across the board and not only on a few major issues – they lost their election winning “big tent” philosophy.
Thank G-d and Greyhound she’s gone.
The ship is sunk.
Hogg, what a revolting little lib opportunist. And now they’ve kicked him out. Oh well.