The vice president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC), David Hogg, criticized on Monday the decision of the Credential Committee to raise a procedural challenge to his leadership position as the “first steps to get me out of my position.
“While this vote was based on how the DNC made the elections of its officers, which had nothing to do, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party that was coming about this vote,” said Hogg, while describing a country “in crisis” and a “behind the wheel” Democratic party.
“I ran to be DNC vice president to help the Democratic Party better, not to defend a indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost all demographic groups to move away from us. The DNC beam pled Leadership of vice presidents.
Kalyn Free, an activist of the Democratic Party for a long time, He filed a complaint After the election of officers of February 1, DNCS, in which Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta were chosen vice presidents. Free alleged in his complaint that the DNC tabulation method violated the provision of the letter and the parliamentary procedure and “discriminated against three women candidates of color.”
David Hogg faces the challenge to DNC’s role as party tensions increase
DNC Malcolm Kenyatta vice presidents, on the left, and David Hogg could lose their leadership positions after a procedure error. (Getty images)
“I am disappointed to know that before becoming president, there was an error of procedure in the elections of the February vice president. The credential committee has issued its recommendation, and I trust that the DNC members review Tholful Theitte DNC Ken Martin in a statement after the credential vote.
The vice president of the Democrats obtains the ultimatum: Stay neutral in the primary or resignation of the party leadership
The Credential Committee discovered on Monday that the February 1 elections violated the parliamentary procedure and voted to compromise the DNC a new election for the two vice president positions currently held by Kenyatta and Hogg. The complete DNC now will have the opportunity to vote, and if approved, it will carry out a re -election.
A vice president can be occupied by a man and another can be a candidate of any kind, according to the DNC. If the DNC continues with a revote, only the candidates who were eligible for the third duration of the electoral ballot on February 1 will qualify, which includes Kenyatta, Hogg, Free, Jeanna Revass and Shasti Conrad.
Democratic activist David Hogg, 25, was elected Vice President of the DNC in February. (Reuters/Emily Elconin)
While Free complaint appeared before Hogg awakened the DNC division for his brutal plan to the primary headlines in the deep blue districts, the consequences are the last blow to the young democratic leader. Hogg promised to donate $ 20 million through its Political Action Committee, leaders that we deserve, to a primary challenge to some older Democrats in the blue districts.
Shortly after, Martin said that the DNC would remain neutral in intra -party primaries, giving Hogg the ultimatum to rescind his position as vice president or give up his political influence through his PAC. Now, Hogg is framing the DNC vote as an accelerated plan to eliminate it as vice president.
But DNC officials, past and present, said the procedural vote has nothing to do with Hogg personally.
The DNC held the officers’ elections on February 1. The former DNC president Jaime Harrison, on the left, is seen holding the current DNC president Ken Martin, to the right. (Photo AP)
“It’s not about David Hogg, despite what he is saying. It is the gender balance … It is in the rules that officers must be balanced between men and women. The complete DNC can now vote again. If they like what it was that it was that it was that it was great, Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about their intentions was the first time they voted before.
An additional DNC official added in a statement to Fox News Digital that “or Hogg is wrong and cheated members or believe that he is doing the right thing. In any case, it will be established. And he cannot complain. A vote again does not force him to leave, there are other ways to do it if they choose it.”
Kenyatta, in a series of publications on social networks, said that “any reporter who covers this as a remuneration of the party against David is full of S —-. It is unfortunate, since I think we both won fairly and there is no charge that we would act incorrectly.”
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“However, any story about this that carefully placed this in a narrative about David Hogg is wrong. I worked in this role in this role and I have done the job every day since I will be herd. This story is not. Freststrate thought that he clearly nicknamed him,” Kenyatta said in a jab to his partner vice president facing a possible re -election.
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