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In reply to the discussion: Ellison no lock for DNC chair [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)In the other thread I objected to your projection of a world of shit onto me. You insisted I controlled the party and went into a long rant about Bill Clinton and the 1990s, without as much as asking me where I stood on any of those issues. You have no idea who I voted for in previous primaries (hint: none of them were Clintons), and you didn't care to ask. Then in the following post you accused me of attacking Sanders and his supporters when I said nothing of the kind nor thought it. At that point i quit reading.
I don't care who you or anyone else supported in the primary. That contest has been settled for months. What I think is unfortunate is that the DNC election has reignited those divisions. On that I do fault Sanders, not for nominating Ellison, whom I like very much (he is my congressman after all), but for Sanders continued divisive comments following the election. My suspicion is that we might not have seen the party people mentioned in the piece above stake out the positions they did absent Sanders' post-election recriminations.
Because of your recent posts to me, I did assume that your support of Ellison related to his endorsement by Sanders. Am I wrong about that?
Harrison has been going to state party committees and making his case for his election as DNC Chair. I read in a newspaper article that he was in recently in Texas at the same event Ellison attended. That certainly looks like a formal candidacy to me. He also has Jim Clyburn's endorsement, which used to carry a great deal of weight in the party (eg. Obama in 2008).