Reply #61: She is not trustworthy.

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My point - I can't speak for others - is that you can't expect Gore or Kerry to trust her with anything important, given their experiences with her.

Well, let me put that another way. I don't know Gore's experience with her. But if she is trying to get his support in election reform and he is steering clear, I think that says more about Brazile's inability to lead than Gore not being interested in voting reform.

The thing after the election with Kerry was atrocious. Within just a few days of the election, she went publicly in the media attacking him about having money left over. There are a ton of reasons why that happened, and some of the reasons may be campaign mistakes - but others are a) there were primary $ he legally couldn't spend b) a large sum was late donations that frankly, the campaign couldn't turn into action quickly enough. Gore's campaign also had a lot of money left over - and she was Gore's campaign manager. Even if she had a valid point - and there definitely are potential lessons learned there - the way she did it screams "Donna's own agenda" - and the timing was frankly inhuman. Even if it was valid and for some reason needed to be aired publicly, it could have waited. (unless as I speculate upthread, she needed to change the subject) She earned "b*tch" next to her name for all time with me when she did that - and I wasn't even the huge Kerry supporter then that I am now - I just thought it was about the lowest class, most mean-spirited thing a person calling themself a Democrat could do. (she probably helped convert me - she helped me see what Kerry was really up against)

Someone upthread said that she was head of the VRI since shortly after 2000. If this is true, than the debacle of HAVA and the 2004 election is ANOTHER reason and a FULLY SUFFICIENT reason she should be fired from that post - don't you agree?