Your feelings on Perez as DNC Chair, Ellison as Deputy Chair?

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How many people in real life (outside Atlas and the internet) give a sh**t about the DNC election results?

A lot of the Democratic activists and professionals that represent the Prog wing in the political firmament, let me tell ya.

The "progressive wing" is happy that a progressive who has spent his life fighting for civil rights and workers' rights is the new DNC chair.

The Bernie Cult is a different thing.

Haha get the f outta here with that crap

If Tom Perez really was a strong progressive why did he run against Leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Keith Ellison?

Uh, because he thought he'd do a better job? It's an election dude. Sorry Ellison didn't get his coronation just because he was the first to announce.

You need to drop your absurd manichean view of the world where every election is a HEROIC PROGRESSIVE vs. an EVIL ESTABLISHMENT SHILL.

It's possible that a chief concern Perez and co had was that Ellison had no experience running a bureaucracy, which Perez did in the Labour dept and which is needed to run the dnc.

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To anyone who has misgivings about Perez, this heartfelt Daily Beast article might assuage your concerns: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/27/my-out-of-bounds-email-to-tom-perez.html

The Daily Beast continues to be the very best like no media ever is or was. You'd have to search far and wide across the land to find a source that better allows one to understand.

Please tell me the pokemon reference was intentional

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For those interested...some leaked (or claims to have leaked) the DNC Chair Ballot voting list showing how each state and member voted in the first and second round:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mi9sac97q6jqf4m/AACsQeUCVB8Fvcl-dubfePKIa?dl=0

Great news! Hopefully they will be systematically targeted by the Bernie wing whenever they're up for reelection.

I hope they're only targeted if Perez does a poor job running the DNC. If he does an excellent job, the people who voted for him shouldn't face punishment for doing a good thing