Several top staffers at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats' main campaign arm, are now out of jobs because of complaints from the Left that the committee wasn't diverse enough.
Here's how Politico breaks it down: First, the DCCC's now-former executive director, Allison Jaslow, "resigned during a tense meeting at the party’s Capitol Hill headquarters" on Monday morning; then more heads started to roll.
By the end of the day, the campaign arm had lost not only its executive director, but its communications director, a top communications aide, its political director, its deputy executive director, and its director of diversity.
In the interim, the committee's COO, Jacqui Newman, has stepped in as acting executive director to both lead the remaining staff and help search for a permanent replacement.
“Today has been a sobering day filled with tough conversations that too often we avoid," Committee Chair Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., said. "But I can say confidently that we are taking the first steps toward putting the DCCC back on path to protect and expand our majority, with a staff that truly reflects the diversity of our Democratic caucus and our party."
The staff shuffle was in response to complaints from high-ranking Democratic lawmakers that Bustos and her team hadn't done enough to foster a diverse enough workforce. On Friday, Jaslow reportedly cried at a heated meeting at headquarters while taking responsibility for the matter. Bustos even had to make an emergency trip to her district over fallout from the complaints.
"The DCCC is now in complete chaos," Texas Democrats Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela said in a joint statement Sunday. "The single most immediate action that Cheri Bustos can take to restore confidence in the organization and to promote diversity is to appoint a qualified person of color, of which there are many, as executive director at once."
It would appear that Gonzalez, Vela, and those in their camp are now going to get their wish.
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Biden's speech began with him saying, 'I don't feel tired. I feel inspired,' but his many mistakes say otherwise.
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REACTION to Joe Biden’s speech addressing Trump’s near assassination – 'It was a campaign speech from the Oval Office'
Donald’s Trump’s almost assassination is undoubtedly “one of the singular most incredible things that any of us will ever witness,” says Stu Burguiere.
And yet, President Biden has treated his address as if it were “a campaign speech from the Oval Office.”
Stu is disgusted by Biden’s framing — that both sides need to “lower the temperature.”
“This isn't a situation where the right needs to lower its temperature,” he condemns, pointing to the reality that the Republican “candidate in this race almost got his head blown off.”
Biden Address and Trump Rally Shooting: Stu's Live Analysisyoutu.be
If anyone needs to “lower the temperature,” according to Stu, it’s the left.
The temperature was “raised intentionally by the left” when it realized its campaign was “falling apart” due to Biden being “a giant failure,” he explains.
“He is too old, and he [is] desperate, and when a candidate gets desperate, they ... start grasping for straws; the straw they picked out was: What if we turn on the temperature on Donald Trump?” he says, pointing to Biden’s comment on a recent donor call during which he said, “We have to put the bullseye on Trump.”
While Stu doesn’t think Biden’s bullseye comment is necessarily what inspired the shooter at Trump’s rally, he does think that Democrats were attempting to “distract people away from their own problems” by denigrating Trump, especially when they started “intentionally comparing him to Hitler,” which ultimately culminated into Trump escaping within a literal inch of his life.
Stu’s biggest criticism, however, is Biden’s “disgusting” decision to include a “laundry list” of examples of unacceptable political violence — all of which were pointed at the right.
He mentioned “violence against elected officials on January 6th,” “a former Speaker of the House’s husband getting beat up in his house” (a reference to the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband), “officials ... being harassed after the election because of election fraud,” and “the governor who was almost kidnapped” (a reference to the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer).
“This dirt bag ... gave a both-sides setup and then gave all examples of things that he deemed right-wing,” criticizes Stu, adding that Biden failed to mention the “10% of elected Republicans [who] were almost murdered on a baseball field,” “[Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh almost having his life taken by a person trying to kill him,” “the George Floyd riots,” and “Antifa violence.”
“This is a man who cares far more about his own campaign than he does the country and keeping it together,” he says.
To hear more of Stu’s analysis, watch the video above.
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