Progressive activist David Hogg said that he will not try to continue his role as vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee after the DNC had called for a redesign of the February elections that increased to the position.
Shortly after the DNC it was announced that it would hold new elections on Thursday for two vice chair positions that are currently held by Hogg and Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta as a result of a procedural challenge, Hogg announced that he would not be a candidate.
The decision comes in the midst of one public spit with the DNC and his chairman, Ken Martin, About the decision of HOGG to support primary challenges for democratic established operators, a spit that ran over the vote, although it was not directly related to the challenge that ultimately led the party to call on a new election.
HOGG made the announcement in a long statement that the Democratic party criticized for a lack of vision and a refusal to pass on the torch to the next generation.
“I came up with this role to play a positive role in creating the change that our party needs. It is clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a vice chairman – and it is great to have disagreements. What is not good is that this is our focus when there are so much more to be focused on the statement.”
“In the end I decided not to run in these upcoming elections, so that the party can concentrate on what really matters. I have to do this work with leaders we earn, and it will remain my number one mission to build the strongest possible party.”
Martin responded to the announcement of HOGG with a short statement in which he praised his work for the party and said, “I appreciate his service as an officer, his hard work and his dedication to the party.”
“I recommend David for his years of activism, organizing and fighting for his generation, and although I continue to believe that he is a powerful voice for this party, I respect his decision to take a step back from his position as vice -chairman. I have no doubt that he will remain an important advocate for Democrats on the map,” said Martin.
HOGG’s decision comes hours after the DNC voted to accept a Recommendation of her reference level that the party has two new vice -chairman elections Because it discovered that the DNC wrongly created an advantage for the two male candidates, Hogg and Kenyatta, because it led the internal elections at the end of a marathon party meeting in February in Washington, DC
On Wednesday evening, the DNC announced that 75% of the votes in a virtual election voted by its members for approving that recommendation, a vote of 294-99. The DNC noted that 89% of his members participated in the virtual elections.
Because DNC rules require equal sex representation in its executive committee, excluding the party chairman, the results of earlier elections in February meant that the DNC had to choose at least one man for the last two vice chairman Slots. But instead of keeping individual voices for each position, one that is fulfilled by a man and one by a candidate of a gender, the party decided to keep a single mood to decide who took the last two slots.
Oklahoma Democratic Commiteewoman Kalyn Free, who ran in vain against Hogg and Kenyatta in the Vice President Race in February, requested the DNC for a Redo, and claimed that the decision to combine the ballot papers was unfair to Hogg and Kenyatta to win.
Although Free’s challenge was submitted well before his public spit with Martin, HOGG approved the decision last month as proof that the party tried to rid him of his title about his support for primary challenges for democratic established operators. Both Martin and Kenyatta disagreed with his framing: Martin blamed a “procedural error” of “before I became chairman” for the episode, and Kenyatta criticized Hogg To distract the work of the party by claiming that the vote came down personal retribution.
After the new election was called, Kenyatta said in a statement that “now that we can almost close this chapter”, adding that he is looking forward to “making my business to DNC members and our party as a whole” in the Snap elections.
“We need a strong democratic party and I hope we come from this stronger and have focused on the work that comes for it,” he said.
With the decision of HOGG to step aside, Kenyatta is assured of winning his vice-president position by the end of the week. The party will effectively replace HOGG with the winner of a subsequent vice-chairman elections among the three candidates who had the last vote for the position in February.
Tensions between HOGG and the party have been brewing for months, since the Activist Telegraphed his decision To support democratic primary challenges through a political group that he started, leaders we earn deserve. HOGG, known as a political activist after he was one of the survivors of the 2018 Mass -Schietpart in Parkland, FloridaIn his statement of Wednesday evening that his mission to push the Democratic party to “a new vision for the future and leaders to bring us there” was the most important to him because he accused Democrats of thinking too small.
“After seeing a serious lack of vision of Democratic leaders, too many of them asleep behind the wheel, and Democrats who die in office who helped to give republicans an extensive majority, it became clear that leaders we earn had to start with the prominent of established operators and immediately challenged our party to help our party’s party in the seniority pole.
Prior to the vote, Polico published a short clip of an internal democratic party call To which Martin took out his frustration with Hogg and said that the fight “in essence has destroyed every chance that I have to show that I have to do that.”
The leak led to a new round of finger pointing, with Prominent DNC members Hogg or his allies From the orchestrate of the leak. Hogg denied that violently and a screenshot published He said he showed his SMS messages with the reporter who published the story.
Even if Hogg had decided to run again and won his chair, Martin said he would do that a neutrality promise for proposals For officers who could have forced HOG to choose between his party role and his role at the external group he founded.
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