• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “You can’t fire me, I quit!”

    Is basically all this is…

    Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year, Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Mr. Martin subsequently removed Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committe , a powerful body that sets the calendar and process for the Democratic Party’s presidential nominating process.

    In her resignation letter, dated June 5 and obtained on Sunday evening, Ms. Weingarten wrote that she would decline Mr. Martin’s offer to reappoint her to the broader national committee, on which she has served since 2002. She had been on the Rules and Bylaws committee since 2009.

    Like, this is one of the super delegates who pledged Hillary in 08 after Obama won the primary.

    That’s not even getting into how she’s a self described Zionist, and spends a lot of time talking about how both sides are responsible for one side getting genocided for decades as an American labor union leader… Not sure what the connection there is.

    But good to see billionaire media framing her as a fucking victim.

    Quick edit:

    Ms. Weingarten from the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee

    So…

    The ones who didn’t follow the DNC election rules for the vice chair elections that just had to be re-done?

    https://democrats.org/news/dnc-rules-and-bylaws-committee-votes-to-recommend-2025-rules-of-procedure-for-election-of-dnc-officers/

    Gee, I wonder why she was let go…

    Good to see Martin cleaning house and fixing it so it doesn’t happen again.