Well, this is embarrassing for Iowa.
Courtesy of NBC News:
Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez is calling on Iowa Democratic officials to immediately recanvass Monday’s caucus vote after days of uncertainty and growing concerns about “inconsistencies” found in the data.
“Enough is enough,” Perez said in a tweet. “In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.”
A recanvass is essentially a double-checking of the vote. Iowa officials would have to hand audit the caucus worksheets and reporting forms to ensure that they were correctly calculated and reported.
In a statement released later on Thursday, Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price did not address the request from Perez and instead said that the party would take on a recanvass if any of the presidential campaigns request it.
I think Tom Perez is a terrible DNC Chair and I disgree with him on a lot of his tactics, but he is not wrong here.
This whole caucus was a huge shit show and Iowa needs to fix it and do away with it going forward.
And I think that every other state that still uses this antiquated method, including Alaska, needs to follow suit.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-bloomberg-is-paying-influencers-to-make-him-seem-cool-9?ref=home
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/emoluments-lawsuit-trump/index.html
Appeals court tosses Democrats’ emoluments lawsuit against Trump
Counting votes by hand is EXACTLY what the Iowa Democratic Party IS DOING RIGHT NOW.
JHC.
Well this is interesting concerning the DNC under Tom Perez’ leadership – he’s “leading with his values” again:
Bloomberg Surrogates Have Seats on DNC Rules Committees
https://readsludge.com/2020/02/05/bloomberg-surrogates-have-seats-on-dnc-rules-committees/
The point here is, albeit yikes to say so, is the dems have nothing to counteract Trump. Nothing. Maybe why there’s so many trolls here poking fun. Just my opinion……I’ve had enough myself.
It isn’t trolling when it is just saying the truth.
Yes, if the Democrats want to win they need someone who can provide a logical counteract to Trump.
Thank you for christs sake, hard to find a realism here these days.
Precious Joe Biden didn’t even make the top three and surprise surprise Tom Perez is sticking is nose in Iowa’s business and telling them what he wants done. Let me guess. He isn’t going to let up until Biden is #1. The DNC learned nothing from 2016 and they are continuing their loser policies of the last decade and doubling down. This is how they alienated people and they’re continuing down that road.
Now would could have seen this coming under Tom Perez’ watch.
(told you so.)
Democrats want to dump Tom Perez. (What took you so long?)
https://news.yahoo.com/furious-democrats-call-tom-perezs-000500652.html?guccounter=1
“Apparent attempts by Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez to absolve himself of responsibility over the Iowa caucus fiasco have sparked many in the party to begin calling for his resignation. “It’s a lack of leadership,” Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) told The Hill in an interview Friday. “If you have the Iowa situation you don’t throw them under the bus, you stand up and you support and you try to fix it. He doesn’t lead on anything.”
Party insiders have been particularly rankled by Perez’s treatment of Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price, who has publicly taken heat over the scandal that resulted from a failed app on election night and a week’s worth of confusion over the winner. Perez took three days after the Iowa debacle to speak publicly about the caucuses, Politico reports, after having failed to appear alongside Price during an initial public address. “Loads of state party chairs are pissed that [Perez] would treat one of their peers like this,” one state party official told Politico.”
And keep in mind, Perez made his public announcements without talking to or consulting the Iowa chair.
Perez has pretty much been a disaster from the beginning. The way he was elected and the purge that came after, alienating even more progressive Democrats. Well, Bernie is back, plus AOC and Warren. Time for Perez to resign.
https://prospect.org/politics/tom-perez-should-resign-dnc/
“Tom Perez should never have been DNC chair. He was used as part of a proxy war between Barack Obama’s faction of the establishment and the rest of the party, which was fully ready to move on after the 2016 mess. Both Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer had embraced Keith Ellison, one of Bernie Sanders’s top surrogates in 2016, for the position, a show of unity that might have helped rebuild broken bonds within the party. Just as Howard Dean’s elevation to DNC chair in 2005 brought insurgents within a broader circle of power, Ellison’s victory would have at least attempted a rough union between the Sanders and Clinton forces, and given the party’s left wing more of a shot at creating a strong and legitimate message to counter Donald Trump.”
“Perhaps the most damning example of the establishment looking out for itself was revealed last month, when Buzzfeed reported that the DNC had secretly approved golden parachutes for Perez and two top lieutenants. Once the story leaked, Perez had to set those parachutes adrift. But the incident made clear Perez’s real fallback plan in case Bernie Sanders won the nomination: getting paid.”