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Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal (usatoday.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via USA Today: Following the leak of nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, several more staffers are leaving their positions. USA Today reports Amy Dacey, the chief executive officer of the DNC, Luis Miranda, the party's communications director, and Brad Marshall, chief financial officer, are all leaving the DNC. The statement announcing the staff changes praises the outgoing aides and makes no mention of the email issue. "Thanks in part to the hard work of Amy, Luis, and Brad, the Democratic Party has adopted the most progressive platform in history, has put itself in financial position to win in November, and has begun the important work of investing in state party partnerships. I'm so grateful for their commitment to this cause, and I wish them continued success in the next chapter of their career," said Donna Brazile, the party's interim chairwoman. Some of the leaked emails from party staffers depicted officials favoring now-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during their primary campaign.

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  1. Um, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you fire the entire executive staff for rigging a primary, wouldn't it be a good idea to invalidate the results of the primary? Just saying. I mean that would seem prudent.

  2. Keep on insulting, it's all you got by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wait until the RNC completely collapses after the disaster Trump has brought to the party. Now he is saying that the election is going to be rigged. This casts doubt on the entire electoral process in the US. What a scumbag. He needs to quit to save himself from further embarrassment.

    I dunno, looking at the way the DNC violated FEC rules in order to beat Sanders, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they paid to rig the elections.

    Remember those Trump protestors? The ones starting fights at Trump rallies? DNC paid staffers.

    Remember Trump making his hats in China? Complete and total fabrication.

    Remember all the lies, hatred, and general bad mouthing he spews? Mostly made up.

    The Democrats are spewing a deluge of lies and misdirection at Trump, because it's all they got. Trump beats Hillary on pretty-much every political position, and the voters know it.

    Keep with the insults, we need the public to get tired of this and see it for what it really is: the last ditch efforts of a morally bankrupt campaign.

    (Here's a good one that was top news yesterday: Trump having a conversation with the devil. Republicans should totally start throwing insults back at Clinton, because that's what the election is all about!)

  3. Too little, too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wasserman Scultz's "resignation" was smug and facile. She and her cronies had already achieved their mission of handing the nomination to Hillary on a platter. And there was Hillary praising her and promising to reward her and ongoing role.

    Only fit punishment is expulsion from the party and rehosting the convention. To let Hillary keep it is to let her keep stolen goods. Sure, maybe she would have got them anyway, but they weren't Wasserman Scultz's to give to her.

    The whole thing is a disgrace but the DNC elite will make sure Hillary gets to the stolen goods. It's too bad Hillary is only facing Trump because she's so disliked any half-decent Republican would whip her ass in the polls.

    1. Re:Too little, too late by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's too bad Hillary is only facing Trump...

      Yeah, pretty convenient, huh? You'd think it was almost planned that way as part of the tag team with the republicans. To make sure the two worst possible candidates would face each other, and help keep congress from getting too lopsided and preventing the democrats from using republican "obstruction" to break their platform promises (rotating villain). They almost blew it in 2008, but the "blue dogs" saved the day, and they were able to toss a few seats in 2010 to bring it back closer to the 50/50 ratio to keep the gridlock game running right up to today. No, no, it's nothing like that at all, everything was on the up and up, perfectly legitimate. Politics is the most honest business there is.

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