Oh, Donna, oh, Donna, — Update

Politico – Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC – When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.  By DONNA BRAZILE, November 02, 2017.

I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested.  …
So I followed the money. …

Others, myself included, had followed the money months before Ms. Brazile claims to have wandered down that path.  Of course, we were limited to inspecting public FEC filings and had no access to DNC internal records.  Thus, we had to engage in some dot connecting.  Still —

There are several money trails into and out of the HVF which may have led to much of the confusion or inability to grasp the totality of what’s going on with the it.  Some of it is perfectly legal, some questionable, and some illegal.  The HVF, state parties, and DNC have some easy and ready-made explanation when questioned, …

Nor did it escape our attention that during his tenure as POTUS, particularly after 2012, Obama either had little interest in being more than the nominal leader of the party and therefore, the DNC or had willingly ceded the reins to team Clinton.  That “dot” easily connected to the 2016 Democratic primary debate schedule and the September HFA, DNC, and state Democratic parties joint fundraising agreement that wasn’t publicly disclosed and was only began to be discovered by Margot Kidder in April 2016.  Something a crack political journalist would have been on months earlier.  Alas, they are all too important to do that sort of grunt work.

Yet, the vice-chair of the DNC, Donna Brazile, was totally out of the loop until July 24, 2016 when she became interim chairperson of the DNC.   When she managed to get “in the loop,” her heart broke as she made her secret phone call to Bernie Sanders a few weeks before the election and now over a year later wants others to know about.

Perhaps one characteristic of Brazile that differentiates her from other political operative pros — and has made it difficult for me over the years to be too harshly critical of her — is that at certain points in time, she does somewhat come clean.  Sometimes because she’s in a box and there are no other good alternatives and sometimes without any pressure.  Did she make a promise to Sanders during that secret phone call that someday she would reveal what she knew?  If Hillary had won, that “someday” would still be in the future and not today.

So, thanks, Donna for sharing, even if it’s days late and dollars short.    

A big tell from Donna: I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails.
Pity Tour – May 31, 2017 – NYPost

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“So I’m now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party,” Clinton said. “I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong…I had to inject money into it…To keep it going.”

Clinton claimed that Republicans, on the other hand, had been funneling money into President Trump’s campaign.

“So Trump becomes the nominee and he is basically handed this tried and true, effective foundation,” she said.

Tres riche given the real facts as to when her campaign team took over the DNC.

Oops – February 27, 2014 – NPR – Clintons Provide Firepower Behind DNC ‘Voter Expansion Project’ (IOW the Clintons were instrumental in the DP 2014 midterm election strategy.)

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At a briefing for reporters, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said: “We are not just going to be on defense anymore. The DNC is going to dominate offense. We are focused on expanding the map…

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Starting much earlier in the election year on boosting turnout and voter protection is a big part of the plan, DNC officials said.

“Voter protection has gone from being a bunch of lawyers suing on Election Day to more proactive,” said Pratt Wiley, the DNC’s voter protection director. “It’s gone from being a legal strategy to an organizing strategy.”

UPDATE

About time!