I’m not surprised:
DNC chair roasts vice chair David Hogg over plans to dump $20M into back insurgent primary candidate
Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin publicly rebuked DNC vice chair David Hogg Thursday over his plans to dump $20 million into backing insurgent primary candidates despite being a leader of the party apparatus.
“Let me be clear. No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election on behalf of an incumbent or challenger,” Martin, 51, told DNC members during a call.
“If you want to challenge incumbents, you can do that. Just not as an officer of the DNC.”
Hogg is not very bright.
I’m looking forward to the time he is fired from this job. I hope he ends up with a long career as a toilet cleaner.
I actually hope he keeps this job for a while.
Not only is it amusing as hell, his presence — let alone his rhetoric — is causing so much infighting within the Democrat Party that they might have some trouble winning elections. He’s literally talking about primary-ing solid Democrat incumbents in safe seats! The DNC is going to have to spend resources defending seats they already control! What will they have left come the general election against the GOP candidates?
That’s often what happens when a single-issue personality takes the reins of power for a group that mostly doesn’t care about that pet issue, but in this case it could work well for our side for a while.
Oh, they’ll eventually kick him out, at which point he’s welcome to become the first Harvard-educated porta-potty scrubber in America (given Harvard’s self-inflicted damage to their reputation, I’m sure he won’t be the last), and good riddance to him.
Mr Hogg strikes me as one of those people who has a heightened sense of his own invulnerability, capability and importance. Along with strong hubris and no discernable humility. They keep doing nuttier, or more awful, things until, finally, they cross a threshold and get called to account.
Sometimes that’s by an individual (“You’re fired, clean out your desk”), sometimes by a group (“you lost the election”), sometimes by natural selection (“well, he tried to pet a bison…”)*. Mostly when it happens there’s a sigh of relief. Sometimes there’s cheering, with the occasional pointing and laughing.
In this particular case I am with Archer, and wish Mr Hogg a long career doing just what he’s doing. And who knows – if he succeeds, it might … clarify … matters for some fence-sitters.
* We had a local instance where an idiot jogger tried to scare a baby bear off a trail, without knowing where Mama was. Then, after he got mauled, he stood up immediately when Mama turned away, only to get another “And stay down!” from Mama. There was a search for Mama, but that declined severely in enthusiasm after said idiot finally told the full story.
I saw an article about Hogg a day or two ago, perhaps in the WSJ, perhaps online, I forgot. It mentions he’s not much of a fundraiser; he has a PAC that raised $11 million but only $250k went to support candidates, well over $10 million went to PAC expenses including his salary as CEO of the PAC.
Sounds like a scam to me, which of course is no surprise from Pillow Boy.
The Party always has need for ‘Useful Idiots’. Once he’s onstage and in the limelight, He’s gonna bounce around the DC scene for years.
You don’t have to be bright to be useful as a leftist. You only need to be able to get media attention. Something Pigg has so far been pretty good at.