Did the DNC take any actions to diminish Sander's chances?

[One Brow]

I have read about the email/voice mails from the DNC. So far, I have not heard of anything. It seems to have been venting about an non-Democrat (until November 2015, at any rate) trying to secure the Democratic nomination.

 

[Eminence]

Directly against Sanders? Not that I've seen. The sketchiest thing I've heard of is the Clooney fundraising stuff where it was supposed to go to local parties, but something like 95+% went back to Clinton. Effectively raising the individual donation amount from like 5,000 to 350,000 or so.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/dnc-leak-shows-mechanics-of-a-slanted-campaign-w430814

 

[moevillini]

Seems from some stuff I've read that Debbie W-S has a bit of The Donald in her personality. I'll try to find the links and add them in. To me it seems she was trying to be (and almost becoming) a one-man (woman) show.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i4Z7Wcd6Nw&feature=youtu.be

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

The unity the last two nights at the DNC was amazing. Somehow they got everyone to fall in line as soon as Bernie conceded. I wonder how they accomplished that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06R-6s3NSRc

 

[Stoked]

I found lot's of humor in Wasserman-Schultz's shot at Reince Priebus on twitter about the RNC.

Basically she said that she was in Cleveland and asked if the RNC needed another chair to help retore order to the RNC...

Then fast forward a week and she has resigned under pressure and plenty of discord in the DNC.

 

[moevillini]

Seems from some stuff I've read that Debbie W-S has a bit of The Donald in her personality. I'll try to find the links and add them in. To me it seems she was trying to be (and almost becoming) a one-man (woman) show.

found some links
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-debbie-wasserman-schultz-226352

Democratic National Committee staff had sent the chair to the vice president armed with four specific requests for getting him involved in raising money for the party.

She decided to scrap them for two of her own.

First, she asked Biden to do a fundraiser for her own reelection to her House seat in Florida in the primary challenge she’s facing next month. He agreed.

The second was to get down to Boca Raton for the bat mitzvah.

Biden’s staff balked. They offered to tape a video message from him instead, hoping that would satisfy her.

Wasserman Schultz eagerly said yes. They played it for everyone who came.

The meeting with Biden was symptomatic of the way the DNC was veering off the rails just as the presidential election was heating up. More than a dozen people inside the party apparatus, speaking in the wake of Wasserman Schultz’s resignation on Sunday, describe an internal culture in which few felt they could challenge an increasingly imperious and politically tone-deaf chair who often put her own interests ahead of party functions.

A decision about how much money to transfer to state parties that was supposed to be made in consultation with DNC officers was made unilaterally by Wasserman Schultz, and without warning, angering top brass.

The other DNC officers, directly aware of many of the problems and told by staff about others, were constantly talking to one another about what was going wrong and how to get around a chair who was adamant that she would stay through the end of her term in January.

“In the last eight weeks, there was a growing sense that it just wasn’t going to work, and it was only a matter of time,” one officer said.

Frustration within the DNC, the White House and the Clinton campaign was exacerbated by Wasserman Schultz’s efforts to raise her own profile by appearing more often on national television.

Luis Miranda, the communications director whom Wasserman Schultz hired last September, pitched her hard in their interview on how he would get her on TV more often. He got the job over two candidates who were recommended by the Clinton campaign...

the article details a number of specific instances where she did what wanted rather than following what party officials had instructed her to do

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/the-decline-and-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz-explained/

...Wasserman Schultz, from the jump, seemed dead set on using the perch to promote her own political interests rather than put what was best for Obama first.

Even some of Wasserman Schultz's harshest critics acknowledge that part of that problem was structural: She was in elected office while also serving as the party chair. She was looking to move up the ladder in House leadership and saw the DNC job as a way to do that. Period....

...But, Wasserman Schultz's emphasis on her own political future — and the need to make sure she was front and center when it came to media attention and interviews — rubbed lots and lots of people the wrong way.

"She ignored infrastructure, instead focusing on why she wasn't getting more media hits," noted a longtime Democratic strategist familiar with the inner workings of the party committee. "
"Fundraising was anemic."

What everyone agrees on is that Wasserman Schultz suffered a series of self-inflicted wounds as chair. There was the time she broke with the White House about deporting children detained at the border. The time she said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had given women "the back of his hand." Story after story about how she was feathering her own political nest first and then worrying about Obama and the broader party second — or not at all. How she found herself on the wrong side of Bernie Sanders and the party's liberal base...