The passage of California DNC member Christine Pelosi’s anti-corporate money language was a major victory for the party’s left wing, which had been stymied under previous leaders. But not long after, the party’s frustrated progressives were routed in a vote to appoint a new slate of at-large DNC members. Just as controversial were the ousters — characterized in many reports as “purges” — of longtime DNC members who had backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president. He acknowledged that some members — Zogby was one — were informed by lower-level staff members, not him, of their reduced roles. The DNC at-large list was put to a voice vote, with a clear majority of members approving the list, and an attempt to reconsider — which would have taken a two-thirds majority of members — failing even more audibly.

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2017 23:27 UTC