{"id":290546,"date":"2017-01-18T06:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-dnc-hands-the-democratic-party-over-to-david-brock-and-billionaire-donors\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:29:05","slug":"the-dnc-hands-the-democratic-party-over-to-david-brock-and-billionaire-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-dnc-hands-the-democratic-party-over-to-david-brock-and-billionaire-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"The DNC Hands the Democratic Party Over to David Brock and Billionaire Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_89425\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89425\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/6269797026_7936c8edc9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0\" width=\"510\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/6269797026_7936c8edc9_z.jpg 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/6269797026_7936c8edc9_z-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Photo by DonkeyHotey | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0establishment has responded to Hillary Clinton\u2019s election loss the same way they would have responded had Hillary Clinton won, by changing absolutely nothing.\u00a0Clinton\u2019s\u00a0overt embrace of wealthy donors and establishment figures from both political parties repelled thousands of voters toward third parties, voting for Trump, or apathy.<\/p>\n<p>This trend embodied by Clinton\u2019s candidacy has resulted in\u00a0Democrats\u00a0losing over 900 state legislature seats and failing to recoup majorities in both houses of Congress. Instead of figuring out how to reconnect with working and middle class voters across the country,\u00a0Democrats\u00a0are handing the keys of the party directly over to wealthy billionaire donors while attempting to maintain the facade they care about the common voter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite formal complaints, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/01\/stephen-bittel-lawsuit-florida-democratic-party-chair-election\/\">lawsuit<\/a>, and ethical concerns, billionaire donor and close ally to former DNC Chair\u00a0Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Stephen Bittel was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/the-buzz-florida-politics\/stephen-bittel-named-new-state-party-chairman-for-democrats\/2309618\">elected<\/a>\u00a0by the Florida Democratic Party establishment to serve as its new Chair on January 14. Next weekend in Florida, billionaire donors will gain even more ground in the Democratic Party at a private retreat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rubycramer\/david-brock-wants-to-build-his-own-koch-donor-network?utm_term=.csKRJkG8z#.lovNz5R0b\">hosted<\/a>\u00a0by Clinton propagandist David Brock, where each candidate for the new DNC Chair will participate in a forum to woo support from the Democratic Party\u2019s donors.<\/p>\n<p>David Brock became notorious after his attacks on Anita Hill, who\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/anita-hill-matters-hbo-confirmation_us_570fb8f9e4b0ffa5937e5e72\">accused<\/a>\u00a01991 Supreme Court nominee Clarence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/01\/17\/89812\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by DonkeyHotey | CC BY 2.0 The\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0establishment has responded to Hillary Clinton\u2019s election loss the same way they would have responded had Hillary Clinton won, by changing absolutely nothing.\u00a0Clinton\u2019s\u00a0overt embrace of wealthy donors and establishment figures from both political parties repelled thousands of voters toward third parties, voting for Trump, or apathy. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}