In less than two weeks the DNC will meet in Chicago to vote on the reforms from the Unity Commission.

With that in mind, what does it say about the DNC's commitment to reforms when they did this just yesterday?



The Democratic National Committee (DNC) overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Friday evening saying it welcomes donations from fossil fuel industry workers and “employers’ political action committees.” Critics of the newly passed resolution are calling it a reversal of the DNC’s recently adopted ban on accepting donations from fossil fuel companies’ political organizations. DNC Chairman Tom Perez sponsored Friday’s resolution that allows the committee to accept contributions from “workers, including those in energy and related industries, who organize and donate to Democratic candidates individually or through their unions’ or employers’ political action committees.”

Right. It's about the workers.

Gimme a fuckin break. No one, literally no one, believes that.



Christine Pelosi, a DNC member who co-authored the June resolution, offered an amendment to Perez’s measure that would strike the words “employers’ political action committees" to discourage donations from corporate PACs. Pelosi said removing that language would reaffirm that Democratic Party’s “commitment to overturn Citizens United and banning corporate PAC money.” But the motion to amend the language proposed by Pelosi failed, 4 to 28. The DNC’s executive committee voted to approve the original resolution, 30 to 2.

And there's the proof that it's all about the money. The corporate money.

This reflects badly on the DNC's intentions.

Now there is one reform the DNC is almost certain to approve - shrinking the superdelegates.

You should expect headlines announcing the passage of this reform.

The problem is the reforms about the money.



But other reform priorities — Sanders has delineated four of them — were handled more skeptically. The one that most rankled some URC members was an effort to open up the budget process. The URC’s original recommendation was that all DNC members get to look at the budget during the election, an idea designed to prevent a repeat of 2016, when, Sanders supporters claimed, Clinton allies were getting key contracts, teeing up her nomination:

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The revised language voted through Tuesday cut out most of the new transparency requirements:...

The DNC will continue to steal the money and rig the elections, because without transparency they can.

Finally, the DNC did one other thing yesterday.



The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks through the unconventional means of Twitter. The suit, which alleges that the Russian government, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks conspired to influence the 2016 presidential election in favour of Donald Trump was filed last April. However, due to the group’s elusive nature, lawyers were unable to officially serve the whistleblowing organization.

A joke lawsuit.