David Hogg, who has managed to get more mileage out of accomplishing absolutely nothing than anyone I can think of (other than Greta Thunberg), is now out of a job as DNC Vice Chair.
From Victor Nava’s article at the New York Post:
The Democratic National Committee’s credentials panel voted Monday to void activist David Hogg’s election as vice chair of the party.
Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was elected vice chair in February but has drawn criticism from some Democrats over his plans to spend $20 million to take down long-serving Democratic House lawmakers in primaries.
“[It’s] impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote,” Hogg said in a statement after the vote, according to Politico.
“The DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort,” he added.
The committee, which found procedural violations occurred in the February election, also voted to oust Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta as DNC vice chair.
Christine Pelosi, a member of the credentials committee and daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), insisted that the vote to void Hogg’s vice chair election win had nothing to do with politics.
“First, I want to say clearly and explicitly that this decision has nothing to do with the service of any DNC officer, especially [Hogg] or [Kenyatta]. This is about a violation of parliamentary procedure that was raised in a challenge filed back in February by another candidate for Vice Chair,” Pelosi wrote on X.
The only thing I dispute from Mr. Nava’s article is his characterization of Hogg as “a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School”. While it is true that Hogg is a “surivivor” in the narrow sense that he went to the school and is still alive, he was never anywhere near where the shooting took place and was never in any danger.
As for what Mr. Nava reports: if you believe that the only reason David Hogg was bounced from his position as DNC Vice Chair is some procedural technicality, you are living in a dream world.
David Hogg is correct in assuming he has not been bounced from his position based on procedure. He has been bounced because he was trying to unseat Democrat incumbents and bring in new people who were further “woke”/more to the left. In other words, to lurch the party even further from the mainstream than it already is.
The “procedural” issue didn’t exist until Hogg jumped off a cliff with that brainstorm. Too bad for Malcolm Kenyatta that, in order to rid itself of Hogg, the DNC had to dump him too. Think of it as collateral damage.
Do not expect Hogg to win a second vote, or to ever hold a position of any serious authority in the Democrat Party again. In other words, he will continue his streak as a serial loser with leftist credentials that keep attracting media attention, but who accompishes nothing other than getting headlines.
Like I said earlier: he’s our version of Greta Thunberg; just (I assume) with different plumbing.
