Will Any Sanders Supporters Be Added to the DNC? Application Deadline [was Thursday] at 5!

By
Greg Diamond
– May 26, 2016Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice

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If we're lucky, she'll be gone by the time the deadline passes.

If we’re lucky, she’ll be gone by the time the deadline passes.

It’s that time of the political cycle again!  Four year terms on the Democratic National Committee — you know, the one run by Debbie Wasserman Schultz and biased towards Hillary Clinton — will be voted on in mid-June.  The application deadline is 5 p.m. today.  According to this information page, you need to be endorsed by a California Democratic Party Executive Board member to apply.

We would love to support someone from OC who is NOT a PINO (“Progressive in Name Only”) who is deeply in the pocket of developers, of course!

Ten men and ten women will be elected.  Nine women (one seat being open) are running for re-election; at last glance, only eight men are.  (Last time, all were re-elected.)  You’ll be hearing more about this once the field is set.  Here is the latest list of candidates, with incumbents indicated by a caret (^):

Democratic National Committee Candidate List (Unofficial)

Female:
Cecile Bendavid
Rachel Binah^
Debra Broner
Nicole Conniff
Becca Doten^
Mary Ellen Early^
Alice Huffman^
Aleita Huguenin^
Barbara Lee^
Elizabeth “Nikki” Linnerman
Christine Pelosi^
Melahat Rafiei
Susie Shannon
Maxine Waters^
Rosalind Wyman^

Male:
Steven K. Alari^
Sergio Carrillo
Jesse Durfee^
Tom Hayden
Reginald Jones-Sawyer
Michael Kapp
Andrew Lachman^
Otto Lee
Ruben Macareno
Bob Mulholland^
Uduak Joe Ntuk
John A. Perez^
Garry Shay^
Keith Umemoto^
Joe Louis Wildman
Laurence Zakson^

NOT SEEKING RE-ELECTION (SO FAR)

Shawn Bagley
Chris Stampolis

 

SO HOW DO YOU GET NOMINATED?

The California Democratic Party website helpfully does not offer a list of its Executive Board Members on its website, but this page can give you a sense of who they might be.  Perhaps the Democratic Party of Orange County (or of Los Angeles County) can help you find them.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)