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Norman Solomon, national coordinator of RootsAction.org, along with several others in the audience, argued that the Commission's recommendations do not go far enough.  "The DNC has not learned the lessons of the past," he said.  The security guards initially confiscated his signs, but Commission chair Jen O'Malley Dillon asked that they be returned.

A man wearing a Kucinich undershirt called for open public meetings, getting money out of politics, and preventing DNC favoritism.

Selina Vickers, from Fayetteville, WV was a Sanders delegate and is now a candidate for West Virginia House.

Norman Solomon, national coordinator of RootsAction.org; Kurt Walters, campaign director at Demand Progress; Karen Bernal, chair of the California Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus; and Pia Gallegos, a Democratic ward chair in New Mexico, held a press conference.  Solomon, Bernal and Gallegos (along with Sam McCann) were co-authors of the report, "Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis."  In the report, released on Nov. 2, they argued that, "Overall, the party’s national leadership has shown scant interest in addressing many of the key factors that led to electoral disaster."
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