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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. |
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A man wearing a Kucinich
undershirt called for open public meetings, getting money out of
politics, and preventing DNC favoritism.
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Selina Vickers, from
Fayetteville, WV was a Sanders delegate and is now a candidate for West
Virginia House.
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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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