What's Happening With The DNC?

They're out of money and removing union leaders from key roles.

Follow the money. That's good advice when examining times we find incentive structures changing. It’s good advice when examining what’s happening with the DNC (the uniparty left).

On Wednesday, The New York Times published, “The D.N.C. Is in Chaos and Desperate for Cash,” and the article asserts some astonishing facts.

“Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills.

Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.

Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles.”

A plausible conclusion is that this news is hitting just months after USAID funding went under the administration’s microscope because Democrats’ grassroots infrastructure is taxpayer-funded astroturf. It’s also possible that it is a coincidence that the party that “raised” $2B for Kamala Harris a few months ago now can’t raise more than $300K at a Tier One event; but, in my opinion, coincidence is unlikely.

Everyone will need to examine the facts to determine for themselves whether which explanation is more likely… So let’s examine some of the facts put forward by The New York Times.

“Mr. Martin had offered to keep the two top union leaders — Randi Weingarten…and Lee Saunders… — as members of the D.N.C. But he would not renew their plum assignments on the powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee, which controls how the party nominates its presidential candidates.”

How the DNC nominates its presidential candidates has been the source of scandal since 2015, so this is a good move for Martin. But removing union leaders from power explains the scapegoating he’s enduring now.

“Six people briefed on the party’s fund-raising…said big donors…had been very slow to give to the party this year.”

The USAID scandals theorize that some of the named “big donors” are actually taxpayer-funded NGOs and that campaign finance is a massive source of money-laundering. See also the ActBlue allegations (it’s also WinRed) and that ongoing investigation of that by the DOJ.

“His commitment to state parties, which amounts to $1 million in monthly spending, has further strained the finances.”

$1M a month? $12M a year? The DNC’s financial commitment to state parties is just $12M?! The apparatus that enabled Harris to rapidly raise $2B in a few months only gives $12M to the states? (And, per the article, that is an expansion under Martin.) Astroturf and money laundering are seeming more likely.

“Senior D.N.C. officials have discussed the possibility of borrowing money in the coming months to keep the operations fully funded… ‘That’s certainly not our plan right now,’ [Martin] said.”

Think of the resistance messages that are ubiquitous right now, and how Democrats’ messaging claims the People oppose the President…

“…the party’s total cash reserves shrank by $4 million from January through April…”

“…the current financial gap is large: $18 million on hand for the D.N.C. entering May, compared with $67.4 million for the R.N.C. …”

“…only three people gave $100,000 or more to the D.N.C., according to Federal Election Commission reports….”

“One recent New York event with Ms. Harris… [raised] roughly $300,000 … a fraction of the $1 million price for a single top-end ticket … headlined by Ms. Harris last fall...”

Martin is positioned as getting to the bottom of it all. He is doing a study and claiming transparency is his intention to restore trust among the base and donors.

“People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result,” Mr. Martin said of big donors. “They want answers. I don’t take it personally. I wasn’t in charge.”

Oh, also…

“…the D.N.C. increased Mr. Martin’s salary this year [to] $350,000, up from $300,000.”

“We’re investigating ourselves again…” — Democrats.

Corruption is more in focus than it’s ever been. And it’s getting harder and harder to sell all these scandals as coincidences.

If the uniparty left no longer has the (allegedly our) money to fabricate popular support, how quickly does their whole corrupt kingdom come crashing down?

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