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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

#StrongerTogether ! "Donna Brazile: ‘I was scared’ Sweeps for Russian bugs, suspicious packages, death threats... it's been a rough eight months for the former DNC chair."

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"Donna Brazile: ‘I was scared’

Sweeps for Russian bugs, suspicious packages, death threats, Donald Trump — it's been a rough eight months for the former DNC chair.

By Edward-Isaac Dovere

Donna Brazile has been through a lot — but nothing like the past eight months.

More than taking over a Democratic National Committee in crisis, more than seeing the party collapse from a predicted victory to crushing defeat all in one night, more than trying to keep the wings of the party from choking each other to death, there was taking care of a young staff that spent the past year getting death threats, harassing emails and suspicious packages that they regularly called the police to check out.

Brazile also needed to take care of herself. She went through fear, then anger, then bitterness, then resistance — and then again relived it Saturday night, speaking to me for the “Off Message” podcast in her first extensive interview about the experiences.

The anguish started early into her time as interim chair, when she was called in by the FBI to be told what it knew of the extent of the hacking and Russia’s role.

“All I can tell you is that when I left that room after that briefing,” Brazile said, “I went back to the DNC, closed the office and stared at the ceilings. There was nothing else I could do.”

“I was scared,” she added later. “I was scared that first day and night. I went home that night, I couldn't talk to anybody because I had a — I couldn't even tell the staff what was happening to them.” ... "

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"Interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile made impassioned remarks at the party’s winter meeting in Atlanta the day before a new chair was set to be elected. Ms. Brazile took over the committee July 24, 2016"

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Monday, January 30, 2017

#StrongerTogether ! In Early 2014, Interim Chairperson for the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile Wrote: "Why I am a Democrat and Why Your Vote Should Count"

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In Early 2014, Interim Chairperson for the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile Wrote:

"Why I am a Democrat Why Your Vote Should Count

In her 1976 keynote address to the Democratic National Committee, Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan said words I will never forget:

“We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted. This can be accomplished only by providing each citizen with every opportunity to participate in the management of the government.

“We believe that the government which represents the authority of all the people, not just one interest group, but all the people, has an obligation to actively seek to remove those obstacles which would block individual achievement — obstacles emanating from race, sex, economic condition.”

That explains why I am a Democrat.

Beyond that, ensuring every American’s right to vote and working to get out the vote — every vote, regardless of party — has been a lifelong goal, a personal quest.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

It wasn’t always this way. In 1965 when President Johnson realized that the previous year’s Civil Rights Act was not enough, that the country needed a Voting Rights Act to protect the rights of citizens — particularly blacks and minorities — he called on the minority leader, Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois, for help.

Dirksen responded, and the bill passed. His words remain relevant: “The right to vote is still an issue in this free country. There has to be a real remedy. This cannot go on forever, this denial of the right to vote by ruses and devices and tests and whatever the mind can contrive to either make it very difficult or to make it impossible to vote.” ... "

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