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My colleague Jeff Charles wrote a great article on how the Nevada Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) have taken over the Democrat Party in the state, and why the traditional leadership chose to resign.
Hi new followers! Yesterday DSA members Judith Whitmer, Jacob Allen, Dr. Zaffar Iqbal & Ahmad Adé took over @nvdems. We ve been hard at work after @BernieSanders s caucus win, organizing for power wherever we can.
Let us tell you a little bit about what we ve been up to 1/11
The far-left socialist wing of the Democratic Party just scored a significant victory against the moderate establishment faction, and we can best believe they won’t stop there. In Nevada, socialist Democrats wrestled control over the state party from the moderate establishment, which triggered a mass exodus of employees who tendered their resignations.
A slate of Democrats supportive of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has taken control of the Nevada Democratic Party, prompting the resignation of the existing party staff. It was a sign that the Democrats’ divisions could erupt again.
During the presidential race, the conflict between the Sanders element and the Reid machine had been kept below a boil partly as a result of the personal relationships at play. Sanders’s 2020 brain trust was significantly made up of former aides to Reid who remain on good terms with the former majority leader, including campaign manager Faiz Shakir; deputy Ari Rabin-Havt, who has since returned to Sanders’s Senate office; and national policy director Josh Orton.
But when the Sanders campaign ended, the establishment was ready to maneuver against them.
The Left Caucus and DSA organizers ran a slate of candidates for state party leadership under the name “The NV Dems Progressive Slate.” All but one candidate on the slate was a dues-paying member of a local DSA chapter. The Democratic Party ran candidates on a slate titled “The Progressive Unity Slate,” playing on a theme they’d been pushing the entire cycle: The groups angling for change from the left were trying to div
Nevada Democrats elect Sanders-aligned progressive as chair
March 8, 2021
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LAS VEGAS (AP) The head of the Clark County Democratic Party has been elected as the chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party.
Judith Whitmer defeated Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom 248-216 during a virtual election on Saturday in which the state party s governing members picked new officers.
Outdoing chair William McCurdy II did not seek reelection.
Both Whitmer and Segerblom are aligned with party progressives who supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders presidential runs but the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that most elected Democratic officials backed Segerblom.
Sanders released a statement congratulating Whitmer and said she knows Democrats must “invest in year-round grassroots organizing focused on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.”
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