Ok, this is getting really weird and Debbie Wasserman Schultz has to go if this is true. The NYT is reporting that a vice chairwomen was "disinvited" from the first debate because she called for more debates.
Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said she was disinvited from the first Democratic presidential primary debate in Nevada after she appeared on television and called for more face-offs.
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A person close to the committee who asked for anonymity to discuss internal discussions insisted, however, that Ms. Gabbard had not been disinvited. Instead, the person said, an aide to Ms. Wasserman Schultz expressed a desire to keep the focus on the candidates as the debate approached, rather than on a “distraction” that could divide the party, and suggested that if Ms. Gabbard could not do that, she should reconsider going.
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“It’s very dangerous when we have people in positions of leadership who use their power to try to quiet those who disagree with them,” she added. “When I signed up to be vice chair of the D.N.C., no one told me I would be relinquishing my freedom of speech and checking it at the door.”
I've got to hand it to DWS. She sees the complete disarray the GOP is in and says to herself, we're not going to let them get away with it, I can show the world the DNC can be just as incompetent and nonresponsive to the people it's suppose to represent.
Can she dig this hole any deeper?
UPDATE: Some of the comments are getting a bit out of hand. This diary is about free speech and the right of Dems everywhere to hear ALL the candidates, including Larry Lessig. So let's turn it down a notch and let people post their comments without having an HR war or LOCKING IN THE CAPS! I know the intensity of both HC and Bernie supporters but please save the screaming war for another diary.