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Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has announced she will resign as chair of the Democratic National Committee. The resignation is to become effective after the party's convention. The organisation's e-mail system was hacked; leaked e-mails appear to confirm accusations that Wasserman-Schultz had taken action favouring Hillary Clinton in her contest against Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Sanders had previously called for Wasserman-Schultz to resign, a request he reiterated in light of the leak.
Wasserman-Schultz said in a statement:
I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future. I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the country to ensure her victory.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @08:56AM
Jimmy Carter was the one who got telecom deregulation going.
Reagan gets the credit/blame because he got to sign it after his predecessor had done most of the legwork.
...and Lyndon Johnson sent a lot of folks who were too poor to get into college to the meat grinder that was Vietnam.
(Infamous Chickenhawk Dick Cheney got 5 student deferments and never did serve.)
...and Jack Kennedy got the billionaire tax reduced from 91 percent to 70 percent, giving Neoliberalism a kickstart even before the Powell Memo of 1971.
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