David Hogg Could Be Out as DNC Vice Chair Already

David Hogg’s tenure as DNC Vice Chair could be even shorter lived than we thought if the rest of the Party gets their way.  

Hogg, one of the Democrat Party’s most masculine members today, assumed the position on February 2, and quickly aggravated party leadership.

This month Hogg announced plans to raise money for candidates challenging Democrat incumbents that he doesn’t like, angering party leaders for obvious reasons. Hogg said that he would raise millions through a PAC unaffiliated with the DNC to do so, and would be targeting solidly blue districts - prompting a rebuke from the DNC Chair.  

Just weeks later, it’s Hogg being challenged for ouster. 

As Semafor reported: 

A candidate who failed to win a Democratic National Committee leadership role is challenging her defeat, the first threat to DNC Vice Chair David Hogg since he vowed to keep backing some primary challenges to incumbents. The DNC’s credentials committee will meet virtually on May 12 to consider the challenge from Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney and party activist who lost a vice chair spot to Hogg at the party’s Feb. 1 meeting.

It must be noted that Free’s challenge is largely based on social justice jargon, and doesn't have anything to do with the actions Hogg has come under fire for. She argued that she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” with the only evidence for this apparently being that she lost.

She nonsensically argued that “By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity.”

Regardless, the DNC could simply use this as an excuse to try to oust someone they’ve quickly soured on. But this would risk creating an oppression Olympics, where the party would have to also vacate the election of Malcolm Kenyatta, a gay black co-vice chair with Hogg, to give a Native American woman a shot at one of those jobs. 

In the final round of voting, where a total of 205 votes are needed to become a vice chair, of which Kenyatta for 298 and Hogg got 214.5 (votes from Democrats Abroad count as partial votes). While practically nobody has heard of Free before, or cast a vote for her, they could this time around for the sole purpose of unseating Hogg.