DNC Panel Nullifies David Hogg’s Victory Over Gender Diversity Rules

David Hogg's efforts to gain influence over the “We Hate White Men Party” have gone as one would expect.

After assuming the position of DNC Vice Chair on February 2, he immediately began making enemies.

In April he 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 after that, he was 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.

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, Democrats are fine with any excuse to oust him, and a DNC panel voted 13-2 to void its election of Hogg, citing procedural concerns. 

The DNC plans to hold a separate vote later this year to determine whether Hogg will be removed from the position permanently.

“Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large,” Hogg said in a public statement after the vote. “While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote. I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us.”

Christine Pelosi, a member of the DNC’s credentials committee and daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claimed the vote was strictly about the process.