Left-Wing Protesters Disrupt DNC Candidate Forum, Exposing Ideological Fault Lines
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — A stream of left-wing protesters interrupted the Democratic National Committee’s final chair candidate forum on Thursday night, shouting slogans about climate change and billionaire influence before being escorted out of a Georgetown University theater. The activists sought to draw attention to the Sunrise Movement’s pledge, calling on DNC chair candidates to revive the Obama-era ban on corporate PAC and lobbyist donations to the DNC and use “every tool” at their disposal to discourage super PAC spending in Democratic primaries. “If you don’t, young voters and working-class voters will continue to leave the party — you will let Trump and people like him keep convincing people that he will fight for them.” Jason Paul, an attorney, and self-help author Marianne Williamson, two of the more marginal DNC chair contenders, were the only candidates onstage who had already signed on to the Sunrise Movement’s pledge. “I am frustrated by the way in which we utilize identity to break ourselves apart,” said Shakir, who would be the DNC’s first Muslim chair.
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