By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--February 23, 2017
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Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) has the edge over former Labor secretary Tom Perez in The Hill’s new survey of DNC members. But while both men claim they are close to securing commitments from the majority of the 447 voting members, neither candidate is assured victory.
The Hill has identified the stances of 240 DNC members, either through their private responses to a survey circulated over the past week or from public endorsements. Out of those who responded, Ellison leads with 105 supporters to Perez’s 57. The remaining major candidates have less than a dozen supporters each, while more than 50 DNC members remain undecided.Ellison is about as far left as you can get, so the radical base (that now controls the party) is pretty excited. The usual cadre of activists, movie stars, socialists, and career-protesters are all over Twitter demanding that the DNC not drop the ball on his ascension. In case you're unaware, Ellison is the country's first Muslim congressman. He has ties to both the Muslim Brotherhood and Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, thinks blacks are under no obligation to obey the government and deserve "their own country," famously compared 9/11 to the Reichstag fire, claims Israel has "mobilized" Jews to act as agents in America, and once wrote that th U.S. Constitution is the “best evidence of a white racist conspiracy to subjugate other peoples.”
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