Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price has resigned from the organization Wednesday following the debacle that ensued during last week’s caucus, according to the Des Moines Register.
Can we please be done with Iowa? Call it a mercy killing, whatever. Four years from now, the first state primary - which will tie in time with New Hampshire (given their law), needs to be a state with a sizable Latino and Black population; you know, the backbone of the Democratic Party.
Did anyone see Trevor Noah’s moment of Zen, which was the Iowa Democratic party sign falling from the lectern while this guy was speaking? It was emblematic of this debacle, and hilarious!
Iowa Dem Party Chair Resigns In Wake Of Disastrous Caucus Mess
What?!?
After that big catastrophe, they’ve signed him back on to a new contract?
Colbert showed it too.
Yeah it was hilarious and so pitiful I had to look away. hahahahahahahahaha
I’m not sure that I would call it their “backbone,” but it sure serves to differentiate the Democratic Party from the Republican party.
That and the women.
Finally. Price was arrogant and deflecting following HIS Iowa disaster.
At least he did the right thing.
He actually resigned a week ago, but the email was stuck in his outbox.
Counter Point
Absolutely nobody gives a fuck about Iowa any other time of the year. Ever.
I’m not saying we should be first and I’m CERTAINLY not saying we should have a caucus ever again. We shouldn’t.
However, Democrats I talk to feel abandoned by the Democratic Party. Outside of the primaries, we are insignificant to those looking for the most powerful position in the world.
Again, I am not saying the first in the nation should be in my state of Iowa. But it ought to be in a state otherwise forgotten by The Important People Wanting To Change The World.
The point was a tad broad, so to refine: Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party.
OMFG. Couldn’t you just wait until the election is over instead of feeding the GOP talking points??? WTF???
Good lord, Iowa is so small and yes they made mistakes but can we move on now? I am even done with NH. Nevada is going to be interesting because Bernie’s followers are brow beating the largest union in the state. Far more newsworthy to me than this tired old Iowa race is Bernie’s relationship with unions in light of M4A.
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`.@Culinary226 says it is "disappointing" that Sanders supporters "have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built." pic.twitter.com/bQI92s4iBC
— Dan Merica (@merica) February 12, 2020
I was reading the Bernie wins NH thread and god it was funny - so many comments in the first part of the thread saying: Well that’s it, Bernie is going to be the nominee. hahahaha
No, that is not it. Not even close. 
Like you, I’m on to the next one.
Remember that in 2016, Sanders campaign workers masqueraded as Union workers and went into the hotels and restaurants to tell union members that the union was endorsing Sanders and they had to vote for him. Despite the fact that the union had not (and never did) endorse him.
Long memories and all that.
538’s pick was Illinois due Chicagoland area and then everything else. Definitely a better gauge than Iowa and New Hampshire which are as white as a chalk mine
This was more than inappropriate. It was dishonest. Now Bernie supporters are attacking the union for distributing information about the health care proposals of all candidates. Ugh.
We have reminded our staff that that is not appropriate and that they should not do it again
ETA: I do want to hear unions weigh in on M4A. I have not seen anything other than this from the Culinary Workers.
Not everything was Price’s fault…an electronic means of transferring the information to get quick results was a good idea. The implementation was woeful though, they really didn’t think it through or test it, and that is on him. He did get sideswiped by the Republican effort to clog the phone lines and block transmitting the results to HQ; not his fault either, but that’s something to prepare for (with extra numbers at least). Him leaving clears the air, so good on him for falling on his sword for the party.
Sanders people imitating union workers to trick union members into voting for Sanders? Sigh…there were a lot of dirty tricks by the Sanders team in 2016 that everyone just let go, but people should remember and hold him and his team accountable this time around. Any candidate behaving badly should be called to account for it.
Multiple unions fear losing their health benefits. In many cases, unions gave up pay raises for their members in exchange for better health coverage; with the expense of medical care that made sense, and it likely helped their members more than a few extra bucks. Their fear is that M4A will not have coverage as extensive, so they will have fought for all of that coverage, and given up on money, and then end up losing some (unknown) amount of coverage. The unknown part is what bothers them, obviously, as no one knows how the coverage will compare, and how it will affect their families’ health care, if they have to change doctors, etc. It’s the worries about Obamacare all over again…the way around it is to have M4A start as a public option available to everyone, and give people the choice to switch to it.
The other part of this is that the benefits are a real monetary benefit, one that will not go to employees if M4A is implemented as companies would possibly keep the coverage money. And, companies would definitely do that…it would take a new law to make it so they were taxed or made to pay their benefit money into Medicare, so that they weren’t taking advantage of the new setup.
Really, it’s all about fears, compounded by Bernie having no plan and being happy about it, and crowing that everyone’s taxes would go up. No one really paid attention to Warren’s plan, which actually pays for it, starts out slowly and builds, and takes care of a lot of the details. Warren made a real mistake saying she was onboard Bernie’s plan, she should have said “health care for all is the goal, but it’s in the future and here’s how I plan to make it happen over a decade” so it was differentiated but still led to M4A in the end.
You mean that incompetence has cosequen … oh, just forget it.