06/17/2025
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Two large labor union leaders leave DNC over disagreements
By Aaron Navarro
Updated on: June 16, 2025 / 4:12 PM EDT / CBS News
Two leaders of some of the largest labor unions in the country say they are leaving the Democratic National Committee (DNC), citing disagreements with the committee’s leadership over its future.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, wrote in a June 5 resignation letter to DNC Chair Ken Martin that she felt “out of step with the leadership you are forging.”
“I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more and more of our communities,” Weingarten wrote in the letter, obtained by CBS News.
Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), declined his nomination as a member of the DNC weeks ago in a letter to Martin, his union confirmed. Saunders said his decision was about the future for working people and the party.
“These are new times. They demand new strategies, new thinking, and a renewed way of fighting for the values we hold dear. We must evolve to meet the urgency of this moment. This is not a time to close ranks or turn inward,” Saunders said in a statement.
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Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, in a letter dated June 5, that she would be leaving Washington due to her idealogical disagreements with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin.
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David Hogg is out at the DNC. Now, the party is trying to move forward | CNN Politics
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David Hogg is out at the DNC. Now, Democrats try to move forward and focus on Trump.
David Hogg went out swinging as he accused his former colleagues at the Democratic National Committee of being “asleep at the wheel” as he left his leadership role within the party.
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David Hogg is leaving the Democratic National Committee’s leadership team, closing out a long and messy feud. Now, party chair Ken Martin and his allies hope voters will pay more attention to their efforts to define President Donald Trump and less to Democrats’ infighting.
Both Martin’s allies and critics within the party worry the fight with Hogg, who announced Wednesday he would not seek re-election to his vice chair role after the party voted to redo his February election, led to months of lost time. Early Martin initiatives, including investing more in state parties, staging town halls in Republican districts and over-performing in multiple local elections this year, have been overshadowed at times.
The DNC is still trying to find its footing as an oppositional force to Trump after a devastating 2024 election for the party, which is now out of power in Congress as well. With Hogg out of leadership, Martin allies hope the national party’s messaging on issues such as Trump’s sweeping domestic policy proposal and deployment of the National Guard and Marines to quell immigration protests will resonate ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Their two unions represent a combined membership of just over 3 million.
Their departures come after a different internal controversy was settled on activist David Hogg, whose election as a party vice chair was voided by a committee vote in June. Hogg decided he would exit his role rather than run in a redo of the DNC vice chair elections.
The vote to hold new vice chair elections came amid internal disagreements over Hogg’s plans to back primary challenges against incumbent Democrats, though the challenge that led to the new contests was technically unrelated to Hogg’s controversies.
Weingarten had been a DNC member since 2002, and a member of the Rules and Bylaws committee since 2009, but Martin took both her and Saunders off that committee and offered to let them remain as at-large members of the party. Both declined their nominations.
Both Saunders and Weingarten supported Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler, and not Martin, in this year’s election for a new DNC chair. News of Saunders’ and Weingarten’s departures was first reported by The New York Times.
A source close to the DNC, who was granted anonymity to talk about an internal issue, said that ever since “the horse [Weingarten] bet on in the Chairs race lost, she has always been on the other side of the fence as Ken– this is no surprise.”
In reaction to the departure of the two labor union leaders, DNC Labor Council Chair Stuart Applebaum defended Martin and said he understands “that workers are the backbone of the Democratic party.”
“Martin is bringing new people into our tent, reasserting the strength of the Democratic Party, and is already winning races to make us competitive in every part of the country,” he said.
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The lefty news media is starting up its old stance of FAKE NEWS AGAIN as shown below. They are trying to take the spotlight off of the socialist Democrat problems and spotlighting President Trump.
All of the Los Angles news/Mayor was fake news as reported by Fox News.
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins reported, “Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community ‘continues to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized a nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.’ As CNN recently reported, U.S. intelligence assessments had reached the conclusion that not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing, according to four people familiar with the assessment.
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Collins added, “But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is aligned with Trump and has argued repeatedly that Iran was on the verge of having a nuclear weapon.”
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Yes, the lefties are working 24/7 trying to sway the news.
As the old saying goes: People always ask – how can you hit the ball so far, and the news say: ‘I just swing.’
That’s the way the lefty news works and the American people know they lie/cheat/steal – DOGE PROVED IT.
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