{"id":59443,"date":"2025-05-15T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59443"},"modified":"2025-05-15T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:00:51","slug":"when-you-put-people-in-leadership-who-dont-belong-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59443","title":{"rendered":"When You Put People In Leadership Who Don&#8217;t Belong There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee is in the process of removing David Hogg as its Vice-Chairman. He was elected on February 1, 2025. He has simply not worked out well in that position.<\/p>\n<p>His past actions should have been a clue for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/david-hogg-pac-progressive\/2024\/04\/08\/id\/1160228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NewsMax<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The PAC started by gun activist David Hogg, whose stated mission is &#8220;electing young progressives,&#8221; instead burned through $1.4 million \u2014 representing nearly half the money raised \u2014 on travel, political consultants, and legal fees in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In fact, the Leaders We Deserve PAC spent less than $235,000 toward its mission of electing Gen Z candidates to office, according to a Breitbart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/08\/exclusive-hogg-wild-filings-show-leftwing-gen-z-pac-blew-more-than-1m-on-travel-expenses-consultants-spent-little-on-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noskim\">report<\/a> that scrutinized the organization&#8217;s FEC filings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hogg and his partner, Kevin Lata, raised more than $3 million in the first year of the PAC&#8217;s existence from a wide array of donors with a goal of electing more &#8220;youthful, audacious, and charismatic trailblazers.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;However, according to Breitbart, disbursements went out to just four candidates, including one, Rep. Maxwell Frost, for whom Lata was campaign manager.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Further, Hogg and Lata disbursed nearly $125,000 to a transgender Democrat in Alabama whose opponent in October 2023 won the special election with 65% of the vote, Breitbart reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, Hogg paid himself $40,000 while Lata&#8217;s take was $50,000 for a few months&#8217; work in 2023; the PAC launched late summer, according to the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, he should fit in very well with some of the Democrat party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>On May 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2025\/05\/13\/is-the-dnc-trying-to-oust-david-hogg-to-appease-a-native-american-woman-n2657032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>We obviously have no dog in this fight, though some have noted the Soviet-style treatment David Hogg is getting at the Democratic National Committee. This party is a total mess, and the vote to put his ouster as vice chair on the fast track only added another chapter to the ongoing \u2018Dems in disarray\u2019 soap opera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The credentials committee paved the way to remove Hogg, though they claim it\u2019s not about politics. It is\u2014it seems this was done to appease the Native American woman who lost to Hogg (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/29\/2025\/native-american-woman-gets-a-chance-to-topple-hogg-at-dnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semafor<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>The DNC\u2019s 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\u2019s Feb. 1 meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>In her complaint, shared with Semafor by a Democratic source, Free argued that she lost a \u201cfatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,\u201d and asks for \u201ctwo new vice chair elections.\u201d In February, after several rounds of voting, the race came down to five candidates \u2013 Kenyatta, Hogg, Free, and two other women. Kenyatta and Hogg claimed the open spots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now you know the rest of the story. I am sure it has nothing to do with David Hogg threatening to primary any Democrat Congressman who did not agree with his attempts to &#8216;reform&#8217; the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee is in the process of removing David Hogg as its Vice-Chairman. He was elected on February 1, 2025. He has simply not worked out well in that position. His past actions should have been a clue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59443\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15397,10973,18035,7830,11619],"class_list":["post-59443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-hogg","tag-democratic-national-committee-dnc","tag-leaders-we-deserve-pac","tag-newsmax","tag-townhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59444,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443\/revisions\/59444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}