She was a terrible chair. Good riddance, but why wait until next week? Get the hell out already.
As the 2016 Democratic National Convention kicks off, Committee Charwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned from her position under pressure as the party moved to contain the damage from a massive cache of leaked emails that suggested the party was taking sides in the 2016 Democratic primary.
The South Florida congresswoman came under withering scrutiny in the middle of a growing controversy over a trove of hacked emails exposed by Wikileaks. The leak raised questions over the DNC’s impartiality as presumptive nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton was locked in a tense primary battle with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Wasserman-Schulz, an 11-year Congressional veteran, will step down after the Democrats concludes their conference at the end of the week. DNC vice chair Donna Brazile, a political veteran who ran Al Gore’s 2000 White House bid, will serve as interim chair until a permanent replacement is selected, the party organization said.
