DNC Moves To Void David Hogg’s Election To Party Vice Chair On Technicality

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Monday to void the results of gun control activist David Hogg’s election as one of its vice chairs.

Following the credentials committee’s decision that the vice chair election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, it will bring the vote to the DNC’s full body of members to decide whether or not to call a new election for Hogg’s vice chair seat and the seat of another DNC vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta. The credentials committee’s ruling comes after Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney whom Hogg defeated in February to win his role as a vice chair, challenged the results of the election, claiming she lost a “fatally flawed election that violated the DNC Charter and discriminated against three women of color candidates,” as Semafor first reported.

“Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large,” Hogg wrote in a statement. “While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers’ elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party which loomed large over this vote.”

“Our country is in crisis, and too many leaders in the Democratic Party are asleep at the wheel,” Hogg wrote further. “Trump is on a mission to crash our economy, disappear people without due process, and participate in flagrant public corruption – and voters still trust him more than Democrats. That is a massive indictment of our party.”

“I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us,” Hogg added in his statement. “The DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort.”