| Thank goodness -- now Professor Dershowitz won't have to give up his Democratic Party membership. |
Perez was one vote shy after the first ballot held Saturday, but received enough support in the second to become the first Latino chairman of the Democratic Party’s governing body.
Backed by progressives and championed by 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
, Representative Ellison -- who would have been the first Moslem chairman -- received 200 votes in the second round against Perez’ 235.
After the result was announced, Perez appointed Ellison as deputy chairman. "I am asking you to give everything you have got to support Chairman Perez," Ellison told his supporters.
Perez served as Labor Secretary from 2013 to 2017 under the second Barack B.O. regime. He had the support of heavy-hitters in the party establishment, including former Vice President
Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
and former U.S. Attorney General Eric
Inaction JacksonHolder
... aka Mister Fast and Furious...
.