DNC chairman

[vraiblonde]

Who was it before Terry McAuliffe? I tried googling it but couldn't really find anything.

TIA for anyone who remembers!

 

[CableChick]

Ed Rendell?

 

[vraiblonde]

Ed Rendell?

Gov of Pezzybania.

Is Don Fowler ringing any bells?

 

[CableChick]

Gov of Pezzybania.

Is Don Fowler ringing any bells?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2110985/

I thought Rendell was DNC and Fowler was National Chair


"Ed Rendell was so frustrated with his job as DNC chairman during Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign that he complained to the New Republic, "I basically take orders from 27-year-old guys in Nashville who have virtually no real-life experience. All they've done is been political consultants living in an artificial world, and basically their opinion counts more than mine." That's the cry of the DNC chair, Washington's political eunuch."




"Paradoxically, the more successful the next DNC chairman is, the less powerful the DNC will be in the future. A DNC chair is pretty much judged by one metric: whether the party wins the White House. Jimmy Carter's election in 1976 and Clinton's election in 1992 explain why Bob Strauss, chairman from 1972 to 1977, and Brown, DNC chairman from 1989 to 1993, are cited most often as the best Democratic Party chairmen of the past 30 years. But as soon as a Democrat moves into the Oval Office, the DNC becomes nothing more than "an appendage of the White House political operation," as Don Fowler, national chairman of the DNC from 1995 to 1997 (and father of current DNC chair candidate Donnie Fowler), put it in an interview. "

 

[vraiblonde]

Ed Rendell it is, then. :shrug:


I'd never heard of Don Fowler - his name came up in a Google search (the passage you quoted, actually). So what's the difference between the DNC chairman and the national chairman?

I'm interested because I'm trying to find an evolution in the party leadership. McAuliffe was about as nasty as they come and Dean is killing the Democrats every time he opens his mouth. I'm trying to see if the guy before McAuliffe was a jerk, too, or when this trend of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot started.

 

[CableChick]

Ed Rendell it is, then. :shrug:


I'd never heard of Don Fowler - his name came up in a Google search (the passage you quoted, actually). So what's the difference between the DNC chairman and the national chairman?

I'm interested because I'm trying to find an evolution in the party leadership. McAuliffe was about as nasty as they come and Dean is killing the Democrats every time he opens his mouth. I'm trying to see if the guy before McAuliffe was a jerk, too, or when this trend of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot started.

Here is a good link
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/D/De/Democratic_National_Committee.htm

 

[vraiblonde]

Here is a good link
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/D/De/Democratic_National_Committee.htm

Thank you thank you thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for

 

[Tonio]

But as soon as a Democrat moves into the Oval Office, the DNC becomes nothing more than "an appendage of the White House political operation," as Don Fowler, national chairman of the DNC from 1995 to 1997 (and father of current DNC chair candidate Donnie Fowler), put it in an interview. "

That's been true of both parties for decades. The sitting President is the de facto leader of his party. That's probably why few people can remember who the DNC leaders were during the Clinton years.

 

[rraley]

vrai, there is no difference between DNC chair and national chair...just different terms.

 

[Ken King]

vrai, there is no difference between DNC chair and national chair...just different terms.

Hey Rraley,

First, happy birthday. Now, if there is no difference between the DNC chair and the National Chair then I guess the Democratic Party invented MPDs to go with Gore's Internet.

 

[rraley]

Thank you Mr. King...and the MPD comment indeed makes sense.