Progressive Groups File Petition with DNC Calling for “Emergency Meeting”
Amid new reports that public approval of the Democratic Party has reached an all-time low, two national organizations – Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction – have sent a petition with more than 1,500 individual comments from across the country to Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin.
On Friday (May 30), the DNC’s powerful executive committee will convene. That meeting, in Little Rock, Ark., will be the executive committee’s first since mid-December.
The petition, with 7,000 signers, warns that “the Democratic Party has failed to confront the urgency of this perilous moment for the future of the United States.” The petition contends that the DNC, the governing body of the Democratic Party, “should convene an emergency meeting of all its members – fully open to the public – as soon as possible. Waiting until the next regular meeting in late summer would be irresponsible and unacceptable.”
The petition adds: “Business as usual must give way to truly bold action that mobilizes against the autocracy that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their cronies are further entrenching every day. The predatory, extreme and dictatorial actions of the Trump administration call for an all-out commensurate response, which so far has been terribly lacking from the Democratic Party.”
The “Emergency Petition to the Democratic National Committee” with signers and their comments is posted here.
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