The progressive chairman works at the Vice -Chair of the DNC to “recreate an organic connection between people and the party.”
James Zogby performs at the forum with candidates to become Vice -Chair of the Democratic National Committee in Detroit in January. 16, 2025.
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James Zogby wants the Democratic Party to become, well, democratic. Instead of just worshiping large donors, high -paying consultants and political energy brokers, preaching caution into urgency, a member of the Democratic National Committee veteran and a long -standing union to convert the party to restore the election.
This mission is not new to Zogby, which has been in favor of the party reform for years. But if he is elected Vice -Chair DNC when voting this Saturday, Zogby believes he will be in the right position to require changes that so many Democrats say.
Many Zogby reforms support the structural. But at the heart of his propaganda – admiration giving the grassroots Democrats a greater voice in the party, which, he said, should be ready to accept bold stands that speak of the values of their basic voters – and up to millions of Americans who feel their needs and their The ideals were overcrowded by the influence of large donors and corporate interests that dominate both major parties.
This is not just the right thing, says Zogby. This is a reasonable approach to politics that can give mass activists a deeper sense of communication with the party that needs their problem.
‘We must recreate an organic connection between people and party need be part of this, “and” I tin be part of that, ”explains ZoneWho is one of More than a dozen candidates On February 1, he looks for a trio of deputy deputy chairmen of the DNC, the same day that the party will select a new chairman and other top officials. Placing a candidate who knows both necessary reforms and their way of implementation, Zogby has received the support of leading progressives, including Sanders, Jackson, formerly progressed chairman of the progression of Japal and the Prosecutor Minnesota whale Alson, who was set a strong application for the chairman 2017.
Zogby has received this support because he wants the Democrats to stop postponing donors and consultants with deep pockets, to accept a policy that supports the efforts of grassroots activists to strengthen the party in the states, and respond to calls from its base to stand in solidarity with the Americans The working class and in support of civil rights and human rights.
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“The first thing you need to do is change the way the party works to make it democratic,” says Zogby, “so that it will become a place of views of the people they know, not regarded as requisites at the meetings that ( They are expected to vote for decisions that have already been made (party energy brokers), and so it works now. “
Democrats feel the mood after the failures they survived in the 2024 presidential elections. Many DNC candidates work as reformers. But Zogby, who was an active Democrat, as he was a child, handed out leaflets for John F. Kennedy in the ethnic neighborhoods of Yutk, New York, brings decades of experience as a proven campaign in the party.
A savvy strategist and organizer who has been presidentially for years Arab American InstituteWhere he was one of the most persistent supporters of the rights of Palestinian rights and peace in the Middle East, Zogby advised the democratic president and the vice -president. President Obama has appointed him to the United States Commission on International Freedom of Religion. Under the leadership of the former president Jimmy CarterZogby served as an electoral monitor in Palestine in 1996.
Zogby performed at democratic national conventions, leading platforms and assisted to organize historical presidential campaigns – interference with the deputy head of the Rev. Jackson Company 1984 and 1988 and Sanders in 2016. He was a key member of the unity reform commission, which after the 2016 election gathered the best supporters of Sanders and Hillary Clinton to open the process of nominating the party.
Few Democrats know more about DNC than Zogby, who was a 32 -year -old body member, worked for 16 years, chairman of the resolution committee for 11 years and has collected its ethnic council for ten years. However, he was always a reformer, and often dissenters – making efforts on the diversity of the Committee, speaking for internal transparency and accountability, as well as telling DNA members that they should be more daring to ensure moral clarity and political power It is necessary to connect with the large mass of voters who express disappointment with two major parties.
It is known that Zogby acted in 2003 to make the Committee a clear position against the Bush administration in Iraq. “I argued that we should not send our young men and women to the country whose history and culture we do not understand, and, without accuracy about costs, commitment and conditions for participation,” Zogby recalls. “But, boy, they didn’t want to hear it.”
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When he offered an anti-war resolution to consider DNC, he gave the committee the opportunity to come to the right of history-and on the moods of tens of millions of Americans, especially young people who refused to accept Bush to Bush to refuse diplomacy. But the permit was never accepted. Why? The word became that several leading candidates for the presidential presidential party did not want to hold such a firm position – even when millions of people were on the streets who opposed watering, and grassroots democrats across the country organized against nonsense against stupidity Bush.
Zogby saw the same sample when the Democrats with ranks tried to reform the party. He was a leading fan of a failed step to ban dark money in primaries. And in his long history, DNA will perform with a clear voice on politics. Like Sanders, he was disappointed with the party’s caution on many internal economic issues concerning the voters of the working class. And he sought to force the party to adopt progressive foreign policy initiatives such as former US representative Barbara Lee Click overturn Authorization of the Bush era for the use of military forces.
DNC disappointment boiled out of the 2024 elections, and, suddenly, Zogby hears the broad discussion of the reforms that he has long been for: steering resources for state parties, cleaning the rules The whole country and the adoption of reasonable new approaches (and technologies) for the information work To eat networks that allow us to bring young people and those who feel deprived of the party to the party. “
“These are the things that I have been talking about for years, and now many other people are talking,” Zogby explains. “So, in a sense, there is a win-win here, similar to Jackson. When everyone is talking about the problems I have talked about.”
So why does Zogby offer the post of deputy chairman? Because, he said, he sees the discovery to finally the Democratic Democratic Party. People admit, says Zogby that it’s time to “democratize the democratic party”, violating the capture of donors and consultants who “work with a game book that was (discredited). They live in a world that does not exist. They provide” decisions “that Do not solve the party.
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