
The new chairman, Tom Perez, is starting to shake things up.
The Democratic National Committee asked for the resignation of all its staff members after former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected chairman of the party body at the end of February.
Leah Daughtry, a veteran DNC adviser and co-chair of Perezβs transition advisory committee, asked staff members to put forward resignation letters dated April 15, which NBC News first reported and The Huffington Post has confirmed.
The resignations are part of Perezβs effort to reform the DNC after a bruising election cycle in which the committee faced allegations of partiality toward candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary race and in which Republican Donald Trump won the election. Continue Reading
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