The executive committee of the Democratic National Committee will meet for the first time since mid-December on Friday, May 30, starting at 1 p.m. ET, in Little Rock, Ark.The meeting is scheduled to last three hours.
The DNC’s bylaws say that the executive committee “shall be responsible for the conduct of the affairs of the Democratic Party in the interim between the meetings of the full (Democratic National) Committee.”
The four-hour coverage, beginning at 12:30 pm ET, will include live video from the executive committee meeting along with assessments from analysts with RootsAction and other organizations. The coverage will also include an interview with Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who has endorsed a campaign for an emergency meeting of the full DNC. That campaign was launched by two national organizations, Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction.
Their petition urges the DNC to “convene an emergency meeting of all its members—fully open to the public—as soon as possible.” The petition adds that “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.” Among the 7,000 signers are more than 1,500 people who have written individual comments.
Warning that “the Democratic Party has failed to confront the urgency of this perilous moment for the future of the United States,” the petition says that “waiting until the next regular meeting in late summer would be irresponsible and unacceptable.” The full DNC routinely meets twice a year and is scheduled to next convene in late August.
The petition states: “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.”
Available for interviews:
- ALAN MINSKY, executive director, Progressive Democrats of America, [email protected]
- JEFF COHEN, co-founder, RootsAction, [email protected]