{"id":18437,"date":"2016-12-08T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18437"},"modified":"2016-12-08T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T01:22:44","slug":"ellison-to-quit-house-seat-if-he-wins-dnc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18437","title":{"rendered":"Ellison to quit House seat if he wins DNC chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ellisonkeith_031516hj_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18438\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ellisonkeith_031516hj_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"ellisonkeith_031516hj_lead\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ellisonkeith_031516hj_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ellisonkeith_031516hj_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t presume for one second, an instant, an eye-blink that U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison read my earlier blog post about his quest to become the next head of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>I was critical of a sitting member of Congress seeking to lead a national party, thus jeopardizing his ability to do the job to which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does Ellison do? He pledges to quit his House seat if the party selects him as its next chairman.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to be a full-time Democratic Party chairman, which is a good thing if you&#8217;re a Democratic partisan. The party is in trouble, having lost the White House to Donald J. Trump and failing to gain control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2016\/12\/democrats-should-reject-congressman-as-party-chair\/<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that many Democrats had the same concern. They didn&#8217;t want Ellison to split time between serving his Minnesota constituents and tending to fixing a party in deep trouble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/309192-ellison-ill-resign-from-house-if-i-win-dnc-chair\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/309192-ellison-ill-resign-from-house-if-i-win-dnc-chair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;ll quit the House.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t presume he read the blog. It&#8217;s fair, though, to <em>ask<\/em> whether he maybe, <em>perhaps<\/em> saw it &#8230; or heard about it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t presume for one second, an instant, an eye-blink that U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison read my earlier blog post about his quest to become the next head of the Democratic National Committee. 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