Teacher’s union head Randi Weingarten resigns from the DNC
Raise your hand if you knew Weingarten was on the DNC in the first place. I certainly didn’t. But she’s apparently been a member of that group for 23 years. That’s a while.
Her stated reason for leaving:
Among those dissatisfied with Hogg’s departure and Martin’s leadership are Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.8-million-member American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, which represents approximately 1.4 million workers.
Their dissatisfaction ran so deep that both have severed long-standing ties with the DNC. In a letter to Martin dated June 5 and received on Sunday, Weingarten informed him she was declining his offer to be reappointed to the Committee.
She wrote, “While I am proud to be a Democrat, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent.”
You’re not enlarging your tent because your party has moved way to the left of most Americans – a position you yourself hold, so I’m not sure what your proposal for Democrat tent expansion would be.
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More specifically Weingarten’s resignation appears to involve a more personal reason — DNC Chair Ken Martin removed Weingarten from an important committee:
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According to the Times, neither Weingarten nor Saunders supported Martin in the DNC chairmanship race earlier this year. Instead, they backed his opponent, Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. After securing the position, Martin removed Weingarten from the DNC’s powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee, which oversees the calendar and procedures for the party’s presidential nominating process.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/dnc-chair-thought-david-hoggs-departure-would-end-his-woes-but-another-shoe-just-dropped/
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Ken Martin is a curious leader. According to one report I read, Martin was reduced to tears more than once while complaining how hard David Hogg was making Martin’s job. Sad!
Twitchy had some interesting information.
No wonder the Democrats did exactly what Weingarten wanted during COVID, kids be damned in their view (but they are the ones who will actually suffer that consequence).
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/06/16/randi-weingarten-dnc-n2414311
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Somehow the expression “rats deserting a sinking ship” comes to mind.
We have a spammer named Sophie.
And Leon’s getting larger.
I believe it was during a telephone conference call with Gov. Jerry Brown during his last term or two in office where he was caught on a hot mic that he believed had been muted. He says something to the effect, “Of course, we’re going to do whatever the California teacher’s union wants us to do.”
The CA teacher’s union effectively owns the Democrat party there. It strikes as somewhat irrelevant whether Randi is on the DNC or not. She no doubt has an ownership position there. At least if she is on the committee, then there is a tiny element of transparency. Although, it’s not that transparent if almost nobody knows it.
I’m just glad I’m not the only one confused by this.
Has Randi Weingarten ever in her life had any redeeming features?
I’m glad I got popcorn. This internal fighting with the Ds is great.
Weingarten, like Hogg, wants the Dems to move farther left.
Thats an Airplane reference btw
The founder of the uft al shanker was named checked by woody allen in sleeper
But where would randy go the workers party that might as well be a cipher even in gotham well they might support someone like mamdani who is the wrong answer to every question
AesopFan quotes Twitchy:
While Randi Weingarten is an attorney, she has also spent six years teaching.
Wiki: Randi Weingarten.
Thanks Sophie — most of my best ever job leads have come from someone’s Blogspot.
Has Randi Weingarten ever in her life had any redeeming features?
She claims, without evidence, that her mother loved her.
The gal who was the running mate to charlie cheetah when he ran against desantis second time around was head of the dade teachers union a lefty of colombian roots (she was soundly defeated)
@ Gringo – obviously she didn’t learn much about ethics or civics.
That may be why she moved into law.
@ Huxley: “… Martin was reduced to tears more than once while complaining how hard David Hogg was making Martin’s job. Sad!”
I presume we really do want the DNC and the Dem Party to be reduced to babbling incompetence, losing members and voters as they careen further Left – if that is even possible.
But at some point, if we are going to actually address our horrendous debt/deficit situation, we are probably going to need some reasonable and responsible folks in the Dem Party to reach across the aisle for help in making the hard choices necessary with our very divided citizenry.
A LOT of rice bowls will need to be reduced or broken, although pain and sacrifice can be “hidden” by inflation – except too many people recognize that “solution” is also not a real one.
Right now I agree with Physicsguy that we want to go Conon the Barbarian on them, but someday we will need an Appomattox on this (still) cold civil war.
Da lamentations of da women- check.
“She claims, without evidence, that her mother loved her.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvOMYu5EeHs
I’m leaving one of “Sophie’s” spam comments up, in order to have the reactions still make sense.
But I’m in awe of “Sophie,” one of the few remaining clever spambots. The spam filter is pretty darn good at filtering out about 100 spam comments a day here. But “Sophie” has somehow eluded it – so far.