Have you read Art Cullen's latest Op Ed about the DNC decision? Ouch.

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Democrats to Iowa: Drop dead

December 06, 2022
Art Cullen | Storm Lake Times Pilot


President Joe Biden’s orders to put South Carolina first on the presidential nominating calendar, and to displace Iowa, are perfectly understandable. Biden owed Rep. Jamie Clyburn, dean of South Carolina Democrats, for his seminal endorsement in 2020. Biden owes Iowa nothing, having placed fourth in the caucuses with a feeble effort. Iowa does not reflect national demographics. The caucuses are not fully accessible; they are cumbersome and fraught with confusion. We appreciate all that, except for two predicates that the Beltway talkers repeat ad nauseam:

-That Iowa is too White, with the implicit (and often explicit) suggestion that we are racist.
-That the Iowa Democratic Party messed up reporting results in the last cycle.

These are two frauds cooked up to put the caucuses to rest, a campaign underfoot since they rose to prominence 50 years ago. The big money that controls politics has never wanted the nomination to begin on a level playing field where candidates are actually forced to meet voters, and where an outsider like Barack Obama could vault to the White House.

Which brings us to the first predicate: How is it that lily Iowa can put Jesse Jackson in the front of the pack, and see Obama put a wrench in the gears of the Clinton Machine? That’s the real issue. Iowa allowed Black candidates to challenge the White corporate Democratic power brokers. It allowed Bernie Sanders to rise to the top with a call for Medicare for all — a huge threat to the Wall Street funders of Democratic leadership.

Those same brokers, acting through the Democratic National Committee, forced the Iowa Democratic Party to use a flawed system designed by pals of the DNC and the Clintons. The Iowa Democratic Party took the fall because it does not control the message to the East Coast media — the corporate Democrats do. The party did the best it could with a confusing process built to fail by people outside Iowa. The DNC rejected a plan drafted by John Norris and other Iowa Democrats that would have provided accurate and timely results. That Iowa failed to do its job is a deception concocted by those who were committed to seeing some other state go first.

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Art Cullen is the publisher and editor of the Storm Lake Times Pilot. He won the the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2017 and is the author of the book “Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper.