• pno2nr@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Ken Martin said it would be public then changed his mind. I think that’s why people are upset.

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      Ken Martin said it would be public

      Billionaire owned media definitely keeps saying it…

      The only sources I’ve ever seen, is Martin saying it will be released to “DNC members”…

      I’ve noticed a lot of people took that to mean “the public” but that’s only because they don’t understand what “DNC member” is…

      There’s only like 400 voting members, and I think the non-voting members are less than that?

      If you have a source of him saying he’d release it to the public, I’d love to see it. But honestly if I can’t find it, and none.of the many, many, people repeating that claim have been able to find it…

      I gotta say, not holding my breath

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        Stop spreading your bullshit about Ken Martin. I’ve personally seen people show you links that say he would publicly release this report and yet here you are saying you’ve never seen them. At this point the only logical conclusion is that you are intentionally spreading misinformation. Maybe you’ll remember this time:

        https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/ken-martin-elected-dnc-party-chair-00201938

        In brief remarks to the press after his election, Martin committed to publicly releasing a post-mortem of the 2024 campaign, which the DNC did not do after the 2016 election.

        That took me 60 seconds to find. Please say more about your thorough research into this topic.

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          11 minutes ago

          The quote from the author of the article:

          In brief remarks to the press after his election, Martin committed to publicly releasing a post-mortem of the 2024 campaign, which the DNC did not do after the 2016 election. Martin did not say how quickly the committee would execute the review.

          That does claim he said publicly…

          But look at the quote to support it:

          "There has to be some lessons that we glean on that so we can operationalize it, not just here in DC, but through all of the 57 state parties,” Martin said. “We’ve got to look backwards and look forward at the same time.”

          What about that says “we’ll publicly release it”?

          Why do you think that was the closest quote a billionaire owned media corporation could find?

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      3 hours ago

      Near as I can tell from the sources I’ve seen for that he actually didn’t but some news sites misquoted him to make it seem like he did. The actual quote was that it would be “public to members [of the DNC]” not to the general public. This got shortened to “he said it would be public” in reporting leaving off the very important detail that that was meaning a very specific audience. Ultimately he never should have used the word public it’s way too easy to misconstrue. He would have been better off if he had said “it will be freely available to the DNC members”.