Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Acting Just Like the Villain Bernie Sanders Says She Is

The Sanders campaign is reacting to the DNC’s incredibly punitive response as another instance of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s DNC treating all non-Clinton presidential campaigns unfairly and generally making a mess of the primary process. This shouldn’t excuse the members of the Sanders campaign who did, in fact, screw up. The campaign should come fully clean about what proprietary Clinton campaign information they do or don’t have.

But do they have a case that Wasserman Schultz’s DNC has generally facilitated the Clinton campaign throughout the cycle? Oh God, yes, and it’s no shock that the Sanders campaign and its supporters are treating this as a declaration of war.

Saturday night the Democrats will hold their third presidential debate. Saturday night is a night during which few people watch political television because they have plans to do actual fun things. It will be the Democrats’ second consecutive Saturday night debate, and it lands on the first Saturday night since either the Reagan or Carter administrations—depending on one’s tolerance for Ewoks—that a decent Star Wars flick has been playing in theaters.

It’s hard to see the sparse Democratic debate schedule as anything other than Wasserman Schultz protecting the interests of the Clinton campaign, which wants to eliminate the chance of its candidate getting roughed up ahead of the general election (or, you know, losing the nomination). When Wasserman Schultz’s vice chairs pointed out that this is stupid, they faced retribution...much more at the link.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/12/debbie_wasserman_schultz_s_dnc_has_been_incompetent.html

I agree that the person responsible for peeking at data should have been and was fired. Beyond that I don't know what appropriate sanctions should have been. But, going beyond the sanctions Hillary's team received in 2008 is on the face of it completely unfair.