Tulsi Gabbard, DNC vice chairwoman, says she was disinvited from Democratic debate

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Sunday that the party would welcome Biden into the presidential race he made a decision to jump in.

Gabbard said she’d watch the debate from her district in Hawaii.

This DNC scuffle is reported in the NYT story D.N.C. Officer Says She Was Disinvited From Debate After Calling for More of Them.

Gabbard’s chief of staff reportedly spoke with Wasserman Schultz’s chief of staff about the congresswoman’s attendance on Tuesday after her MSNBC appearance. Although KITV4 was unable to reach Wasserman Schultz, DNC press secretary Holly Shulman told CNN that Gabbard was asked to simply “focus” on the presidential candidates instead of the debate schedule.

“They basically said that because of my continued disagreement with the chairwoman that I shouldn’t go to the debate in Las Vegas as I had previously been invited and had planned to go”, said Gabbard.

O’Malley, lagging in polls, has forcefully pushed for more debates. Sen.

“A$3 paper on polarization and inequality released in August by political scientists from Princeton, Georgetown, and the University of Oregon…provides a few empirical evidence that Democratic Party’s leftward drift is more pronounced than the GOP’s rightward drift, at least at the state level”, The American Interest recently observed.

Sanders’ campaign has also called for more debates, as has fellow Clinton challenger and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) claims she was disinvited from Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate after arguing that the party should hold more debates in the 2016 election season. “The opposite has occurred here and I think it’s unfortunate”, Gabbard said. This time, the candidates could be excluded from the sanctioned debates if they take part in ones that are not approved by the national committee.

That, courageous DNC person ordered to speak on behalf of Wasserman Schultz, is called uninviting someone.

“We would love to have debates: The more debates, the better“, he added.

With a gleeful media captivated by the inter-party turmoil going on in the Republican Party over the selection of a new speaker, how likely is it that this brouhaha is going to get much attention?

And privately, those close to the committee seem relatively unconcerned about grumbling over debate procedure.

Speaking of anonymous sources who want you to believe that words don’t mean their meaning, someone at The Los Angeles Times kept insisting that I hadn’t been “fired” as the paper’s cartoonist (evidently as a favor to the Los Angeles Police – tacky!).