Hillary Supporter Lanny Davis: Howard Dean Should Resign If He Nixed North Carolina Debate
Hillary backer Lanny Davis, the self-appointed raging id of the Hillary campaign (or one of them, anyway), pushed the envelope pretty hard in a Fox News interview a little while ago, saying that Howard Dean should resign as DNC chair if he had anything to do with killing the North Carolina debate.
Davis said:
If Howard Dean had anything to do with this he should resign as national chairman. He has compromised himself completely.
Asked if he thought Dean did in fact have something to do with nixing the debate, Davis demurred, and pivoted off the question into a denunciation of Obama.
As I've noted here before, the tensions between Dean and Hillary's top fundraisers and surrogates has simmered behind the scenes for weeks now over Dean's inability to get the Florida and Michigan standoffs resolved.
The other day, those tensions boiled over when Hillary's top donors teed off on Dean publicly for his suggestion that super-delegates should begin deciding who to support "starting now."
But no one in the Clinton camp had ever thought to use the "R" word -- "resign" -- until now.
Late Update: Here's the video:
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