Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) resigned her post as national chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), just ahead of the Democratic National Convention in late July. Her resignation became necessary in the aftermath of the release of nearly 20,000 e-mails by WikiLeaks, e-mails that revealed the blatant favoritism for Hillary Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders by the Democratic National Committee under her leadership.

Schultz supported Hillary Clinton over Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 battle for the Democratic Party nomination, but Obama named her national chairman of the DNC in 2011. Her actions in the position have been clearly designed to favor Clinton over Sanders. One glaring example was her scheduling only six debates between the candidates, and putting the debates at times that would be expected to draw smaller audiences, in order to compensate for Hillary’s perceived weakness in unscripted debates where she would face “live” scrutiny.

Another criticism of Schultz was in the way she handled the data breach of the Democratic voter database, in which access for Sanders’ presidential campaign was shut down. Just before the first caucuses in Iowa, in which Clinton won by the narrowest of margins, the DNC shut down access to its own voter file data for the Sanders campaign. The DNC and the Clinton campaign claimed that the San­ders campaign had stolen Clinton voter file data. An independent investigation confirmed that Sanders’ campaign was innocent of the charges, but the ugly accusations may very well have cost Sanders a win in Iowa. As far back as May, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski even demanded that Schultz resign over her bias in favor of Clinton. The proof of her bias finally came with the release of several e-mails that demonstrated the depths of the anti-Sanders position of the DNC under Schultz.

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