One doesn’t often hear about the College Democrats of America (CDA) unless they’re protesting some alleged microaggression on campus, but apparently the organization is in disarray.
The organization is “in turmoil,” according to Politico, which <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/college-democrats-of-america-dnc-522864">reported</a> that the “group’s leaders are publicly firing off accusations of anti-Blackness, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism at each other” largely based on things they tweeted when they were younger teens – years before college.
“Impeachment proceedings are now in the works against the organization’s new vice president, Nourhan Mesbah, who is Muslim. College Democrats say that screenshots of tweets that their peers sent in adolescence spread rapidly through group texts, which already caused a student running for president of the group to withdraw their candidacy in September. And national advocacy groups for Muslim and Jewish Americans are now weighing in with criticism,” Politico continued.
A Democrat familiar with discussions within the Democratic National Committee (DNC), told the outlet that the national Democrat organization is considering disaffiliation with the CDA and instead partnering with the state groups that fall under the national college organization. As Politico reported, CDC members insisted the internal strife was part of a necessary dismantling of systemic racism, but other Democratic officials told the outlet it looks like a bunch of woke kids playing politics in a destructive way.
“They are caught up in their own drama and playing ‘Boys State’ government,” the Democrat official told Politico. “They think they’re the hottest s&#8212; on Earth.”
The unraveling began in September after a 2014 tweet from former CDA vice president Tasneem Ahmad Al-Michael, a Muslim, caused him to abruptly withdraw from running for president. The tweet allegedly included a racial slur and was posted when Al-Michael was 15.
“What I said as a 15 year old prior to being in politics was ignorant, inappropriate, and flat out wrong,” he told Politico. “It doesn’t define me, my character, or invalidate the work that I continue to do.”
Mesbah was running for vice president at the time, and narrowly won after a 2016 tweet she had written using an anti-semitic slur was revealed the night before the election. Mesbah was 13 when she wrote the tweet while watching a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. She blamed the debate on the “yahood,” which Politico noted was an Arabic word sometimes used as an anti-Semitic slur. To make matters worse, Mesbah also tagged a user who had a history of writing anti-Semitic tweets.
After winning, Mesbah consulted with the DNC on releasing a statement, which contained no apology in the initial draft. After many edits, it still didn’t contain an actual apology, but rather shifted blame for her actions: “I apologize for my words in 2016. My comment was in no way rooted in malice or anti-semitism, especially as a 13-year old, relatively new immigrant from North Africa, with a different regional dialectic linguist comprehension.”
She also said, “while I take responsibility for my actions, I am hurt by the Islamophobia and xenophobia that continues to unfold.”
The CDA board then passed a resolution to censure Mesbah and require her to “undergo training about antisemitism and cultural sensitivity from the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.”
She has yet to take that training.
Last week, the person who took over Mesbah’s former role as the CDA’s director of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), Jeremy Ward, released a report calling for Mesbah to resign, insisting that her tweet was anti-Semitic and that there was no basis for her claims of Islamophobia. Ward’s report also accused Mesbah of exhibiting “a pattern of discrimination against members of the black community, specifically black women,” but it didn’t include examples, claiming that was done so no one would face retribution or harassment.
Now two factions have been created, with one side demanding Mesbah resign and the other accusing Ward and others of a political hit job. Mesbah, naturally, blamed the situation on Islamophobia.
Several well-known Muslim groups have offered support to Mesbah and immediately accepted her accusations as “credible.”

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College Democrats In Disarray: Accusations Of Bigotry Fly, DNC Considering Disaffiliation

College Democrats

The Massachusetts state Democratic Party claimed it couldn’t comment on vague sexual misconduct allegations against congressional candidate and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse.
But as The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/">reported</a>, the state party was working behind the scenes to launch the allegations against Morse, according to sources who spoke to the outlet, as well as messages and call records.
“The documents show that the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s executive director Veronica Martinez and chair Gus Bickford connected the students with attorneys: among them was the powerful state party figure and attorney Jim Roosevelt, who worked with the college group on a letter alleging Morse behaved inappropriately,” the outlet reported.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-democrats-attack-congressional-candidate-for-consensual-sexual-relationships">reported</a>, Morse was accused of having sexual contact with students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches political science. The only problem is that Morse has not been accused of sexual harassment or assault, and UMass-Amherst policy merely forbids relationships between faculty and students they actually teach, advise, or supervise. Morse has not been accused of carrying on a relationship inappropriate under university policy.
The College Democrats claimed Morse would use their events to meet students and contact them on social media, though Morse said he only reached out to a student once following that event. In that incident, Morse and the student had previously connected on the dating app Tinder, but never met in person. That student shared screenshots of his conversation with Morse, which showed no inappropriate discussions.
The student who orchestrated the attack on Morse had told numerous other students that he expected to get an internship with incumbent Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA).
On August 13, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/massachusettsplaybook">reported</a> that Massachusetts Democratic Party chair Bickford had called for an investigation into “the conduct of College Democrats who leveled the allegations against Morse.”
But it appears the state party helped orchestrate the dubious allegations against Morse.
The Intercept reported that the party’s executive director, Martinez, repeatedly reached out to the College Democrats since at least late July and took “an active role in directing the group on the strategy behind the letter before and after its release, including coaching on how to interact with the press.”
Also on August 13, the College Democrats apologized to Morse, claiming they wrote the letter “on the advice of legal counsel.”
This week, the Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/alex-morse-massachusetts-college-democrats-destroy-records/">revealed</a> that not only did Martinez coordinate with the students, she also told them to delete records of her conversations with them. Martinez was accused of verbally telling students to delete the records, but the Intercept obtained call records that “line up with the timing, and other statements from Martinez on the timeline and her involvement have also been proven wrong by documents reviewed by The Intercept.”
Martinez denies telling the students to destroy communications. Those communications were not properly deleted, as the Intercept used them as evidence for their multiple stories on the Morse situation.

Alex Morse

Massachusetts Democrat Party Allegedly Helped College Democrats Falsely Accuse Congressional Candidate Of Sexual Misconduct

Democratic Party

Massachusetts

College Democrats at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst set a plan in motion last October they thought would damage the campaign of Alex Morse, a rising progressive star who was taking on incumbent Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA). Part of the plan included connecting with Morse – an openly gay man – on dating apps to try to get him to say something that could be used against him during the campaign.
Last Friday, the student group sent a letter to Morse saying he was no longer welcome at their events. They then released the letter to the college newspaper and released a statement claiming Morse “sought out students that he met at our events privately on social media, in a manner widely understood by our generation to indicate intimacy.”
Despite claiming Morse reached out to students on social media after multiple “events,” they later had to clarify that he only attended one College Democrat event – at a local community college – after he declared his candidacy. They later told a reporter for the Huffington Post that he attended several events prior to his campaign, though Morse says he only reached out to a student after that single event, which took place in October 2019.
The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/">obtained online communications</a> among the College Democrats showing that it was after that event they hatched the plan to target Morse’s campaign. The student who led the effort – the group’s chief strategist and then-president Timothy Ennis – openly declared his hope to obtain an internship with Neal’s congressional office once he defeated Morse.
That fateful day on October 5, Morse and Neal appeared at an event hosted by the College Democrats. Ennis, then a student in Neal’s journalism class, introduced the congressman. Ennis claimed in online discussions with fellow College Democrats that Neal reached out to say he was impressed with the event. During the event, Morse was on a panel with Andrew Abramson, who would later become president of the College Democrats. The Intercept reported that Abramson and Morse had matched on Tinder (as in, they both indicated an interest) but never previously met.
After the event, Morse reached out to Abramson on Instagram, and the two had a casual conversation that Ennis would later claim could “sink [Morse’s] campaign.” For the record, the two allegedly damaging screenshots shared by Abramson contain the following exchange:
<blockquote>Abramson: “Thank you! Good to see you too.” [blushing emoji.]
Morse: “How’s the rest of your weekend?”
Abramson: “Pretty good I went home last night to surprise my mom for her birthday [how bout you]?”
Morse: “Aw that’s nice. How was that? I had an event to go to last night to speak, then had a wine tasting at a friends house. Now I’m in North Adams to march in a parade.”</blockquote>
Abramson shared these messages with his fellow College Democrats, saying, “Not overt but it’s very clear he’s not talking to me for no reason.” He added, “Also don’t mind me totally leading him on.”
Abramson continued to chat with Morse for several more weeks after he shared the screenshots with Ennis.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-democrats-attack-congressional-candidate-for-consensual-sexual-relationships">reported</a>, Morse was accused of vague sexual misconduct. Nothing specific was lodged against him. The claims appeared to be that Morse, as a lecturer at the university, dated students – but not his own students – and reached out to College Democrats on social media “in a manner widely understood by our generation to indicate intimacy.” The screenshots above apparently show this “intimacy.”
UMass-Amherst forbids faculty from carrying on consensual sexual relationships with “any students or postdoctoral researchers they teach, advise or supervise.” To date, Morse has not been accused of sleeping with his own students.
Matt Taibbi <a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-new-puritans">reported</a> that the College Democrats tried to use Morse’s position as evidence itself of a power imbalance, even though one of the students who was apparently affected by this imbalance didn’t even learn of it until after his relationship with Morse ended.
After the College Democrat story was published, Morse reached out to Abramson to apologize if he made the younger man feel uncomfortable. Abramson blocked Morse.
The student group denied Ennis’ ambitions to work for Neal were behind the letter against Morse. HuffPost reporter Daniel Marans reached out to the College Democrats and <a href="https://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1293679564439392258/photo/1">received answers to some questions</a>, including claims that the letter “was not politically motivated.” The student group claimed to Marans that the letter “was written at the direct request of students who were personally made uncomfortable by the Mayor’s behavior.”
Morse has been the mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, since 2011.
The Intercept, however, reported that this claim is untrue:
<blockquote>The implication that the letter was the collective work of the members of the chapter is false, however. It was written by leadership without input from the members, according to messages provided to The Intercept from the organization’s GroupMe chat. The day after the Daily Collegian published the letter, a member of leadership sent the following message: “Hello everyone. I’m sure some of you saw the article about Alex Morse and letter udems and other orgs sent to his campaign. I’m sure many of you are confused and even disappointed. If anybody needs support or wants to talk about it the udems eboard is here for you.”</blockquote>
After The Intercept story published, the Morse campaign sent out a press release suggesting a connection between the Neal campaign and the attacks against Morse. Kate Norton, a spokesperson for Neal’s campaign, told MassLive on Monday that the UMass-Amherst students were not working with the Neal campaign, but called the students who coordinated the dubious attack on Morse “courageous.”
“No. The College Democrats independently came forward, and our campaign commends these courageous students,” Norton said in response to Morse’s claim that the Neal campaign coordinated with the College Democrats.
In its press release sent Thursday, the Morse campaign bragged that it had raised $130,000 in a single day – the day The Intercept published its story about College Democrats working to harm Morse’s campaign.
“The campaign received upwards of $130,000 in contributions on Wednesday alone, fueled by supporters across the country who see this attack for what it is: a failed attempt to ruin the reputation of a bold, progressive challenger who has what it takes to beat Richie Neal, the recipient of more corporate money than any other Democrat in Congress,” the press release stated.
The $130,000 represents more than one quarter of what the Morse campaign has raised since July 1. The campaign also shared that an internal poll showed Morse 10 points behind Neal, but with 20% of voters still undecided.

Online Communications Reveal College Democrats Conspired To Ruin Campaign Of Gay Congressional Candidate

Alex Morse was a rising Democrat star until last week when college Democrats began attacking him for consensual sexual relationships.
Morse became the first openly gay mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 2011 when he was just 22. Last year, he announced he would run for congress against incumbent Democrat Rep. Richard Neal.
As Matt Taibbi <a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-new-puritans">reported</a>, college Democrats last week wrote a letter to Morse saying he could no longer attend their events. They later released a letter accusing him of “having sexual contact with college students, including at UMass Amherst, where he teaches, and the greater Five College Consortium.” Morse taught political science at UMass-Amherst and has not been accused of sexual assault.
As Taibbi noted, UMass-Amherst forbids consensual sexual relationships between faculty and “any students or postdoctoral researchers they teach, advise or supervise.” Morse has also not been accused of sleeping with his own students, meaning he hasn’t violated school policy or abused his “power” as a professor.
The college Democrats, however, have created a new definition of “power,” which, according to Taibbi, “reads like a parody of post-millenial paranoia.” The college Democrats seem to be most opposed to the fact that Morse met students at their events.
“Mayor Morse came to College Democrats of Massachusetts events and got to know our membership, and then sought out students that he met at our events privately on social media, in a manner widely understood by our generation to indicate intimacy,” the student organization wrote.
Taibbi noted that the college Democrats essentially defined “communicating on social media as a kind of sexual act.” They went further, explaining that adult students lacked the agency to ignore his message because he was a professor.
“We have heard ​countless​ stories of Morse adding students to his ‘Close Friends Story’ and Direct Messaging members of College Democrats on Instagram in a way that makes these students feel pressured to respond due to his status,” they wrote.
“Mayor Morse is a widely-admired and well-connected gatekeeper to progressive politics in Massachusetts and nationally, which makes the task of refusing his advances fraught for college students who wish to enter progressive politics themselves… the Mayor’s various positions of power create a significant and undeniable power imbalance between himself and the college students he sought out… where such a lopsided power dynamic exists, consent becomes complicated,” the college Democrats added.
Taibbi explained:
<blockquote>This is not a sexual harassment issue in the classic sense of someone who actually has power over someone else, for instance in the workplace or in a classroom. The concept here is that students who might “wish to enter progressive politics” will feel uncomfortable refusing, or even just not answering, so mighty a personage as the Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, for fear of what that might do to their job prospects someday, in a field they have not even chosen yet.
Therefore, just as a child or, say, a St. Bernard cannot consent to sex, neither apparently can an adult college student with an uncertain job future. And given that consent is “complicated” when such a “lopsided power dynamic” comes into play, it’s no wonder that the actual encounters could be harrowing – even when, as the Boston Globe explained, the victims were not even aware of that “power imbalance” at the time.</blockquote>
One student who had a sexual encounter with Morse, the college Democrats wrote, didn’t even know he was a mayor or a lecturer at the university, and only felt uncomfortable after learning that information.
As Taibbi concluded, this should serve as a warning for anyone who works or teaches, that they should not engage in sexual relationships with students where they work no matter how disconnected from their position the students may be.

Students

College Democrats Attack Congressional Candidate For Consensual Sexual Relationships

Education

Practitioners of witchcraft have joined the cause of liberal student groups at the University of North Texas (UNT) in an attempt to remove a conservative student organization from the school&#8217;s campus.
As first reported by <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/metroplex/democrats-declare-war-on-conservatives-at-university-of-north-texas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Texas Scorecard</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/UntDemocrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNT College Democrats</a> joined LGBT campus group <a href="https://twitter.com/untglad" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNT GLAD</a> and &#8220;Chicanx/Latinx&#8221; student group <a href="https://twitter.com/vivamueve" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MUEVE</a> to write a Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/removal-of-the-young-conservatives-of-texas-from-unt-for-hateful-actions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">petition</a> demanding the removal of the UNT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT).
The petition, addressed to University President Neal Smatresk and signed by more than 2,500 people as of Monday afternoon, alleges that YCT &#8220;has shown a pattern of racism, transphobia, and homophobia throughout the 2019 through 2020 school year.&#8221; It goes on to cite examples of what they deem objectionable behavior, such as when YCT tweeted that &#8220;pronouns in your [T]witter bio isn’t a personality trait.&#8221;
Also listed is the time YCT encouraged students to celebrate National Coming Out Day by &#8220;coming out&#8221; as conservatives, as well as when they made a point about affirmative action by holding a bake sale that charged different prices based on the customer&#8217;s ethnicity. Claiming &#8220;these actions have hurt numerous organizations, minority groups, and the well being of harassed students,&#8221; the petition maintains that &#8220;YCT needs to be held accountable for said transgressions.&#8221;
Various iterations of YCT have existed since the organization was first founded in 1980. Its chapters across Texas &#8220;participate in a variety of activities, including campaigning, political activism, informing the general public on a variety of political topics, and much more,&#8221; <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/commentary-conservatism-under-fire-on-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> Kelly Neidert, who is the chairman of the chapter at UNT, which was reinstated in Fall 2019 after being dissolved in 2005.
Screenshots provided to The Daily Wire of tweets and direct messages sent to YCT and Neidert show that the campaign against the organization took on a more ominous tone when alleged witches began claiming to invoke otherworldly forces against them. &#8220;It started with, like, one,&#8221; Neidert told The Daily Wire. &#8220;But now there&#8217;s like 30 of them threatening me.&#8221;
In one since-deleted tweet, &#8220;Anna Katz, a recent graduate of UNT, tweeted a picture of a drawing of a goat captioned ‘the devil’ and a cauldron. Katz, who later removed the Tweet, could not be reached for comment,&#8221; as reported by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/student-invokes-satan-to-drive-conservative-group-from-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Free Beacon</a>. Katz informed Neidert that she was performing a ritual with &#8220;intentions of misfortune&#8221; against her, but qualified her hex by explaining that it was not intended to induce &#8220;physical harm.&#8221;
Other tweets sent to YCT depict images of menacing Tarot cards, one of which shows an image of death, which a user interpreted as predicting imminent downfall. Other messages expressed overtly satanic sentiments.
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&#8220;I prefer the attacks that are just like name calling and that sort of thing,&#8221; Neidert said. &#8220;The whole witch stuff, it hasn&#8217;t really freaked me out, but it&#8217;s been concerning. I think that it&#8217;s alarming that there are this many young adults who find that acceptable.&#8221; As a Christian, Neidert views the witchcraft being used against her and her organization as &#8220;pure evil, especially when they make references to Satan and they think it&#8217;s funny.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not funny, and I&#8217;m definitely more concerned for them than I am for myself, if they think that&#8217;s okay,&#8221; she added.
A spokesman for UNT College Democrats told <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/student-invokes-satan-to-drive-conservative-group-from-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Free Beacon</a> they had no comment on the hexing but stood behind their petition, which they said was not in response to YCT&#8217;s politics. &#8220;This is not a choice made by political decision, we do not care that they are conservatives, we would do this if any group on campus was spreading the rhetoric YCT spreads,&#8221; they said.
A spokesman for UNT GLAD echoed the College Democrats and said they would begin an emailing campaign if the administration fails to respond to the petition&#8217;s demands. The University of North Texas did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
Since the election of President Donald Trump, occultists have grown increasingly brazen in ceremonially cursing their political opponents. Shortly after Trump&#8217;s inauguration, self-proclaimed &#8220;magical thinker&#8221; Michael M. Hughes published a &#8220;mass spell to bind Donald Trump and all those who abet him,&#8221; which went &#8220;internationally viral&#8221; to become &#8220;the largest magical working in history,&#8221; according to his <a href="https://www.michaelmhughes.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>.
Since then, many have performed Hughes&#8217; spell repeatedly during <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39090334" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">waning crescent moons</a> with the intention of removing Trump from office. He later published &#8220;Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change,&#8221; which offers &#8220;ideas for altars, meditations, community organizing, self-care, and [&#8230;] a toolkit for magical people or first-time spellcasters who want to manifest equality and peace.&#8221;
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It&#39;s finally here! MAGIC FOR THE RESISTANCE: RITUALS AND SPELLS FOR CHANGE is on store shelves and shipping from online retailers. Ask for it at your local bookseller or order online: <a href="https://t.co/JjnB5ENBig">https://t.co/JjnB5ENBig</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BindTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BindTrump</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MagicResistance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MagicResistance</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WitchHunt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WitchHunt</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M4TR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#M4TR</a> <a href="https://t.co/cU503saxYv">pic.twitter.com/cU503saxYv</a>
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Shortly after contentious confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, witches made headlines when they repeatedly gathered to hex him at Catland, an occult bookstore in Brooklyn. In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/179836286297165/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement on Facebook</a> advertising the ritual to the public, Catland wrote, &#8220;We are embracing witchcraft’s true roots as the magik [sic] of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it’s [sic] history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him.&#8221;
Father Gary Thomas, the Catholic exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, held a special Mass in response to hex, telling <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/catholic-exorcist-holding-special-mass-counter-witches-hex-kavanaugh-1176666" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Newsweek</a>, &#8220;The decision to do this against a Supreme Court justice is a heinous act and says a lot about the character of these people that should not be underestimated or dismissed. These are real evil people.&#8221;
During the protests that erupted last month in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death, videos offering instruction for performing rituals of protection for protesters went viral on the TikTok app under the hashtag &#8220;#BLMWitches,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/11/black-lives-matter-surprise-supporters-mitt-romney-gushers-elmo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Guardian</a>. One of the witches told <a href="https://www.bustle.com/wellness/witches-on-tiktok-support-black-lives-matter-with-spells-hexes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bustle</a>, &#8220;Hexes and curses can be used to slow police down — witchcraft is all about manipulating the supernatural to your will.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-satanic-temple-threatens-to-sue-mississippi-if-god-mentioned-on-state-flag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Satanic Temple Threatens To Sue Mississippi If God Mentioned On State Flag</a>

Witchcraft

‘Pure Evil’: Conservative Student Organization In Texas Under Attack From Witches And Liberal Student Groups

College Republicans

Occult

Texas

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Last week, the young Latino woman who was the president of the College Democrats of America, which has 500 chapters and 47 state federations, resigned after a series of events in which the board’s only black member claimed the organization’s leadership was racist and he resigned. Federations associated with the organization demanded the young woman&#8217;s resignation. She urged other board members to resign, and she appointed the young black man vice-president, paving the way for him to replace her when she later resigned.
Matthew Nowling, formerly the group’s communications director, wrote an open letter in late June announcing his resignation. It was signed by 17 federations and the number of signatures mushroomed within hours, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/college-democrats-president-resigns.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a> reported. That prompted another <a href="https://medium.com/@coalitionofstatefeds/an-open-letter-to-the-college-democrats-of-america-d5ba54fb9ae1">open letter </a>on June 30 from a coalition of state federations in which they wrote:
<blockquote>Matthew Nowling should not have had to resign. The treatment Matthew described in his <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewNowling/status/1277021941568864256">statement</a> and in his <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewNowling/status/1277398695894560774">testimony</a> at the “town hall” by the current Executive Board was abhorrent and inexcusable. Matthew brought attention to the shared experiences of so many POC who consider themselves part of this organization — that the College Democrats of America leadership turns a blind eye to racism and classism in the national leadership.
Real change in this organization is long overdue, and our coalition of state federations, standing with Matthew, have the following demands of the current Executive Board and asks of the National Council. If our immediate demands are not met, and commitments to reforms are not made by the national leadership within forty-eight hours, our federations will leave the College Democrats of America, cut all ties with the organization, and denounce it in its current form.</blockquote>
They continued with a list of demands, including: “The immediate resignation of College Democrats of America President Tikaela Guido,” a commitment from the current Executive Board to eschew “running for a position in the upcoming elections or any after and to commit to not accepting any appointments for national leadership,” that the Executive Board would “not proceed with appointments to fill vacancies until the National Council has the opportunity to review and extensively vet potential appointees,” and &#8220;that the Democratic National Committee conduct independent election monitoring of the upcoming College Democrats of America elections and all elections after.”
Guido, a law student at the University of Florida, issued an email in which she defended herself, writing, “What I do not stand for is being labeled a racist or complacent in racism. The gross mischaracterization that I contributed to this environment is unequivocally false. Moreover, these unsubstantiated claims of racism towards me have an appearance of being used as a front for personal disagreements, which is morally reprehensible.”
The next morning she stated, “I may not be the person that membership feels represents them currently, and I may need to make space for someone who does,” later adding she would “slow down, reflect on my mistakes and spend time with family.”
Nowling stated that in a different organization, his concerns might “have been brushed under the rug, and I would have simply resigned and nothing would have changed.” He continued, “This is not just a College Democrats of America thing. This is a broader societal issue, and I just happened to have a platform where when I spoke out about it, people took action.”
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