Thread by @ppolitics

Notice how all the tweets and news stories tonight about the DNC Platform Committee votes don't include links to roll call of the ~164 voting members?

That's because @TheDemocrats decline to release a detailed list of DNC members and their committee affiliations. But at @Sludge,

We obtained a copy of the full 447 voting DNC members, who make up the majority of 771 superdelegates, and got their committee affiliations.

We've been working our way through DNC committees: Exec, Rules, Budget, Resolutions, and coming next, Credentials:
readsludge.com/category/elect…

We've been reporting conflicts of interest among the 447 DNC members with corporate clients in heavy-lobbying industries. In February, our review found that over one-third of the 47 Executive Committee members works as a corporate lobbyist or consultant:

readsludge.com/2020/02/24/top…

Example of the DNC's institutional opposition to single-payer #MedicareForAll: James Roosevelt III, the longtime chair of DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, was a board member of @AHIPCoverage—a founding member of the dark money @P4AHCF, created to stop M4A.
readsludge.com/2020/02/28/cor…

The current leadership of @TheDemocrats is so averse to basic transparency, and cares so little about accountability to party members, that it does not offer shareable roll call links of its votes to reporters. Maybe people would start asking questions...
readsludge.com/2020/03/26/tom…

Why doesn't the DNC have an ethics policy and budget review process on par with other private corporations?

Why does the party spend tens of millions on Perkins Coie, which also lobbies for oil companies, and keeps other clients like Amazon & Big Pharma?

readsludge.com/2020/03/25/top…

After Tom Perez edged out Keith Ellison in the contest for DNC Chair, he "purged" several party leaders who supported reforms like independent budget oversight in favor of his at-large slate—adding a literal News Corp lobbyist to the Resolutions Committee:
readsludge.com/2020/05/20/her…