Another Black Conservative titles his story:
Well what do you know; Nancy Pelosi can create jobs after all
Brilliant! I wish I wrote that.
For those of you who wondered what was all the fuss about. James Clyburn, an African American congressman wanted to keep his job as the Whip of the Democrat Party.
This is the present House leadership.
Speaker of the House-Nancy Pelosi
The Majority Leader legislation-Steny Hoyer
House Majority Whip-James Clyburn
However, since the Democrats shellacking on Election Day, they’ve lost control of the House which means 3 leadership seats are reduced to 2 because the Democrats will become the minority party. Nancy Pelosi seeks to stay as Minority Leader and that leaves 2 people Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn for the remaining position of House Whip which Clyburn already holds.
This led to a nasty fight between White congressman Steny Hoyer and African American James Clyburn who was about to get Kendrick Meeked and pushed to the back of the bus in deference to the White people.
How would that look to the 95% and up African American voter rate that the Democrats depend so heavily on?
The answer is a new minority set aside.
The Washington Post reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moved closer to retaining her top position among House Democrats on Saturday despite midterm losses that left the party with fewer seats than at any time since 1948
Running aggressively to be minority leader, Pelosi (D-Calif.) brokered a deal between her lieutenants to stay on in second and third leadership positions next year, defusing what had become a heated race for party control in the House.
In a letter Saturday afternoon to her Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said she would offer Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) the newly created position of assistant leader, keeping him as the third leader. She did not mention her internal rival, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), but her endorsement of Clyburn served as implicit support for Hoyer to serve next year as minority whip, the second-most senior leadership post.
Both men agreed to the deal, ending the contest between Hoyer, the current majority leader, and Clyburn, the majority whip, to see who could round up the most votes to be minority whip in the next Congress.
Rank-and-file Democrats must ratify this leadership team - the same leaders who oversaw the loss of at least 60 seats this month - in a secret ballot Wednesday morning. Because no other challenger has stepped forward, Pelosi is likely to keep her top position.
However, about two dozen Democrats have criticized Pelosi's decision to stay in power. This is a new development in Pelosi's eight-year leadership of the House Democrats - the first four as minority leader and the second four as speaker. During that time, she won broad support in the party for legislative accomplishments and for raising tens of millions of dollars to wage campaigns.
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