© PoliticoTom Perez
A lot of people believe this is political pay-back because these people supported Bernie or Keith Elison who ran against Perez.
To me, this theory seems strange because even if Tom was that petty, knows this move would leave the DNC free falling in popularity as any good will that the DNC had earned back from Bernie supporters would evaporate.
No, this wasn't petty revenge, this was desperation. The event that triggered this purge was the Unity Reform Commission.
The Unity Reform Commission (URC) has been working since 2016 trying to unify the party and make a set of rules that would make elections more fair and bring more people into the party. Made up of both Liberals and Corporate Whores (lobbyists) it's not really going well.
The Whores have been resistant to any inclusive policy like open primaries, reducing the power of super-delegates, or not rigging the election for establishment candidates.
The Liberals have been resistant to the idea the DNC should take any-and-every corporate bribe offered to them so the two factions have had a hard time agreeing on much of anything... but there was this one thing. Both the Whores and the Liberals agree that the DNC's budget and spending practices should not be a secret.
Right now only two people in the entire Democratic party get to actually see how the money is spent: Tom Perez as the Chair of the DNC and The Treasurer.
Now we need to look at who was removed from the party to understand the meaning behind what he did. There are two main bodies inside the DNC that were purged. The Rules and Bylaws committee and the Executive Committee.
Ray Buckley - Lost his place on the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee as well as the Executive Committee.
James Zogby - Removed from the Executive Committee and removed as Co-Chair of the Resolutions committee.
Barbra Casbar Siperstein - Removed from Executive Committee
Alice Germond - Former DNC Secretary, removed altogether from her At-Large appointment.
These were all high ranking people who had been in the democratic party for a long time. They had done nothing wrong and they were in the upper most levels of power which makes them dangerous.
They were in positions where if they actually saw the way the DNC spends money, they might expose the bribery, the kick backs, and the corruption.
These people were removed because Tom and the Clinton (Corporate Whore) wing of the party can't trust them not to flip the table once they saw the truth.
They were replaced with lobbyist and Clinton loyalists who could be trusted to protect the corruption.
For example, Donna Brazil was placed on the Rules and Bylaws committee which determines the rules for running the primaries and elections. This committee also chooses how the rules are implemented within the party.
You might remember Donna Brazil as the woman who had to leave CNN in shame and resign from her position as acting DNC chair for misconduct after it was exposed that she was emailing Hillary Clinton the questions for presidential debates early.
Why put such obviously corrupt and hated people in charge? Why drive away half the party again guaranteeing your loss across the board in 2018 and 2020?
My guess is that Tom knew if the Unity Reform Commission called on the budget to be made available to the Executive Committee then it would expose criminal wrong doing so he stacked the deck.
He replaced the people he couldn't trust on the Rules and Bylaws Committee with loyal drones who would then make the rules for who exactly gets to see the budget. Then he put people he can trust not to expose the crimes on the Executive Committee.
He'll have Donna Brazil say, "Sure, that makes sense that more than two people should be able to see the budget. We'll let the Executive Committee and ONLY the Executive Committee have access to the budget as well."
This way Tom doesn't have to explain why the budget is being kept a secret and there is no risk of anyone leaking the budget or exposing the crimes.
All the people on the Executive Committee are also implicated in the corruption. It's just like the mob except instead of killing snitches, they are killing democracy.
Comment: Shows the depth of corruption behind the scenes of the DNC and the lengths someone like Perez has gone to in order to contain its secrets.