The ugly side of the Democratic National Committee has been laid bare in the release of internal emails, and a series of them show staffers accusing a high-profile fundraiser of playing the “race card.”
“Level with me about Hala?” Hillary Clinton campaign staffer
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Roitman was referring to Hala Hijazi, a San Francisco-based fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats.
“Welcome to our nightmare,” Stowe wrote in response. “I would just ignore her as much as possible and tell your team to do the same if she is being toxic.
“Has she used the race card yet?”
“she escalates to dennis all the time,” Roitman wrote in return. “and yes, we’ve seen that card. this week it’s ‘people hate working with all of you b/c you are so inflexible’ (re: she wants whatever she wants without raising)…i mean if that’s the worst thing she can say…fine.”
“She has been pulling the race card with me for years,” another person wrote in response.
Hijazi appeared in several other emails, such as when she contacted the DNC with the goal of visiting the White House on July 4th.
“I have never been and would like to attend especially this year,” she wrote on May 12.
A response did not appear in the Wikileaks database.
She was also on a series of emails related to arranging a visit by the Golden State Warriors basketball team with President Obama.
Star player Draymond Green emailed Hijazi and Stowe regarding details.
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