{"id":21899,"date":"2025-02-16T00:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21899"},"modified":"2025-02-16T00:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T00:35:17","slug":"newly-elected-dnc-vice-chair-david-hogg-using-platform-to-solicit-donations-for-his-own-pac-insiders-say-doesnt-give-an-oink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21899","title":{"rendered":"Newly elected DNC vice chair David Hogg using platform to solicit donations for his own PAC, insiders say: \u2018Doesn\u2019t give an oink\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Hogg is being a pig, according to Democratic National Committee insiders who are already slinging mud at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/08\/us-news\/david-hogg-parkland-shooting-activist-elected-as-dnc-vice-chair\/\">new party vice chairman.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barely two weeks into his tenure, Hogg has been leveraging DNC contact lists to blast out messages soliciting donations to his own political action committee \u2014\u00a0from which he draws more than $100,000 in compensation a year, according to Federal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Hogg here: I was just elected DNC Vice Chair! This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base: youthful, energetic, and ready to win,\u201d reads one of eight texts he sent out to the DNC\u2019s vast database of phone numbers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"34945450\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34945450\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 896w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=279,300&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 279w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=768,825&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=549,589&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 549w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=462,496&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=576,618&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 576w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=440,472&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 440w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=263,282&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 263w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=180,193&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 180w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=66,71&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 66w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=65,70&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 65w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=186,200&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 186w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=231,248&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=322,346&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=300,322&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=411,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 411w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=56,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 56w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=54,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 54w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=145,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 145w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=150,161&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/youthful-energetic-ready-win-reads-98501458.jpg?resize=47,50&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 47w\" alt=\"A man with brown hair, believed to be David Hogg, engaging in political actions\" width=\"550\" height=\"590\" data-modal-image=\"34945450\" \/><figcaption>The DNC Vice Chair is aggressively raising money \u2014 for himself.<span class=\"credit\">David Miles Hogg\/Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Solicitation texts include a link to Hogg\u2019s \u201cLeaders We Deserve\u201d PAC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDavid Hogg \u2014\u00a0talk about living up to your name. A trough of DNC dollars all for him and he doesn\u2019t seem to give an oink,\u201d a top Democrat grumbled to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Hogg co-founded \u201cLeaders We Deserve\u201d in August 2023 with the stated goal of electing young progressives to Congress and state legislatures across the country. It also provided him a six-figure income job right out of college.<\/p>\n<p>Since the PAC was founded, Hogg has pocketed more than $175,000, records show, with more than $20,000 in salary payments coming in December alone, the most recent month for which public data is available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_0\" class=\"OUTBRAIN wp-block-nyp-editor-outbrain-keystone\" data-widget-id=\"KS_12\" data-src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us-news\/david-hogg-uses-dnc-platform-to-pump-own-leaders-we-deserve-pac\/\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\" data-idx=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>While it\u2019s not officially against the rules, personal PAC fundraising \u2014 instead of fundraising for the DNC \u2014 has rubbed some party brass the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s especially important for all Democratic national officials to focus on raising support for the party and not using their position to raise money for themselves or their personal political PACS,\u201d groused a second senior Democratic Party official. \u201cIt\u2019s a stunning lack of judgment that is concerning to many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old came to public prominence as a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/02\/14\/17-killed-in-florida-high-school-shooting-one-of-deadliest-in-history\/\">which left 17 people dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34945454\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5568px) 100vw, 5568px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 5568w, 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?resize=662,441&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?resize=90,60&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 90w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?resize=87,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?resize=150,100&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/rally-organized-stand-safer-tomorrow-97762353_e58be0.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" alt=\"David Hogg delivering a speech at an anti-gun violence rally in Boston, Massachusetts, organized by the Stand For A Safer Tomorrow\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" data-modal-image=\"34945454\" \/><figcaption>David Hogg first came to public attention as a survivor of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida.<span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hogg\u2019s appointment to the party\u2019s vice chair job at just 24 makes him arguably the most powerful Zoomer in the United States, but at least some members of the party were alarmed by his lack of experience and a long history of social media posts supporting far-left positions like<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/08\/us-news\/david-hogg-parkland-shooting-activist-elected-as-dnc-vice-chair\/\">\u00a0defund the police and abolishing\u00a0<\/a>the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean it\u2019s just very frustrating to be in a party in desperate need of increased accountability for our struggling leadership, and watch someone who is never held accountable ascend to leadership,\u201d said Cameron Kasky, a fellow Stoneman Douglas survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by phone Hogg told The Post he \u201cwas not doing any interviews\u201d \u2014 and then hung up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid has already raised money for the DNC since becoming Vice Chair, and many times before,\u201d a spokesman later emailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; David Hogg is being a pig, according to Democratic National Committee insiders who are already slinging mud at the\u00a0new party vice chairman. 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