Democratic Convention CEO Leah Daughtry Makes History, Represents Generations NBC News

The Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, the Chief Executive Officer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, is set to follow her own act. Daughtry, who is Pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Washington, DC. was also CEO in Denver in 2008, when the Democratic party undertook the exciting and awesome mantle of electing the country's first African American president.

Daughtry grew up in Brooklyn and is the first-born child of the Reverend Doctors Herbert abd Karen Daughtrey. Since 2005, Daughtry has also led the DNC’s outreach to communities of Faith, and was named by Religion News Service as one of the 12 most influential Democrats in the nation on faith and values politics and issues.

She already has plans to make next July's Philadelphia gathering "the most diverse and the most forward-looking convention that we've had in recent history," she told NBCBLK in a recent conversation. "We've got so much technology at our disposal, so many cutting-edge things that are on the horizon that really reflect the way the way people live and work and play in the 21st century."

"Every four years you've got to go back out and earn the vote. You've to go back out and organize people, and convince people that you deserve their vote," she said. "Not having Obama at the head of the ticket means that we've got a little extra work to do, more than we normally do."'

The resume of Rev. Leah Daughtry is truly inspiring and we are investigating her in more detail for AOC readers.

The Business of the DNC Convention The Atlantic

"Giving contracts to ethnic minorities, women, and LGBT-owned businesses aligns with the values of the Democratic party, and is an especially high priority since these groups make up its voter base, says Reverend Leah Daughtry, CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee. The committee has pledged to give at least 35 percent of its contracts to these groups. “When we talk about diversity and inclusion, it’s not just about voting, but about where we spend our dollars,” says Daughtry.

Historically, spending dollars on union labor was the hallmark of the Democratic National Convention Committee. After all, unions have been one of the Democratic Party’s biggest allies (and donors). But that alliance has sparked tensions in right-to-work states that have hosted the convention in recent years, like North Carolina. In these states, workers at unionized companies don’t have to join unions, weakening workers’ power to negotiate higher wages and job protections, and as a result making unions less prevalent. Local business owners in Charlotte criticized the DNC for expecting contractors to use union labor in a state where only 3 percent of workers are unionized. They told The Washington Free Beacon that they were unable to get contracts with the DNC because of this."

Politics Is A Big Trudge Up the Hill

Obama's 'Trudge up the Hill' joke wasn't really about Hillary. It was a Bernie Sanders dig VOX

In 2008, Hillary Clinton viewed Barack Obama as offering a naïve form of anti-politics, promising to transcend partisanship and forge common ground with Republicans rather than facing the reality of Washington. Eight years later, Obama has implicited conceded that Hillary was on point all along. "The truth is, in 2007 and 2008, sometimes my supporters and my staff, I think, got too huffy about what were legitimate questions she was raising," he told Politico's Glenn Thrush in January.

In 2016, Obama and Clinton are on the same page in thinking of politics as, in the words of Max Weber, " a strong and slow boring of hard boards" . Anyone who doesn't tell voters how difficult it's going to be is being downright reckless in today's political environment.

In a nutshell, Obama has big problems with the Sanders's theory of how politics works.