Violation: Deliberate Exclusion of Mandated Minority Groups
The formation script documented organizers' knowledge that the committee was 'missing representation from... Latino's, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans,' yet they proceeded with the formation.
The 2020 DNC agreement required a specific sequence: first, establish minority caucuses, and second, allow those caucuses to select their representatives for the committee. Organizers inverted this process. They formed the committee and installed its leadership before the Latino, AAPI, and Native American caucuses existed, denying those communities any role in the selection of their own representatives.
ConsequenceThree racial communities were denied their right under the MOU to select their own representatives. The committee's legitimacy was compromised at the moment of its creation.
- Only one of the four required racial diversity caucuses existed at the time of the committee's formation.
- Organizers proceeded despite the script's own admission that key communities were not represented.
- The script even designated a representative for the Latino caucus, a group that had not yet been formed.
- This inverted process violated the MOU's core 'caucus-first' mandate.