Vermont senator Bernie Sanders issued a less confrontational statement on Thursday afternoon, saying: "I am disappointed, but not surprised, by the debate schedule announced by the Democratic National Committee.
But, despite O'Malley's complaint, it is hard to make a case that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman who heads the Democratic National Committee, is a boss or controls a machine, even if the debate schedule — four "authorized" debates before the Iowa caucuses, on February 1st, and just six in all — does skew suspiciously toward the already widely known Hillary Clinton.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the veteran journalist hopes news organizations steer the debate schedule next cycle.
On Friday came news of the third prong of these reforms: making the debate schedule less insane.
This time, however, there's a Democratic debate schedule most likely rigged to protect Clinton from endless focus on emails and servers.
Yes, some super-genius in Hell has decided that the debate schedule we've already had this year in the 2012 race for the Presidential Hoo-Hah has not been challenging enough.
The Republican National Committee reined in the debate schedule this election cycle after a bruising 20 debates in 2012, a nominating process that some in the party believe hurt the party going into the general election.
"Our problem that we've had in the party is that whoever's been chair has unilaterally made way too many decisions, whether it's the debate schedule" or other matters, Buckley said.
The "principles" Perez plans to employ include deciding the presidential primary debate schedule well before voting in the contests begins and making transparent to the public any joint fundraising agreements the DNC makes.
The campaigns of Hillary Clinton's two opponents agree that the debate schedule in many ways seemed designed to minimize interest in the debates and make it easier for the presumed inevitable Democratic nominee. .
"I don't think the books were cooked and if they were, they were cooked pretty badly because Hillary Clinton is a very good debater," Dean said of this cycle's debate schedule.
