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PROBLEM: Donna Brazile . (Joe Raedle/Associated Press)
On Thursday  former Democratic National Committee interim chair  Donna Brazile  made a surprising revelation: An August 2015 agreement gave Hillary Clintonâs campaign partial control of the DNC months prior to Clinton winning the nomination. The âagreement was not illegal â  Brazile  writes  âbut it sure looked unethical.â The news reignited a debate among politicos and activists over whether the DNC influenced the Democratic primary. Whether the primary was âriggedâ or just business as usual though  Brazileâs allegations are only the latest evidence of the Democratic Partyâs troubles  and why the party establishment is ill-equipped to solve them.
Start with something that  Brazile âs article doesnât touch on: the electoral record. At the federal level  Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress. The GOP House majority is at its largest in 70 years. Though two-thirds of the Senate seats contested in 2016 were held by Republicans  Democrats only gained two seats  losing races against very vulnerable GOP incumbents. At the state level  Republicans are at their strongest since the 1930s. Republicans control both the state legislatures and governorships in 24 states  compared with Democratsâ five. The GOPâs ruthless exploitation of gerrymandering â aided by its control of so many states â has helped increase GOP control  but much blame still lies with Democratic leaders.
Here is what you need to know about the political storm sparked by  Donna Brazile 's allegations against the Clinton campaign. (Amber Ferguson Melissa Macaya/The Washington Post)
Then thereâs the financial mismanagement. Money troubles for the DNC are hardly unprecedented  but the struggles appear to have worsened considerably in the past few years.  Brazile  says that the partyâs monthly expenditures had doubled in the previous five years  in large part because of former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and President Barack Obama keeping expensive consultants on the payroll. (Given Democratsâ electoral failures  what these consultants were doing is anyoneâs guess.) Of course  itâs in  Brazile âs interest to blame things on  her  predecessor. But a former senior party official independently confirmed the troubles to the Interceptâs Ryan Grim  adding that the DNC was unable to make payroll in August 2015 and was âapproaching the equivalent of bankruptcy.â

SOLUTION: Donna Brazile

PROBLEM: BOSTON (AP)  â Gloria Steinem  has called President Donald Trump the "harasser in chief" on the opening night of a sold-out women's conference in Boston.
The feminist icon on Wednesday night addressed the wave of sexual harassment allegations against some of the nation's most powerful men.  She  said the actions were about power  not sex  and women are gaining their voices in a way that has never happened before.
FILE - In this Oct. 7  2015 file photo  Meryl Streep appears at the premiere of the film "Suffragette " at the opening gala of the London film festival in London. Streep   Gloria Steinem   Viola Davis and others are headlining a sold-out women's conference in Boston.  Steinem   a feminist icon  and the Academy Award-winning actresses are scheduled to participate in the 13th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women. It opens Thursday  Dec. 7  2017  at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center against a backdrop of expanding allegations of sexual misconduct against prominent men in Hollywood  politics and the media. (Photo by Grant Pollard/Invision/AP  File)
FILE - In this Sunday  Aug. 6  2017  file photo  Viola Davis attends the Disney ABC Television Critics Association 2017 Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills   Calif. Davis  Gloria Steinem   Meryl Streep  and others are headlining a sold-out women's conference in Boston.  Steinem   a feminist icon  and the Academy Award-winning actresses are scheduled to participate in the 13th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women. It opens Thursday  Dec. 7  2017  at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center against a backdrop of expanding allegations of sexual misconduct against prominent men in Hollywood  politics and the media. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP  File)

SOLUTION: Gloria Steinem

PROBLEM: NEW ORLEANS (AP) â LaToya Cantrell  a City Council member who first gained a political following as  she  worked to help  her  hard-hit neighborhood recover from Hurricane Katrina  won a historic election Saturday that made  her  the first woman mayor of New Orleans.
"Almost 300 years  my friends. And New Orleans  we're still making history "  Cantrell  told a cheering crowd in  her  victory speech.
The leader in most polls before the runoff election   she  never trailed as votes were counted.
 Her  opponent  former municipal Judge Desiree Charbonnet  conceded the race and congratulated  Cantrell  late Saturday. Later  complete returns showed  Cantrell  with 60 percent of the vote.
But  Cantrell  will face lingering problems. Crime is one. Another is dysfunction at the agency overseeing the city's drinking water system and storm drainage â a problem that became evident during serious flash flooding in August.
 Cantrell  faced questions about  her  use of a city credit card. Charbonnet had to fight back against critics who cast her as an insider who would steer city work to cronies.
Katrina was a theme in the backstory of both candidates.  Cantrell  moved to the city from California.  Her  work as a neighborhood activist in the aftermath of Katrina in the hard-hit Broadmoor neighborhood helped  her  win a seat on council in 2012.
Charbonnet  from a well-known political family in New Orleans  was the city's elected recorder of mortgages before  she  was a judge. In the campaign  she  made a point of saying  hers  was the first city office to re-open after Katrina  providing critical property records to the displaced.
 Cantrell  entered the race as the perceived front-runner  leading in fundraising and in various polls.  She  had an 11 percentage point lead in a poll released last week by the University of New Orleans. It showed 46 percent of 602 voters surveyed from Nov. 1-8 favored  Cantrell  over Charbonnet  who had 35 percent; 20 percent were undecided.
UNO political science professor Edward Chervenak said the endorsements appeared to help  Cantrell  overcome revelations that she had used her city-issued credit card for thousands of dollars in purchases without clear indications that they were for public purposes. The money was eventually reimbursed but questions lingered about whether she had improperly used city money for personal or campaign expenditures.

SOLUTION:
LaToya Cantrell