In February, outspoken gun control activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and he almost immediately began to advocate strongly for not just internal party reforms but also competitive primary elections to oust "ineffective" Democratic incumbents.

Hogg's push to upset the Democratic Party's applecart did not go over well with others at the DNC, and that organization voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to nullify Hogg's victory and redo the vice chair election, Breitbart reported.

That effectively removes Hogg from the influential position he held, and though he was supposedly encouraged to run again to be a DNC vice chair, at least one report suggested that he would refuse to do so following the embarrassing ouster.

Hogg removed as DNC vice chair

Axios reported that approximately 75% of DNC members voted on Wednesday to vacate the February election that resulted in anti-gun activist Hogg and Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta being selected as co-vice chairs of the organization, with around 25% voting to uphold those results.

That vote sets up a new days-long election over the weekend for DNC members to fill the two vice chair slots, ostensibly with Hogg and Kenyatta initially facing off against each other for one position, followed by a second election in which the loser will run against several female candidates who lost in February's election for the second seat.

However, the outlet noted that a spokesperson for Hogg said that the ousted vice chair will not participate in the electoral redo, effectively ceding the two open positions to Kenyatta and one of the female candidates.

Hogg set about stirring up trouble at the DNC

Hogg first gained a level of fame and notoriety as an anti-Second Amendment gun control activist after he exploited the tragic 2018 mass shooting at his Parkland, Florida, high school, but eventually broadened his political repertoire to include a variety of progressive issues, which seemingly earned him sufficient leftist support to win a vice chair position with the DNC.

His brief tenure quickly became problematic with other DNC leaders, including Chairman Ken Martin, when Hogg announced in April that a separate partisan activist group he led, Leaders We Deserve, would spend upwards of $20 million to fund primary challengers against "ineffective" Democratic incumbents in generally "safe" blue districts, according to Axios.

That prompted Martin to issue an ultimatum to Hogg in May, Politico reported, to either pledge to remain neutral throughout the Democratic primary season or step away from his vice chair position.

As part of a lengthy X thread explaining the importance of DNC neutrality in primary elections, Martin scolded those like Hogg who were influencing and siding with challengers to run against incumbents and insisted, "Party officers have one job: to be fair stewards of a process that invites every Democrat to the table -- regardless of personal views or allegiances."

Hogg actually ousted over a procedural technicality

Technically, according to a New York Times report in May, Hogg's open advocacy for primary challenges against Democratic incumbents is not the reason why he was ultimately ousted from his vice chair position at the DNC.

Instead, Wednesday's vote by DNC members was the result of a decision by the DNC's credentials committee to call for an electoral redo after one of the female candidates who lost in February, Kalyn Free, complained of alleged incorrect parliamentary procedures and the DNC's "gender parity rules" during the February election that, in her view, placed the female candidates at a "disadvantage" to the victorious male candidates.

At the time, Hogg acknowledged the procedural reasoning underlying the call for a redo of the vice chair election, but observed that "it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party, which loomed large over this vote," and added, "The DNC has pledged to remove me, and this vote has provided an avenue to fast-track that effort."

As for Kenyatta, who won his vice chair seat with more support than Hogg in February and did not act to disrupt the Democratic Party's status quo, he expressed his deep frustration at the time about the impending vote to also vacate his victory, which he derided as "a slap in my face."