10/11 News Roundup – Progressives Push For A Primary Challenge For Feinstein, The Fight For “Tuition Free College” & More
Hello friends!
Starting off with the TheProgressives Push for A Feinstein Primary Challenge:
Progressives are gearing up to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) after the long-time senator announced Monday that she will run for re-election next year.
Confirming her bid on Twitter, Feinstein vowed to keep working on “ending gun violence, combating climate change,” and addressing “access to healthcare.”
However, during her five terms in the U.S. Senate, the 84-year-old has also riled many progressives with her opposition to a single-payer healthcare system and her support for laws such as the Patriot Act and the FISA Act.
In a recent piece for Splinter, formatted as an open letter to the senator, Emma Roller captured a growing sentiment among California progressives:
Let’s face it: You are a hawkish, centrist Democrat in a state full of voters that have become much more liberal than you have shown yourself to be. Perhaps now would be a great time to retire and make way for a candidate who better reflects the views of your constituents?
Now that Feinstein has committed to running, though, constituents and even some other California lawmakers are calling for more progressive candidates to challenge her.
The article goes on to talk about potential challengers and such, but fails to mention that Feinstein already had a primary opponent for months, proud Democratic Socialist David Hildebrand:
https://youtu.be/TyaqAwZcw7s
More news/video/etc. in the comments section, including:
*Puerto Rico/US officials privately acknowledge serious food shortage
*Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland
*2017 on course to be deadliest on record for land defenders
*A Bernie Sanders campaign veteran advises a surging opposition movement in Russia
*Despite GOP Dereliction, Warren Vows to Fight for Program That Insures 9 Million Kids
*Pipeline Updates, Water Protector News & MOre
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
Also using this for my skip ahead with news that might not be missed if its higher up, as I am posting in no particular order:
Labor for Our Revolution
Oh, that sounds good. The lines are being drawn, aren’t they?
Fake progressive groups like CAP (Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden, Podesta) on one side, labor and real progressives on the other side.
Did you see this?
Here is the list of CAP’s current board members:
I know some of those names of course, but picked one out that I wasn’t familiar with and looked him up, purely randomly. Well, if there’s something Mr. Glenn Hutchins is good at, it’s getting himself onto a lot of boards! Including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and The Brookings Institution, which has written in support of charter schools.
Also, Hutchins goes way back with the Clintons,
and also Obama. This article from 2013:
Oh what a tangled web..
Pretty sure the Susan Sandler mentioned at the end of this is the same one on your list. Daughter of Herb Sandler,
The Sandler Way: Where Big Philanthropy Meets the Art of Common Sense
and then..
Podesta paid $7,000 a month by top donor
The CAP board is made up of Clinton cronies Just like the DNC. In fact they are entrenched everywhere much to chagrin of actual progressives.
Occupy activists and Sanders-backed progressives are fighting (and winning!) local elections across the USA
Ranked choice sounds good, anyway. I’ll have to read up on it to be sure there aren’t hidden cons.
Ranked Choice from the way I’ve heard it described via Thom Hartmann, can be a damn good thing.
Not sure if this is accurate (it is the internet afterall), but heres some details on who has ranked choice and when they started:
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv_in_us_elections
Thanks! Maybe this has to come before we get the good stuff passed, eh?
Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy By Katrina vanden Heuvel
The “establishment Democrats” only want to contest in districts when they are in control and can control the outcome. Quite the losing strategy.
The how to lose 1000 seat without really trying strategy.
Video of Bernie’s College For All rally can be seen in @Magsview‘s liveblog just under this roundup.(thanks mags!).
Bernie Sanders: One thing needs to change in order to make America ‘great’
Sanders: To Lift ‘Outrageous’ Burden of Student Debt, Time for Tuition-Free College for All
Wonder what the average loan debt is for seniots (thinking it’s high).
Ben Jealous wants tuition-free college in Maryland. His plan is like Sanders’ ‘College For All’ bill
Everyone can of course feel as they wish, but I for one am no longer spending any time on Randy Bryce. If an article pops up, I’ll post it, but that’s pretty much it.
Remember this?
Randy Bryce Dodges Forum with Democratic Primary Challenger, Cathy Myers
well @Ironstache who ive tweeted to for weeks about this and have been ignored (but who I mentioned positively in a post yesterday and got a like from) apparently just does not want a forum with his opponent, but has time to tweet about:
Iron? That stache is made of glass.
So sad to smell the bad odor coming from that one. I wonder if Susan Sarandon, who seems relatively savvy overall, is still pitching for ‘stache’?
https://twitter.com/Evil2System/status/912759170478129152
She probably signed up for stache early b/c of his support of MFA–prolly hard to switch later. but yeah, bummer.
Well there was a very big push to get Bryce out early and on all the tv shows and in all the magazone interviews which totally overshadowed her announcement, and since then they do everything they can do hide Myers till she is out of funds. Its ruined my once positive opinion of Bryce and is true ‘bro’ism’. Other Dems should be ashamed for not speaking up/out.
I have a real problem voting for someone whose afraid to debate, who knows maybe he’s not good at it.
True. Wonder if she is encouraging him to fight. Hope she reads TPW!
In twitter conversations Ive encouraged her to at least go a cardboard cutout route if nothing else fails. She has the most LOCAL endorsements, if all of them showed to a cardboard cutout event, it would surely make some press and make Bryce at least look bad, which at this point despite his republican opponent, he should.
A Bernie Sanders campaign veteran advises a surging opposition movement in Russia
The whole world that not only sings It’s a Small World, but actually acts that way–now that would be awesome! I hope he and others can do this thing
Somehow something smells a bit fishy with regards to him. his wife works in the State Department.
More info about him can be found here.
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/19/a-sanders-campaign-adviser-was-a-russian-vitali-shkliarov-speaks-out/
It certainly would create a significant progressive bridgehead if Bernie and Jeremy could lead their respective countries. One can dream!
Heads would explode in the US thus expediting the need for Berniecare for all to be the law of the land in the US, GBR has it already
Democrats, please primary Dianne Feinstein — just avoid pitfalls of Clinton vs. Sanders
Garcetti, Harris shaking trees for Feinstein re-election bid
Harris is actually quite close to Feinstien, politically. I don’t for a minute believe that she would fight for progressive ideals. So many writers nowadays just take politicians at their pre-election word when they write about them.
Now, of all times, it makes no sense to take any politician at their word.
As Feinstein Announces Re-Election Bid, Democratic War Looms
Theres quotes from TOP in this article.
It’s debatable whether Hell even carried the state. Which reminds me, where are you, CA Dem?
And who says Harris represents women of color in Cal? Many POC would say otherwise.
I miss CA Democrat, anyone know where he posts at these days?! Im sure he could tell us how many millions of votes they have left to count from the primaries.
Yes! :O)
What happened during the (still on-going?) course of the 2016 CA Dem primary was insane. Such huge amounts of uncounted, or ridiculously slow-counted, ballots!
Harris seems to be just fine dashing around protecting the barricades around the status quo. She’s not even being subtle about it. Not a good look.
CA120: Bernie voters stay angry at Dem establishment
POLITICO is such a RW rag. It’s disgusting that they’re insulting George McGovern, but no surprise. 🙁 I wish/hope someone brings up re-establishing votech (vocational technology) schools again. They were a great choice for kids who didn’t want to do college. The CA fires are awful. Climate change is one culprit. The other is the greedy over-development of areas that are naturally fire prone. It’s the same greedballed thinking that FL endures with the building in flood plains. LD, watch your snail mail. T and R to the usual suspects!! 🙂
Good morning orlbucfan!
The over-development in Texas is crazy, and I assume its just as bad elsewhere. Here we seem to have something against building upwards, so everything keeps expanding outward, meaning more highways, more walmarts every half mile, etc etc.
I’ll keep an eye out for that socialist delivery system, many thanks!
You nailed it:
Here’s Why Wildfires Will Only Get Much, Much Worse
McGovern is loving Bernie from heaven. Failing that, he would have absolutely loved Bernie. The two men I’m most proud of canvassing, etc. for.
Apparently, the New Republic has a bit more of the scoop:
Clintonian Democrats Are Peddling Myths to Cling to Power
Read the rest here.
https://newrepublic.com/article/145241/clintonian-democrats-peddling-myths-cling-power
I recognize the various strains not only at Vox but at TOP. I haven’t seen this appear yet at TOP, but we’ll see if the article gets any traction there.
Regarding George McGovern, while it is true that he was a last minute candidate put on the ballot in 1968, it was Gene McCarthy who loomed larger for progressives, especially to keep Wallace away. So really, this is a false narrative started by the Clinton/Establishment wing.
And they wonder why Trump won. May win again if there are only scraps offered at the table. Being anti-Trump is not enough.
‘An Inferno Like You’ve Never Seen’: Deadly Wildfires Ravage California
Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland
Puerto Rico: US officials privately acknowledge serious food shortage
Harvey Weinstein allegations mount as wife condemns ‘unforgivable actions’
Half of police killings not attributed to officers, says study using Guardian data
The deaths I’m interested in are the ones caused by the cops that think their judge ,jury and executioner, Some cops have regressed to a Judge Dread mentality. These incidents put the cops that do their job professionally in jeopardy. I know several that do that everyday.
I remember when watching Westerns on TV the sheriff could shot a pistol out of the hand of the outlaw. Now law enforcement seems only to “shoot to kill” never to just wound or disable.