thing is, it’s more than 2. it’s joe and others, too. people are beginning to understand this and imo, it hurts him to parrot this. it feeds the neoliberal view on who to hate while the corpses win.
i’m a little hot bc i just had some strife with a woman im Close to who keeps trying to get me to read Heather Cox Richardson I finally just said let’s agree to disagree on this but the damage was done and I shouldn’t of brought it up we have been talking for a long time about other things and we were both tired.lol. so taking it out here. ty.
Amen, brother Futurist! On a more positive note, I just got back from wandering over to c99%. They post a weekly photo diary that I’m hooked on. 🙂 Every now and then they’ll post tunes. They did Weather Report whom I love. Their “Birdland” is a classic. And so’s this one:
We could have everyone getting electric cars, subsidized by the government, greatly increased trains, even air trains or monorails, people don’t have to keep on driving gas guzzlers by any means. As Stephanie Kelton would say it’s all about the policies.
President Biden issued a suitably blunt statement last week in support of striking Kellogg’s workers, who faced the threat of being permanently replaced by the cereal company that has decided to ditch its cheerful Frosted Flakes image and play union-busting hardball. Unfortunately, corporations are going to need more than a push from the president to clear the way for workers to organize unions and negotiate for fair pay and workforce protections.
For that to happen, the Democratic-led Congress must enact the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a comprehensive set of labor-law reforms that, among other things, would prevent employers from firing and permanently replacing workers who are on strike. A bipartisan majority in the House already approved the measure in March. But, as with so many other vital pieces of legislation, filibustering Republicans in the US Senate are now blocking the act from advancing through the chambers. And Democrats have failed to muster the majority needed for a filibuster-busting rules change.
Every filibuster delay in this Congress is troublesome. But the failure of US lawmakers to take up the PRO Act is especially frustrating because, in addition to being widely popular with the base of voters that elected Biden and gave Democrats control of the Senate, it is necessary at a time when corporations like Amazon and Kellogg’s are seeking to game the system in order to undermine the collective bargaining rights of working-class Americans.
While it is well-established that unions strengthen worker power on the job and reduce inequality, a new report out Wednesday shows that higher unionization rates are also associated with improved conditions outside of the workplace, including better access to healthcare, paid leave, and the ballot box.
“Unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increases in pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions,” said Asha Banerjee, economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and co-author of the report. “But the benefits of unions extend far beyond the workplace. The data suggest that unions also give workers a voice in shaping their communities and political representation.”
To document the correlation between organized labor and various indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being, researchers at EPI compared Census Bureau data on minimum wages, median annual incomes, access to unemployment insurance, lack of health insurance, Medicaid expansion, paid sick and family leave laws, and voter suppression laws in states with “high” (13.5% to 24.7%), “medium” (8.3% to 13/3%), and “low” (3.2% to 7.7%) levels of union density.
All 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia were sorted into three equally sized categories based on their average level of union density—defined as the percentage of workers in a state who are members of a union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement—from 2015 to 2019. The past two years were excluded “to avoid any potential distortions related to the… Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing recession.”
Echoing an extensive body of research, EPI’s analysis underscores the positive economic benefits that correspond with unionization.
“The 17 U.S. states with the highest union densities have state minimum wages that are on average 19% higher than the national average and 40% higher than those in low-union-density states,” says the report.
Striking workers said they were excited for Sanders to join them on the picket line.
Damion Kreger has worked at Kellogg’s for over 12 years and says he’s always been a supporter of Sanders.
Kreger said when his wife heard the news, she rushed to make Sanders a gift.
“She instantly knitted him a hat with a handwritten note saying, ‘From Battle Creek with love, from union members with love. We appreciate you, thank you for the support, feel the Bern,'” said Kreger.
A worker said Sanders would be out on the picket line with them Friday afternoon.
Later, a rally was planned in downtown Battle Creek at the Festival Market Square at 3 p.m.
All told, it’s difficult to imagine something more darkly symbolic of a decadent ruling class than a multimillionaire member of Congress mounting a transparently self-interested defense of political insider trading. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did this week when asked about a proposed ban on members and their spouses holding and trading stocks while in office.
“This is a free market, and people — we are a free market economy,” Pelosi said during a weekly press conference. “They should be able to participate in that.”
The “they” in Pelosi’s formulation is certainly doing interesting work. Like many things about the United States’ “free market economy,” stock ownership is a kind of liberty most familiar to people with money: some 89 percent of adults in households earning $100,000 or more reportedly own it compared with less than a quarter of those in households earning less than $40,000. Pelosi was referring more specifically to members of her own profession and their staffs: a group that, when taken together, represents a much narrower sample of the population — not to mention one much closer to key economic decisions and legislative changes.
Members of Congress tend to be far wealthier than the general population, and it’s common practice for many of them to own and trade chunks of the very economy they’re tasked with managing and overseeing. At just over $46 million in net worth, Pelosi is herself among the richest members of Congress — ranked fifteenth overall, thanks in part to her husband’s holdings in the likes of Slack, Tesla, Disney, Visa, Salesforce, PayPal, Alphabet, Facebook, and Netflix, all of them major corporations that spend untold millions every year to lobby the government.
It’s a clear and visible conflict of interest, and the kind of thing that wouldn’t be allowed in a functioning democratic society. And, as recent history quite clearly shows, it’s one that quite easily leads to naked abuses of power.
There are many documented cases of federal lawmakers trading stocks in industries they oversee while holding important committee assignments. Several US senators infamously off-loaded a smorgasbord of stock following a classified briefing about the potential economic impact of the coronavirus — and instances like these are almost certainly just the tip of the iceberg.
The case for banning the trading or ownership of stocks among members of Congress is straightforward and has been made many times by the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As the former put it in May: “Every senator, member of Congress, president, Cabinet secretary, federal judge, and other senior officials in charge of writing the rules for our financial system should not be able to own or trade individual stocks.” “We are here to serve the public, not to profiteer,” argued AOC earlier this year, adding, “It’s shocking that it’s even been allowed up to this point.”
Both have a point. But considering the overbearing influence of money on America’s government and both of its major political parties, nothing about the current rules is even remotely shocking. The campaign finance system, to take an obvious example, is essentially legalized corruption. Retired politicians and staffers regularly cash in on their time in office, settling into plum corporate gigs and leveraging the personal networks they built while ostensibly public servants for individual gain.
Against such a backdrop, the practice of allowing sitting lawmakers to own and trade stocks seems no less outrageous but becomes decidedly less shocking. Much of the corrupt behavior that occurs regularly in Washington is, in effect, perfectly legal and out in the open: so much so that it can even elicit spirited defenses from the country’s most powerful elected officials.
Had a chat the other day at work with someone I’d never discussed politics with before-turned out he’s an R and he regularly argues with his D sister about politics.
Then he tried to peg me, so I bluntly told him, “I’m a lefty”, and his face went into shocked mode, and he sputtered something about how lefties think everything should be “free!”.
I waved dismissively and said that’s just a talking point, and that Republicans are idiots (re: that talking point), which got me his shocked face again.
He incredulously asked me, “You like Democrats??”. I said I didn’t like either of them and that both parties are bought and paid for.
That’s when he brought up Pelosi’s accumulation of wealth on her relatively modest salary, which was something we could both agree on. So corrupt.
Nancy Pelosi does her party no favors feeding at the trough the way she does.
She’s an awful figurehead for Democrats and generates voter apathy about hope for change to a less corrupt system. Her corruption makes a mockery out of any claims the Democratic party (as a whole of course, a few are okay) makes about building a more just and equitable society.
A judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.
In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York found that federal bankruptcy law does not give the bankruptcy judge who had accepted the plan the authority to grant that kind of release for people who are not declaring bankruptcy themselves.
The ruling is likely to be appealed by the company, family members and the thousands of government entities that support the plan.
A Purdue spokesperson said Thursday evening that the company was preparing a statement. Representatives of the two branches of the family who own the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who was among a handful of state officials seeking to have the deal undone, called the ruling “a seismic victory for justice and accountability.” Tong said the ruling will “re-open the deeply flawed Purdue bankruptcy and force the Sackler family to confront the pain and devastation they have caused.”
The Sacklers, who made billions addicting Americans to deadly opioids, abused the bankruptcy system to avoid accountability. I applaud the court’s decision to reverse this settlement that was wrong on the law. This is a major step toward justice.https://t.co/Ley2ylnvNo
T and R, and thank you, jcb!! 🙂 Three cheers and major kudos to Judge McMahon! My cynical self has been following this one in NC. Just finished Sam Quinone’s latest read on Fentanyl and other so-called “designer” drugs, and he talks about the Sacklers. That family is nothing more than a gilded gang of mass murderers. Mebbe they’ll get stripped of their ill-gotten $B$, and we’ll finally see some justice.
Vulnerable House Dems to DCCC: You’re jeopardizing our reelection
“This is a real f—ing problem.”
That’s how one vulnerable House Democrat summarized growing discord between members in battleground districts and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That member and five others POLITICO spoke with in the past week alleged that the Democratic organization whose purpose is to help the party keep the House next year is instead hurting their chances of reelection. The members were granted anonymity to speak freely about their frustrations with the strategy DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) has adopted in dozens of competitive districts. Their complaints fall roughly into three categories.
1. Botched messaging Universally, the members said there’s been too much talk about Donald Trump and not enough focus on pocketbook issues. Terry McAuliffe banged the anti-Trump drum constantly on his way to losing the race for Virginia governor. But at-risk members we spoke with worry that Maloney is still embracing the Trump-as-boogeyman strategy, blasting Republicans as extreme for seeking his blessing or otherwise supporting him.
“This is crazy to me that the DCCC is rolling out a playbook that they know doesn’t work and that they encouraged people in 2018 not to use,” said the member who dropped the f-bomb to describe the situation. The person argued that in 2018, the committee gave the opposite advice — focus relentlessly on pocketbook issues and let Trump’s antics speak for themselves — and Democrats flipped more than 40 seats to take the chamber.
The messaging issues extend beyond Trump. As cases challenging Roe v. Wade have reached the Supreme Court, the DCCC has sent dozens of press releases attacking Republican candidates and lawmakers for opposing abortion rights. But one front-liner called abortion “a lightning rod” in their district — and said the DCCC should steer clear of it as a campaign issue.
“We should leave it up to Planned Parenthood and all the reproductive organizations to get in there and support candidates that are pro-choice and leave it at that,” the member, who like other vulnerable Democrats supports abortion rights, said. “I’m not going to go out there and start bashing people for being pro-life. It would be a big mistake in my district.”
2. Jamming them on policy Former DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos (Ill.), who represented a Trump district, was known for pushing back on leadership in private in order to protect vulnerable members from tough votes. But Maloney has taken the opposite tack: In August, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi was trying to corral moderates to vote for a $3.5 trillion budget, the DCCC infuriated members by threatening to withhold campaign money from them if they opposed the resolution. (The DCCC denied this.)
Then this fall, Maloney routinely sided with leadership over at-risk members who wanted Pelosi to allow a standalone vote on the infrastructure bill. He attacked one of the members, Josh Gottheimer, on Twitter after the New Jersey Democrat criticized Pelosi for “breach[ing] her firm, public commitment” to do so.
One member relayed another anecdote: During the fall, liberal outside groups spent millions on TV ads pressuring vulnerable House Democrats to back Build Back Better. The members pleaded with the DCCC to get the groups to back off, but committee officials refused. (The DCCC says it’s illegal for the committee to tell an outside group how to spend money.)
3. Frustrations with the DCCC chief Maloney often says he understands the travails of front-liners firsthand: Trump barely won his district in 2016 — though Biden carried it by 5 points in 2020. But several of the members he’s charged with protecting don’t see it that way, and argue that his more left-leaning views are coloring the work of the committee.
“What’s problematic is not only is he pushing the wrong strategy. … The biggest problem is that he’s attacking front-line members for taking a different perspective,” the first lawmaker said. “If you want to win purple and red seats, you have to distance yourself from other Democrats. He is a part of this ‘party purity’ march that is just going to ensure that we are deep in the minority.”
Several of the members suspect Maloney is trying to use his DCCC perch to climb the leadership ladder — essentially raising his own profile at the expense of their political fortunes. Doing the job right, these members say, means sometimes having to back them over progressive members in safer districts.
“I think Sean Patrick’s ‘leadership’ — and please use air quotes on that — at the DCCC is the reason why we should not have elected colleagues running that organization,” said the first member. “Because it’s not about protecting the majority; it’s about Sean Patrick Maloney. … We’ve got a vanity project.”
The DCCC strongly refutes any suggestion that Maloney is focused on anything but keeping the majority. The committee sent a dozen examples of Maloney saying in interviews that at-risk members will win by highlighting their legislative achievements.
“We agree completely, this election will be won on our record of results, not by talking about Trump,” said DCCC spokesperson Chris Hayden. “That’s why Chairman Maloney has been fighting like hell to pass the president’s transformative agenda, which enjoys supermajority support in swing districts.”
The committee asked vulnerable Democrats to send POLITICO positive statements about Maloney. About a half-dozen did, and so did Pelosi. “Sean is an incredible leader who listens to front-line members on our battle-tested strategies for success and encourages us to run the best campaigns for our districts,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.).
The DCCC certainty was useful to help the $hill and Byedone when Bernie is was running.
What a load of BS!!!!!!!!!! These so-called “Dimocrats” keep running as GOPuke Lite and guess what?! The voters sit home or vote for the real GOPuke!! I’m talking about you, Stephanie Murphy!! I didn’t vote for your worthless GOPuke arse 2 years, and I sure as h3ll’s bells won’t next year! I’m voting for several issues: declaring climate change a code red emergency, supporting unions, M4A, and fixing public education including supporting VoTech. They don’t support it, see ya.
In the 1970s the British government accused CIA Whistleblower Philip Agee of being a Russian agent, using the same formula for the character assassination of Julian Assange decades later
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021 is key to resolving our supply chain crisis, and taking on the ocean shipping cartel that has clogged up our ports.@ddayen explains more 👇https://t.co/7BBzNH0U16
— American Economic Liberties Project (@econliberties) December 17, 2021
Inflation is peaking at 6.8 percent. Real wages are falling, particularly among the middle class. Republicans smell blood, hoping to make rising prices the centerpiece of their midterm strategy. Democrats have pointed their own fingers, accusing the opposition of rooting against the economy for political gain rather than helping to fix the problems.
Given all this, you could have easily overlooked that the most focused legislation to alleviate a key driver of inflation passed the House last Wednesday with 364 votes.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021 (OSRA 2021), the first update to ocean shipping rules in nearly 25 years, begins to reverse a punishing 1990s-era deregulation in the maritime portion of the supply chain. It’s unique in several ways: an anti-monopoly initiative from a federal government that has at best tolerated and at worst actively promoted monopolies for decades, a sharply bipartisan effort in a polarized and toxic Congress, and an expansion of regulatory power to structure markets that breaks with a federal bias toward self-regulation and laissez-faire posturing.
And “it all began in an almond orchard and a rice field,” its co-author told me.
NC has been watching this, too. I have one complaint: quit growing almonds in a da##ed desert, So. CA. They need water and it’s killing the aquifers there.
..Biosphere 2, a unique center affiliated with the University of Arizona that’s part of a movement aimed at reimagining and remaking agriculture in a warming world. In the Southwest, projects are looking to plants and farming practices that Native Americans have long used as potential solutions to growing worries over future food supplies. At the same time, they are seeking to build energy resilience.
“We’re taking Indigenous knowledge,” said Greg Barron-Gafford, a professor who studies the intersection of plant biology and environmental and human factors. But instead of relying on tree shade, “we’re underneath an energy producer that’s not competing for water.”
On both sides of the Arizona border with Mexico, scientists are planting experimental gardens and pushing the potential of an “agrivoltaic” approach. Thirsty crops such as fruits, nuts and leafy greens — which require elaborate irrigation systems that have pulled vast quantities of water from underground aquifers and the Colorado and other rivers — are nowhere to be found.
The Tohono O’odham have farmed in the Sonoran Desert for several thousand years. Like many Indigenous groups, they now are on the front lines of climate change, with food security a paramount concern. Their expansive reservation, nearly the size of Connecticut, has just a few grocery stores. It is a food desert in a desert where conditions are only getting more extreme.
“The key concept,” he said, “is that we’re trying to fit the crops to the environment rather than remaking the environment.”
polarbear4
this looks like a good bill to lessen the power of shipping (at least ocean) shipping cartels.
It is actually delusional to believe Dems can get re-elected without acting on filibuster or student debt, Biden breaking his BBB promise, letting CTC lapse, 0 path to citizenship, etc
Esp when they run from convos abt race+culture (which is what 1/6 was abt)
To secure votes for the Bipar Infra Bill, Biden *himself* came to House Progressives & told us was putting his credibility on the line to deliver BBB if CPC voted BIF.
They trusted him. I didn’t think he could promise the Senate. He promised anyway. It’s time for him to deliver.
wpDiscuz
Best part by Bernie and its true. “And you have two Democrats who, in my view, are kind of acting like Republicans.” IMHO thier not acting –they R
thing is, it’s more than 2. it’s joe and others, too. people are beginning to understand this and imo, it hurts him to parrot this. it feeds the neoliberal view on who to hate while the corpses win.
i’m a little hot bc i just had some strife with a woman im Close to who keeps trying to get me to read Heather Cox Richardson I finally just said let’s agree to disagree on this but the damage was done and I shouldn’t of brought it up we have been talking for a long time about other things and we were both tired.lol. so taking it out here. ty.
Thats what were here for, to get on the soap box rant, let of steam and feel just a little better 🙂
thanks again. 💫🎄🐋
pb4, hope my tune pick helps. 🙂
It helped me. Hope it was good for pb4 too.
Amen, brother Futurist! On a more positive note, I just got back from wandering over to c99%. They post a weekly photo diary that I’m hooked on. 🙂 Every now and then they’ll post tunes. They did Weather Report whom I love. Their “Birdland” is a classic. And so’s this one:
Great music. This is the version I grew up with.
looks good!
We could have everyone getting electric cars, subsidized by the government, greatly increased trains, even air trains or monorails, people don’t have to keep on driving gas guzzlers by any means. As Stephanie Kelton would say it’s all about the policies.
John Nichols
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/kellogg-workers-biden/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/16/unions-make-life-better-work-and-beyond-new-report-shows
https://wwmt.com/news/local/thank-you-for-the-support-feel-the-bern-kelloggs-strikers-gear-up-for-sanders-visit
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/congress-owning-trading-stocks-corruption-aoc/
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1471972092979597319?s=20
Had a chat the other day at work with someone I’d never discussed politics with before-turned out he’s an R and he regularly argues with his D sister about politics.
Then he tried to peg me, so I bluntly told him, “I’m a lefty”, and his face went into shocked mode, and he sputtered something about how lefties think everything should be “free!”.
I waved dismissively and said that’s just a talking point, and that Republicans are idiots (re: that talking point), which got me his shocked face again.
He incredulously asked me, “You like Democrats??”. I said I didn’t like either of them and that both parties are bought and paid for.
That’s when he brought up Pelosi’s accumulation of wealth on her relatively modest salary, which was something we could both agree on. So corrupt.
Nancy Pelosi does her party no favors feeding at the trough the way she does.
She’s an awful figurehead for Democrats and generates voter apathy about hope for change to a less corrupt system. Her corruption makes a mockery out of any claims the Democratic party (as a whole of course, a few are okay) makes about building a more just and equitable society.
The sooner Pelosi is gone the better!
If the GQP Cult-45 want to pay the max price for thier “Free-dumb”- so be it at this point.
+270
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1065047471/judge-rejects-purdue-pharmas-opioid-settlement-that-would-protect-the-sackler-fa
Hip-Hip-Hooray!! (I hope.)
T and R, and thank you, jcb!! 🙂 Three cheers and major kudos to Judge McMahon! My cynical self has been following this one in NC. Just finished Sam Quinone’s latest read on Fentanyl and other so-called “designer” drugs, and he talks about the Sacklers. That family is nothing more than a gilded gang of mass murderers. Mebbe they’ll get stripped of their ill-gotten $B$, and we’ll finally see some justice.
I wonder if the series I mean, Dopesick implement this at all.
influenced
He mentioned it in the book.
Vulnerable House Dems to DCCC: You’re jeopardizing our reelection
“This is a real f—ing problem.”
That’s how one vulnerable House Democrat summarized growing discord between members in battleground districts and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That member and five others POLITICO spoke with in the past week alleged that the Democratic organization whose purpose is to help the party keep the House next year is instead hurting their chances of reelection.
The members were granted anonymity to speak freely about their frustrations with the strategy DCCC Chair Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) has adopted in dozens of competitive districts. Their complaints fall roughly into three categories.
1. Botched messaging
Universally, the members said there’s been too much talk about Donald Trump and not enough focus on pocketbook issues. Terry McAuliffe banged the anti-Trump drum constantly on his way to losing the race for Virginia governor. But at-risk members we spoke with worry that Maloney is still embracing the Trump-as-boogeyman strategy, blasting Republicans as extreme for seeking his blessing or otherwise supporting him.
“This is crazy to me that the DCCC is rolling out a playbook that they know doesn’t work and that they encouraged people in 2018 not to use,” said the member who dropped the f-bomb to describe the situation. The person argued that in 2018, the committee gave the opposite advice — focus relentlessly on pocketbook issues and let Trump’s antics speak for themselves — and Democrats flipped more than 40 seats to take the chamber.
The messaging issues extend beyond Trump. As cases challenging Roe v. Wade have reached the Supreme Court, the DCCC has sent dozens of press releases attacking Republican candidates and lawmakers for opposing abortion rights. But one front-liner called abortion “a lightning rod” in their district — and said the DCCC should steer clear of it as a campaign issue.
“We should leave it up to Planned Parenthood and all the reproductive organizations to get in there and support candidates that are pro-choice and leave it at that,” the member, who like other vulnerable Democrats supports abortion rights, said. “I’m not going to go out there and start bashing people for being pro-life. It would be a big mistake in my district.”
2. Jamming them on policy
Former DCCC Chair Cheri Bustos (Ill.), who represented a Trump district, was known for pushing back on leadership in private in order to protect vulnerable members from tough votes. But Maloney has taken the opposite tack: In August, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi was trying to corral moderates to vote for a $3.5 trillion budget, the DCCC infuriated members by threatening to withhold campaign money from them if they opposed the resolution. (The DCCC denied this.)
Then this fall, Maloney routinely sided with leadership over at-risk members who wanted Pelosi to allow a standalone vote on the infrastructure bill. He attacked one of the members, Josh Gottheimer, on Twitter after the New Jersey Democrat criticized Pelosi for “breach[ing] her firm, public commitment” to do so.
One member relayed another anecdote: During the fall, liberal outside groups spent millions on TV ads pressuring vulnerable House Democrats to back Build Back Better. The members pleaded with the DCCC to get the groups to back off, but committee officials refused. (The DCCC says it’s illegal for the committee to tell an outside group how to spend money.)
3. Frustrations with the DCCC chief
Maloney often says he understands the travails of front-liners firsthand: Trump barely won his district in 2016 — though Biden carried it by 5 points in 2020. But several of the members he’s charged with protecting don’t see it that way, and argue that his more left-leaning views are coloring the work of the committee.
“What’s problematic is not only is he pushing the wrong strategy. … The biggest problem is that he’s attacking front-line members for taking a different perspective,” the first lawmaker said. “If you want to win purple and red seats, you have to distance yourself from other Democrats. He is a part of this ‘party purity’ march that is just going to ensure that we are deep in the minority.”
Several of the members suspect Maloney is trying to use his DCCC perch to climb the leadership ladder — essentially raising his own profile at the expense of their political fortunes. Doing the job right, these members say, means sometimes having to back them over progressive members in safer districts.
“I think Sean Patrick’s ‘leadership’ — and please use air quotes on that — at the DCCC is the reason why we should not have elected colleagues running that organization,” said the first member. “Because it’s not about protecting the majority; it’s about Sean Patrick Maloney. … We’ve got a vanity project.”
The DCCC strongly refutes any suggestion that Maloney is focused on anything but keeping the majority. The committee sent a dozen examples of Maloney saying in interviews that at-risk members will win by highlighting their legislative achievements.
“We agree completely, this election will be won on our record of results, not by talking about Trump,” said DCCC spokesperson Chris Hayden. “That’s why Chairman Maloney has been fighting like hell to pass the president’s transformative agenda, which enjoys supermajority support in swing districts.”
The committee asked vulnerable Democrats to send POLITICO positive statements about Maloney. About a half-dozen did, and so did Pelosi. “Sean is an incredible leader who listens to front-line members on our battle-tested strategies for success and encourages us to run the best campaigns for our districts,” said Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.).
The DCCC certainty was useful to help the $hill and Byedone when Bernie is was running.
anonymous corporatists. they wouldn’t be “vunerable” if they helped people irl.
What a load of BS!!!!!!!!!! These so-called “Dimocrats” keep running as GOPuke Lite and guess what?! The voters sit home or vote for the real GOPuke!! I’m talking about you, Stephanie Murphy!! I didn’t vote for your worthless GOPuke arse 2 years, and I sure as h3ll’s bells won’t next year! I’m voting for several issues: declaring climate change a code red emergency, supporting unions, M4A, and fixing public education including supporting VoTech. They don’t support it, see ya.
t&r jcb❣️🎄🐻🐻❄️🌊🐕🐋👍🏻💫🌺🎄🎄🎄💖
Lowkey to LD: hope you and JD are well! 🙂
https://twitter.com/BobSmith4152/status/1471937479485894659?s=20
NC has been watching this, too. I have one complaint: quit growing almonds in a da##ed desert, So. CA. They need water and it’s killing the aquifers there.
You might enjoy this article orl ✌️
Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world
this looks like a good bill to lessen the power of shipping (at least ocean) shipping cartels.
No comment from the almond gallery (snort of disgust).
Refreshing!
Thank you Alexandria.