12/10 Hello Somebody! Nina Turner files paperwork for Ohio-11 & Open Thread

It's OFFICIAL. Our friend, mentor, leader and, the greatest advocate FOR THE PEOPLE has filed paperwork for Ohio's 11 #OH11 district. #NinaTime https://t.co/4qAnleaRig
— RealTimBlack (@RealTimBlack) December 10, 2020

From Cleveland.comm:

Both Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown and former Cleveland City Councilman Jeff Johnson said they would run for Fudge’s seat if the Senate confirms Fudge as President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to oversee HUD. Another, former state Sen. Nina Turner, filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Wednesday, indicating she will also run.

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Following Sanders’ unsuccessful 2016 presidential bid, Turner ran Our Revolution – Sanders’ political group set up to back more liberal candidates who share the senator’s politics. She co-chaired Sanders’ 2020 presidential run as well.
Those connections give her a potential advantage in one of the most important assets a candidate can have: campaign cash. Access to Sanders’ and Our Revolution’s vast fundraising network means she has the resources to outraise and outspend competition.
Our Revolution already sent an email missive out to its members asking them to prepare to help Turner in a potential bid.

The Hill reports:

Nina Turner files paperwork for Ohio congressional run

Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who served as national co-chair for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, has filed to run for Congress.
Turner filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Wednesday for a committee titled “Nina Turner for US,” local NBC affiliate WKYC reported.
The outlet reported that Turner is expected to formally announce a bid soon for the seat currently held by Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio).
Fudge has reportedly been selected by President-elect Joe Biden to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The Hill has reached out to Turner for comment. A person listed as a campaign treasurer on Turner’s FEC forms did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NEW FEC F1#OH11
Nina Turner for UShttps://t.co/AYcZRiqO6u pic.twitter.com/dvOZmc9J7n
— CATargetBot (@CATargetBot) December 9, 2020

Shall we add Nina to our 2021 list of candidates?

Hello Somebody!

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Benny

Happy Dance!

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just dancin with my dog. :O) ty

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— The People For Nina (@ThePeople4Nina) December 10, 2020

With these hands we will elect @ninaturner to Congress.. let me know when I need to come to Ohio.. #HelloSomebody #NinaForCongress pic.twitter.com/kZvhzgeMey
— The Policital RN 👩🏽‍⚕️✊🏾 (@IamJeanna) December 10, 2020

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/09/nina-turner-files-run-congress-ohio

Progressive leaders and activists hailed the news of Turner’s candidacy. Akron City Councilwoman Tara Samples told Common Dreams that “Nina was built for this.”
“It’s the right moment and the right time,” said Samples, a close friend of Turner and former candidate for Ohio lieutenant governor. “She brings experience, credibility, and is well-versed on the issues. She will fight for the people… She’s been a councilwoman and a state senator. She understands government on all levels.”
Trevor P. Martin, a member of the organizing committee of the Central Ohio chapter of Our Revolution—the Sanders-linked political action committee led by Turner from 2017 to 2019—called her “a strong progressive voice, not just for the people of Ohio, but for the nation.”
Martin told Common Dreams that “there is no better person to represent the people of the 11th Congressional District. Nina was born in the district, went to grade school and college in the district, and has been serving the people of northeastern Ohio for well over a decade.”
“With these hands, we will put her in Congress,” he added.

Torabs

While I will miss seeing her around the country (she’s must see in-person, y’all), I’ve got to say I’m happy to see this. I don’t think there’s a more exciting public speaker in the progressive coalition than Nina, and if this brings her more visibility, we will all be better off for it.

If this actually becomes a thing, my amazing sis @ninaturner must run! It would be a dream to work alongside her in Congress. ✨ https://t.co/VhbdR8wIQi
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) December 6, 2020

Wow … @CornelWest talking about how Obama is the elephant in the room who obscures our need to address predatory capitalism and neoliberalism. Please sign up and support @dailyposter @davidsirota pic.twitter.com/aAgWeJZfYm
— Ron T. Kim (@rontkim) December 10, 2020

He’s not the only one. Watch about the first 20- 30 minutes of this Q &A Noam Chomsky did with Harvard Law School. Chomsky is not easy to understand and he is a bit hard of hearing, but he speaks in layers about the problems Obama’s administration caused.

Chomsky is all but retired; however, it takes moxy to tell a group of law students that one of their famous graduates wasn’t all that great and caused more income inequality. Of course, that sets up all kinds of societal problems and what policies to pursue.

Bummer there’s no link to the actual video, Cornel has been on fire lately.

I lost the tweet and maybe I’m late, but Lee Carter is running for governor of Virginia too

Bold. Running against McAwful.

Lee Carter, Virginia's socialist delegate from the 50th House District, has filed to run for governor in 2021 https://t.co/uM3BWhDbEK pic.twitter.com/J7iB4PK75E
— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) December 9, 2020

jcitybone

It will be a crowded field. According to this report, Carter has not formally joined the race.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/terry-mcauliffe-in-announcing-bid-for-virginia-governor-focuses-on-education-while-nodding-to-democrats-leftward-shift/2020/12/09/973c2c7c-39b7-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com

With that promise, McAuliffe gives a nod to the party’s leftward shift without abandoning his “pragmatic, centrist” approach to business matters, said Jessica Taylor, Senate and governors editor for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. But he will have to find a way to appeal to Democrats who’d like to see a new face.
“We’ll hear people say it’s time to move forward into the future, and this country has never elected a Black woman governor,” she said. “Virginia actually had the first [elected] Black governor ever, and then it could have the first Black woman.”
Three others are seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, including a Black man, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and two Black women, Del. Jennifer D. Carroll Foy (Prince William) and state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan (Richmond). The General Assembly’s lone socialist, Del. Lee J. Carter (Manassas), who like McAuliffe is White, filed paperwork this week allowing him to raise money for a gubernatorial bid, but he has not formally joined the race.

He’s great. If his campaign is as aggressive as his tweeting, I like his chances.

I went on @thehill's Rising this morning to discuss the possibility of a @ninaturner run for congress, and what influence she could have in office as part of a progressive minority.https://t.co/X0T9Ggdf2J pic.twitter.com/XVxTk9nUhi
— BJG 👑 (@briebriejoy) December 9, 2020

k nite 🪐🌊🐋

🔥 Close up of a beautiful Snow Leopard's face 🔥 pic.twitter.com/DGMMlCbM8e
— Nature is Lit (@Nature_Is_Lit) December 9, 2020

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And she’s already got answer for it:)
— International Centrist (Nina Turner 2024) (@M4A_is_a_taxcut) December 9, 2020

orlbucfan

✊✊✊☮️ T and R, Ms. Benny!! ☮️✊✊✊ Hello U.S. Representative and newest Squad member Ms. Nina Turner! 😊👍 Terrific news!

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Gonna keep his pledge for nothing to fundamentally change. https://t.co/By6Nefi4nF
— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) December 10, 2020

Well he will be pushed.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/rep-omar-squad-members-have-do-list-biden-n1250638

Progressive lawmakers in the “Squad” want to see President-Elect Joe Biden use executive actions to cancel student loan debt, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors, declare climate change a national emergency and more.
Biden will likely have a tough time passing major legislation, even if Democrats win next month’s Georgia runoffs and narrowly retake the Senate, so liberals are urging him to make use of the power of the office without involving Congress.
“We’ve all seen what it’s like trying to get meaningful legislation past Republicans in the Senate,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told NBC News. “We know that there is a lot that can be done at the executive level.”
Omar, who has met with Biden transition officials and said she was “quite happy” to find them receptive to her ideas, submitted a list of potential executive actions that include some proposed by others on the left, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Omar and others, including fellow “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and incoming Rep.-Elect Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., want Biden to forgive tens of thousands of dollars in loan debt per student — something Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently said he supports — which the president may be able to do since the federal government issues the vast majority of student loans.
They also want to see Biden reinstate “Temporary Protected Status” for immigrants cut off by President Donald Trump. They want the federal government to beef up anti-monopoly enforcement and to use compulsory licensing authority to lower drug prices.
They are pushing Biden to put in place tougher Covid-19 workplace protections through the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). And they want him to declare climate change a national emergency and create an Office of Climate Mobilization to coordinate a government-wide response.
Biden has voiced support for many of the goals behind these polices, such as a $15 minimum wage and forgiving some student debt, though not necessarily through executive action.

i’m sure the staffers were nice and Ilhan is being nice back.

New Trump Rule Aims to Limit Tough Clean Air Measures Under Biden

The Trump administration on Wednesday completed a rule that could weaken federal authority to issue clean air and climate change rules by changing the way the costs of pollution to human health and safety are tallied — and the way benefits of controlling that pollution are tabulated.
The new rule is the latest in a flurry of final Trump administration policies from the Environmental Protection Agency, as agency political appointees seek to wrap up four years of rolling back or weakening more than 100 environmental rules and policies.

Industry groups applauded the rule.
“Strengthening the consistency and transparency of rule-makings is a significant step forward for Clean Air Act provisions and is critical for continuing improvements in U.S. air quality,” said Frank Macchiarola, a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for oil companies. “This policy will help protect public health and the environment cost-effectively as we continue to reduce emissions and invest in innovative technologies while delivering affordable, reliable energy.”
Mr. Wheeler formally proposed the rule change in June, following years of complaints by fossil fuel companies, which say the economic formulas used by the federal government to justify pollution controls have unfairly harmed them. During the Obama administration, the E.P.A. drafted a rule to limit toxic mercury pollution from power plants, estimating that it would cost the electric utility industry $9.6 billion a year. But an initial analysis found that reducing mercury would save just $6 million annually in health costs.
To justify that imbalance, the Obama administration found an additional $80 billion in health “co-benefits” from the incidental reduction of soot and nitrogen oxide that would occur as side effects of controlling mercury.
In May, the Trump administration completed a rollback of that mercury rule, discounting such co-benefits.

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12/10 Hello Somebody! Nina Turner files paperwork for Ohio-11 & Open Thread