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Ed Markey's new campaign ad: Ed Markey on Twitter: "When the government abandons its people, it’s up to us to rise up and make a revolution. We’re fighting for dignity, for justice, and for our future. Join us at [url]https://t.co/NY8pZcBcFE. #GreenNewDealmaker https://t.co/4V558XjrVw" / Twitter[/url]

Ed Markey's new ad says "it's time to start asking what your country can do for you" - YouTube
In a new ad, Sen. Ed Markey, who is running against Rep. Joe Kennedy III, inverts President John F. Kennedy's famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."
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Katie Halper on Twitter: "Imagine being joe Kennedy’s father and watching this." / Twitter
noting
Ed Markey on Twitter: "Joe Kennedy, tell your father you don't want his money funding a Super PAC that runs negative ads. https://t.co/bWTQlFc6nl" / Twitter
LOL

ANTIFASCIST 4E #IAmAntifa 🌹 on Twitter: "@Miss_Kirkbride @EdMarkey I love Ed Markey. He cowrote the #GreenNewDeal.
Joe Kennedy:
1. Was part of a Robert E. Lee-worshiping frat until TWO MONTHS ago
2. Owns millions in oil & gas stocks
3. Voted 2 expand Trump's NUCLEAR program
Kennedy's a weasel
Markey's a decent person w/a progressive agenda" / Twitter
 
The Left Needs to Stop Falling for Absurd Sex Panics
The absurd allegations against progressive Congressional candidate Alex Morse have now been exposed as a hoax. But they couldn’t have been better calculated to excite a Left prone to mindless sex panics.

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Also, wait till the College Democrats hear about capitalism, a system in which anyone with access to more wealth has more power. Be careful out there!

Speaking of capital — it’s a big supporter of Rep. Richie Neal. As Donald Shaw reported in Jacobin, the health care industry has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Neal’s campaign, an understandable investment since he is a stalwart opponent of Medicare for All.

He gets even more money from the securities and investment industry (real estate is close) with the Blackstone Group as his biggest corporate contributor. Neal has racked up almost a million dollars in “large” individual contributions. He’s been accused of corrupt, “pay-to-play” fundraising, or, as a Boston radio station put it “wining and dining wealthy donors, some of whom have business before the powerful congressional committee he heads.”

Hopefully the Intercept’s reporting will restore sanity to the situation. But in a close race where the left candidate faces a well-funded opponent, a few days of damaging news, even fake news, can do a lot of damage. If the Left’s inability to stay out of its feelings on this matter ends up hurting Alex Morse’s campaign to unseat Neal, the big winners will be these predatory industries and one-percenters.
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Ryan Grim on Twitter: "NEW: College Democrat chats reveal year-old plan to engineer and leak Alex Morse accusations (links)" / Twitter
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Adam Jentleson 🎈 on Twitter: "This is looking more and more like a straight up hit job" / Twitter

Charles P. Pierce on Twitter: "@AJentleson Somebody’s still going to have to explain to me how voting out the House W&M chairman in favor of a rookie advances progressive goals." / Twitter
By deposing a major obstruction of such goals.

Aaron on Twitter: "@CharlesPPierce @AJentleson He wouldn't go after Trump's taxes in time for them to be released before the election because he wanted to cut a deal to help his pharma buddies. Getting him out as chairman, replacing him with W&M Chairman Above Replacement, would be phenomenal for the idea of democracy" / Twitter

Doyle Canning on Twitter: "@BobbyBigWheel @CharlesPPierce @AJentleson See reporting/book by Wash Post's David Farenthold on Trump's open profiteering and corruption while in office. He singled out two MOCs for their role in "slow walking" subpoenas: Neal is one of them. (links)" / Twitter
In Congress, there's also been two particular members of Congress who have the power to push these things, these investigations, forward or to slow-walk them who have been accused by their colleagues of slow-walking them. That's Richard Neal, the chair of Ways and Means, and a guy named Peter DeFazio from Oregon, who was the head of Transportation and Infrastructure. That Transportation and Infrastructure Committee actually oversees Trump's D.C. hotel. Trump's D.C. hotel is located in a taxpayer-owned building under a lease from the GSA, the General Services Administration. So that committee, DeFazio's committee, has the power to really dig into it if it wanted, and it hasn't really done very much. And the pushback from DeFazio's underlings, other members of Congress, has been that DeFazio is slow-walking this because he wants to make an infrastructure deal. He still has some hope that infrastructure week will finally arrive like the great pumpkin and he'll make a deal with Trump. DeFazio said, oh, it's not true. But the end result is that hotel the taxpayers own, we know so little about what Trump's doing there. I mean, that just sort of seems like that's the baby step of oversight, and they haven't done that.
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So PDF got played by Trump.

Keen Observer on Twitter: "@BobbyBigWheel @CharlesPPierce @AJentleson Charlie, Neal’s been terrible on every front. He refuses automatic stabilizers so he can aggrandize his ego and waste everybody’s time in a recession. Him being gone in Jan. 2021 is a good thing." / Twitter
 
Daniel Marans on Twitter: "Breakdown of Morse allies’ reactions to allegations:
—Sticking by him: LGBT Victory Fund, Mass. Nurses, Andrew Yang, local electeds (plus anti-Neal group Fight Corporate Monopolies)
—Critical but not unendorsing: Justice Dems, WFP, Sunrise
—Unendorsing: Western Mass. Sunrise ..." / Twitter

Daniel Marans on Twitter: "I suppose we could put Jamaal Bowman in a fourth category of “pausing” his endorsement. But come on — That’s an unendorsement. https://t.co/bB7ROm14Hu" / Twitter

Daniel Marans on Twitter: ".@IfNotNowOrg, a Jewish anti-Occupation group, is also "pausing" its endorsement as it consults with its members. (Full statement attached.)
(Morse is Jewish and would be more critical of Israel than Neal: (links))" / Twitter

Alex Thompson on Twitter: "The Working Families Party endorsed Morse just this week
Fight Corporate Monopolies is spending $300k on ads attacking Neal and boosting Morse.
Justice Dems have been running a TV ad for him
None of the 3 progressive groups responded for comment tn." / Twitter

What do they think now? It seems that these accusations of sexual misconduct were something blown way out of proportion, if not outright smears.

Ryan Grim on Twitter: "More news on the Alex Morse-Richie Neal race:
Fight Corporate Monopolies, which never backed off the race, is going up with a new ad to run through the Dem convention, hitting Neal on Big Pharma corruption https://t.co/aiT8Udnf6F" / Twitter

David Dayen on Twitter: "NEW: On Tax Day 2020, Richie Neal announces a $5,600 donation from lobbyist John Raffaeli, who represented Intuit, the company that abuses its tax prep dominance to upsell customers who should get their taxes done for free." / Twitter
Like make their free option hidden away and very obscure. I'd like to see their executives confronted about that scam. Like the way that AOC and Katie Porters have confronted corporate executives and Trump Admin people.

David Dayen on Twitter: "Intuit and H&R Block have given to Neal this year as well. “Nobody loves Tax Day quite like the giant tax preparation monopoly companies who fund Richie Neal’s campaign,” said Morgan Harper, Senior Advisor at Fight Corporate Monopolies, in a statement" / Twitter

David Dayen on Twitter: "Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee of jurisdiction for tax-writing laws, is in a contested primary against progressive Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse." / Twitter

In New Ad, Anti-Monopoly Group Hits Rep. Richie Neal Over Blackstone Ties - article from a month ago.
 
Asking Nabilah Islam, former GA-07 candidate:
josie duffy rice on Twitter: "Do you go by your middle name or a nickname? Has it been that way from birth? Do you like it? Hate it? Please inform" / Twitter

Nabilah Islam on Twitter: "@jduffyrice I went by Billie for 12 years. My 7th grade drama teacher couldn’t say my name. I used it again when I got my first job but then everyone forgot my real name. So I dropped it, I had everyone relearn my name. If people actually care, they will take the time to learn your name." / Twitter
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Nabilah Islam on Twitter: "Billie was my nickname for 12 yrs. I willingly anglicized my name to be convenient. I hated it.
When I was filing to run, I was encouraged to be Billie again b/c it’s easier & sounds “American.”
Teach people your name, if they can’t take the effort to learn it. Forget them." / Twitter
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Nabilah Islam on Twitter: "Also Nabilah Islam is an American name! For those of you learning it is pronounced Nah-bee-la." / Twitter
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Nabilah Islam on Twitter: "@gcbucher Nah-BEE-la" / Twitter
From Arabic nabil, "noble" (coincidence? borrowing?)


NI has launched The Progressive List to support candidates like her. I'm disappointed by the name. Why not some name like:
Inspiring
Leadership
Has
A
Name
?
Note its acronym. Honorable mentions: Courage to Change, The Power of Us, Rooted in Community, Truth To Power, HER Time

Progressive Starts Organization To COUNTER Democratic Party Bosses - YouTube
Nabilah Islam interviewed by Ryan Grim of The Intercept. NI had been involved in some previous campaigns, and she recognizes a chicken-and-egg problem with campaigning: a lot of orgs won't help a campaign unless it seems viable, and it won't seem viable without their help. Like being unable to get a job without experience, and being unable to get experience without a job. She pointed out a problem: orgs getting too late, resulting in almost but not quite victories.

Also mentioned that AOC was bad at call time, and that she now has enough small donors to make it unnecessary.

Also mentioned that some progressive people do end up rich, and that they might be able to help. Like that anti-monopoly group that ran attack ads against Lacy Clay and is now doing so against Richard Neal.
 
The Surge: House primary upsets ranked, from Cori Bush to Marie Newman.

1. MO-01 D: Cori Bush beat Lacy Clay

2. NY-16 D: Jamaal Bowman beat Eliot Engel

3. VA-05 R:
GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, a freshman elected in 2018 under a cloud of Bigfoot erotica, lost the party’s nomination at an unusual drive-thru convention in June to challenger Bob Good, a self-described “biblical conservative” who carefully adheres to such scriptural edicts as making English the national language and eliminating birthright citizenship.
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Because Rep. Riggleman had officiated at a same-sex marriage. Also, it seems very difficult to get his positions out of the Bible.

4. NC-11 R: Madison Cawthorn beat Mark Meadows. He is barely at the age limit for the House.

5. CO-03 R: Lauren Boebert beat Mark Tipton. She is a QAnon sympathizer.

6. IA-04 R: Randy Feenstra beat Steve King

7. IL-03 D: Marie Newman beat Dan Lipinski
 
In Florida, these two challengers were defeated.

FL-23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz* 72.0%, Jen Perelman 28.0%
DWS is in the House for 8 terms, since 2005, and in 2016, she was the head of the Democratic National Committee.

JP has the tagline "Time for JENerational Change!"

Dave 🌹 on Twitter: "It will be huge if @JENFL23 wins today — not only because @DWStweets is the worst — but because her campaign was written off by everyone — including South Florida progressives. #JenBeatsDebbie [url]https://t.co/F3rEzYmtBL https://t.co/Vx3WbuykIO" / Twitter[/url]
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Jen Perelman heavy underdog for Wasserman Schultz seat | Miami Herald
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William Byatt, a Sanders delegate fromMiami-Dade County and member of the county's progressive caucus, said defeating Wasserman Schultz is not a priority in 2020.

"I have very significant policy disagreements with Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz but in order to mount an effective challenge to her, we would need to see a lot more widespread grassroots energy than Perelman has been able to get," Byatt said. "We, as South Florida progressives, have other priorities."
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But JP was endorsed by Brand New Congress and some others.

FL-24: Frederica Wilson* 84.7%, Sakinah Lehtola 7.7%, Ricardo De La Fuente 7.6%
FW is in the House for 5 terms, since 2011.
I once stumbled across SL while researching progressive candidates.


In FL-17, Theodore "Pink Tie" Murray is running as an Independent, with no primary. That's how his name appears on the ballot.
 
Heidi Briones🧢🌺 on Twitter: "Congratulations to @JENFL23! You ran a phenomenal campaign. It takes a lot of courage to take on an incumbent and fight against all odds. I hope you run again because we need you in Congress. Take some time to rest now and be with loved ones! ♥️👍🌈" / Twitter

Jen Perelman For Congress on Twitter: "
We lost a battle.
We did not lose the war.
Thank you all, we’ll be back!
" / Twitter
Some of her responders noted that Ro Khanna, Marie Newman, Rashida Tlaib, and Cori Bush also didn't win on their first times.


In FL-21: Far-right activist Laura Loomer wins Florida GOP primary | TheHill She won with 42.5% of the vote, with her five competitors getting 25.5%, 12.3%, 9.4%, 7.1%, and 3.1% of the vote.

FL-21 is a safe Democratic seat, so LL is likely to lose in the general election.
The controversial candidate has the endorsements of right-wing figures such as Roger Stone and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). She has been expelled from several social media and other technology platforms in recent years after making anti-Muslim comments. In 2017, she was banned from Uber after she tweeted that “someone needs to create a non Islamic form of @uber or @lyft,” and she has also been banned from platforms such as Twitter, PayPal and GoFundMe.

Loomer drew outrage for tweeting that she couldn't find a "non-Muslim" cab or Uber driver and handcuffing herself to Twitter's office in New York to protest what she said was discrimination against conservatives online.

“I’m going to win,” she told The Hill earlier this month, claiming her victory will mark the “first time a deplatformed candidate will get a party nomination.”
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So Laura Loomer joins Lauren Boebert as a right-wing kook who is running for Congress.

It's two weeks more before the next primaries. Sep 1: MA, Sept 8: NH RI, Sep 15: DE
 
Opinion | Laura Loomer is the new face of the Republican Party - The Washington Post

Much of the article was on Laura Loomer, who won the Republican primary in FL-21.
Loomer has called Muslims “savages,” Islam “a cancer on society,” herself a “proud Islamophobe” and demanded “a non Islamic form of Uber or Lyft because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.” She says she wants more migrants to die.

At her victory celebration Tuesday night, she stood with the founder of the white-nationalist group Proud Boys and too-radioactive-for Breitbart Milo Yiannopoulos. Her hate speech and ties to an anti-Muslim hate group have gotten her banned from Instagram, Medium, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Lyft, Uber, Facebook (which she sued for $3 billion) and Twitter (she chained herself to its New York headquarters wearing a Holocaust-style yellow Star of David).

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Nineteen Republican candidates and one independent who have embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory (about a pedophile ring in the U.S. government fighting Trump) have secured spots on the November ballot, according to a tally by Alex Kaplan of the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America. Overall, Kaplan has identified 76 QAnon-affiliated candidates running for Congress this election cycle.
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Here are the QAnon supporters running for Congress in 2020 | Media Matters for America

Won primaries:
Josh Barnett AZ-07, Joyce Bentley NV-01, Lauren Boebert CO-03, Mike Cargile CA-35, Erin Cruz CA-36, Ron Curtis HI-01, Derrick Grayson GA-SEN-Special, Marjorie Taylor Greene GA-14, Alison Hayden CA-15, K.W. Miller FL-18, Buzz Patterson CA-07, Jo Rae Perkins OR-SEN, Nikka Piterman CA-13, Billy Prempeh NJ-09, Theresa Raborn IL-02, Angela Stanton-King GA-05, Johnny Teague TX-09, Antoine Tucker NY-14, Rob Weber OH-09, Philanise White IL-01, Daniel Wood AZ-03

Upcoming primaries:
Shiva Ayyadurai MA-SEN, Ben Gibson LA-04, Bob Lancia RI-02, Tracy Lovvorn MA-02, Lauren Witzke, DE-SEN

Nearly all of the are Republicans, with a few Independents.
 
The Boston Globe on Twitter: "Nancy Pelosi is endorsing Joe Kennedy in his Senate challenge to Ed Markey https://t.co/pnrcbWSedI" / Twitter - because he's a Rep???

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again. 🤗
So @dccc, when can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?
Because between this & lack of care around @IlhanMN’s challenger, it seems like less a policy and more a cherry-picking activity." / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Ilhan’s multimillion challenge was bankrolled by DC lobbyists & dark money groups.
He blatantly admitted to using shell corporations to get around the DCCC blacklist, which all but means his vendors work w/ the Democratic Party.
Yet DCCC hasn’t enforced policy. I wonder why 🤔" / Twitter
 
lpetrich said:
The Boston Globe on Twitter: "Nancy Pelosi is endorsing Joe Kennedy in his Senate challenge to Ed Markey https://t.co/pnrcbWSedI" / Twitter - because he's a Rep???

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again. ������
So @dccc, when can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?
Because between this & lack of care around @IlhanMN’s challenger, it seems like less a policy and more a cherry-picking activity." / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Ilhan’s multimillion challenge was bankrolled by DC lobbyists & dark money groups.
He blatantly admitted to using shell corporations to get around the DCCC blacklist, which all but means his vendors work w/ the Democratic Party.
Yet DCCC hasn’t enforced policy. I wonder why ������" / Twitter
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I bet AOC never once has mentioned this sinister hombre as the chief funder of leftists causes like the Democrats has she? ..........................................It's acknowledged by many that George Soros was the biggest backer for crooked Hillary.


https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html
 
angelo said:
I bet AOC never once has mentioned this sinister hombre as the chief funder of leftists causes like the Democrats has she? ..........................................It's acknowledged by many that George Soros was the biggest backer for crooked Hillary.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html
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What's in that link?

George Soros is a BUSINESSMAN. He is a CAPITALIST. If right-wingers liked him, they'd be bragging about how he built his business from scratch with no help from anyone, and how if he could do it, than anyone can do it, and if you aren't a self-made billionaire, you are a loser and a failure who ought to meekly submit to your betters.

Joe Kennedy Didn’t Always Want to Flip Republican Seats
In the high-profile, expensive Senate race between Rep. Joe Kennedy and incumbent Ed Markey, Kennedy has made one argument particularly central to his bid: that Markey has not “leveraged” his Senate seat as effectively as he could to further the goals of the Democratic Party. The two men broadly align on liberal policy priorities, but Kennedy has repeatedly emphasized that there’s more to being a senator than just casting votes and filing bills, and that he would make better use of a Senate seat than Markey has or will.
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Then about JKIII's fundraising efforts for other Reps.

But in late 2014, after the Democrats became more of a minority in the House by losing 13 seats, the party leadership tapped JKIII and Rep. Joaquin Castro as potential leaders for the DCCC. One of its main jobs is to try to flip seats held by Republicans. But JKIII was not very interested in trying to unseat Republicans. Ever since his first election, he has been willing to work with Republicans than many of his fellow Democrats, or else he has tried to project an image of being that.
In 2013, amid the federal government shutdown, Kennedy earned headlines for defending his tea party colleagues at a time when many, including President Barack Obama, were describing them as much more akin to extortionists. “They’re people too,” Kennedy said, when asked his opinion of the tea party. “Everyone here got elected. Everyone here got someone to vote for them. Everyone is genuinely trying to do the right thing for the country.” At the time, nationwide public opinion of tea party Republicans had declined precipitously.

Kennedy then proceeded to dismiss the media’s depiction of congressional divisions and said he understood that tea party Republicans are just seeking to represent their constituents who have a different worldview than those who live in Massachusetts. “We talk about the Red Sox, their kids, and whether they’ll have a chance to see them on the weekend,” Kennedy told the Boston Globe. “Regular old things co-workers would talk about.”
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I don't like the sight of Democrats bending over backward to collaborate with Republicans when Republicans don't do likewise to Democrats.
 
Cori Bush on Twitter: "#BREAKING: I'm proud to announce my official endorsements of @AdrBell, @PamKeithFL, @paulajean2020, @Bradshaw2020, and Sen. @EdMarkey! This is our moment! https://t.co/bZXCozOUay" / Twitter
Democratic Nominee for MO-01 Cori Bush Has Announced Her First Endorsements Since Her Primary Victory on August 4th, Backing Democrats Adrienne Bell (TX-14) & Pam Keith (FL-18) for Congress, and Paula Jean Swearengin (WV), Marquita Bradshaw (TN) Sen. Ed Markey (MA) for U.S. Senate
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Paula Jean Swearengin on Twitter: "So proud of this endorsement 💜 Thank you so much to my friend, sister, and future Congresswoman @CoriBush" / Twitter

Paula Jean Swearengin on Twitter: "@CoriBush @AdrBell @PamKeithFL @Bradshaw2020 @EdMarkey Much love, Sis! Knowing your heart and spirit, I know you will be an amazing Congresswoman! We will be lucky to have you." / Twitter

A record number of women could be elected to the House in 2020 - Vox
From 2018 to 2020 (30+ states), victory in primaries:
  • Dems: 152 to 169
  • Reps: 44 to 74
  • Total: 196 to 243
Both Democratic and Republican women are running in record numbers in 2020, a key difference from last cycle, when the momentum was significantly skewed. In 2018, while Democrats saw their numbers go from 64 to 89 women in the House, Republican women actually saw their numbers decline, from 23 to 13.

This year, however, Republicans have seen an uptick in women running — and winning their primaries. Altogether, 227 GOP women have filed to run, versus the 120 who did in the midterms, a party record.
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Still depending on as has been demonstrated on numerous occasions lately, discredited polls I see. The only poll that counts is on the 3rd of November.
 
angelo said:
Still depending on as has been demonstrated on numerous occasions lately, discredited polls I see. The only poll that counts is on the 3rd of November.
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The only "discrediting" is from people who don't like the poll results.

I'll now attempt to estimate the likelihood of victory for some of the progressive primary winners.
  • Likely to win: AOC NY-14, Jamaal Bowman NY-16, Mondaire Jones NY-17, Rashida Tlaib MI-13, Ilhan Omar MN-05, Ayanna Pressley MA-07, Ro Khanna CA-17, Pramila Jayapal WA-07, Marie Newman IL-03, (if they win their primaries: Ed Markey MA-SEN, Ihssane Leckey MA-04, Alex Morse MA-01)
  • Toss-up: Kara Eastman NE-02, Katie Porter CA-45
  • Uphill: Paula Jean Swearengin WV-SEN, Marquita Bradshaw TN-SEN, Shahid Buttar CA-12
 
Progressives eye ‘sea change’ at powerful House committee - Roll Call - "A primary loss by veteran Democratic lawmaker Richard Neal would bring new leadership to the Ways and Means panel"
There’s more than just another upset on the line in the expensive primary fight between Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., who’s represented the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts since 1989, and Alex Morse, the 31-year-old mayor of Holyoke.

A Morse victory would arguably be the most significant primary dethroning of a powerful House lawmaker since Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., was toppled in 2014. Neal, who as chairman of Ways and Means has jurisdiction over tax, trade and health care policy, could have to hand the gavel to someone viewed more favorably on the left.

Progressives’ appetite to knock out Neal has been stoked by their desire to see Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, become the next Ways and Means chairman, according to lobbyists. If former Vice President Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump on Nov. 3, whoever wields that gavel will play a lead role in shepherding Biden’s agenda through the House.

Doggett, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is currently chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and second in seniority on the full committee.
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It certainly wouldn't be Alex Morse, because that would be his first term in Congress.

Who is financing Rep. Neal and his likely W&M successor?
His top lifetime donors are employees of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance and FMR Corp., parent of Boston-based Fidelity Investments, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the 2020 cycle, Neal’s largest contributions come from private equity titan Blackstone Group, followed by health insurer Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Doggett, an Austin lawyer first elected in 1994 despite that year’s GOP landslide, has gotten the most support from lawyers during his career. His biggest lifetime donor is the trial lawyers’ group, the American Association for Justice, followed by labor unions. Health care providers have also contributed heavily to Doggett this cycle, particularly given his subcommittee perch.
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I remember an online right-winger from some decades back who called trial lawyers a big enemy or something like that.
Neal has outraised Morse 4-to-1 and remains heavily favored. Morse campaign polling revealed he was trailing Neal by double digits even prior to recent allegations of improper behavior toward students, including when he was an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

While the openly gay Morse acknowledges that he had sex with students, he suggests the accusations coming to light this close to the primary are “highly suspicious” and politically motivated.
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So Alex Morse may be a bit of a long shot.
There’s “a generational conflict” within the Democratic Caucus, one lobbyist who asked for anonymity said, as young progressives aligned with Doggett are more apt to take on Pelosi. The speaker is viewed as more attuned to the needs of moderate Democrats in GOP-leaning districts than some progressives in safe seats would like.
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Progressives can point to at least one counterexample: Katie Porter. They are also supporting Kara Eastman in a similar sort of seat. That also seems to me like some excuse for being Republican Lite -- we've got to compete with Republican voters.
 
angelo said:
Apart from Democrats trying to unseat each other. Not all the Hollywood glitterati are in awe of groper, hair sniffing, pedo Joe. Actually this actor would much rather have preferred a third choice. The link is from Geller, but that's no reason to reject it outright!

https://gellerreport.com/2020/08/rose-mcgowen-says-biden-dems-monsters.html/
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angelo, do you have a source other than the Geller Report?

Also, why are you talking about a Presidential candidate here? Do you have nothing to say about any Congressional ones?
 
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