Democratic (Party) Direction

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Each race is different and has its own dynamics, but if an incumbent with a voting record as progressive as Capuano can lose, Tom Carper can’t be sleeping too soundly these days.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 5, 2018

medicare / social security for all, birth to the earth

Can we say “contest” instead of “race” so I don’t read sentences like the one in that tweet and briefly think wow that’s a pretty fucked up thing to say

yeah i had the same exact reaction

lol

In the end, Pressley will win #MA07 by 18 points.

No poll showed her beating Capuano.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 5, 2018

Yo

Alex Goldstein
‏ @alexjgoldstein
3h3 hours ago

Memo to potential candidates considering a run someday across America: our only paid television ads for the ENTIRE @ayannapressley campaign were on Telemundo and Univision. Besides that, our message was spread entirely on the doors, phones, and via social and earned media.

field field field baby

hope Cynthia Nixon has the same

Knock doors, knock heads

Is it my understanding that Capuano was far from awful? I mention it only because this race doesn't fit the cable news binaries of establishment vs progressive. Now the district has a legislator who looks like most of its constituents.

His concession was in good taste.

This take on Pressley/Capuano makes sense to me:

Michael Capuano is a completely acceptable progressive legislator who votes the right way on most issues. But that’s not a lifetime ticket to reelection, nor should it be. Ayanna Pressley ate his lunch last night because of the people of that blue Massachusetts district wanted a lefty fighter, someone who would represent their anger and fury at what has happened to the nation. Capuano also embraced some blue lives matter ridiculousness toward the end and tried to make it an issue in the campaign, demonstrating that he was increasingly out of touch with his district. But the broader point is this–moving districts to the left, even those already on the left, is a good thing. Electing fighters is a good thing. Electing more women is a good thing. Electing people of color is a good thing. Democracy is a good thing. I don’t care if someone is an acceptable legislator. If people want a new voice, then that’s a good thing. In other Massachusetts districts, voters chose the incumbent over progressive challengers who are also women of color. That’s fine too if that’s what the voters want, although I would have voted differently. But this is a good day for democracy and Pressley’s win should be celebrated by those who want an active fight for a better tomorrow.

as a resident of the district i completely agree with that sentiment

That's from LGM, right? Yes, I read it this morning and agree.

i don't know how much to worry about my state

good day for the shifting Overton window - O offers an endorsement of M4A, and

Zephyr Teachout, who's increasingly seen as the frontrunner in #NYAG: "We need to abolish ICE. You have an already broken system being abused by a bigot."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 7, 2018

rad

jim carrey / kamala harris 2020. attorney general michael avenatti. eisenhower income tax rates. libertarianism is stupid and anti-american

sorry qualms jim's a canuck

foiled again

he has dual citizenship, maybe he can be Vice President?

all the Canadians I know who have moved to the US have gone super #resistance

VP has to be eligible for the Presidency, you'd have to make Carrey a Cabinet Secretary of some kind.

shucks

i thought this photo was pretty cool:

https://i.imgur.com/5I1suZA.png

Governor Cuomo is mad that @CynthiaNixon has called him out for never attending a mosque in 8 years in office.

Now the official NY Democratic Party is paying for his mailers that are trying to divide and conquer New Yorkers. Shameful.

[Also, Cynthia is raising her kids Jewish.] pic.twitter.com/Ouu2uTWQLF

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) September 8, 2018

https://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/look-up-not-down-a-message-to-young-trump-supporters/Content?oid=15698154

I’m not sure which thread that belongs on. Clearly we need an entire board for politics

lol

that 11th-hour flyer shit is right on time; I guess "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo" was considered too '70s

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NY-Democratic-Party-Sends-11th-Hour-Mailer-Calling-Cynthia-Nixon-Weak-on-Jewish-Issues-Anti-Semite-492809821.html

Zephyr Teachout got to shake my hand last night because I got off the subway in Park Slope to have Szechuan food.

was it numb-your-mouth serious Szechuan or just the diluted American stuff

well, sometimes i need my mouth to talk, so whaddya think

hopefully the serious stuff, then

i'm sorry i don't see cynthia can overcome bagelgate

why the fuck should tax money fund yeshivas?!

good luck cynthia nixon

https://bklyner.com/heres-who-simcha-felder-is-accepting-campaign-contributions-from/

Data from the NY Campaign Finance Board show that Felder’s campaign received $18,000 from a pro-charter school group, “New Yorkers for Putting Students First.” Another pro-charter school group, Great Public Schools PAC, donated $3,000. Felder has been a staunch supporter of less oversight of Yeshiva education standards.

The NY Post reported that Felder was able to help the Agudath Israel organization — focusing on social services for the Orthodox Jewish community– by getting them grants “totaling $850,000 — $350,000 for community-services programming, $300,000 for a legal-services initiative and $200,00 for educational-access services.”

“Two dozen other facilities in Felder’s district also shared in the windfall, from the Sephardic Bikur Holim community-service network ($90,000) to the Yaldeinu School for autistic children ($50,000),” NY Post further reported.

In 2013, Felder pushed to propose expanding bus service to private school students who attend late afternoon classes– many of the students who attend yeshivas, the Daily News reported. In 2015, NY provided $8.1 million in funding to provide transportation home to private school students, but the new bill would provide an additional $4.5 million in funding, as well as requiring buses to drop these students off no more than 600 feet from their homes. At the time, many city officials argued that it was a “political giveaway to the Orthodox Jewish community.”

That's a higher level of bus service than public school students get, btw. That "600 feet from their homes" thing would be really helpful to some of our students who would literally have to take a city bus to get to their assigned school bus stop.

I hope this candidate doubles down on the "fuck the military" rhetoric, it's time for a backlash

Arizona Senate: Kyrsten Sinema's anti-war group blasted 'U.S. terror,' depicted soldier as skeleton in 2003 flyers

It’s not the fault of the fank and file soldiers.

whatever, dude. the uncritical worship of the military needs to stop.

9/10 people who complain about "denigrating the troops" actually mean "denigrating the american war machine" which is exactly what the flyer represented, so fuck those people.

the 2003 invasion of iraq was u.s. terror resulting in upwards of one million deaths. old flyer otm.

but don't be insensitive to the troops!

That's actually more important!

also maybe if more troops had been convinced by these flyers they would have refused to prosecute the war, and thus saved countless lives

several of my friends returned home from that war with PTSD, one killed himself shortly afterward. another ended up doing a lot of work with an anti-war veteran's group. always kind of ironic how the Respect the Troops crowd totally ignored and resisted them at every turn.