2020 Democratic presidential primary

wow an amazing get for mayor pete's campaign, what a pedigree

Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg has hired a former Goldman Sachs vice president and Google executive to run his policy shop, his campaign announced Thursday.

Sonal Shah, now executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, will be the campaign’s national policy director.

Shah worked at Goldman Sachs from 2004 to 2007 as a vice president, according to her LinkedIn page. She then worked for Google as its head of global development initiatives from 2007 to 2009.

can't wait to see those policy proposals!

smart cities

green coal

innovation vouchers

robot policemen

gay sex!

Paninaro
Paninaro, whoa-oh-oh

"I don't have a liberal bone in my body, but what I love, I love passionately!"

but I sure would like one! wakka-wakka-wakka

your chicago bulls:

[q]Night one [7/30] will feature Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, self-help author Marianne Williamson, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

...The second night [7/31] will include Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Washington Govenor Jay Inslee, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.

your baltimore orioles

Night one [7/30] will feature Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, self-help author Marianne Williamson, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

...The second night [7/31] will include Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Washington Govenor Jay Inslee, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.

i see that self-help author marianne williamson is still in the fold

do Bullock/Ryan/Bennet really have better polling numbers / more donors than Gravel? let the old bastard in imo

Marianne has been outpolling a lot of the other also-rans lately

How the hell is de Blasio still hanging in there? I'm pretty sure I'm polling higher than he is.

he's coming back to NY to fan people during the heatwave. He'll not be happy.

so does the Goldman Sachs chief make P.B. Gay Hillary or Gay Obama?

Delaney has spent 19 mil of his own money and supposedly now has staffers telling him to drop out by mid-August.

he should go back to stand-up

Marianne has been outpolling a lot of the other also-rans lately

it is really sad that someone would assess the field of 20+ candidates and go with fucking Marianne Williamson. hopefully she won't do a 3rd party run after she drops out of the democratic primary. she seems like a prime candidate for that kind of thing.

I suspect her relatively high numbers are attributable to her being a complete outlier... the combined support for the dozen milquetoast no-names will accrue to whichever one hangs around the longest

(no-names too harsh maybe, but everybody who isnt Biden/Liz/Bernie/Buttigieg/Harris)

favorite movies:

Kamala Harris: My Cousin Vinny
Pete Buttigieg: The Godfather, Gangs of New York
Julian Castro: The Breakfast Club
Cory Booker: Star Wars, Rocky, and In the Heat of the Night
Michael Bennet: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jay Inslee: The Wizard of Oz
Bill de Blasio: Seven Days in May
Steve Bullock: Fletch
Marianne Williamson: The Mission

It’s settled- I guess I’m for Bullock

My Cousin Vinny is a pretty good choice too. Really anything that actually feels a little personal and not like you were going for the “right” answer (*coughmayorpetecough*)

Pete Buttigieg: The Godfather, Gangs of New York

God, he can't even be gay in movie taste.

MCV is fairly accurate as far as court proceedings go too.

mayor pete was created by committee in a basement lab of the progressive policy institute

all these people have shitty taste

gravel's favorite movie is Warhol's Empire. go ahead, chuck todd, fight me

Beto: Dead Poets Society

warren: mr smith goes to washington

Biden: Two Hands

trump: birth of a nation

Pence: Salò

nah Beto's is Repo Man

O RLY?

https://imgix.bustle.com/rehost/2016/9/13/16350431-457f-4589-8d56-239ad6e4e561.jpg?w=970&h=546&fit=crop&crop=faces&auto=format&q=70

Betos is stand and deliver

BETO: It never occurred to me, that a desk, a simple classroom desk, could be stood on. As I lift the theatre and headed to a Punk Show, I wondered what else I could stand on. A world of possibilities was opened...

BETO all desk, no legs

surely beto's is slacker

This is the most traction Beto's had in ages.

waiting for Bernie to let loose with The Battle of Algiers

the Beto thing sucks so much because he basically is a dipshit but would be far better than whichever Texas chud senator sociopath he had a shot at beating

now his presidential campaign has been such a shitshow I think he's probably toast as a Senate candidate

yup

he'll be lucky if he gets a low level cabinet post out of this

...or an opening slot for Mars Votla

But seriously, here's what's up Re: Unseating Cornyn.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/19/local-democrats-hoping-statewide-appeal-texas-us-senate-race/

do Bullock/Ryan/Bennet really have better polling numbers / more donors than Gravel? let the old bastard in imo

Gravel has more donors but the DNC deliberately left him off polls to juke his numbers down, so that he wouldn't be able to accurately say that Biden sucks, on TV

I thought the debate rules had to do with how people did in various national polls, not any polling the DNC was doing itself? Or am I misinformed?

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/19/local-democrats-hoping-statewide-appeal-texas-us-senate-race/

When I saw MJ Hegar's campaign video with her riding a Harley, I knew she was doomed. Old, white and moderate is not what's going to get anyone excited against someone who's not hated nearly on the level of Cruz.