DSCC is even worse than DCCC
The DCCC came under fire for implementing a blacklist for any organization that assisted any left-wing challenger to an incumbent corporate Democrat. This caused a lot of anger and backlash on the left.
The DSCC saw this and thought "We can do one better."
Before the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in a 2020 Senate race, it pressured consultants from at least five firms not to work with a leading progressive in the race, the candidate told The Intercept.Andrew Romanoff, who is one of more than a dozen candidates vying for Republican Sen. Cory Gardner’s seat, told The Intercept that multiple consultants turned down jobs with his campaign citing pressure from the DSCC.
“They’ve made it clear to a number of the firms and individuals we tried to hire that they wouldn’t get any business in Washington or with the DSCC if they worked with me,” Romanoff said. “It’s been a well-orchestrated operation to blackball ragtag grassroots teams.”
At least five firms and 25 prospective staff turned down working with his campaign, said Romanoff, who has raised more than $1 million in individual contributions so far. “I spoke to the firms, my campaign manager spoke to the staff prospects,” he said. “Pretty much everyone who checked in with the DSCC got the same warning: Helping us would cost them.”
Shameless, but not surprising.
I support a #GreenNewDeal & #MedicareForAll. Those priorities don’t sit well with the party bosses & powerbrokers in Washington—but I’m not running to represent them.
I’m running to represent the people of Colorado. They deserve a fair shot too. https://t.co/oeitawXHA9
— Andrew Romanoff (@Romanoff2020) August 29, 2019
Just to be clear, there is no incumbent Democrat in this race.
The DSCC is simply blacklisting progressive groups - period. It doesn't stop at consultants.
Individuals connected to a handful of campaigns across the country said they’ve heard about interventions by national Democrats, either in the form of the DSCC pressuring consultants not to work with progressive candidates, or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer telling people not to run for office in the first place.“First they came for the House candidates; now they’re gonna come for the Senate candidates,” said Heather Brewer, who is managing the Senate campaign of New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a progressive who was snubbed by the DSCC, which made an early endorsement of Ben Ray Luján, a member of House Democratic leadership. “It’s not rocket science to see where this is heading.
Getting back to Hickenlooper, the Democratic establishment has rushed to endorse him despite a half dozen women were already running for the seat.
The DSCC has also picked winners before the primaries in other important races.
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Democracy in this country is dead
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
It's not dead yet
grassroots resistance
Don't be such a baby
Resistance is futile. Obey your Borg masters.
Take the cudgel like a good boy:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68]
That's very encouraging.
Lets hope the growth of the WFP continues in 2020.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
The "Democratic" Party is Corrupt.
This may, or may not, be the case with your State, County or Local branches, but it is certainly the case for the National Party and any organization whose initials begin with "D" and end with "C".
From Jacobin: The DNC Doesn’t Want a Climate Debate for a Reason
P.S. - Common Dreams stole your headline.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
They are, to put it briefly --
One place to start looking for a historical analogy for the Democrats would be the Vichy regime in France between 1940 and 1942. The Vichy French were collaborators, agreeing on their own to (for instance) send France's Jews to Auschwitz to be exterminated. The difference, of course, is that France was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940, whereas the Democratic Party leadership appears to have decided to steer the entire party into collaboration with the Republican Party on its very own, without any invasion or anything of that sort.
Of course, the Vichy regime collapsed after the Allies took over the French colonies in North Africa in 1942, and from 1942 to 1944 the whole of France was ruled directly from Berlin. The Democrats, on the other hand, have yet to feel the sort of pressure that would make them reveal their true colors and switch parties. On the other hand, there was a close call under Obama:
Have Democrats lost 900 seats in state legislatures since Obama has been president?
Yep, that's what they did. Good ole' Debbie Wasserman-Schultz bundled up the party contributions and sent them off to Obama and to the second Clinton, leaving downticket races in the states high and dry. By the end of 2016 there were six states with Democratic Party trifectas (Democratic governors ruling Democratic legislatures) and 26 states with Republican trifectas, even though in membership terms the Republican Party was still a minority party.
"If genocide is not a deal-breaker for you, there is something wrong with you." - Nick Cruse
I mostly agree
But since the 2016 rigged primary they've been exposing themselves more and more.
Remember this from 2018?
Now add in the blacklisting and the picture is almost complete.
The Democratic Party was invaded in the same way that
Ancient Greece invaded Troy, with the Clintons playing the part of the Trojan Horse.
The symptoms look like gangrene
with all physicians locked out
Seems like a great opportunity
For progressive consultants to fill the void. Or for a group of progressive to market themselves as working for progressives only.
Exactly right. You beat me to it. It's an opportunity for some
underdog to kick some spineless ass-kissing snivelling coward consultant ass.
Let's suppose I was committed to making a career as a
political consultant.
And I get hired by some leftie.
And I do my job.
I would never, ever get hired by an establishment Democrat.
EVER.
This is just an insidious, capitalistic freeze out of democracy. Lefties need to starve. We Democrats of Correct (Right) Thinking make that happen every day, all day long.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
How I hate these people.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
We all hate these people
But watching this unfold after 2016, I can't say I'm surprised. Of course they were going to sabotage progressive candidates. The means may be news, but not the motivation.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
I've posted this before, but here it is again:
John Nichols details in a series of articles how
how the Dem Establishment undermined a popular progressive Lt. Governor and
delivered Wisconsin into the brutal, corrupt, corporatist, cronyist hands of Scott Walker and his gang of criminals and seditious usurpers of democracy.
It is interesting that among other things, Lawton got caught in the crossfire of the internecine Clinton Wing vs Obama Wing partywide self-immolation -- having been an HRC backer in 2008, she was non grata with Team Obama. Thus BHO's only meaningful "contribution" to the Dem midterm effort in Wisconsin was to anoint the charmless middle-aged white male mayor of the largest city in the state -- guaranteed to be a loser everywhere else, and unable even to turn out the African American vote in his own damned city.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
More than one way to keep a leftist out of elected office.
Some do it with vinegar, some with honey, or, at least, a feint at honey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Romanoff
( Before entering politics, Romanoff had taught in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.)
"Democratic" Party? I think not.
Good on Romanoff for not taking the bait.
BTW, every time I google "Andrew Romanoff," the first hit is "John Walsh for Colorado," which is sponsored. wtf
My god. I thought I couldn’t hate Obama more.
There are only two things about which I quote Palin.
I somehow doubt that either was original with her, but I can't prove anything, so I'll give her the attribution:
One is "How's that hopey changey thing working out for you?"
(Could hardly be worse, but thanks for asking, Sarah.)
The other is WTF, as in the video below.
BTW, ever since I read that government had to spend a bundle changing the name of the Work Incentive Program for welfare parents, I've known to check acronyms before putting anything out there or naming organizations. (Rejected a great name for a new political party because the acronym was unfortunate: Great American Party.)
Apparently, though, none of the highly-paid geniuses in the White House or among Obama's independent contractor political advisors knew to do that. Beggars the imagination, that does. After all, it's not as though the SOTU gets gone over with a fine tooth comb, or gets a lot of media coverage or anything./s
Anyway, enjoy the WTF video (even though it's Sarah Palin's zinger):
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JWZGIvqGc]
The Dems badly want in win in CO
We still aren't a very strong blue state despite recent elections. Not sure Romanoff was up to the task, wouldn't be at all happy with Hickenlooper as a senator, he's like everything they accuse Democratic senators from CO of being, but in his case it's true. Romanoff should have taken the job offer.
The top of the Democratic Party hasn't learned much from 16, and there aren't that many great candidates coming up through the ranks.
Not up to the task, or not able to unrig all the rigging?
BTW, I don't know if you read my post or the wiki article from which I quoted carefully: Whether or not any actual job offer was made is controversial. At least, according to the Obama administration.
Bribing someone not to run against your boy? Not nice and maybe illegal. So they fudged. However, both Romanoff and Obama's guy referred to it as an "offer." So, once again, we have shady Obama slithering around, relying on exact wording, etc.