@jobu if you can keep proving there's sucker born every minute.

Is he going to institute the Rahm Emanuel doctrine for candidate recruitment?

“I purposely recruited candidates who reflected the temperament, tenor and culture of their district. I didn’t try to elect somebody that fit my image. I tried to help elect somebody that fit the image and the profile of the district.”

Leading the DCCC that year, Emanuel put an early focus on raising money, decrying the fact that Republicans consistently outraised House Democrats. Emanuel that cycle emphasized recruiting centrists

My concern (I do not think am alone in this thought process) is that there is a stealthy 'grand strategy' of the centrists to aggressively co-opt the language of progressives and tailor a message that allows for poser progressive candidates to mouth the words they need to keep progressive happy and then, per usual, legislate like they have been for the last 30+ years.

Emanuel has been in touch regularly with Democratic leaders in Washington, holding frequent strategy phone calls with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

I sense an Obama like bait and switch scaled to fit the 2018 midterms.

This does not bode well for grassroots hope for a full on Democratic Party commitment to Medicare for All. Lujan is firmly on Schumer's and Pelosi's side when it comes to HR-676. They view it as a distraction.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., House Democratic Party Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., DNC Chair Tom Perez and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair, Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., are also holdouts against the bill. Only Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., and Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn, D-S.C., have signed on as co-sponsors to to the bill, while the top leaders of the Democratic Party continue to treat the policy as a nuisance.

What we will get is what I have here in CT-5. Elizabeth Esty, New Democrat, right on all of the social issues I strongly support yet woefully inadequate on the kitchen table economics that we so desperately need.

@earthling1

40 years, so I ‘feel your pain’ as the trite and overused phrase goes.

Most of them see ‘public service’ as a way to line their own pockets.

I don't trust anyone with a "D" behind their name. This, after reliably voting democrat for over 50 years.
Oh how they have destroyed that party. I won't be fooled again.

@Centaurea no matter how many time's I have hit "unsubscribe" it never goes through, just sits there and brings you right back to the same screen. And I get at least 3 or 4 a day from them, with duplicates as well. I just delete them as soon as I see them now. And I never answer my phone from an unknown number either. I'll bet they report on that "metric" of how many requests they send per day, wouldn't be surprised a bit.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee are like vultures. They are so aggressive and persistent, it's stalkerish.

Once they get ahold of your name, and especially if you make the mistake of giving them a donation, it's almost impossible to make them stop. If they call at 10 AM and you don't answer, they'll call again later the same day. Day after day after day. If you block one number in your phone, they'll switch to a different number and keep calling.

At one point a couple of years ago, when I asked the DCCC person calling to remove me from their list, she insisted that she couldn't do that. I'd have to speak to a supervisor. I said "put your supervisor on the line". Then I had to convince the supervisor to stop calling me. I asked if my request would cover calls from the DSCC, and was told "No, that's a different organization. You'll have to talk with them separately."

Even if you convince them not to contact you, they quit for a while, and then start up again.

Holy cow, it's like being taken prisoner and held hostage, and they act entitled to do it, as if we owe them our money, time, and attention and have no right to say "No". (This sounds familiar. Where have we seen it before? Typical Dem party attitude.)

I no longer answer calls from numbers I don't recognize, and now that my wireless phone provider allows me to block callers, I do so. But the blocked calls still show up in the call log. I can see calls galore from them, as well as from other Dem organizations and individual campaigns.