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Democrat Incumbents’ Fund ‘Primarying’ Their Colleagues
This is an interesting case of Democrat infighting. Media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a program to raise funds for challengers to her Democrat incumbent colleagues. Normally, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee asks incumbents to contribute campaign funds for general campaigning on behalf of incumbents. Miss AOC is refusing to contribute those funds to the party and instead is helping fund campaigns by those candidates she deems more worthy. Interesting, very interesting.
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McCain isn’t the only one who frags his own.
I like what you to Alexandria Two-Names’ title!
The difference is with McCain it was always personal, he had no overriding philosophy. For AOC it is strictly ideology.
You go poking around for this sort of thing and you are going to find a whole lot of similar contribution records that may be uncomfortably close to home. (Hint: It is no accident that there are always a workable number of squishy, swing-able votes in the Senate when they are “needed.”)
Bold move. She clearly believes she’s the future of the party and that the establishment can’t touch her. Not voting with the Party on floor votes is bad but a newbie messing with campaign money and funding challenges to incumbents is anathema. Let the blood-letting begin!
Didn’t the Tea Party do something like this?
Yes, but the Tea Party was a separate movement pre-saging Trump, as opposed to a Freshman Congresscritter.
I’m not sure this benefits Republicans. It means Democrats are likely to become more radical than they already are. And I wouldn’t bet that radical statism makes them any less popular in the main elections.
We are nearing a point where Democrats don’t need voters to like them or even to dislike Republicans more. With career-ending accusations like “homophobia”, organized harrassment via social media, and violent mobs like the Orwellian-named Antifa, being publicly identified as a Republican voter can have threatening consequences. Fear of not belonging to the reigning party can become an election strategy if left unchecked.
Miss AOC, the ex-bartender, may soon return to her career.
She is at 18% approval in her district last I heard.
Her “chief of staff,” the one with the Che tee shirt has left already,
They are starting to eat their own . . .
This is a beautiful thing! The more power Occasional-Cortex gathers, the more advantage Republicans will have.
AOC is irrelevant to politics. She’ll take her cute, perky, ignorant self to a media career at MSNBC soon enough.
Taste the rainbow…
This is exactly what conservative members of Congress, both chambers, should be doing. No money for the self-serving Congressional parties to use to keep their current crew in leadership. Every dollar to actually advance the things voters sent that conservative to Congress to accomplish.
Not quite. This is real leftists getting serious about replacing the old grifters.
Sounds like a hostile takeover. It will be interesting to see how the ongoing power struggle between the new generation – the Squad – and Nancy Pelosi plays out. But it could just be “new boss same as the old boss…”
If it doesn’t, then we’re already doomed.
You should add “. . . with new grifters.”
We’re in trouble, that’s for sure. Radical statism probably isn’t the thing that will continue to turn off young people – not to say they’re becoming Republican anytime soon, but I’d bet they won’t really show up to vote.
If I’m right, it’s gonna be because some of these kids have had people try to sell them on the transgender fad, or teachers that wanted to inject gay history into, you know, history-history. One of the most noteworthy facts is that if you could show me a single entertaining liberal/progressive YouTube channel I can show 15 that make fun of the left. Then there’s South Park and Rick and Morty. Or to include current events, there was that nuke Ricky Gervais dropped on those tragically, yet hilariously, out-of-touch celebrities.
While I can’t imagine crediting her with good sense, it’s definitely wise from her apparent ideological perspective. Good advisors, maybe.
Meanwhile, I heartily approve of dissension in the ranks of my opponents.
I, too, would like to donate to the causes I choose, and not to ones I don’t. Welcome to the club, @AOC
https://twitter.com/molratty/status/1216034249318551557
Collin Anderson at the Free Beacon tweeted earlier,
Apt point, likely lost on or ignored by AOC’s ideology. Reminds me of the heady days of 2011-12 when I no longer had to shovel cash into my Wisconsin teacher’s union coffers.
But, like, for seriously…. she really wants to! It’s something she’s super-passionate about.
To All,
I do not fundamentally disagree with sentiments like this but I wonder if that changes when a powerful member of Congress can command large (corporate) contributions in return for passage of preferred / preferential legislation and thusly amass a comparatively huge campaign war chest that allows him to reach out to distant states / districts to distort / pervert the balance of funding within the confines of that very localized election.
Just askin’.
Advantage in the next election but the far left plays long term, that’s why they usually eventually win. We have to focus on the post trump election.
So, like I said. Here’s where we’re really winning.
I’m not so sure that a communist having so much power and financing to dominate the House of Representatives is at all beautiful. There are vastly different descriptors I would choose.
The present campaign finance rules encourage this sort of thing, and actually has been around for quite awhile. One reason Nancy Pelosi is where she is at, is her past (and present?) fund raising prowess, and of course her constituency is a wealthy one in San Francisco.
I was mentioned before in one of the comments, but I thought I’d highlight the irony that there is some fundraising going on to primary AOC.
I know it’s not a proper conservative position, but I think it’s time for fork subsidies.