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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  1. Manny Coolidge
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    I Walton (View Comment):

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    This is a beautiful thing! The more power Occasional-Cortex gathers, the more advantage Republicans will have.

    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.

    Yeah but she will be a disaster down the road as well.  Maybe they get elected but implementing that kind of agenda is a sure one termer.  Plus, I can’t imagine that kind of left wing nuttiness will ever get elected.  The cost of the agenda will blow people over.

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  2. Manny Coolidge
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    Skyler (View Comment):

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    This is a beautiful thing! The more power Occasional-Cortex gathers, the more advantage Republicans will have.

    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.

    Fear not.  We lived through Obama.  She’s Obama without the cool.

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  3. Arahant Member
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    Manny (View Comment):
    Plus, I can’t imagine that kind of left wing nuttiness will ever get elected. The cost of the agenda will blow people over.

    Don’t be too certain.

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  4. Manny Coolidge
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):
    Plus, I can’t imagine that kind of left wing nuttiness will ever get elected. The cost of the agenda will blow people over.

    Don’t be too certain.

    Well, I can’t effect their primaries and their contributions.  I can only effect our side, and even then it’s small.  We can only pray.  I’m not going to worry my head over it.  ;)

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  5. Full Size Tabby Member
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    JennaStocker (View Comment):

    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…”

    The fundraising controversy caught my attention because it erupted immediately after Rep. Ocasio-Cortez so publicly and harshly lambasted the Democratic Party because it allowed former Senator and Vice President Joe Biden to remain in the party. 

    The Tea Party and other insurgencies from the right in the Republican Party have generally been efforts to return the Republican Party to its original principles. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and her allies are attempting to abandon the original principles of the Democratic Party and to turn the Democratic Party into something very different from what it has been.

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  6. The Reticulator Member
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    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):
    The Tea Party and other insurgencies from the right in the Republican Party have generally been efforts to return the Republican Party to its original principles.

    Depends on what you mean by original. If you mean increasing involvement of the government in the national economy, then probably not.  

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  7. TBA Coolidge
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):
    The Tea Party and other insurgencies from the right in the Republican Party have generally been efforts to return the Republican Party to its original principles.

    Depends on what you mean by original. If you mean increasing involvement of the government in the national economy, then probably not.

    True. She hopes to fix the party into an exponential new state of broken. 

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