Democratic (Party) Direction

where's the tax returns?

ARE.

THEY ARE AT WHERE

GENTLEMEN MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE ARE AT WHERE

Buried in this NYT article on Conor Lamb is confirmation that the DCCC "aggressively recruited" Clarke Tucker to run against progressive campaign finance reformer Paul Spencer in Arkansas' second district. https://t.co/nMhchIdoth pic.twitter.com/tIq1fxEj3a

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) March 18, 2018

I love New York, and today I'm announcing my candidacy for governor. Join us: https://t.co/9DwsxWW8xX pic.twitter.com/kYTvx6GZiD

— Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) March 19, 2018

I was impressed by that speech she gave someone posted here maybe two weeks ago. Just initially wary of anyone who hasn’t held office running for something that big.

Not an ideal candidate, perhaps, but she has been quite active, and Prince Andy is the worst kind of non-convicted pol.

Thinking of watching Tanner 88

Actress delivers speech; onlookers impressed.

sounds better than the horrid squawk of Cuomo for starters

Xpost It wasn’t just the delivery of the speech, something felt distinctive and confident in content/message

I'm curious enough to want to hear more about her ideas for ending mass incarceration and tacking inequality, and who she's working with to craft those strategies. Right now all we have is a nice speech and a nice video.

already better than cuomo

she's already netted one major endorsement

Cynthia Nixon may run for Gov of NY. She has collaborated with Israel haters Jewish Voice for Peace and Vanessa Redgrave in boycotting Israel. Do not support her bigotry.

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) March 17, 2018

i love when guys like dershowitz have to use the transparently hilarious words "israel-haters Jewish Voice for Peace"

From day one, Dem Gov. Andrew Cuomo has enabled GOP control of the state Senate in deep-blue New York by signing their extreme gerrymander & protecting a caucus of Dem defectors who side with the GOP. It's time he faces consequences for blocking a slew of progressive policies https://t.co/XnwpFqTBsq

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) March 19, 2018

Ryan Cooper posted a worthwhile thing:

http://theweek.com/articles/760739/how-democrats-wipe-gop-fix-america

Below, I will outline a draft platform that would both accomplish worthy goals and provide political benefits. Since the conventional wisdom on political feasibility and popularity has proved to be highly unreliable of late (see: President Donald J. Trump), I have focused on things that will provide immediate and concrete partisan benefits, while strengthening democratic liberties. The ideas are grouped under three headings: political reform, domestic policy, and foreign policy. Let's get cracking.

1. Make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., states.

It's just that easy!

I like it, but it's missing anything on campaign finance reform.

xp

Also, just skimming it, does that article address the future GOP minority reverting to their role as an aggressively obstructionist party? This is a group of assholes so adept at being assholes they successful kept Obama from appointing a SC justice.

I don't understand why go to the constitutional trouble of giving PR and DC statehood and leave out AS, Guam, USVI and the Marianas. That always annoys me.

The language on Nixon's website about Cuomo is MUCH much sharper than that gauzy rollout video. This is going to be an aggressive campaign pic.twitter.com/oUOd6Xtx6u

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) March 19, 2018

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-kirsten-gilibrand-endorsing-gov-cuomo-primary-article-1.3886574?cid=bitly

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/17/behind-the-dodd-frank-freakout-217645

no signs of bias there right from the URL lol

The bill’s Democratic defenders believe it’s pretty good, especially for a piece of Trump-era legislation. But they believe with more conviction that it’s an excellent way to satisfy a powerful industry’s pent-up demand for deregulation without serious damage to financial oversight. Congress tends to pass only one major banking bill a decade, and the Crapo bill, they argue, is a relatively harmless way to mollify the influential community bankers and signal a willingness to work across the aisle while preserving most of Dodd-Frank as the status quo. They’re incredibly frustrated that arcane disputes over “SIFI’s” and “HMDA” and “FSOC”—don’t ask—could end up fracturing a party that needs unity to fight Trump and take back Congress.

“Are we really going to kill each other over a carve-out in the supplemental leverage ratios for predominantly custodial banks?” an aide to a moderate Senate Democrat complained. “Right now, there are bigger threats to the world.”

yeah pardon me if I see red flags littered all over the language used throughout this piece

an excellent way to satisfy a powerful industry’s pent-up demand

well that's that then

--don't ask--

no signs of bias there right from the URL lol

― Simon H., Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:18 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You, otoh, are utterly lacking in bias

if you're not at the very least profoundly skeptical of financial deregulation efforts then uhh idk enjoy the next crash I guess

The Democrats who support the Senate bill all voted for Dodd-Frank. They argue that bipartisan buy-in for modest adjustments to Obama’s Wall Street reforms would essentially enshrine their permanence, something they’ve tried but failed to do for Obama’s health care law.

Not all these people are morons - some are grifters, many are both.

they believe with more conviction

as dean baker never tires of pointing out, this is bad reporting: we don't know what they actually believe, much less with what degree of conviction. we know what they say, and what they do, that's it. i mean thank goodness politico is here to tell us what these democrats really "believe" otherwise we might think they were actually interested in cosying up to the sources of potential campaign contributions

Thoughts about Illinois? Lipinski seems to have won :(

idk guys but if a literal Nazi had run unopposed as a Democrat and won - even in a safe/ uncontested GOP stronghold - i feel like i'd hear a lot more about it.

from the GOP/FOX/RW mediaverse something along the lines of "All Democrats Are Literal Nazis", and then very serious "both sides" people would be writing in newspapers/on the internet and saying on TV very serious things about how Democrats have really got to deal with this ascendant Nazi problem

good mourning!

"What is it about the current incarnation of the Democratic Party that a literal Nazi feels comfortable running as one, and that registered Democrats are actually willing to show up and vote for him?"

The voice of politico reporting is the echo of all the staffers used to source every story. Staffer life inside those buildings is the absurd realized in a way that can only be surpassed in wartime. Everyone is there to make a difference, but none of it really matters, push the rock.

Also, I seem to recall mutliple male actors announcing their gubernatorial runs ( and winning, including one that went on to be POTUS) and not getting the shit Cynthia Nixon is right now. And seriously, AT LEAST SHE PLAYED A LAWYER AND NOT THE FUCKING TERMINATOR.

— Cher (@thecherness) March 19, 2018

Not especially invested in that race but "at least she played a lawyer" = classic argument

it's Cher, it's funny

Ha

or rather the main point precedes the punchline

I forgot about Sonny Bono. Did he get shit when he ran?

Not enough to keep him from being elected.

the seven-term incumbent’s 1500-vote win in a district gerrymandered specifically for him means centrism hasn’t completely failed https://t.co/S3gVGD4x3W

— Paul Blest (@pblest) March 21, 2018

(btw, i'm sorry, that's not THE Cher) xp

From Public Policy Polling: “But 19% of people voting in the primary approved of Trump. And Lipinski won those folks 85-10. Trump supporters in this open primary were responsible for saving Lipinski from a resounding defeat yesterday.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/379482-ppp-poll-dem-leads-by-5-points-in-tennessee-senate-race

Since Trump’s victory, however, Democrats have flipped 39 statehouse seats, counting the 15 Virginia pickups plus four in New Jersey. Amazingly, 20 of these victories have come in special elections, mainly in districts carried by Trump, some by very large margins, in places as varied as Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, and Florida. Democrats have taken five GOP statehouse seats in purple New Hampshire, four in red Oklahoma, and a big one in Washington State last November 7, when activist Manka Dhingra grabbed an open seat formerly held by a Republican, flipping the State Senate to blue. Almost immediately, Washington passed a statewide automatic-voter-registration law, which Governor Jay Inslee signed on March 19. Earlier in March, a bill was passed banning so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ folks. Elections have consequences.

Nationwide, there are 7,383 state legislative seats, and 6,066 of them, in 87 out of 99 chambers, will be on the ballot this November. Democrats aren’t quite running a 7,383-seat (or a 6,066-seat) strategy—at least not yet. But after years of frustration and neglect, it’s no longer impossible to imagine the day when the party contests every single statehouse seat in every state in the Union. Party insiders, activists, resistance groups, and candidates—from Maine to Minnesota, from Arizona to Georgia, and all the GOP-dominated states in between—are gearing up for an unprecedented number of races in 2018. In dozens of states, Democratic leaders are vying to bring about “the next Virginia,” in the words of North Carolina Representative Graig Meyer, who is part of a recruitment effort that has enlisted a Democratic challenger for every Republican incumbent in both houses of the state’s General Assembly for the first time in recent memory. In 2014, by contrast, 34 GOP incumbents in the State House of Representatives and 12 in the Senate went unopposed. Ohio Democrats have likewise recruited a challenger in every legislative district in the state. And in Pennsylvania, the number of Democrats who have filed to run for the State House and Senate outnumber Republicans 56 percent to 44; most of the Republicans are incumbents.

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-7383-seat-strategy/

now that's a little bit heartening.