Allison Jaslow, executive director of the DCCC’s campaign arm, has become a casualty in a diversity fight currently roiling the organization.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1238763
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1238763
Seriously?
Good Lord…
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“DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos abruptly flew back to Washington to mitigate the situation and has promised to undergo diversity training.”
Wait, what? Jaslow resigns, but it’s Bustos that feels compelled to volunteer for diversity training? This story is incomplete. Methinks Kate Riga needs to expand the background of all this for us.
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Whatever the hell this is about, better now than in the middle of the 2020 campaign.
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Agreed
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what what I can tell, this whole mess started with a Washington Free Beacon report on a recently promoted DCCC staffer… Although most of the offensive stuff was homophobic, she also tweted some stuff considered anti-hispanic
ETA
The job Coleman had been promoted to was being in charge of a minority outreach program.
That report lead to some concern by minority congresscritters. Bustos texted to one of the congresscritters (Gonzales) that Coleman was no longer in her job. Another congresscritter (Cardenas) was told “Coleman would no longer be working on the minority engagement project or on any issues concerning minorities at all.” And it turns out that was a lie.
and more ETA, from roll call, it turns out that Jaslow was very tight with Bustos…
Jaslow was close to Bustos, having served as chief of staff in her House office and having worked on her first campaign in 2012
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To be fair, Dems wrote the book on the subject.
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I won’t listen to Julie Andrews anymore …
not since she fucked up the Medicine goes Down song —
[should of been brown sugar ]
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Dems are diversifying themselves into smithereens. Hard to keep your eyes on the prize when everyone has his/her own prize.
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Mitch McConnel is on the senate floor winning about being call Moscow McConnel
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The Purity Police Circular Firing Squad claims yet another victim (and it won’t be the last.)
No one is ever “pure” enough, or “diverse” enough, or “sensitive” enough.
Never mind the fact that the Nation is facing EXTINCTION at the hands of the Neo-Nazis in power right now, we have snowflake constituencies to mollify! (and scalps to hang on our belts.)
Pogo - “We have met the enemy, and he is US.”
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Jesus…she needs to be thrown out onto the street.
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Though it wouldn’t have mattered if she had deleted em (nothing really disappears on the net), she should have deleted those tweets.
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TPM commenters doing the research that we wish Josh’s folks would do a bit more of
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Well then, I guess Mick and the Stones are okay?
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agreed.
But the fact that Coleman’s 2010 tweets became an issue at all says that someone dropped a dime on her. I suspect Coleman only became “woke” when that became part of her job…and privately, she remained homophobic…
ETA:
This whole thing also begs the question, why is Jaslow taking the fall? Did Bustos tell her to get Coleman as far away from diversity/minority outreach as possible, and Jaslow didn’t? Or is Jaslow just a scapegoat, covering for Bustos.
It will be real interesting to see where Jaslow lands next…
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How many careers have (or should have) been destroyed by posting something on Twitter or other so called “social media”
What a scourge on our society.
And, what happened to just keeping your fucking mouth shut or your hands in your pocket (away from your phone/keyboard)?
Impulse control is a lost art.
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Impulse control was never there. It’s just that historically there wasn’t a medium to project stupid stuff to the entire planet and have it preserved for posterity. So whatever stupid shit you thought was funny at the time never went beyond you and your buddies at the party.
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Circular firing squads aren’t only held by the gunhumpers.
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