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Maybe they finally realized that people have more money to spend when the economy’s not in the tank. I doubt the endorsement matters much though. Those business owners will retain their political alignment despite the overall endorsement.
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The, “Chamber of Commerce” might have just realized what they are supposedly all about.
The Repubs version of commerce is called war.
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“We believe that your re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives will help produce sustained economic growth, help create jobs, and get our country back on track,” Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue wrote in a letter to Peters on Aug. 29
Sounds like a Democrat only a mother could love. This is all capitalist doublespeak for gutting the middle class on behalf of the oligarchy.
I have been wondering when business groups, especially those interested in immigration reform and uninterested in social issues, might finally realize they’d be better of aligning themselves with Democrats. No, they won’t get the tax breaks and deregulation they so desperately want but they will get a functioning government. They will get a government that passes budgets, that raises the debt ceiling without incident, that won’t threaten to blow up the economy every time they don’t get their way. They will also get a government that wants to grow the middle class, which will result in more buyers for their products and services.
This is only one of a handful of Democrats the CofC is endorsing but I have long thought it was a matter of time before someone over there started looking at how badly Republican policies and intransigence has hurt the business community along with everyone else.
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Scott Peters is a San Diego Democrat, AKA a Mainstream (non-Tea) Republican.
DeMaio is a nitwit.
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His opponent Carlo DeMaio is a gay Republican a strange species found only in small pockets mostly north of Interstate 8 in Bland-Diego county. Speaking as a gay myself you have to think Gay Republican = f#cked up person. Then again maybe that’s why the CC support him? So who is more f#cked up?
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San Diego is sort of a checkerboard of Republicans and Democrats, much like Massachusetts that elects Republican governors with a Democratic state House and Senate. I felt so comfortable as a liberal living in San Diego, with a Republican mayor who would march in gay pride parades. It’s a strange area of California, practical, yet fearful, and the young folks in the military living there are fine people to be honored and respected. Sometimes San Diego looks like a healthy two-party democratic system of governance, not evident everywhere in America these days.
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Is any part of this retaliation for Carl DeMaio not stepping into the San Diego mayoral fracas and trying to tamp everything down by re-challenging Filner?
DeMaio had just lost a close mayor’s race to the guy and might have plugged that dam before SD city government spent several months as a national laughingstock, but he was insistent he would rather run for Congress in '14.
Well said. The Baggers certainly have their enthusiasm and usefulness as bloc-voters in blunting Progressive initiatives few business people would approve of, but their “economic vision” is pure Reactionism.
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The last two times that he has run for something, DiMaio has proven himself to be a tool of the 1%, an arrogant egotistical martinet, and a conniving weasel. He recently came out, just to try and con the socially liberal city of San Diego. And insanely, he’s currently ahead.
As for me, I’m in NoCo at least for a few more months, so I’m stuck with Derpin Humper Junior. These old retired Navy guys and tongue-talkin’ Fundies would vote for a bucket of used condoms if it had the letter ® by it.
I used to work for a CoC in a major city, and I think people would be surprised to see just how quickly the business types will throw Republicans under the bus if they feel that a Democrat or a progressive piece of legislation is a better option on matters of commerce. All the tax cuts and deregulation in the world mean shit if your party platform has reduced itself to holding a gun to the head of the economy every time you throw a tantrum, and refuse to cooperate on things that used to be ordinary functions of government.
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This is another move toward the fraying of the Republican coalition. Inertia and the small-mindedness of many business people is causing this transition to occur more slowly than it would were rational self-interest applied. But it’s hard to imagine the current Republican leadership mustering the intelligence or courage to reverse the harm they’re doing to the GOP and that nation.
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I think the Export-Import Bank is a big issue, especially in an aerospace-heavy area, like San Diego. The libertarian argument that this is corporate welfare goes only so far when you lose a sale to Airbus because the EU helps buyers finance their purchases and the US won’t if the Rs have their way.
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Just how far off the beaten path do you have to become a republican even the Chamber of Commerce won’t support?
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Either this guy is a DINO and/or the Rethug candidate is so bad that not even the chamber can back him.
Could very well be. Except in the case of aerospace, they’ve never really needed the ex-im to get by. In fact, it’s mostly a perfect example of corporate welfare. If Boeing, for example, has problems selling it’s jets abroad, then maybe it shouldn’t rush them into service after outsourcing too much of the plane to foreign suppliers and rushing a system into production that it’s own engineers concluded wouldn’t work right as designed.
Peters’ endorsement by the CoC tells more about him than his nomination by the Democratic Party. Voting always is a choice of who is the lesser evil.