Discussion: DCCC Chair Cancels Appearance At Anti-Abortion Dem's Fundraiser After Backlash

Why is the DCCC supporting Lipinski in any way, shape or form? They should show some spine and kick him out of the caucus. We don’t need the likes of him.

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Hmm I called it, but it still rankles that Bustos as DCCC chair is willing have this guy in the tent.

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When a member doesn’t support the rights of women to have agency over their own bodies then it’s time to say

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a socially conservative FAKE Democrat…

“While Congressman Lipinski and I do not agree on women’s reproductive health care, this does not change how I will work as DCCC Chair to protect our big tent Democratic caucus the DCCC establishment,” Bustos said.

…and that’s another good reason why people are angry with the democratic party. the Dem Party is contemptuous of their base (they’d vote for a class of water") and eager to pander to the repug base.

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" . . . every dollar spent trying to defeat one of our Democratic incumbents is a dollar that we cannot spend defeating Republicans,” Then stop supporting him. If he can’t make it on his own he is just a drag on the party. Have you introduced him to Joe Crowley? He is a dinosaur; let him take his fat pension and leave.

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Deuterium oxide?

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The DCCC is Nancy Pelosi’s incumbent protection racket.

They were charging up to $5,000 a plate for this event. Do you think that poor and middle class Democratic women were going to have any influence here?

It is all about money.

Follow it.

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Of course, the support would have had NOTHING to do with the DCCC decision to only support incumbents … SMH Once again, the DCCC seems to be working to be able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory …

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Can you keep it a thermos? One of those new clear ones?

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hits pause

Now folks could make this about whether it’s smart for a pro choice campaign chair to campaign for someone like Lipinski, but ‘old hurts die hard’, soooooooo…

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“hits play and returns to”

“gives myself a ‘gold star’, because I’m a great egg.”

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Cheri Bustos is a Big Pharma and insurance company shill. She’s the one who called Medicare for All price tag ‘a little scary’. She’s from a solidly blue district, but she is shameless in her advocacy for her corporate donors. Look at her roster of contributors. The bulk of her donations are from corporate PACs, not individuals. Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth Group.

Follow the dollar signs. She supports whoever is part of the money making apparatus. She’s a textbook corporatist Democrat. And so is Dan Lipinsky. These people should be running as Republicans.

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Dan Lipinsky is part of the 48-member “bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus”. Nine of these are Dems. Their only job seems to be to goad Pelosi to give the GOP whatever concessions they demand. These guys (most of them male) opposed Pelosi as Speaker.

They need to be kicked to the curb, like the Blue Dogs who obstructed the ACA at every juncture and went on to lose anyway.

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Her district is a D+3.

Mass 7th is a solid blue (D+34)

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Probably best to, lest it decay to Ice-nine.

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Well, I don’t Vonnegut too heavy into it.

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IL-17 was held uninterrupted by a Democratic Congressperson between 1983 and 2011. It was redistricted in 2011 and Bustos was voted in in 2012. This district has been blue for decades. In the Presidential elections,

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Pelosi’s losing power. Gotta love it.

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