Marie Newman, the progressive candidate in Illinois’ Democratic primary, beat incumbent conservative Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) during the state’s elections on Tuesday night.
Excellent news!
Lipinski is a DINO extremist.
Should have happened three years ago, but better late than never!
Good luck to the progressive candidates!
OT
Also, only 8% of Fox News viewers disapprove of Trump’s response to Covid-19!
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1240282895748673536
“There’s a virus in the world… Wouldn’t it be smart to tell the truth about the virus?”
Lipinski supports abortion only in cases of extreme wealth.
Good. Nice to see we can clean house a bit.
Good. Maybe this is a harbinger for Jessica Cisneros, who came heart-breakingly close to ridding the caucus of Henry Cuellar earlier this month.
Hooray. Now he can switch to the Rethugliklan party where he belonged all along.
Well, it is getting onto Spring after all…
Good to see him go. He was the worst of all worlds. A DINO who inherited his seat from his father. He should have lost last time.
Always good when DCCC backed Republicans eat shit. And people think the left is the problem in the party.
Lipinski, who has been in office since 2005, often bucked his party’s left-leaning stances, having voted against abortion rights, the Affordable Care Act and LGBTQ rights. He also declined to endorse President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
But despite the Illinois congressman’s conservative record, the Democratic establishment has thrown its support behind him.
“The Democratic establishment”: @tena and others, kindly take note – and not only of its existence, which seems to baffle you, but also its behavior.
With Lipinski out, I guess the so-called “House Problem Solvers Caucus” has a new problem on its hands.
Last night Rachel said that the calculus for Bernie getting out is different now because of the difficulties of voting in the age of COVID-19, so the Dems could stop the primary process. I love Rachel and she’s usually spot-on, but I was yelling at the TV on this one. Most state primaries have other races on the ballot, sometimes dozens of other races. This result shows how important those down-ballot primaries can be.
It often is the problem—especially when the 22% of the party that it represents believes it should take over the whole party.
The support behind Lipinski is what is meant by ‘the establishment.’ @ghost I feel you utterly here. I usually love Rachel but I don’t care much about the Kool-Aid she’s been trying out lately.
Beats being so piss scared they’re willing to sell the party to Bloomberg and punish people for running against Lipinski in a safe blue seat.
Bernie obviously didn’t invent the phrase. He just weaponized it to mean “the majority of Democratic voters and the candidates they support.”
Can you elaborate?
Thanks.
Presuming Lepinsky voted for impeachment, so sincere thanks for that.
I’m just replying to what @ghost Ghost said. We’re sharing a wavelength