Separate from The Young Turks: The Real News acknowledges the The Intercept, days ago, this thirteen minute video. Angie Craig and losing gets commentary. "Underpreformed the top of the ballot" gets mention as a curious beltway favoritism characteristic. And we know how the Democratic Party top of the ballot did. It is worth watching.
CD2 folks get out Tuesday, Feb. 6, and be heard. Find out where you precinct caucuses DFL, show up, and speak your mind. Or walk and vote your mind. However the precinct operates. Find out. Show up, Act for progress. Meaning, be progressive and visibly so.
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Mixing matters under a single headline is akin to our outstanding legislators putting more than a single subject in a bill; which is unconstitutional under the Minnesota Constitution, but they don't care.
At any rate, a clarification: Angie Craig is not an undesirable candidate, certainly so if standing next to Jason TalkShow.
What galls in a major way is the procedure, you show the money to the DC beltway or you suck eggs; as The Intercept well reported in a host of instances, nationwide.
Also, Craig's status as a millionaire does not bode well for expecting her to run on taxing the rich fairly. Billionaires and millionaires on their upper bracket income should be paying a higher rate so that relief can be accorded taxpayers who never get to such rarefied air. If Craig runs on taxing the rich fairly, it would be a stupendous step on her part. If she contends she got hers so you get yours, hello, Nancy Pelosi.
That is a way of making the distinction. Craig is the Nancy Pelosi wealth-knows-best candidate in CD2, Jeff Erdmann is the Bernie fairness-to-all candidate; each saying, "I am a Democrat."
That's it. Last time, Craig against the Republican she decisively lost to, it was clear that in that election cycle I had hoped for Craig. In her favor and in contrast to others, Craig did not make herself rich as a career politician. Far from it, and that stigma simply does not apply.
However, going into it rich is a perspective I inherently trust less in general when compared to a teacher of twenty-seven years; that being a very difficult job with less pay than it deserves. Especially when class sizes creep upward year after year, or perhaps on a lesser time line but inexorably the trend is put more and more students in a class. Yet K-12 is NOT fit for the paradigm of large lecture classes in a four-year first rate university with students years older and more adult in many ways than K-8 young classes or high school adolescents.
Erdmann gets my vote, clearly so, were I to have one in CD2. It would be excellent were Erdmann to be the DFL general election candidate and getting the nationwide attention that Randy Bryce has earned by running against
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Preferring Erdmann, and having more faith in his candidacy than in another run for Angie Craig; it is eyes-on-the-prize caveat time, something friend Wes V. has gently, genteely pointed out:
