For every blue collar vote you lose, you have two suburban jobs lost to H-1B.
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Nancy's turn next. Give her a medal. Harris too. Nothing has fundamentally changed except who's gotten the spoils. After Obama, people take turns and the earth still turns on its axis so we are doing metal deserving stuff voters reject, from time to time, majority being fickle. It's Rham's turn coming up. Isn't it? Carter just died, and it's really been something since Carter served. Since LBJ had his turn. Rham got no medal. Yet. Trump gave Mariam Adelson one of those. She also wore red to contrast with the blue ribbon. Friendships seem a factor. Alliances even more a factor. Elon's turn next, perhaps? The working people used to vote Democrat. Rham and Bill fixed that. Short term. Two terms. Now to where Elon might get a medal. One he could put into space to circumnavigate the sun, and get a second one. What does one of those things cost? Nothing fundamentally changing being the cost? Bernie, AOC, medal-less for being meddlesome. Daring to question.
UPDATE: Look at what Harris offered. $25,000 housing money, this inflating the housing market; and a child tax credit where paycheck to paycheck folks do not usually itemize, using the short form with all income from paychecks, so they see others get a credit benefit, nothing for them however. Hence, if you are paycheck to paycheck renting or servicing an existing mortgage the message is listen to Trump.
And campaigning with Liz Cheney? The second Bush and Cheney did Iraq to us, and she's as conservative as they come. Why would I say Kamala and Liz was a good show? Walz did not matter. Kamala was the story, and she had no story beyond she felt good and you should too. Healthcare reform? We don't go there.
If Trump does trim some fat from the machine, no wars meaning trimming the military, and savings go to debt reduction and healthcare reform, his party will have working class votes into the future, where JD talks the story, and onward. Upper income working class suburban people will have benefits from healthcare reform, job mobility being big, and they owe Democrats nothing to where they can go with their pocketbook voting. Images of middle class separation vs. upper lower class, wage earners either way not holding capital, it's what's best, today. Not diversity is enough, it may be a start to better government, but deliver or get out of the way.
FURTHER UPDATE: SeattleTimes carries NYTimes item, w/o the paywall.
As Democrats reel, 2 front-runners emerge in a leadership battle
The story is a short read about contestants for DNC chair. of interest, it rehashes a past party major error, and says no real frontrunner stands out, but quotes one I like, based on the quote:
During the last party leadership fight eight years ago, allies of Barack Obama, who was then the president, leaned heavily to elect Tom Perez over Keith Ellison, who was backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other progressives. Ellison, then in Congress, is now the Minnesota attorney general. He is backing Martin.
From the sidebar:
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/obama-labor-secretary-tom-perez-anti-union-law-firm-venable
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| "Enter at center. Right makes might. Left is bereft. Steer always to the right. The door will revolve for you." |
And that is a sincere feeling of how Crabgrass views Obama/Perez, as DINOs. As too Schumerish. As dead wrong anti-progressives re money and things! Bereft.
Back to SeaTimes' NYT carry, mid-item:
Jeff Weaver, who was a senior aide to Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential bids and to Rep. Dean Phillips’ long-shot 2024 primary challenge to Biden, has argued to allies that Wikler is too tied to the party’s major donors.
Weaver has pointed in particular to billionaire Reid Hoffman, whom he blames for Wikler’s attempt to keep Phillips off the Democratic presidential primary ballot last year in Wisconsin. The state’s Supreme Court subsequently ordered that Phillips’ name appear on the primary ballot, though he ended his campaign before Wisconsin voted.
“In my view, one of the most important roles of the new DNC chair is to ensure we have a fair and open process in the 2028 Democratic primaries,” Weaver said. “We need to make sure we have someone at the DNC who is a guardian of the fair process.”
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Wikler’s other backers argue that he can help unite the party.
“The best thing about him, in my view, is he is a completely honest broker between the ideological factors in the party,” said Matt Bennett, a founder of Third Way, [...]
Look up that "Third Way" and see why Crabgrass stops on Wikler right there, no need going further. More:
Yet some of the candidates’ messaging has not gone over well. Skoufis, [James Skoufis, a New York state senator and] an admitted long-shot candidate who has attacked the party and its strategies, sent holiday postcards to members. “Wishing you lots of cheer this holiday season” the front of the card read, and on the back: “Unless you’re a political consultant who’s been ripping off the DNC. Nothing but coal for them!”
Among those who received the postcards were DNC members who have at times been on the party’s payroll and who were not amused.
Other attempts by supporters to sway the party vote have been discouraged. Some donors who organized efforts to call DNC members on behalf of either Martin or Wikler were asked to stop for fear the work would backfire, according to a person briefed on the conversations.
Knowing nothing of Skoufis beyond that and his Wiki page, he's my man! Standing up to the money suckers who go with GOP-lite party functionaries in it for the money is unique, and praisworthy. From New York, he knows about Schumer and Jeffries and anti-progressives serving monied interests. A dose of rat poison is a good thing.
From Wikipedia:
Skoufis was an outspoken supporter of increasing the minimum wage.[11][12] Early in 2014, Skoufis introduced Tuition-Free NY, a proposal to make SUNY and CUNY in New York State tuition-free as long as students fulfill community service and residency requirements.
It's not much detail, but it suggests a sound outlook, as does his holidays card.
Ken Martin would never send a card like that. He is too much a "company man." He agrees with his friends. Skoufis nailed a noteworthy problem, unafraid of saying what is absolutely true. There is merit there. Seems he's not a loser.
State Senate bio page, here. Speaks for itself. Merit is there, inner party regulars might be looking for something else, but he should be reckoned with as worthy.