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Tomorrow is DFL Precinct Caucus day in Minnesota. Big news today, on the eve of caucus, Tina Smith sees sufficient urgency to join the long and illustrious list Peggy Flanagan has as endorsing progressives. Times need a fighter, Smith says, and Flanagan is it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYxv_Zhtqqs - is the online video where Smith endorses and Femming says thank you, and that she will serve and fight the occupation and the individual - Trump - inciting the unneeded and unwanted influx of death and trouble which Trump has viciously instigated against Minnesota.
And the fight will reach beyond that, to an affordable economy for regular citizens, decent healthcare without gimmick giveaways to insurance firms. And Flanagan clearly is the only option for progress from a sad, outdated, stale status quo.
With the contest being Flanagan and Craig and no third option, this is Smith making the politically difficult statement; that Angie Craig is not the one.
Others have lined up that way too. MinnReformer reports:
Smith is a progressive Democrat and part of the “Fight Club,” a group of Senate Democrats challenging their leadership to be more combative in the face of the Trump administration’s sweeping agenda.
[...] “Peggy has served this state so well. She has delivered results for Minnesotans and she understands that right now what we need are fierce fighters. People who are willing to stand up to the status quo,” Smith said.
[...] Craig is seeking to replicate the success she’s enjoyed in the purple 2nd District by being more of a bridge-builder and win back voters who are put off by polarization in Congress. She’s been endorsed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and several labor unions and state officials.
Flanagan has also been endorsed by former Sen. Al Franken, who held the Senate seat before Smith.
If the call to move the needle from the status quo to something many feel better, one must note that the Hakeem Jeffries endorsement IS that very status quo. Ineffective and entrenched, as is fellow New Yorker, Senator Schumer.
Furthermore, Strib's reporting of Smith's endorsement also notes:
Smith’s backing of Flanagan adds to her growing list of endorsements from sitting lawmakers in Congress. Flanagan has established herself as the progressive in the race, with the backing of big-name lawmakers on the left, including Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
“Tina is an unapologetic progressive champion for working people who has delivered real results for Minnesotans all across the state,” Flanagan said in a statement touting Smith’s endorsement.
Craig has garnered considerable union endorsements in the race, giving her early and strong labor backing in the race. She also has the backing of Democratic party leaders in Washington, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A handful of Republicans are also running for the seat,[...]
Simply stated, Crabgrass believes the progressive old farts outweigh Pelosi, who's still going as Craig's premier old fart, but nonetheless ossified and drifted into irrelevance.
Pelosi is one big reason Medicare for All was repeatedly tamped down while Hakeem's not said boo in favor of MfA. Craig's union backers have their own healthcare arrangements and care little about all the rest of us.
"Got mine, so get yours" has an ugliness to it which is hard to shake.
Hakeem and Pelosi have good coverage too. Cadillac plans Congress has given itself.
Clean up the mess or suffer more of the same. It's not rocket science. It's Peggy for Senator.
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One thing that rankles me, should Craig win the primary, is she's taking AIPAC money. The war criminals like her and that needs analysis.