Left-Wing Group Announces List Of House Democrats To Unseat
So I thought I was pretty on top of the news but I guess not, this is news to me...(Huffington Post) Roots Action, a left-wing group led largely by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), drafted a report on 15 House members it considers ripe targets for progressive primary challenges, arming the Democratic Party’s populist wing with a new organizing tool as it seeks to unseat a growing number of incumbents.
Roots Action, which is calling its analysis “Bad Blues: Some of the House Democrats Who Deserve to Be ‘Primaried,’” hopes the report can serve as a road map and source of encouragement for individuals or groups considering a primary run.
The incumbent House members its identifies are: Cheri Bustos of Illinois, who chairs House Democrats’ campaign arm; Jim Cooper of Tennessee; Jim Costa of California; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Eliot Engel of New York; Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey; Jim Himes of Connecticut; Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland; Derek Kilmer of Washington; Dan Lipinski of Illinois; Gregory Meeks of New York; Brad Schneider of Illinois; Kurt Schrader of Oregon; David Scott of Georgia; and Juan Vargas of California.
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The report’s authors noted though that it is “by no means exhaustive ― only illustrative.”
Waleed Shahid, a spokesman for Justice Democrats, a group that backed Ocasio-Cortez and now-Rep. Ayanna Pressley in their primary wins last year and has recruited challengers to run against Cuellar and Engel, described the advent of the report as a sign of the times.
“The upset victories by Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have revealed more enthusiasm for more primary challengers and a different model of representation in the Democratic Party,” he said. “Everyone should be looking over their shoulder.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roots-action-bad-blues-report-progressive-primary-challenges-house-democrats-dccc_n_5d0d4e93e4b07ae90d9d21e8
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are extremely revealing. As is the fact that the groups these types form never achieve their avowed goals before they self destruct. They can act as spoilers for the Democratic Party, though.
Notably, Sanders' role in America's 2016 disaster was not the first time for him. He ran for governor long ago as candidate for an obscure third party. He lost, enormously and completely inevitably; and although the anti-Democratic party he allied with did just as inevitably eventually collapse, they did succeed in splitting off just enough voters to defeat the Democratic incumbent and elect the Republican. They didn't count the costs to the people, no guilt or shame at all. As Sanders has said probably hundreds of times in many ways, Dems and Repugs are really just "Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
As for this OP, silly stuff. Despite their claims, these groups failed bad in both 2016 and the big blue wave of 2018. Thank the people who elected Obama twice. They want to mount a LW populist revolution to take over and "reform" the Democratic Party (ALL populist revolutions are reform, RW and LW, even those where the only change is which corrupt cadre starts sacking their nation), but the Republicans/Trump have cornered most of the populist market because they do it so much better.
that the radical leaders who helped elect her and came to DC with her as executives to set up her new office have packed both her personal and congressional staffs with their own sort. Chakrabarti is her chief of staff, after all. He's cleaned up his act big time since he told the nation Justice Democrats might have to require her to sacrifice her congressional seat in pursuit of its great goals, that sacrifice apparently small potatoes in the big picture. 
I think we can provisionally assume his new employer put her foot down, but just how much can she control them? They're IT and propaganda experts and could make bad enemies if she filed for divorce.
... it's Bernie Sanders that I don't support. I don't believe he should even belong on our DU primary candidates list. He's not a Democrat and apparently, neither are most of his fan-boys.
Just sayin'
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is wrong with these people?
those who've registered Democrat and are attacking from "inside." After all, when a New Mexico Republican can register his Labrador to vote as a Democrat... The owner meant it as an insult, but we all know Labs are liberal by nature, which would IMO make Buddy a truer Democrat than these. 
They say it's ok for Sanders to vote against gun control legislation because he's serving his constituents, but these Dems must be primaried bc they aren't pure enough?
