Elissa Slotkin Is Sounding the Alarm. Will Democrats Listen?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/10/elissa-slotkin-congress-trump-351513When one of Elissa Slotkin’s staffers passed along a New York Times report alleging that Russia had put bounties on the heads of American troops in Afghanistan—and that President Donald Trump either did not consume the relevant intelligence or did not act upon it—“my stomach,” the Michigan congresswoman says, “dropped to my knees.”
Slotkin spent the next 72 hours in an incredulous haze. A veteran CIA analyst before coming to Congress in the Democratic wave of 2018, she thought she had seen it all. She had served at length in the Middle East, lost friends and gained Top Secret clearance. She had personally briefed both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, in the White House situation room and in the Oval Office, on grave national security threats. And yet Slotkin’s imagination could not stretch far enough to accommodate either of the two scenarios now confronting her. How could something so sensitive not reach the president? Or, if it had, how could he have ignored it?
The congresswoman inhaled every bit of news coverage, watching carefully for conflicting details or any confirmation of the original Times story. She called former colleagues in the intel community in search of explanations. Finally, she took to social media, writing a series of uncharacteristically pointed tweets about Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. “Something has been off about that relationship since the beginning,” she wrote, “and Americans are quite literally paying in blood for his pandering to Putin.” The irony was not lost on Slotkin. Here she was, four months out from Election Day, one of the most endangered Democrats in the country, representing a district Trump carried by 7 points, spending her Sunday morning doing precisely what she had vowed to avoid: picking a Twitter fight with the president of the United States.
There will be consequences—of this, Slotkin is certain. She cannot hope to win reelection this fall without persuading a significant number of voters in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District to split their tickets—four more years for Trump, two more years for her—and every feud with the White House is equivalent to a few more straight-party ballots being punched. Whether Slotkin can have it both ways, speaking her mind about the president and winning over some of his supporters, may well determine not only her fate but the fate of Democrats in swing districts and battleground states across the country.
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I really have no conclusive answer for you, sorry.
Top Pentagon officials say Russian bounty program not corroborated
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-russian-bounty-program-corroborated/story?id=71694167
U.S. officials say intel on Russian bounties was less than conclusive.
That misses the big picture. But the debate over that narrow issue obscures a larger consensus. U.S. intel agencies have long assessed that Russia backs our enemies in Afghanistan.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-officials-say-intel-russian-bounties-was-less-conclusive-n1233199
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to keep our nose above the surface... Sorry for the visual. 
This is the turd's modus operandi. Fast and furious. (Actually his handlers. Herr turd can't keep track of anything.)
ALL of them MUST be dealt with. 
if she is trying to hide being a Democrat, then joining the New Democrat Coalition is a pretty poor way to do it
https://newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/new-democrat-coalition-chair-and-infrastructure-task-force-co-chairs-statement-on-house-passage-of-hr-2-
Biden endorsed her personally back in 2018 as well.
Joe Biden endorses Democrat Elissa Slotkin in 8th Congressional District
https://www.mlive.com/news/2018/04/joe_biden_endorses_democrat_el.html
here is another House Rep's website
Max Rose (just saw an interview with him so I went to his site)
it seems the same as hers in that it makes no blaring Party reference
https://maxrose.house.gov/
No clue why you are trying to drag her.
Maybe because she is a moderate and not a fan of the far left?
If we are not a big tent party, we are never going to maintain control of the House, and will have a hard time winning back the Senate.
Not The Squad: Rep. Elissa Slotkin and her ‘Gang of 9’ offer Democrats a path of moderation
https://www.jta.org/2019/08/05/politics/meet-the-anti-squad-rep-elissa-slotkin-offers-democrats-a-path-of-moderation
LANSING, Michigan (JTA) — Tom Dalton could be the poster boy for Elissa Slotkin’s path to a second term and, she would argue, to Democrats keeping the U.S. House of Representatives. The 67-year-old Vietnam navy vet routinely votes Republican — but says he would not hesitate to vote for Slotkin, a Democrat, if he had the opportunity.
“Seeing what’s happening today in the news, all you hear is negative this and negative that, I would love to know if there’s a lot more of what I saw today,” he said, after Slotkin and the Republican in the neighboring district, Tim Walberg, thanked him for his military service at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in this central Michigan town split between their districts. “I want to thank you for being a Republican and a Democrat,” Dalton said, emphasizing the “you” after the duo gifted him with a ceremonial pin.
In an interview two days later, Slotkin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she sees bipartisanship as key to any success in Michigan, which flipped to Trump in 2016 by a tiny margin. She was one of two Democrats to pick up seats in the state last year, ousting the Republican incumbent in an upset. “In my district, I have a very clear mandate to work across the aisle,” she said. “It’s why I was sent to Washington.” “My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat,” she said. “In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics. The vitriol from Washington has been imported in our swing state and people can’t stand it. You saw how happy people are when people work together.”
Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, is one of nine veterans of the national security apparatus who are freshman Democrats in Congress and who call themselves the “Gang of Nine.” Three of them are Jewish: Slotkin, Elaine Luria of Virginia, a Navy veteran, and Max Rose of Staten Island, an Army veteran.
The “Gang of Nine” contrast sharply with another clique in the freshman Democratic class, “The Squad” of four progressive congresswomen who include Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Although they wouldn’t describe themselves this way, you might call them the “Anti-Squad,” freshmen whose security backgrounds and moderation form an alternative to the progressives who have become symbols of divides within the Democratic Party (and between the parties).
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ironically this next story has a pic of her and Max Rose, lolol
Average vulnerable House Democrat starts 2020 with $1.8 million
Eye-popping numbers and other takeaways from fourth quarter
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/02/02/dollar-dominance-average-vulnerable-house-democrat-starts-2020-with-1-8-million/
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1. House Democrats still dominating
House Democrats in competitive races continued their dominant fundraising, with incumbents raising an average of $679,000 — almost $7,500 per day — in the fourth quarter. Twenty-eight of the 39 Democrats in competitive races raised more than half a million.
On average, these Democrats had nearly $1.8 million in their campaign accounts at the end of the year, and 32 of the 39 had more than $1 million on hand.
Michigan Rep. Elissa Slotkin topped the list of vulnerable House Democrats, raising nearly $1.3 million. Slotkin is one of 30 Democrats in districts Trump won, and she took a high-profile role in the impeachment process. New York Rep. Max Rose was No. 2 with about $60,000 less than Slotkin, or $1.2 million for the quarter.
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'Duty to country': Democrat makes case to Trump supporters for impeachment
Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin announces her support for impeaching Trump in Michigan district that leans towards him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/16/elissa-slotkin-democrat-backs-trump-impeachment
she obviously is doing something right
