New Ad For Democratic Candidate Tests A Populist Message In Suburban Kansas

[Judi Lynn]

08/01/2018 09:54 pm ET Updated 16 minutes ago

Brent Welder is a progressive labor attorney running in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District.

By Daniel Marans

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is funding an advertisement in support of Brent Welder, a progressive lawyer seeking the Democratic nomination in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District.

The minute-long video, which consists almost entirely of a passionate segment from one of Welder’s speeches, banks on voters’ appetites for unabashed economic populism. Through its super PAC, the PCCC has purchased $30,000 worth of airtime to play the spot on the local morning and evening news in the Kansas City media market, starting Thursday.

“The wealthiest of the wealthy take a tiny sliver of those enormous profits that they steal from us and use it to pay off politicians to keep it rigged in their favor,” Welder tells supporters at a July 20 rally featured in the video. “We gather here tonight to say, ‘Enough is enough!’”

Welder, a union-side labor attorney and former campaign official for both Barack Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is in a close contest for the Democratic nomination in a district that includes Kansas City and many of its most affluent suburbs. The primary is next Tuesday.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-democrat-brent-welder-ad_us_5b625d65e4b0b15aba9f9774

[brewens]

1. I still maintain that we need to emphasize how much of our tax dollars go right to the top.

Why is it that they never try a working class only tax cut? Eventually, even the 1% would get their cut of that. Trickle up would actually work because we would spend most of that money. I'd say it's because it might close the income gap a little and that would be unacceptable to people demanding it be widened.

[Gothmog]

2. I like this ad more

Link to tweet

[lagomorph777]

3. I like both messages.

Really the same message in different words.

[Gothmog]

5. I strongly disagree

One message is real. Ms Davids is the far superior csndidate

[Gothmog]

6. This is also a great ad

Link to tweet

[LongTomH]

4. I've been phonebanking and canvassing for Brent.

I live in Missouri; but, I've been crossing the state line to support Brent. It's a chance to flip a US House seat, not only from red to blue but to progressive blue.