Why are Sherrod Brown in Disguise and Hindsight is 2020 nowhere to be seen in this thread?
Anyway, nationalizing mayoral elections doesn't work, part #152984.
"Publicly dragging your candidate's name through the mud because he held a rally with that old guy who keeps telling you how to run things right" doesn't work, part #1
So no response to the statement I made above?
Ah, sorry, I forgot that I am honor bound to continue all internet arguments until one of us submits.
My point is that the party held Heath Mello to a standard I have never seen it apply to ANY other candidate in a serious race.
Even as the local party was perfectly okay with Mello's history.
If we're going to start becoming an ideologically pure left-wing party and start refusing support to candidates that don't match up, fine. But in this case it was entirely a pithy, pedeantic response to people who despise Bernie Sanders but claim you're drudging up the primary when you call them out on it.