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« Reply #100 on: October 31, 2017, 11:03:19 PM »
Quote from: Janet Yellen 😢 on October 18, 2017, 08:43:02 AM
Quote from: Del Tachi on October 15, 2017, 11:08:20 PM

Also, she's relatively progressive so I don't see why she's such an anathema to Forum Democrats - except for the fact that she's female, but that's all I can think of.

Policy-wise, DiFi is more hawkish than the voters she represents and takes a fairly authoritarian view of civil liberties (see e.g., her stout defense of NSA domestic surveillance and her frequent tiffs with Sen. Wyden). There is a significant portion of her voting base for which those positions are unpopular. Roll those in with rejecting single payer and there's a non-gender reason.

Although there may be a portion who are anti-DiFi due to her gender and support of LGBTQ issues.

Naw, she's not even a leader on LGBTQ issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/10/us/partnership-law-vetoed-on-coast.html
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« Reply #101 on: November 01, 2017, 01:00:37 AM »
Quote from: Vega on October 31, 2017, 07:54:26 PM
HUGE Dianne Feinstein Challenger Announcement Thursday, November 2nd

TYT just released that video, Cenk says in it that "loosely in the TYT universe" who has been "seen on TYT before", which seems to suggest that it isn't him or Kasparian. Who knows, and it won't matter anyway.


Damn it. I've never been fond of TYT. Now I'm somehow less fond of them.
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« Reply #102 on: November 01, 2017, 01:19:01 AM »
TYT is great at undercovering under reported stories like the Flint water crisis but is otherwise trash. Cenk isn't too bad though.
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« Reply #103 on: November 01, 2017, 08:21:13 AM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on October 31, 2017, 11:03:19 PM
Quote from: Janet Yellen 😢 on October 18, 2017, 08:43:02 AM
Quote from: Del Tachi on October 15, 2017, 11:08:20 PM

Also, she's relatively progressive so I don't see why she's such an anathema to Forum Democrats - except for the fact that she's female, but that's all I can think of.

Policy-wise, DiFi is more hawkish than the voters she represents and takes a fairly authoritarian view of civil liberties (see e.g., her stout defense of NSA domestic surveillance and her frequent tiffs with Sen. Wyden). There is a significant portion of her voting base for which those positions are unpopular. Roll those in with rejecting single payer and there's a non-gender reason.

Although there may be a portion who are anti-DiFi due to her gender and support of LGBTQ issues.

Naw, she's not even a leader on LGBTQ issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/10/us/partnership-law-vetoed-on-coast.html

That's gross for someone who invokes Harvey Milk at every turn. And to veto the ordinance so soon after Milk and Moscone's assassination is awful. I didn't know about this - thanks.
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« Reply #104 on: November 02, 2017, 06:16:55 PM »
Apparently TYT is supporting a literal nobody who was affiliated with Cenk Uygur's Super Pac.
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« Reply #105 on: November 02, 2017, 11:40:37 PM »
Nice framing.
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« Reply #106 on: November 03, 2017, 12:34:55 AM »

It was bizarre to me how this was built up, with different sources leaking to other news outlets that Cenk Uygur or Ana Kasparian would be running.
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« Reply #107 on: November 11, 2017, 06:41:27 PM »
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This has the potential to be a huge problem for De Leon. But if Feinstein is still unpopular with progressives, could this open the door for a third Democrat (Steyer, Sanberg, Becerra, Garcetti) or a stronger Republican (Falcouner, Issa, Schwarzneggar, McCarthy, McClintock) to run?
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« Reply #108 on: November 11, 2017, 10:30:09 PM »
Fabian Núñez, Steve Westly, or Loretta Sanchez should primary Feinstein, as well.
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« Reply #109 on: November 11, 2017, 11:07:09 PM »

It's literally Some Girl.
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« Reply #110 on: November 12, 2017, 04:50:45 PM »
Quote from: NewYorkExpress on November 11, 2017, 06:41:27 PM
This has the potential to be a huge problem for De Leon. But if Feinstein is still unpopular with progressives, could this open the door for a third Democrat (Steyer, Sanberg, Becerra, Garcetti) or a stronger Republican (Falcouner, Issa, Schwarzneggar, McCarthy, McClintock) to run?

Can we please make this happen
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« Reply #111 on: November 12, 2017, 04:57:05 PM »
Harassment allegations like this are rarely untrue. Instantly unendorsed, and - not to sound like Wulf - California progressives desperately need to do the same.
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« Reply #112 on: November 12, 2017, 05:53:22 PM »
Feinstein is actually one of the only super old people in congress that I am ok with. I hope she wins again.
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« Reply #113 on: November 12, 2017, 06:09:31 PM »
Quote from: Bosse on October 31, 2017, 10:46:44 PM
Kamala Harris won Hispanic vote in 2016 over Loretta Sanchez, so I doubt De Leon is going to win over Hispanics just because he is Hispanic himself.

Sanchez was a gaffe prone blue dog.
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« Reply #114 on: November 12, 2017, 09:39:53 PM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on November 12, 2017, 06:09:31 PM
Quote from: Bosse on October 31, 2017, 10:46:44 PM
Kamala Harris won Hispanic vote in 2016 over Loretta Sanchez, so I doubt De Leon is going to win over Hispanics just because he is Hispanic himself.

Sanchez was a gaffe prone blue dog.

Also, Harris had to rally quite hard on that.
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