NRCC Weekly Rundown: Socialist silence on murderous dictator
And here’s this week’s edition of the NRCC Weekly Rundown:
(National) After a two-week recess, the Democrats got right back to their socialist agenda with a hearing on their government-run health care proposal. The Democrats’ plan will leave folks with worse care, higher costs and destroy the Medicare system as we currently know it. On top of that, their socialist fantasy will eliminate health care plans that MILLIONS of hardworking Americans rely on. Socialized health care is coming, and it will be disastrous for hardworking men and women across the country.
(National) The socialist Democrats were put on blast this week for their phony pledges to reject corporate PAC money. A Roll Call story exposed the loopholes these all-talk-no-action Democrats are jumping through to gain access to hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate cash. The Democrats campaigned on taking on the swamp, but they’re quickly revealing themselves to be exactly the type of sleazy politicians voters back home despise.
(National) This week the DCCC announced that Reps. Bobby Scott and Lori Trahan would assume the role of “Labor Council Co-Chairs” for the 2020 cycle. As Labor Council Co-Chairs, Scott and Trahan “will ensure that organized labor always has a seat at the DCCC’s table.”Does this mean the DCCC will encourage their staff to unionize? We look forward to hearing Chairwoman Bustos’ answer – especially since the DCCC claimed: “organized labor is the backbone of the Democratic Party.”
(National) We’re old enough to remember when the DCCC told us that “jetting off to Beverly Hills to raise money” was bad. Well, that was just another hypocritical lie from Nancy Pelosi and her socialist cohort. Turns out, Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn and Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg will hold a swanky fundraiser for Nancy and the DCCC later this month. Yikes.
(National) I guess anti-Semite Ilhan Omar has gotten tired of throwing out racist, bigoted tropes, and has instead moved on to blaming the U.S. for the crisis in Venezuela. As Venezuela descends into chaos, Omar decided to throw her support behind murderous dictator Nicolás Maduro whose regime runs over protesters with tanks, shoots journalists and abuses children. We look forward to seeing how the Democrats – especially those on the House Foreign Affairs Committee – spin this one. So far we’ve heard nothing but crickets from the cowardly socialists.
(CA-25) Unlike the TV pundits who are infatuated with California Congresswoman Katie Hill, voters in CA-25 aren’t pleased with their new representative. Hill – who is used to softball interviews on CNN and MSNBC – was surprised by the questions and anger her constituents displayed at her town hall last weekend. Voters peppered her with questions about immigration, the border wall and global warming – NOT the Mueller Report, which she has discussed on network television more than a dozen times. Seems like Hill can’t take the heat when she’s away from her D.C. safety net.
(CA-45) Katie Porter has been making headlines with her hammering of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon about the gap between his salary and the salary of his bank tellers. However, Porter isn’t holding Disney CEO Bob Iger – who makes TWICE as much as Jaime Dimon – to the same standard. Why? Maybe because Porter has taken over $20k from Disney execs, and will be attending a Disney sponsored fundraiser for SoCal Democrats and the DCCC later this month. Guess Porter only cares about wage gaps when the CEO doesn’t contribute to her campaign.
(FL-26, NY-18) It’s now or never for Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Sean Patrick Maloney who so far have refused to sign onto a discharge petition that would bring AOC’s socialist Green New Deal up for a vote. Will Debbie and Sean show their constituents they want to ban fossil fuels, rebuild every building in America and saddle them with a $93 trillion bill? They were two of the 92 socialist Democrats who cosponsored the Green New Deal, so why won’t they sign on to this?
(IA-03) Just days after being sworn in, socialist Cindy Axne was already being courted by Chuck Schumer and Washington liberals to run for U.S. Senate. Axne – left with a choice between getting destroyed by Senator Ernst or losing her reelection race – chose the latter. Axne faces an uphill battle as she looks to hold onto her seat during a presidential year in a district won by both President Trump and Mitt Romney.
(IL-06) Apparently, Sean Casten is a sexist misogynist who doesn’t think women belong in rooms where impactful decisions are being made. In a fundraising email, Casten warned Illinoisans that if his challenger – Evelyn Sanguinetti – wins, a Latina woman will be in “those rooms where decisions are made that will impact our nation,” and goes on to presume she wouldn’t protect women’s rights. Fundraising off of blatant misogyny is a new tactic for sexist Sean, we’ll see how that works out for him in 2020.
(IL-17) Cheri Bustos is losing support among her constituents for the DCCC’s new policy to blacklist vendors that support grassroots primary challengers. In a letter that appeared in The Dispatch-Argus, voters warn her to watch her back, writing: “Bustos thinks she won the 17th District because she’s a centrist, but Lane Evans was one of the most liberal members of Congress and was elected 12 times.” Beltway Bustos might not want to get too comfortable…
(KS-03) Sharice Davids illustrated just how out-of-touch she is with Kansans last weekend with her vocal support for gas tax increases and late-term abortions. Davids ran for Congress on a promise to serve as a moderate but has only proven to be a rubber stamp for the socialist Democrats and their extreme policies. It’s clear Davids is wildly at odds with her constituents, and that probably won’t play well in 2020.
(MI-08) DÉJÀ VU! Elissa Slotkin once again failed to update her public schedule, something she promised her constituents she would do every week. Only AFTER the NRCC called her out for the SECOND time, did Slotkin decide to update her schedule. At this point, Michiganders have to wonder: What other promises is Slotkin failing to keep?
(MI-11) Haley Stevens recently lauded her first quarter fundraising numbers, specifically touting her donations from “people all over Michigan’s 11th district.” As it turns out, over 90% of Stevens’ individual donors are NOT from MI-11 – they’re from places like San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Looks like there aren’t enough socialists in MI-11 to fund Stevens’ reelection campaign…
(MN-01) Last week, Jim Hagedorn praised our nation’s agriculture industry for ensuring that Americans never have to wonder if grocery stores have food in stock. But that didn’t stop the New Ulm Journal’s illiterate editorial board from falsely accusing Hagedorn of saying he doesn’t think any American worries about food. If The Journal is so worried about starving people, why don’t they write about anti-Semite Ilhan Omar and her support for a murderous regime whose people have lost an average of 24 pounds due to the lack of food in Venezuela? We won’t hold our breath.
(NM-02) Xochitl Torres Small is taking heat back home after, once again, refusing to acknowledge the immigration and humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The Albuquerque Journal painted a vivid picture of the crisis over the weekend, highlighting the strain being placed on local governments and the danger posed by drug smugglers and human traffickers. But, according to the congresswoman, “everyone knows there isn’t an emergency on the border.” Huh? This isn’t the first time Torres Small has turned her back on her constituents, and it certainly won’t be the last.
(NY-21) Failed congressional candidate Tedra Cobb is in hot water again, as an FEC complaint was filed against her for failing to account for an unknown amount of contributions during her 2018 campaign. Cobb’s inability to play by the rules is becoming a disturbing trend; last cycle she was caught lying about how many petition signatures she received and was subsequently booted from the independent ballot line. Looks like Cobb is going to have recurring legal troubles and a lot of explaining to do…
(NC-03) In the first special election of the 2020 cycle, the socialist Democrats nominated Allen Thomas, former executive director of North Carolina Global Transpark. If moving far to the left during the primary wasn’t enough to damage his campaign, the press has been blasting him for an audit of Global Transpark that found “glaring” financial problems, poor management, corruption and lack of oversight. Doesn’t seem like Allen’s off to a very good start…
(OK-05) Katie Hill isn’t the only freshman Dem being put on blast by her constituents. At a town hall last weekend, accidental Congresswoman Kendra Horn was asked where she stood on the baseless impeachment of our president. She chose to respond with a resounding ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Horn must be scared of angering her rabid socialist base and alienating the majority of her constituents who just happen to oppose impeachment.
(SC-01) In case you missed it, Joe Cunningham has been using his congressional seat to promote his wife’s businesses. This week Cunningham tweeted out advertisements for his wife’s web development company, yoga studio, and umm…intimate…blog posts (???). He’s even gone so far as to advertise her businesses on his campaign website. Nothing wrong with your family making a few bucks off of your congressional seat, right?
(Texas) The wild-eyed socialists in the Texas Democratic Party have totally lost touch with the state they call home. The Texas Young Democrats announced that anti-Semite and Maduro supporter Ilhan Omar will speak at their convention in Austin next month. This is an odd move for the increasingly progressive party who pretends they can win in conservative Texas districts. I wonder what Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred have to say about a bigot visiting their state?
(Virginia) It’s been months since rape accusations were made against Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, and though he has yet to resign, we’re learning more about what it’s like to work for the alleged serial rapist. A former aide to the Lt. Gov. is speaking out, claiming she felt “brainwashed, betrayed and retraumatized“ by the way he handled the allegations. She goes on to say she “just couldn’t stand the narrative coming out of his office.” Welp. It’s a shame Reps. Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger, and Jennifer Wexton don’t feel the same way and can’t be bothered to return money from the man they believe is a rapist.
(VA-07) Abigail Spanberger is also upsetting her constituents, this time for her failure to save babies from dying on the operating table. In a letter to Fredicksburg.com, a constituent wrote, “…why are you not supporting basic human rights involving American’s children? If you are not partisan, where is your signature?!” This isn’t the first time Abigail’s had a rough go with voters – check out all the other times here, here, here, and here. If her constituents are this upset already, I wonder how they’ll react to her newfound support for Medicare X.
News & Notes
Hate speech, or modern politics? New rhetoric revives tradition of all insults, all the time
This month, after Schiff, chairman of a committee investigating ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, led all House Democrats by raising $1.8 million for his re-election campaign in the first quarter of 2019, a newspaper asked NRCC spokesman Chris Pack for his take on what it meant.
“It means,” Pack emailed back, “Adam Schiff is a socialist clown who has benefited handsomely from flushing his integrity down the toilet and making a mockery of the House Intelligence Committee.”
Unusual.
The statement was not out of tune, though, with the NRCC’s Twitter feed. During a two-week window ending Wednesday, April 24, the NRCC’s tweets slapped the labels “socialist,” “anti-Semite” or “racist” on Democrats in 45% of its posts. And all of the tweets issued during that period were jabs of one sort or another at the other party.
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Indeed. Asked about his statement, Pack, the NRCC spokesman, stood his ground.
“If anything, I am being polite with that description of him,” Pack said by email, calling Schiff’s actions on the House Intelligence Committee “clownish and pathetic.” READ.
Editorial: Forget political sound bites; border is in crisis
While the political chattering class and cable TV talking heads continue to obsess over the Robert Mueller report, in New Mexico we are looking to our southern border as the situation threatens to spin out of control.
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Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., laments the lack of efforts to find a compromise solution but quickly says everyone knows there isn’t an emergency on the border. She’s right on Count 1, wrong on Count 2 – though we can play semantics and substitute crisis, disaster, debacle, etc., to define the situation.
Some resolution is desperately needed, preferably through Congress, but if need be via the president and the courts. Because there is no end in sight to the flood or the unease and political turmoil ripping the country apart. READ.
NRCC Jabs Donna Shalala Over Record at University of Miami
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is taking aim at freshman U.S. Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., who is expected to be a top target for the GOP in 2020.
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“Donna Shalala has been decrying the miserable working conditions that employees have endured at Miami International Airport,” the NRCC noted on Friday. “But it turns out when Shalala was president of the University of Miami she wasn’t exactly a champion of the working class. In fact, during a labor dispute, the university chaplain called her ‘an enemy of the working poor,’ others referred to her as a union-buster and the school’s janitors went on a hunger strike to protest poor working conditions. And where was Donna during all this? Making more than half-a-million dollars and living in the 9,000 square foot presidential mansion. Her dog, Sweetie, even had four separate beds. What a life!”
“Donna Shalala isn’t some champion of the working class, she’s just another phony politician,” said Camille Gallo, a spokeswoman for the NRCC. READ.
A new Democratic group is trying to make sure the Midwest doesn’t equate Democrats with ‘socialism’
A new Democratic political group, Future Majority, has launched with a $60 million mission to help rebrand the Democratic Party before the 2020 election, especially in Midwestern states that have been leaning more Republican in recent elections, Politico reports. The nonprofit will offer strategic advice to other Democratic groups, as it started quietly doing leading up to the 2018 midterms, and do its own branding and communications efforts, including countering conservative messaging. READ.
Progressives Go Around DCCC To Help Primary Challengers Of House Democrats
Progressive groups have been railing against the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee over its new policy of cutting off business with vendors who work with candidates mounting primary challenges against incumbent House Democrats.
They just gained a notable ally: Guy Cecil, the former head of the DCCC’s sister group, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Cecil is backing Marie Newman, a 2020 primary challenger taking on Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.). The conservative Democrat narrowly fended off Newman in last year’s primary. READ.
College Dems Revolt Against the DCCC
A coalition of over 40 chapters of College Democrats are boycotting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in protest of the committee’s newly adopted rule promising to blackball firms that work with Democratic primary challengers.
The coalition, which is being led by Harvard College Democrats, currently stands at 42 groups from across the country and “include[s] groups based at Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Michigan State University, Rutgers University-Newark, University of Virginia and Spelman College,” according to The Hill. READ.
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