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AOC Attacked by Super PAC Funded by Primary Opponent's Husband
Mailers and digital media opposing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are being distributed by a super PAC that has received the majority of its funding from Stephen Dizard, the husband of her primary opponent, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.https://readsludge.com/2020/06/17/aoc-attacked-by-super-pac-funded-by-primary-opponents-husband/
Congressional candidates and the PACs that donate to them can only legally take a few thousand dollars from individual donors. But PACs that tell the Federal Election Commission that they won’t donate to or coordinate with candidates are allowed to take unlimited amounts of money from donors. Since the contribution limits for outside spending groups were eliminated by a 2010 D.C. Circuit court ruling that came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, many PACs have tested the limits of how closely they can affiliate with candidates without being considered to be acting in coordination and, thus, no longer allowed to raise unlimited sums from donors. Now, the latest attempt to push the limits has emerged in the race between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Democratic primary challenger, former CNBC correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.
An organization called Fight for Our Communities PAC reported its first expenditure to the FEC on Tuesday—$28,000 paid to a Pittsburgh video production company called Phenomenon Post for digital media and mailers opposing Ocasio-Cortez. The mailers and digital media were publicly distributed on Tuesday, according to the FEC filing. As of its most recent disclosure covering receipts made prior to April 30, Fight for Our Communities PAC is funded primarily by Caruso-Cabrera’s husband, Stephen Dizard, who donated $30,000 to it in April. Dizard’s donations make up more than 70% of the PAC’s total funding, according to FEC records, and it is more than ten times the amount he would be allowed to give to the Caruso-Cabrera campaign. Fight for Our Communities is required to file an updated donor disclosure on June 20.
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Dizard, a managing partner at financial firm Wood Capital, has donated primarily to Republicans. His largest donation prior to his donations to Fight for Our Communities PAC was to a joint fundraising committee in 2014 that benefited the campaigns of six congressional Republicans. Other Republicans he has donated to in recent years include Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Co.), and Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential campaign.
The campaign of Caruso-Cabrera, who authored a 2010 book calling for Social Security and Medicare to be replaced with privatized voucher systems, has been heavily backed by Wall Street donors. Her more than $2 million received from contributors include maximum donations from executives at firms including Blackstone, Oaktree Capital Management, Goldman Sachs, and The Carlyle Group. Caruso-Cabrera is also supported by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the powerful business association that generally backs Republicans. Several of Caruso-Cabrera’s donors are also big donors to President Trump, the New York Post recently reported.
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Link to tweet
back when she was pushing her book, which she was still pushing up until 2018
CNBC's Caruso-Cabrera: Eliminate Departments Of Labor, Commerce, Education And Privatize Social Security
https://crooksandliars.com/heather/cnbcs-caruso-cabrera-eliminate-departments
CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera visited the set of Morning Joe to push her new book You Know I'm Right and apparently we've got another Ayn Rand fan working for CNBC. After saying that the auto companies should have been allowed to fail, presumably to get rid of those pesky over paid union workers, Mike Barnicle asks her if she thinks we're going to have to raise taxes to pay our deficit. Cabrera of course doesn't think we should raise taxes and says that instead we should cut spending. Leslie Stahl asks her where. She replies:
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https://books.google.se/books?id=DZRbKtm2FfUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=You+Know+I%27m+Right:+More+Prosperity,+Less+Government+secrecy++banking+secrecy+and+tax+havens+exist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie2NCE-ZfqAhVhxIsKHXHBAjgQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
'Freedom and democracy are best secured when banking secrecy and tax havens exist'
Wall Street takes aim at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in party primary
https://www.ft.com/content/580b5830-7f7e-4092-a6f7-7b451e075e10
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Ms Caruso-Cabrera, 53, has raised just over $2m, a substantial figure for a challenger, as dozens of chief executives, investors, bankers and lawyers have given the maximum allowable donation of $2,800 each to her primary campaign. Some have given another $2,800 for the general election.
However, Ms Ocasio-Cortez has taken in even more: $10.5m, reflecting the ability of figures on the party’s leftwing — such as Bernie Sanders, her preferred presidential candidate — to attract hundreds of thousands of small donations from contributors nationwide. The median size of her donations is $10, according to an Financial Times analysis of Federal Election Commission filings and the online fundraising platform ActBlue.
While many of Ms Caruso-Cabrera’s supporters raise money for Democrats, several are prominent business backers of President Donald Trump including Ken Langone, the billionaire founder of retailer Home Depot, activist investor Nelson Peltz and John Catsimatidis, who founded the Gristedes grocery chain.
Larry Lindsey, a Republican economist who served in the George W Bush administration, said: “Michelle knows more about the world and how things work than probably a solid majority of Congress.” He said he had known the challenger for 15 years and wrote her campaign a cheque as soon as he learnt she was running. “She and I would consider ourselves pragmatic libertarians.”
Larry Lindsey, a Republican economist who served in the George W Bush administration, said: “Michelle knows more about the world and how things work than probably a solid majority of Congress.” He said he had known the challenger for 15 years and wrote her campaign a cheque as soon as he learnt she was running. “She and I would consider ourselves pragmatic libertarians.”
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One still harasses her on Twitter. unrequited harassing
there are others I should add to my ignore for my own sanity but I feel the need to keep track of the enemy that would support dissolving ss and medicare
Warren was only a registered Republican from 1991 to 1996, the only Republican POTUS she ever voted for was Ford. The last time she was a registered Republican was 24 years ago.
Michelle Caruso Cabrera, on the other hand, was still pushing her RW anti-government, Reagan-loving book she wrote as of October 2018. She also rented from Trump until late 2019 (just months ago), lived in Trump Tower in a flat that was close to and probably well over 200,000 USD rent per year. (It was 180,000 USD a year nine years ago and Manhattan ultra-luxury rents have skyrocketed since then)
I also REALLY have to laugh at this (coming from a multi-millionaire who just moved to Queens a few months ago from a flat whose rent alone is 4 or 5 times the entire income of your average person) and given the fact that AOC has lived in the Bronx since 2011 and overall has lived there 14 years of her 30 on the planet
https://www.businessinsider.com/aocs-democratic-challenger-lived-in-trump-tower-before-moving-queens-2020-4?r=US&IR=T
Caruso-Cabrera's own Republican backers describe her as
https://www.ft.com/content/580b5830-7f7e-4092-a6f7-7b451e075e10
Warren grew up in an FDR Democratic household.
Her first vote the POTUS was AGAINST Nixon in 1972. She did vote for Ford, but liked Carter. She voted Carter in 1980 and Mondale in 1984. In 1988 she voted for Dukakis, and in 1992, Clinton. Obviously voted for Clinton again in 1996 and every other Democrat since then. She registered as a Republican because she had moved to PA and liked Arlen Specter, who also switched to our Party from Republican.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
Warren also 2nd lowest Trump score in the entire Senate
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
compare that to the highest Democrats
Michelle Caruso Cabrera, on the other hand, was still pushing her RW anti-government, Reagan-loving book she wrote as of October 2018. She also rented from Trump until late 2019 (just months ago), lived in Trump Tower in a flat that was close to and probably well over 200,000 USD rent per year. (It was 180,000 USD a year nine years ago and Manhattan ultra-luxury rents have skyrocketed since then)
I also REALLY have to laugh at this (coming from a multi-millionaire who just moved to Queens a few months ago from a flat whose rent alone is 4 or 5 times the entire income of your average person) and given the fact that AOC has lived in the Bronx since 2011 and overall has lived there 14 years of her 30 on the planet
https://www.businessinsider.com/aocs-democratic-challenger-lived-in-trump-tower-before-moving-queens-2020-4?r=US&IR=T
In a recent interview with Insider, Caruso-Cabrera said the first-term congresswoman was "out of touch" with her district, "doesn't know what it takes to put food on the table and to put a roof over the head of a family," and was masquerading as a Bronx native.
But Caruso-Cabrera, a New Hampshire native who lived in Manhattan for 20 years, told Insider she moved to New York's 14th Congressional District only late last year when she and her husband took up residence in Sunnyside, Queens.
Caruso-Cabrera's own Republican backers describe her as
https://www.ft.com/content/580b5830-7f7e-4092-a6f7-7b451e075e10
Larry Lindsey, a Republican economist who served in the George W Bush administration, said: “Michelle knows more about the world and how things work than probably a solid majority of Congress.” He said he had known the challenger for 15 years and wrote her campaign a cheque as soon as he learnt she was running. “She and I would consider ourselves pragmatic libertarians.”
Warren grew up in an FDR Democratic household.
Her first vote the POTUS was AGAINST Nixon in 1972. She did vote for Ford, but liked Carter. She voted Carter in 1980 and Mondale in 1984. In 1988 she voted for Dukakis, and in 1992, Clinton. Obviously voted for Clinton again in 1996 and every other Democrat since then. She registered as a Republican because she had moved to PA and liked Arlen Specter, who also switched to our Party from Republican.
Her first presidential vote, in 1972, had been cast against a man she said she disliked passionately, Richard Nixon. But reflecting on how little she had paid attention to day-to-day politics at the time, she couldn’t immediately recall who had been running against him. When told it was Democrat George McGovern, she said, Yes, she would have voted for him but didn’t have any specific memory of having done so. (She was living in New Jersey at the time.) Going to the polls, she said, was nothing new for her. Warren’s mother had been a poll worker and brought her young daughter to the polls each Election Day.
Nixon was re-elected that year, of course, but resigned and was replaced by Gerald Ford. Warren said she had voted for him in 1976, believing that “Ford was a decent man.” But she was happy with Jimmy Carter, who beat him. “I thought he [also] was a decent man,” she said, transferring her then-standard for what she wanted in a politician from Ford to Carter. “He was a really good man.”
As the ’80s wore on and her research on bankruptcy progressed, Warren started waking up politically. At the time, though, the two parties had yet to separate entirely along ideological lines, as some deeply conservative and racist Democrats still held office, as did some genuinely liberal Republicans. In 1988, Warren voted for Michael Dukakis but, in 1992, split her ticket, voting for Republican Arlen Specter for Senate and Democrat Bill Clinton for president. Specter is a good example of the one-time flexibility of the party system and the politicians within it: He began and ended his career as a Democrat, but was a Republican for much of the middle of it. By the fall of 1987, she had moved to Pennsylvania and registered there as a Republican. Warren said she couldn’t quite remember why she did it but that she was a fan of Specter. “Again, I thought he was a decent man,” she said. She couldn’t recall whom he ran against. (His Democratic opponent was Lynn Yeakel.) That GOP registration, though, has set off speculation over the years that one of the Senate’s most progressive champions may have at one time been a Ronald Reagan backer.
So we asked her: Is it true? Is it possible the champion of the regulatory cops on Wall Street voted for the man who made deregulation a hallmark of his presidency?
No.
In 1980, she said, she was a registered independent living in Missouri City, Texas, and cast her vote to re-elect Carter.
When Reagan won, she wasn’t happy but not crushed the way she was on election night in 2016. “I was disappointed and didn’t like him, but I wasn’t deeply worried for the country, not anything like when Trump was elected,” she explained. If she could go back in time, she said, she would tell herself “this was a far more pivotal historical moment than you understand.”
Nixon was re-elected that year, of course, but resigned and was replaced by Gerald Ford. Warren said she had voted for him in 1976, believing that “Ford was a decent man.” But she was happy with Jimmy Carter, who beat him. “I thought he [also] was a decent man,” she said, transferring her then-standard for what she wanted in a politician from Ford to Carter. “He was a really good man.”
As the ’80s wore on and her research on bankruptcy progressed, Warren started waking up politically. At the time, though, the two parties had yet to separate entirely along ideological lines, as some deeply conservative and racist Democrats still held office, as did some genuinely liberal Republicans. In 1988, Warren voted for Michael Dukakis but, in 1992, split her ticket, voting for Republican Arlen Specter for Senate and Democrat Bill Clinton for president. Specter is a good example of the one-time flexibility of the party system and the politicians within it: He began and ended his career as a Democrat, but was a Republican for much of the middle of it. By the fall of 1987, she had moved to Pennsylvania and registered there as a Republican. Warren said she couldn’t quite remember why she did it but that she was a fan of Specter. “Again, I thought he was a decent man,” she said. She couldn’t recall whom he ran against. (His Democratic opponent was Lynn Yeakel.) That GOP registration, though, has set off speculation over the years that one of the Senate’s most progressive champions may have at one time been a Ronald Reagan backer.
So we asked her: Is it true? Is it possible the champion of the regulatory cops on Wall Street voted for the man who made deregulation a hallmark of his presidency?
No.
In 1980, she said, she was a registered independent living in Missouri City, Texas, and cast her vote to re-elect Carter.
When Reagan won, she wasn’t happy but not crushed the way she was on election night in 2016. “I was disappointed and didn’t like him, but I wasn’t deeply worried for the country, not anything like when Trump was elected,” she explained. If she could go back in time, she said, she would tell herself “this was a far more pivotal historical moment than you understand.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
Warren has acknowledged her Republican past before, but she does not often discuss it, or else downplays it. In a recent interview over tea at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she said she assumes the first time she registered as a Democrat was 1996, but added, “I’m not even 100 percent sure what I was registered as.” According to Warren, in the six presidential elections she voted in before 1996, she cast her ballot for just one GOP nominee, Gerald Ford in 1976. She does not talk about her Republican past in either of her books or as part of the biography she recounts in her stump speech; the information often comes as a surprise even to Beltway politicos and longtime Warren allies.
Warren also 2nd lowest Trump score in the entire Senate
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
compare that to the highest Democrats
