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brooklynite

(93,834 posts)
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 04:56 PM Mar 2021

JUSTICE DEMOCRATS has sighted its enemy.....(EMAIL)

Christian, the DCCC raised $11.5 million in February. Yes, $11.5 million in one month.

The DCCC recruits corporate Democrats and protects establishment incumbents while taking money from Wall Street and corporate PACs. All that money goes towards stopping progressive legislation like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.

Justice Democrats doesn’t take a cent of money from corporate PACs because we’re fighting for the people, NOT corporate profits. We’re recruiting and running working-class progressive primary challengers to challenge the status quo.

This month, we’re trying to raise just 1.8% of what the DCCC raised last month. Christian, now is the perfect time to make a contribution fueling our work to find the next progressive primary candidates to challenge the establishment. Can you donate today?

We need a Democratic Party that fights for its voters, not corporate donors. JD does the hard work of recruiting, training, fundraising, and organizing with bold, progressive candidates.

On one side of this intra-party ideas battle, you have the DCCC, which raises huge sums of money to support establishment candidates that keep the Democratic Party status quo alive.

Then there’s our side. We’re building a solid base of progressives in Congress fighting for Medicare for All, racial justice, COVID-19 relief — and we’re doing it with an incredibly low budget. But the reality is we could be doing more if we had more resources to go against the DCCC.


Perhaps their fundraising would be more successful if they could show that they could, say, win against Republicans?
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JUSTICE DEMOCRATS has sighted its enemy.....(EMAIL) (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2021 OP
DCCC blacklists consultants and pollsters of primary challengers wellst0nev0ter Mar 2021 #1
Thats bs Budi Mar 2021 #5
That was a policy of the previous DCCC Chair...not in force. brooklynite Mar 2021 #6
OP was from this year WA-03 Democrat Mar 2021 #11
They're breaking ties with consultants and pollsters who are pushing candidates running against... George II Mar 2021 #19
No, believe them when they say who they are WA-03 Democrat Mar 2021 #2
+100. There's something wrong with people who claim to be Hortensis Mar 2021 #24
I do not have much use for them at all, but they were 10 wins, 1 loss in 2020 House Celerity Mar 2021 #3
All of their wins were meaningless... brooklynite Mar 2021 #7
tell Eliot Engel, Dan Lipinski, and William Lacy Clay Jr. they were meaningless nt Celerity Mar 2021 #10
They each replaced a Democratic vote with a Democratic vote brooklynite Mar 2021 #16
yes, but that was not my point, that was a given Celerity Mar 2021 #17
Wins in Deep Blue Districts Mean Nothing - Any Dem Could Win and That the Only Place JDs Can Win Indykatie Mar 2021 #9
they only ran one candidate in a swing district, Eastman, who had no serious Dem challenger in the Celerity Mar 2021 #12
Of their 10 endorsed candidate wins, 7 of them were incumbents, the other 3 were.... George II Mar 2021 #22
Wtf. Is this one of their funrdaising emails? Budi Mar 2021 #4
I am on the Just Us Democrat mailing list LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #18
I lulz'd KG Mar 2021 #8
The DCCC didn't get much money to Obama, and so I directly donated to him. At that time I didn't ancianita Mar 2021 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #14
I am on the Just Us Dem mailing list LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #15
Corporate-establishment-Wall Street-Medicare for All-Green New Deal-PACS-the people- betsuni Mar 2021 #20
I'd like to know more about the details of their finances. In the 2019-2020 campaign cycle... George II Mar 2021 #21
Shocking I tell ya.. lol Cha Mar 2021 #23
 

wellst0nev0ter

(7,509 posts)
1. DCCC blacklists consultants and pollsters of primary challengers
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 05:13 PM
Mar 2021
WASHINGTON — The House Democratic campaign arm is nearing open warfare with the party’s rising liberal wing as political operatives close to Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to shut down primary challenges before what is likely to be a hard-fought campaign next year to preserve the party’s shaky majority.

Progressive Democrats were infuriated last month when Representative Cheri Bustos of Illinois, the chairwoman of the campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, moved to protect centrist incumbents by formally breaking committee business ties with political consultants and pollsters who go to work for primary challengers.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/politics/democrats-liberals-tension.html

George II

(67,782 posts)
19. They're breaking ties with consultants and pollsters who are pushing candidates running against...
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:54 PM
Mar 2021

....incumbent Democrats.

That's not a "blacklist", that's being sensible. Why would the DCCC help support/finance organizations that are supporting candidates running against incumbent Democrats?

Does the NY Yankees help pay the salaries of Boston Red Sox players so they can beat them?

WA-03 Democrat

(3,017 posts)
2. No, believe them when they say who they are
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 05:14 PM
Mar 2021

They want your money to go and fight against the Democratic Party.

These populists are the only ones that can fix this. Just like trump. Extremism leads to the same spot.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
24. +100. There's something wrong with people who claim to be
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 08:31 PM
Mar 2021

"progressive" but whose passion is fighting the progressive Democratic Party, even to the point of helping the anti-progressive Republican Party defeat Democrats. All goals subjugated to that last.

And notice WHO their enemy is in this deceitful email. Like trumpists they must believe the lies that support their extremist delusions of extreme righteousness and lone wisdom.

Nothing new here, of course. Every generation has its troublesome extremists.

Celerity

(42,630 posts)
3. I do not have much use for them at all, but they were 10 wins, 1 loss in 2020 House
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 05:17 PM
Mar 2021

general elections versus Rethugs. Kara Eastman in NE-2 was the one loss versus a Rethug (Bacon, the incumbent Rethug won by 4 and half points)

They did have another general election loss (to another Dem, in CA-53, as it was Dem v Dem due to the jungle primary.)





I do hope Nina Turner loses her 2022 Primary, I do not like her at all.

Celerity

(42,630 posts)
17. yes, but that was not my point, that was a given
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:46 PM
Mar 2021

People like to read so much into simple statements.

Indykatie

(3,691 posts)
9. Wins in Deep Blue Districts Mean Nothing - Any Dem Could Win and That the Only Place JDs Can Win
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:01 PM
Mar 2021

They have never flipped a single seat from red to blue and won't. Their demand for purism costs us in districts where a more moderate Dem could win.

Celerity

(42,630 posts)
12. they only ran one candidate in a swing district, Eastman, who had no serious Dem challenger in the
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:19 PM
Mar 2021

primary. Eastman lost the general, but she certainly did not block some 'sure winner'.


Their demand for purism costs us in districts where a more moderate Dem could win.


They blocked no moderates from winning.

They didn't run against any actual moderates, and Marie Newman took out the second worst Dem in the House, the anti LGBTQ, forced birther centre right conservadem Dan Lipinski (who was backed by RW money and viscously and falsely smeared Newman as a Holocaust denier and anti-Catholic in 2018), in the primary, then Newman won the general in a canter.


George II

(67,782 posts)
22. Of their 10 endorsed candidate wins, 7 of them were incumbents, the other 3 were....
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 07:49 PM
Mar 2021

....in districts already occupied by Democrats. They did not flip any Districts. And now in two election cycles (2018 and 2020) they have yet to flip a District.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. Wtf. Is this one of their funrdaising emails?
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 05:22 PM
Mar 2021

Who writes these weekly funding emails? The trustfund rich kids who began this group as an online start-up business?
Cenk's trustfund buddies?

Gaaaad they must all be millionares & billionares by now.
Those trashy emails appear about every 2 days asking for money & trashing the Democratic Party, its leaders & every policy it puts out.

Someone's making bank on trashing the Dems!
Its pretty gross.
That's some deep hate.

LetMyPeopleVote

(143,998 posts)
18. I am on the Just Us Democrat mailing list
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:47 PM
Mar 2021

I am amused by these pleas for money from this group. I do not want to see the Democratic Party destroyed just to make these idiots happy

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
13. The DCCC didn't get much money to Obama, and so I directly donated to him. At that time I didn't
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:33 PM
Mar 2021

like how they chose who to help in primaries and who not to help. I haven't kept up with them since, but I still haven't trusted them since they didn't help the candidates I wanted.

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

LetMyPeopleVote

(143,998 posts)
15. I am on the Just Us Dem mailing list
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 06:34 PM
Mar 2021

I do not support this group but I am amused by their pleas for money. The Just Us Democrats are trying to destroy the Democratic Party to remake the party in their own image which would guarantee that the GOP will win control of the House and the Senate next cycle

betsuni

(25,119 posts)
20. Corporate-establishment-Wall Street-Medicare for All-Green New Deal-PACS-the people-
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 07:03 PM
Mar 2021

working class-progressives-status quo-fights for-corporate donors-SEND MONEY so we can destroy the real enemy, TEH DEMOCRATS!

Oh right, they're going to take over the Democratic Party and Trump's base will join the revolution once their economic interests are explained to them.





George II

(67,782 posts)
21. I'd like to know more about the details of their finances. In the 2019-2020 campaign cycle...
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 07:34 PM
Mar 2021

...if I read their FEC reports correctly:

Their second largest expense happens to be Justice Democrats, $875,000, 20% of their total expenses.
On the other hand, their largest contributor is surprisingly Justice Democrats, $875,000, 15% of their total receipts

So they gave themselves $875,000 and received from themselves $875,000.

Only 25% of their receipts are itemized, the other 75% is unitemized (i.e., unknown). They also have a line of "other receipts" worth $1,578,376, which is also 25% of their total receipts.

In that $1,578,376 are these items, among other items:

Another $875,000 from Justice Democrats (duplicate?), $450,000 from Charles Dunlop, $200,000 from two Working Families Party entities, $125,000 from Amro Nahas, and $30,000 from their founder, Saikat Chakrabarti.

Interestingly, the link to their "Other receipts" has a list worth $2,444,337 but they show only the $1,578,376 on their summary page.

It's all documented here:

https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00630665/

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