Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCTL: The next DNC Chair should absolutely refuse to take corporate PAC money

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Chris Murphy 🟧
@ChrisMurphyCT
The next DNC Chair should absolutely refuse to take corporate PAC money.
If we are the party of the working class - and we are - then let’s raise $$ like we mean it.


Max Cohen
@maxpcohen
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Dec 10
News: Top Progressive Caucus lawmakers -Jayapal, Casar, Frost, Deluzio- are calling for DNC chair candidates to endorse reforms aimed at winning back working class voters, including banning super PACs from spending in Dem primaries and refusing corporate PAC donations to the DNC

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Yep

[lame54]

1. Don't ask me for any...

Dems are folding faster than an origami class

[onecaliberal]

2. He won't. None of them will.

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4. Then we'll know what the future will be for millions.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. 100+!!

[Jit423]

5. Yeah, so we can lose again?

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6. That's why we lost?

[W_HAMILTON]

9. We didn't exactly get rewarded for pledging not to take corporate PAC money, did we?

I personally don't give a damn where candidates get their money from as long as they stay true to the principles that earned our vote to begin with.

Most people probably don't even know what the hell a corporate PAC is, much less care about whether a candidate pledges not to accept money from them, but you can bet your ass they know the terrible ads they run constantly run against our Democratic candidates.

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10. We'll be rewarded when we campaign on universal healthcare and expose politicians

who take their money. Corporate media won't do it.

When we lose on universal healthcare then I will reconsider.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. We have been campaigning on universal healthcare in all these elections we have been losing.

If people aren't aware of that, maybe it's because what we are campaigning on matters little when the corporate PACS and other campaign money deemed """bad""" is happily encouraged by Republicans to be used against us to drown out our message and replace it with their propaganda......

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13. Who has run on universal health care??

Biden? No
Harris ? No

Obama ? No
Clinton ? No

I am referring to eliminating the profit from health care. It becomes part of the party platform.

When you don't take their money you get to point fingers at those who do, over and over again.

You also get to show their voting records, and who is the obstacle to universal healthcare.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Murphy knows the words, but he don't know the music

What he SHOULD BE CALLING FOR is public-funded elections, and removing money from the equation entirely...

I've been trying to have this conversation for 20 years, haven't had a single taker.

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8. I agree. Long overdue.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. He's wrong

Citizen's United says they can.