Dems launch $15M campaign to elect attorneys general to take on Trump

[KelleyKramer]

This is great news, IMHO Dems need to be doing as much as possible at the local and state level. This sounds like a good start..........



Dems launch $15M campaign for lawyers to take on Trump

Fresh off challenging the travel ban and other Trump policies, the party targets scores of attorneys general offices.





Democratic attorneys general, aiming to take on the Trump administration on a growing number of fronts, are planning to spend $10 million to $15 million to elect more of their own next year. The offensive comes as Democratic attorneys general have already challenged the White House’s travel ban, its planned border wall, rollback of environmental regulations and President Donald Trump’s business dealings. It’s also part of a longer-term effort to build a bigger and more diverse bench for the party to draw on in gubernatorial and Senate races over the next decade.

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In addition to protecting incumbents, Democrats have identified top targets they want to capture — including in Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada. And, banking on presumed Democratic-friendly trends in 2018, they’re eyeing other states that will be tougher to flip. The Democratic Attorneys General Association "has spent a lot of time running around the country to identify the best and strongest candidates for AG races in states like Arizona, Colorado, Texas and even Florida,” said Karl Racine, the Washington, D.C., attorney general and DAGA co-chair, who himself just passed on entering his city’s mayoral race to run for reelection.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who is on the DAGA steering committee, has been speaking with recruits individually. She credits several whom she sees as strong candidates after the success she and her colleagues have had on the travel ban lawsuits and in bringing Trump to court on emoluments, education policy, environmental regulations and his proposed border wall. “What we’ve seen since Trump’s election is the role of state AGs, and why it’s such an important seat,” Healey said, in an interview over the summer in her office in Boston. “That is really where a lot of the action’s been, and will continue to be.”

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Many of the sitting AGs have gotten involved in the campaign efforts, both in individual phone calls with recruits and group interviews with prospective candidates at DAGA meetings in Portland, Ore., over the summer and in Nashville, Tenn., earlier this month. “We don’t want to be an association that is excluding people from their right to compete. But it does give us an early indication of which candidate is best prepared,” said Racine, who added that he’s on the phone with a newly identified candidate at least once a week.


More at the link ...

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/24/democratic-attorneys-general-plan-major-campaign-push-243020?lo=ap_a1


PS to add- these last two lines at the bottom of the article are also very encouraging! ...


Attorneys general also plan to hit the trail for each other.

Racine said “You’re going to see the whole apparatus absolutely focused on every race.”


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[msongs]

1. good news. hope we actually have elections in 2018 nt

[ATL Ebony]

2. Great, expecting to see favorable results. Go get 'em folks. Hit them hard until they cry uncle.

[JI7]

3. i'm thinking the state races are in a way more important

since they have control over elections, redistricting and we are seeing it with them fighting trump.

and getting good democrats in office that will pass more liberal policies that help people might make people less likely to support presidential candidates that want to take that away.

we wont convince the right wing bigots who will vote republican no matter what. but we can maybe get those who tend to be apolitical or too lazy to get out and vote to keep their minimum wage, health care etc.