Progressive Group Calls Ralph Northam Racist, Sparking Intra-Party Feud Ahead Of Big Election
Source: Huffington Post
A major national progressive group on Thursday denounced Ralph Northam, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, as gutless and racist for his remarks on immigration ― plunging Democrats into a bitter internecine squabble ahead of statewide elections on Tuesday.
In a Wednesday interview with Norfolk, Virginia, TV news channel WAVY, Northam said he would sign a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities, or municipalities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, should any Virginia locality pursue that status in the future.
Northams opponent, Republican Ed Gillespie, has run a series of misleading ads attacking Northam for a vote as lieutenant governor blocking a bill that would have preemptively banned municipalities from adopting these limits ― though Gillespie himself has acknowledged that no sanctuary cities exist in Virginia as of yet.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday night after an event with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, Northam claimed that he simply opposed preemptively banning sanctuary cities, and that his comments to WAVY were what Ive been saying all along.
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dfa-ralph-northam-virginia-governors-race_us_59fc9562e4b0415a420b7623
Justice
(7,182 posts)Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)On the verge of a likely victory, Democratic candidate gets sabatoged right before election day.
LisaM
(27,758 posts)Comey 2.0.
Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)brush
(53,467 posts)They should've held their fire and worked with Northam after the election on the sanctuary cities issue.
These groups are shooting us in the foot with their lack of political acumen and purity demands.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I'm grasping at straws....
LisaM
(27,758 posts)Let's hope the Virginia voters aren't duped.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)msongs
(67,193 posts)nycbos
(6,032 posts)enough
(13,235 posts)Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)supposed national progressive group? I never heard of them before yesterday.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It was apparently founded by Howard Dean. It seems to support only progressive candidates. It's not a Democratic Party group.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)disavowed them today. How do they not see this damages their own lives? Are they anarchists?
George II
(67,782 posts)....They're the ones who were given my email address the day after the DNC database (who had my email address) was breached back in December 2015, and started flooding my inbox with as many as five emails a day asking for money.
ananda
(28,779 posts)Is this Russia at work, or are people in the Dem establishment
really that stupid and crazy?
Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I never heard of them before yesterday. Bernie supporters or russian would be my bet.
Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)It was founded by Howard Dean but has apparently morphed into a fringe group,
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)That's weird, I've been a Dean fan for a long time.
Jose Garcia
(2,551 posts)MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)And am not surprised at all. So who IS associated with them?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)Ideas do get floated, planted, take root, and surface from powers wanting us to fail
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The reliable source polls released over the last two days have this race as tied.
Thank you so much, disunifiers.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Yes, I understand that he is running against a Right Wing POS. And hell yes I would prefer he wins, and I'd even rather see this organization (which is not part of the Democratic Party in any way) continue to support him over Gillespie (who is frightening).
But to see a Democrat state "he would sign a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities, or municipalities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities," makes me feel hopeless for liberalism in this country. First Second Amendment, second reproductive rights, third immigration hysteria. What's next? Civil Rights?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)and control the states.
There's a pragmatism in politics.
Also...there are no sanctuary cities in VA, and not likely to be. Plus, don't take campaign talk that seriously.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)But I wonder how progressivism will fare in the near future.
renegade000
(2,301 posts)But evidently equivocating on sanctuary cities is just as bad?!?!
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)It's pretty damn close.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Even if it's campaign talk about non-existant sancuary cities, it's still support for racist Republican policy, and most people aren't party strategists. There's nothing wrong with people calling racism what it is, and it would be more worrying to me if nobody said anything against what he said.
Bleacher Creature
(11,235 posts)Link to tweet
This is such an incredibly stupid move. Do people have any idea what will happen if Gillespie wins?? It's not just that he'll trash VA, which he will, but it would empower Trump. It also would convince Congressional Republicans that they may not be risking their seats by supporting the racist, sexist, anti-Semitic worldview of Trump world.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Timed not to hold Northam's feet to the fire. Timed so that Republican Ed Gillespie will win.
Would be interesting to see who's in that vague group.
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)Then they can look down on the voters as morons who don't know their own interest. They think they'll always be safe in their cocoons. "Oh but things have to get worse before they can get better," they say. "First brown, then red."
First brown, then red always ends up, 'First brown, then dead'.
Wolf
paleotn
(17,778 posts)Just curious. Stranger things have happened.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Response to Jose Garcia (Original post)
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Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)The progressives are going to tear Booker and Gillibrand to shreds.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)It is more democratic socialists doing what they do. Attacking a Demographic Politician facing a close general election.
Would love to see where they get their Rubles, errr funding.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Gillespie is already running ads with this
red dog 1
(27,647 posts)Ironically, there is absolutely no mention of Ralph Northam, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in the email.
(From the DFA email)
"Polling is showing a tight race in Virginia
The Republican Party's white supremacist tactics are riling up their base.
If we want to elect progressive champions like Lieutenant Governor candidate Justin Fairfax, we need to motivate our own base - voters of color, young people and progressive working families. And the best way to do that is through one-on-one conversations.
We're calling voters in Virginia every single day this week.
Can you help us transform the electorate and put progressive candidates over the top by joining Democracy for America, Indivisible and MoveOn for a DFA Dialer shift?"
(K&R, thanks for posting)
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)right rather than right what is a little wrong w/ out own? Purification will be our downfall. I am so sad.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)What are their names, Vlad and Natasha???
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)Yeltsin wanted to fire both of them.
Wolf
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)If Enron Eddie, he will keep the gerrymandered maps in place.
Podkayne K
(145 posts)... who needs Nazis?
Vinca
(50,168 posts)If Democrats demand purity they'd better run pure candidates.
DiverDave
(4,874 posts)The children will surely be distracted.
Why people vote against their own intrests is a mystery to me.