Paging Rahm: House Dems revive 2006 playbook for 2018

[yurbud]

Didn't Chuck Schumer say something about going after moderates in the suburbs before the 2016 election?

Also, wasn't 2006 the first election cycle with Howard Dean as party chair?

I do like the rubber stamp bit.

Do people here think Rahm is the direction Democrats need to go?

“The future, in a presidential election, a statewide election, or a congressional, is in the suburbs, where more moderate voters exist,” Emanuel said in last week’s episode of Politico’s Off Message podcast. “I purposely recruited candidates who reflected the temperament, tenor and culture of their district. I didn’t try to elect somebody that fit my image. I tried to help elect somebody that fit the image and the profile of the district.”

Leading the DCCC that year, Emanuel put an early focus on raising money, decrying the fact that Republicans consistently outraised House Democrats. Emanuel that cycle emphasized recruiting centrists — who may have broken with Democratic Party orthodoxy on abortion — in conservative districts where his party usually wasn’t competitive.

And when it came time to hammer incumbent GOP members of Congress, Emanuel directed his committee to focus on Republicans’ ethical problems and their close ties to Bush. One tactic was to name Republicans the “rubber stamp of the week,” a move yoking them to their unpopular president. That’s now being emulated by Organizing for Action — the political group spawned by Barack Obama’s campaigns — as it targets Republican lawmakers as “rubber-stamp reps” for their votes in line with Trump’s positions.

Emanuel has been in touch regularly with Democratic leaders in Washington, holding frequent strategy phone calls with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/22/democrats-midterm-elections-238659

[mucifer]

1. Rahm is destroying Chicago with his financial ideas

He is trying to get payday loans to pay for the public schools. No bank will support our schools. We are in such a huge awful mess here in Chicago.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/emanuels-short-term-cps-borrowing-under-fire/

[yurbud]

2. Going to Rahm is like finding out you have cancer, so you eat a pack of cigarettes.