Democratic Establishment Rallies To Rescue An Embattled Eliot Engel

[TristanIsolde]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/06/15/democratic-establishment-rallies-to-rescue-an-embattled-eliot-engel/#4bf767396b48

What is interesting is the following paragraph:

"The latest blow came on Monday, when The Intercept’s Ryan Grim and Akela Lacy reported that a Republican super PAC was diverting money through a Democratic pro-Israel PAC into the heavily Democratic district to assist Engel."

It seems the other contention against him, other than the local politics, is his hawkishness on Foreign policy, I read in another article that he OPPOSED the Obama/Iran deal.

[Budi]

1. Pushed by The Intercept, Engel's campaign responds to the bs.

Link to tweet

*AND Look! Here it is again. Brad & Shane are on it!!

Link to tweet

Is The Intercept a reliable source?

And who does Ryan Grim work for again?

Thought so....

[TristanIsolde]

2. I don't know.

[Budi]

3. I do.

[pnwmom]

5. No, the Intercept is Glenn Greenwald's Libertarian outlet and it's not reliable.

And Ryan Grim is the reporter who was pushing the Tara Reade fantasy.

[Budi]

6. You are correct!

Where's those other two?

One went to Jacobin & the other can't be far away.

Glad Engel's campaign called out that bs.

There is no there, there.
My god. 🙄

[TristanIsolde]

9. Is the Jacobin trustworthy in your opinion ? On the surface seems to have a left wing bent

[lapucelle]

14. Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara Conned and Fired 3 Union Journalists, Then Lied About It

https://medium.com/@pplswar/jacobins-bhaskar-sunkara-lied-about-firing-tribune-staffers-f92f2fecc249

In his bid to take over the historic British left-wing magazine, The Tribune, Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara is being accused of reneging on wage deal by employees of the paper, who kept the publication alive during struggling times. Tribune was once the home of such greats as George Orwell and has since become the leading publication associated with the influential Momentum faction within the Labor Party.

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Workers say that Sunkara promised that if workers took a settlement of only 70% of the back wages that they were owed that he would give them future work after taking over the publication. However, Sunkara in a statement to Payday confirmed that he would not bring the staffers back.

The workers in a series of open letters have accused Sunkara of lying to them.

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“In the capitalist world someone who buys an ailing company and dumps its committed workers is known as an asset-stripper or robber baron, but at least they don’t claim to be socialists,” said former Tribune employee Ian Hernon.

paydayreport.com/jacobin-publisher-accused-of-reneging-on-wage-deal-in-takeover-of-british-magazine-the-tribune/

[OnDoutside]

4. The Intercept. Lol.

[Squinch]

7. "Democratic establishment" and sourcing the Intercept.

to smear a 30 year Rep, the Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and replace him with a middle school principal.

Enjoy your stay.

[TristanIsolde]

8. This is not my language, this is Forbes.com

I did not even voice an opinion, I just presented a point of view. Yes I am on the progressive side of the party, and yes this congressman might be problematic, does that mean it is ok to threaten me ? You know what, whatever.

Just knowing he opposed the Obama/Iran deal tells me lots what side he is on. We DO NOT need to get into another war, that would be disastrous.

[Squinch]

10. I lulzed.

[TristanIsolde]

11. I see you are refusing to address the opposition to the Iran deal

Very telling. It is in the hands of the people of that district now, let us hope they make a decision that reduces the chances of a future war with Iran rather than increase it.

[Squinch]

12. I lulzed again.

[Budi]

13. Me Too!

😄

Where's the lulz emoji?

[lapucelle]

15. A different PAC with deep pockets...

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cmte=C00630665&cycle=2020&txt=

[Squinch]

16. Hmmmmmm.... and those ads against Engel are such bullshit. I just hope

my fellow constituents are able to see through them.