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Related: About this forumCentrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
Democratic "centrists" funded by corporate interests have issued "a warning" to Iowa caucus goers against voting for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Iowa will be the first state to vote in the 2020 primaries and holds its caucuses on Monday.
Third Way, a centrist think tank funded by corporations and trade groups in the electronics, fossil fuel utility, pharmaceutical, tech, and telecom industries, sent out a memo to Iowa Democrats yesterday, alleging that Sanders is "the easiest target for Trump to beat."
Financed by the likes of pharmaceutical giant Amgen, pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health, which acquired Health Insurance giant Aetna in late 2018, and health products and drug company Baxter International, Third Way claims that Sanders's Medicare for All plan, which would allow the government to negotiate down drug prices and would eliminate private health insurance, "is the only way Democrats can lose to Trump on health care."
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/01/13535/centrist-third-way-funded-corporate-interests-attacks-sanders-iowa
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Lets stick with lottery care, and bankruptcy care.
It works great.
For the 1%.
The only ones that matter....
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beastie boy
(9,059 posts)Other than providing a table with names and numbers which PR Way attributes, but not confirms with a link, to Center for Public Accountability, the only other detail about the Third Way funding they provide is "The sources of most of Third Way's funding are unknown, but voluntary disclosures by certain corporations and trade associations provide a window into the group's backers."
So we have a pretty fuzzy "window" into the Third Way funding sources, and based on thos "window" the article unequivocably states, in big bold typeface, "Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa".
Meanwhile, I don't see anything in the article, other than vitriolic demagoguery, that disputes any of the Third Way findings.
BTW, the size of the Third Way staff is about 50 people. (https://onthinktanks.org/think-tank/third-way/) While it serves as a useful boogie man for the extreme left, it is otherwise pretty irrelevant. Keep this in mind when you try to lump centrist Democrats with Third Way.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
peoli
(3,111 posts)N/t
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
beastie boy
(9,059 posts)American extreme left, to be more accurate. Not to be confused with the North Korean extreme left, obviously.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
peoli
(3,111 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)there, most of them speaking out for and against according to their ideology. Third Way is not even a powerful one either.
They had their brief heyday in the 1990s when (Democratic) voters were replacing Democrats with Republicans in hundreds of offices around the nation and it was thought that becoming more representative of the current voter mood was...you know, not just principled and representative but also necessary to keep an increasingly extremist RW from taking over.
But these days, shouting their name as if this group is a power is an anti-Democratic Party dog whistle. Oh, and
Stupid and obviously wrong?
Right.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mcar
(42,206 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)this year?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden