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August 3, 2018
Well, genius.. You weren't "Clear" when you
accused Gretchen Whitmer of "money laundering". Disinformation Accusations Much?
https://twitter.com/emersonhbryant/status/1025207475547529216
Mahalo, lapucelle!
August 3, 2018
The only thing more absurd than Shri Thanedar’s run for governor is that some people are buying it.
Thanedar is locked in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination with former state Senate Democratic leader Gretchen Whitmer and Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director who has staked out a more authentic claim to the progressive mantle.
Thanedar has touted himself as a “fiscally savvy” version of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the “most progressive” Democrat in the primary field.
If there is a liberal box to be checked, Thanedar checks it. Like El-Sayed, he rejects money from corporate political action committees and professes his support for single-payer health care; like Whitmer, he has made a folksy ad about fixing the state’s pothole-ridden roads.
Where Thanedar tries to one-up his competitors is in his personal story. He never misses an opportunity to remind voters that he left poverty in India to become a job-creating entrepreneur in Michigan, that he is a chemist uniquely capable of addressing climate change.
“My colleagues here would do a much better job speaking. But this time, I believe Michigan needs someone who thinks like me,” Thanedar said during a televised primary debate on July 19. “I’m the only gubernatorial candidate that has created jobs in America.”
But Thanedar is not the wholesome businessman-turned-public-servant he wants Michiganders to think he is. His entrepreneurial undertakings, which made him wealthy enough to elicit a “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”-style local news segment years ago about one of his former homes, have involved the same corporate malfeasance he claims he would fight as governor.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10952706
This article doesn't think too highly of Shri Thanedar..
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shri-thanedar-democrat-egomaniac-michigan-governor_us_5b609166e4b0b15aba9d308cThe only thing more absurd than Shri Thanedar’s run for governor is that some people are buying it.
Thanedar is locked in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination with former state Senate Democratic leader Gretchen Whitmer and Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit health director who has staked out a more authentic claim to the progressive mantle.
Thanedar has touted himself as a “fiscally savvy” version of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the “most progressive” Democrat in the primary field.
If there is a liberal box to be checked, Thanedar checks it. Like El-Sayed, he rejects money from corporate political action committees and professes his support for single-payer health care; like Whitmer, he has made a folksy ad about fixing the state’s pothole-ridden roads.
Where Thanedar tries to one-up his competitors is in his personal story. He never misses an opportunity to remind voters that he left poverty in India to become a job-creating entrepreneur in Michigan, that he is a chemist uniquely capable of addressing climate change.
“My colleagues here would do a much better job speaking. But this time, I believe Michigan needs someone who thinks like me,” Thanedar said during a televised primary debate on July 19. “I’m the only gubernatorial candidate that has created jobs in America.”
But Thanedar is not the wholesome businessman-turned-public-servant he wants Michiganders to think he is. His entrepreneurial undertakings, which made him wealthy enough to elicit a “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”-style local news segment years ago about one of his former homes, have involved the same corporate malfeasance he claims he would fight as governor.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10952706
August 3, 2018
El Sayed is desperate and hateful.. Thank You
for your perspective, Ninsianna.
Does OR have to disclose where their money comes from?
https://twitter.com/erinlough/status/1025152935955714048
August 2, 2018
Deb Haaland, the other Native American running for Congress Support Sharice!
https://twitter.com/Deb4CongressNM/status/1024811791119831041
August 2, 2018
Claiming. Your. Opponent. Committed. A. Federal. Crime. Is. Not. Okay. When. There. Is. No. Evidence
https://twitter.com/WinTheStates/status/1025151999736733699
August 2, 2018
El Sayed is burning bridges. Why would
he support someone who he's desperately attempted to smear so viciously?
https://twitter.com/WinTheStates/status/1025129871511642114
August 2, 2018
That's too bad you can't see it.. this is a tweet on his latest
attempt to smear Gretchen Whitmer.
https://twitter.com/LindsayMahowald/status/1025091046882111490
August 2, 2018
I don't care what he supports.. he shows by his desperation he has no class.
Man, I thought you were better than this. How desperate must
https://twitter.com/LindsayMahowald/status/1025091046882111490I don't care what he supports.. he shows by his desperation he has no class.
August 2, 2018
Yeah, BS & AOC rallied for the
their kind of OR candidate.. don't care that he's Not the best one to represent Kansas District 3.
https://twitter.com/sharicedavids/status/1024792961207414785
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