Good grief, the trolls are after Mayor Pete now.

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FLIPPABLE: Eric Genrich for Green Bay, WI Mayor

I am a son of Green Bay. I am someone who was born on Biemeret and raised on Emilie St., who roller-skated at St. Mary’s Roller Rink and saved up my newspaper money for a caramel malt at Hansen’s. I played Little League at the end of Lawe St. and football at Farlin Park. This community is in my bones - it has made me who I am. And it continues to shape me and my family: my wife, Emily, and our two children, Henry and Amelia, who are students in Green Bay’s public schools.

If there’s such a thing as a typical politician, I’m not it. My dad was trained as a social worker and my mom as a nurse. My wife’s a special education teacher, and before entering the state Assembly, I worked for the Brown County Library. Service is all around me, and it’s how I define myself. This spirit of service, this call to serve is what animates me, and it is what drives me to pursue the office of mayor.

There is so much work to be done to move our city forward, to construct a genuine community, to achieve the city we all deserve. The future is within our grasp. If we all reach together we can take Green Bay from good to great.





http://genrichforgb.com

Mayor Pete performs with Ben Folds.

Is there anything Mayor Pete CAN'T do?

Patty Hearst and the SLA's militarist disaster

The SLA made a mockery of left politics. Every progressive cause and socialist principle got grotesquely bent out of shape when it passed through the SLA.

Women’s liberation, for example, degenerated into a celebration of a “feminist bomb” built by the women SLA members while their demand for women to lead the armed bank robberies resulted in fatalities. They kicked a pregnant female bank clerk who miscarried as a result, and shot dead a female bank customer. This killed was desperately rationalised by the SLA through the very unfeminist defining of a woman through her husband, a doctor, which apparently made her a “bourgeois pig”, too.

The SLA was always going to wind up as no more than a policing problem for the capitalist order, not a political challenge to it. The SLA was effectively wiped out in a shoot-out with an LAPD SWAT team.

Hearst was among the few survivors, however, and she turned state witness in return for a reduced sentence. Thanks to the “resources and connections of a Hearst”, this was reduced through presidential commutation (under Jimmy Carter) and then a presidential pardon (under Bill Clinton). She was reunited with her first and true love of privilege.

The SLA’s political dysfunction lay behind their swift fall. There were mitigating circumstances for its chosen path – establishment politics had been uglified through imperialist war rampages, the overthrow of other nations’ governments that were not to the liking of big capital, and the sometimes-brutal abuse of human rights at home. For violent and lawless, look no further than the services rendered for the American corporate class by the US capitalist state.



https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/patty-hearst-and-slas-militarist-disaster

Key Fact: Trump was able to avoid talking face-to-face with Mueller

How many poor and middle class kids sit in jail because they were not afforded the same courtesy?

Pelosi's not buying it.

Tweet of the Day

Report: Trump campaign most fears Biden, Beto and Kamala

President Trump has publicly boasted that he could beat any of his 2020 Democratic challengers. But privately, several members of the Trump campaign see a few who could pose a threat to his re-election, and are in the early stages of building out their strategy for attack.

The bottom line: The three candidates that seem to concern the Trump campaign most are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke. That's in no particular order, and you’ll get a different answer depending on who you talk to.

Joe Biden: Several Trump advisers think Biden is best positioned to take back the white Rust Belt voters Trump carried in 2016 and make purple states like Michigan and Wisconsin far more dangerous for the campaign.

- “A guy who loves his guns and God is not voting for Kamala Harris. But he would vote for Joe Biden. He’s a lot harder for them to demonize,” a former Trump campaign staffer told Axios.

- And despite what he says about Biden in public, Trump respects him the way he respects House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the former staffer said: “He looks at Biden as that elder statesman, the guy that can connect to the working class voter.”

- “Biden is the only Democrat who passes the commander in chief test which makes him appealing — particularly to swing voters,” David Tamasi, former finance director of the Trump Victory Fund, told Axios.

- The other side: "He’s low energy, and if he wins the nomination all of the energy on the Dems side will deflate like a balloon,” a Republican operative close to the campaign said.

Kamala Harris: Trump was impressed by Harris' massive crowd for her announcement event, according to White House aides. Some of Trump's advisers view Harris as a major threat because it's obvious to them that Trump hasn't figured out how to talk about her.

- He's given her no nickname and has yet to even test-drive a line of attack. A Trump adviser told Axios: "It's going [to be] hard for the president to attack her and debate her" because Democrats could easily cast his attacks as racist and sexist.

- "With Kamala ... I don't know what she does to the young, but more broadly to the African-American vote. If they come out in huge numbers that's a challenge," a Trump campaign adviser said.

- The other side: Though several aides admit she’s a winner when it comes to identity politics, they also question whether she has enough experience and can sustain the momentum she’ll need.

Beto O’Rourke: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told Fox Business News last week that Republicans shouldn't underestimate O’Rourke. That is a view shared by a number of people in Trump’s inner circle.

- He doesn’t have a long resume or a huge amount of experience, one Republican strategist said, but he’s got the X factor that lets you capture the media narrative. He’d also be a generational foil to Trump.

- “I have personally been very concerned about Beto for quite some time,” a Trump campaign adviser said. “He seems to generate that liberal grassroots energy without being particularly in-your-face with his points of view. And he's charismatic.”

- If O'Rourke was the nominee, he would also force the White House to spend a lot of money in Texas, which they don’t plan to do.

The other side: Others close to Trump think the only reason O'Rourke was so successful in his Senate campaign is “because Sen. Ted Cruz ran a bad race,” the Republican operative said.




https://www.axios.com/2020-democrats-trump-fears-most-062a879d-a3e8-4ee6-ac0c-9da69f0a8684.html