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In reply to the discussion: Big win for Justice Democrats. Congratulations Ayanna Pressley! [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)81. She was a solid Clinton backer, though she was to the right of Clinton on a number of items.
Pressley, on the other hand, criticized Sanderss policy ideas and vision for the country while campaigning for Clinton. As Sanders stumped for universal health care and tuition-free college, Pressley declared at a Clinton campaign press conference in Boston that plans without price tags are simply pandering. In a debate hosted by WCVB, Pressley said she only recently began supporting Medicare for All because the world has changed.
During the 2016 campaign, she also dismissed the effort to overturn the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision, a pivotal court case that opened the floodgates for corporate money into electoral politics. I cannot think of one instance in my time as a Boston City Councillor when a constituent implored me to make repealing Citizens United a top priority, she once wrote.
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/18/mike-capuano-ayanna-pressley-massachusetts-primary/
We really lost a great progressive. Capuano has been supporting single payer for over a decade, is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, helped establish the influential Office of Congressional Ethics, and is often the leader in dressing down big banks and other industries taking part in fraud and abuse. A true leftist.
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Big win for Justice Democrats. Congratulations Ayanna Pressley! [View all]
Power 2 the People
Sep 2018
OP
It's like a Democrat but without the lobbyist influence behind it. So actually just a Democrat.
Tiggeroshii
Sep 2018
#8
Yes, just a Democrat... & a Democrat with a winning progressive message! Congrats AP! Awesome win!
InAbLuEsTaTe
Sep 2018
#56
Here's a link cynatnite. It explains who they are and lists their candidates.
Power 2 the People
Sep 2018
#7
Stop raining on the frontlines of history, please. Obviously these folks ALSO aim to get elected.
DemocracyMouse
Sep 2018
#42
Damn good percentage is right, especially since their progressive message is only startin to get out
InAbLuEsTaTe
Sep 2018
#57
Go to the list of candidates on their site, click on the dollar sign image....
George II
Sep 2018
#128
I don't have the numbers in front of me (I posted them here before but we're away this week)...
George II
Sep 2018
#130
Especially since Justice Democrats do little other than "endorse" candidates and then move on.
George II
Sep 2018
#131
They have a symbiotic relationship with Brand New Congress....trading money back and forth.
George II
Sep 2018
#24
With respect to Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress, as they say...............
George II
Sep 2018
#27
.. all phantasmagorical imaginings...but maybe there's a parallel universe out there...
JHan
Sep 2018
#59
The Republicans became more successful messaging further from the center
Algernon Moncrieff
Sep 2018
#64
You said you wanted to see him again. You said there are needs he could fill.
Stinky The Clown
Sep 2018
#18
Elizabeth Warren may run for president or be in a future Democratic administration
mythology
Sep 2018
#33
Justice Democrats doesn't spend ANY money on candidates. Of course they'll be "outspent".....
George II
Sep 2018
#31
Lol, this again. I bet the majority of her voters have no clue who Justice Democrats are. Go find
seaglass
Sep 2018
#11
No one was "jumping on her win", they were jumping on the false concept of Pressley....
George II
Sep 2018
#122
I have seen no evidence that this group did anything to help this candidate win in the real world
Gothmog
Sep 2018
#51
"Justice Democrats"? Nah, congratulations and chalk up another win for establishment Democrats.....
George II
Sep 2018
#29
It seems to be a common theme where others want to take credit for someone ELSE's success.
NurseJackie
Sep 2018
#34
Not true of Capuano,he was the left most of the MA delegation. This wasn't a shift to the left. n/t
seaglass
Sep 2018
#90
"Massive Shift"? In what way? The two have very similar positions on most issues...
George II
Sep 2018
#117
She was a solid Clinton backer, though she was to the right of Clinton on a number of items.
NCTraveler
Sep 2018
#81
Why Ayanna Pressley's Upset Win In Massachusetts Isn't Really Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's
Gothmog
Sep 2018
#91
John Kerry this morning gave her a ringing endorsement, said she worked for him 10 years
wishstar
Sep 2018
#123