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George II

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9. The thing about it is the so-called "green new deal" hasn't even been written yet! Her COS....

Reply to OnDoutside (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 21, 2020, 07:04 PM

Nov 2020

....Saikrat Chakrabarti, left his position in her office in 2019 on the premise that he was going to "write the green new deal", and introduce it "early next year" (2020)

In fact, he probably left because of all the flak caused by him sporting a t-shirt honoring Subhas Chandra Bose, a Nazi collaborator during WWII. Indeed, Bose actually worked within Hitler's government in Berlin from 1941 to 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose#1941%E2%80%931943:_Nazi_Germany

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AOC: People who argue that dramatic changes to policing, including budgetary ones... [View all] melman Nov 2020 OP

AOC nails it every time. Ohiogal Nov 2020 #1

She has a gift for cutting through the social slumber. JudyM Nov 2020 #3

"Budgetary changes to policing" AmericanCanuck Nov 2020 #2

We're going to need some of that donut money for real policing Blues Heron Nov 2020 #5

"Reform the police" is meaningless melman Nov 2020 #7

Defunding is bad and incorrect. Reshuffling police resources, which many PDs are doing.... George II Nov 2020 #8

It is not meaningless if one's goal is to win elections AmericanCanuck Nov 2020 #10

Trashing, not helpful too close to defund the police. Demsrule86 Nov 2020 #4

Groan. Yet at the same time she is trying to organise pressure on OnDoutside Nov 2020 #6

The thing about it is the so-called "green new deal" hasn't even been written yet! Her COS.... George II Nov 2020 #9

Going after police or police budgets directly is misguided and not just politically. gulliver Nov 2020 #11