Cenk Uygur Files to Run For Congress in Katie Hill's District

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51. The Establishment just were pushing someone to primary Tulsi Gabbard pretty much forcing her to

drop out of her House race. DCCC are blacklisting progressives that work on Progressive campaigns.

Progressives clash with DCCC leader in closed-door meeting

Leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus clashed Wednesday with the head of Democratic campaign arm over a new policy that they say hurts primary challengers nationwide — but which campaign officials have no plans to drop.

A meeting between Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Cheri Bustos and progressive members became heated as Bustos' liberal colleagues pressed her to reverse course on a just-announced rule barring Democratic consultants from working with primary challengers if they want to have business with the national campaign arm.

Progressive Caucus co-chairs Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash), and caucus member Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), requested the meeting with Bustos to explain why the new policy issued to consultants last week created a "monopoly" of DCCC-sanctioned vendors, and would "blackball" too many talented vendors and consultants.

But Bustos made clear that she would not change the policy, which she argues is crucial to protecting Democratic incumbents after last fall’s huge gains in the House.

Progressives erupted this week after DCCC announced the policy cha

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/27/dccc-cheri-bustos-progressives-1241010

Let progressives & moderates run in primaries and let the best one win but they shouldn't rig (meaning money & pressure to drop out) it for one side.

Progressives riled by secret tape of Steny Hoyer asking candidate to drop out of race

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer is in hot water with progressives after he was secretly recorded asking one of their preferred candidates to drop out of Colorado’s 6th congressional district primary.

The candidate, Levi Tillemann, taped the Maryland Democrat saying that he’s supporting the other candidate in the race, Jason Crow, “because a judgement was made very early on.”

Crow, a corporate lawyer and Army veteran, is on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” list, a program that gives “top-tier” candidates organizational and fundraising support. Tillemann is an author, inventor and formerly an appointed adviser to the Energy Department during the Obama administration.

“So your position is, a decision was made very early on before voters had a say," Tillemann said. "That’s fine, because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District and we should line up that candidate.”

Hoyer said, “That’s certainly a consequence of our decision.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/26/progressives-riled-secret-tape-steny-hoyer-asking-candidate-drop-out-race/555404002/