Pelosi moves aggressively to snuff out challenge to her bid for House speaker

[PoliticAverse]

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is moving aggressively to snuff out a challenge from some lawmakers who are demanding new party leadership, while powerful allies outside Congress are helping rally support for her bid for speaker.

Pelosi has yet to clinch the necessary votes and is leaving nothing to chance, according to members and aides familiar with her approach. She is encouraging outside groups to speak up on her behalf while personally talking to the Democrats who will choose the next speaker on Jan. 3.

The organizations represent key parts of the Democratic coalition — bedrock sources of fundraising dollars, campaign muscle and votes — and have significant sway with incumbents and the newly elected.

Emily’s List, which supported virtually every female Democratic House candidate, has made calls to incoming lawmakers to tout Pelosi’s credentials, according to a person familiar with the effort. The leaders of two major unions — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the American Federation of Teachers — sent letters Monday declaring their support.

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[elleng]

1. 'The internal resistance to Pelosi will get an initial test Wednesday,

when House Democrats meet for the first time since the election and debate a change to party rules, advanced by Pelosi critics, to require a 218-vote majority to win the party’s nomination for speaker.

Fourteen House Democrats loyal to Pelosi criticized that move in a letter Monday, saying that while her critics should be able to make their case, “when the votes are counted and we have selected our leaders in the caucus — whoever they are — we need to unite behind them.”'

'Snuff out challenge?' Hyperbole???

[FSogol]

2. LOL, Moving aggressively! Remember when they accused HRC of being

Ambitious?

[NurseJackie]

22. Ding-ding-ding! That's CORRECT!

[2naSalit]

3. Some pretty

heavily loaded innuendo there.

[Cha]

6. Writer couldn't find a better verb than

snuff, eh?

[2naSalit]

7. Pretty sad attempt at writing

and a really sorry attempt at trying to foment angst and uncertainty about Pelosi who is, in my reckoning, very much like HRC... intelligent, articulate, knows the Constitution and a host of laws, is very effective leader who gets shit done and exactly who we need in that office for the foreseeable future to guide us through the hard work we need to do now. Both women are the most qualified for the positions they held (for HRC seek) which is why all this BS and innuendo because she's a woman.

[Cha]

8. Whole Heartedly agree.. Please see this

post for positive news on Nancy..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11421218

2naSalit

[2naSalit]

28. Indeed.

I have to get on a plane soon, I'll get more specific after I get home today.

[pnwmom]

16. Or aggressive? Instead of decisive, for example.n/t

[Cha]

20. Right, pnwmom!

[Hekate]

4. Good for her. She didn't get where she is by baking cookies and giving ladylike teas.

We want a fighter -- Nancy is a fighter.

[Wintryjade]

11. Pelosi is my fighter. I am with her.

[Cha]

5. "snuff".. lol.. couldn't find a better verb than that, eh?

Nancy has Brilliant Experienced members in her corner.. they know what she's capable of.. not the newbies who had to disown her to get elected. She doesn't give a rip.

Pelosi: I am on a mission

MARGARET BRENNAN: But Speaker Pelosi, if you're Speaker, as you said you were confident you will be--

DEMOCRATIC LEADER PELOSI: --Yes--

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11418003

Link to tweet

Amanpour interviews Congressman-elect Tom Malinowski (D flipped seat that was R since '81)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11406195

Rep Tom Malinowski tells how following Nancy's Strategy helped get him elected.

[NBachers]

9. I stand, once again, with Elijah Cummings and Nancy Pelosi. Plus, I voted for Feinstein, so there!

[Cha]

10. No! you voted for Dianne Feinstein!

Thank You, NBachers

[bdamomma]

17. Nancy Pelosi

will be best to stay, why have infighting now among the Democrats when we have done so well. We need no reason for those filthy tRumpsters to sow discord within our party,

And not to have a man takeover when there have been so many women appointed. Leave it be.

[BannonsLiver]

12. Pelosi has 2 basic fundamental strengths

1. Years of proven leadership and results

2. She drives Republicans batshit crazy.

[sunonmars]

14. and she would roll Trump and the GOP like cookie dough, she won't give in.

[DFW]

13. Pelosi has plenty of carrots and sticks to wield

She will do it firmly and discreetly. She won't "snuff out" anybody, even if it means she doesn't get to be speaker. If it comes to that, it would be so counter-productive as to make her speakership impossible in the first place, and she knows that.

[pnwmom]

15. She's a woman so she's "aggressive" when she does the expected thing any leader would do.

A man would be "firm" or "decisive" in "securing" his bid. She's a woman so she "aggressively snuffs" out a challenge.

[onetexan]

18. exactly; i've endured this all my career

I work in a male dominated field. My experience has been when a man is assertive, he's seen as a strong and decisive leader. When a woman is assertive, she's a B. We still have a long way to go re: women's rights and the way women are regarded as equals.

[pnwmom]

19. And the people who dislike her tend to be the same people who dislike Hillary. n/t

[mcar]

21. So she's campaigning for a job she wants?

Sounds normal to me.

[MrsCoffee]

24. Please elaborate.

[disillusioned73]

25. It's all about the money..

[MrsCoffee]

26. For who?

[stonecutter357]

27. #facknews !

[PoliticAverse]

29. Story from Politicio on Pelosi's efforts...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/13/nancy-pelosi-freshman-democrats-987699