Politico: Black caucus members back Pelosi for speaker over their former chair

[JaneQPublic]

Lawmakers in the Congressional Black Caucus back Nancy Pelosi for speaker over one of their own members, Rep. Marcia Fudge — a bad sign for the former CBC chair who’s considering a challenge to the California Democrat.

The CBC has been spoiling to elevate a group member into one of the top two positions in Democratic leadership for years, with current CBC Chairman Cedric Richmond writing as recently as two weeks ago that having a black speaker or majority leader was a top priority.

But in interviews with eight CBC members about Fudge's possible bid for speaker, all but two members said they would back Pelosi over Fudge. Other CBC members on Thursday tweeted or put out statements of support for Pelosi, including Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the most powerful African-American in the House and a close friend and ally of Fudge.

"She knows that, she knows that, she knows I'm for Pelosi," Clyburn said of Fudge in a brief interview in the Capitol.

"She’s a great leader, and I support her more than 100 percent," said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon, of Pelosi.

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[Tom Rinaldo]

1. Good. n/t

[Bfd]

2. Thank you

K n R a million times for the common sense of the CBC.

[Hortensis]

3. Rep. Fudge may just have been negotiating.

She's been in Congress for a while, is ranking member of one of her sub committees. Why should rookies get better assignments than her in return for not causing trouble? If so, they all know what she's doing.

[jcgoldie]

4. I'm with John Lewis.

"She’s a great leader, and I support her more than 100 percent," said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon, of Pelosi.

That statement should be pretty much all anyone needs to know.

[calimary]

5. GOOD.

VERY irritating to hear one brand new arrival whose race was just called - fretting that he got elected because his constituents were concerned about affordable health care, and he just wasn't sure, was "keeping an open mind", hadn't decided yet.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? Where the hell has he been for the past 10 years? In solitary confinement??? Is he just that ignorant about the KEY role that Nancy Pelosi played in getting the Affordable Care Act passed in the House, and on its way to being signed into law by then-President Barack Obama, during his first two years in the White House? Something that she AND the Dems paid a heavy price for - because the bad guys used it to take the House back for the GOP two years later in an abysmal teabagger-driven mid-term election for Democrats (2010). Working so effectively to make sure we Americans would have AFFORDABLE health care cost her the Speakership when the republi-CONS were able to whip up the idiot teabagger movement into some utterly ridiculous and pathetic "get yer government hands of MY Medicare" fury. Yes. They were all out there protesting, holding up hand-made signs that said that exact thing.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R