Crowley's Parting Shot: Ousted by Ocasio-Cortez, He Undermined Barbara Lee in House Leadership Race

[Kaleva]

"The election of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as House Democratic Caucus chair on Wednesday represented a symbolic and substantive comeback for the wing of the party that had suffered a stunning defeat last June, when Rep. Joe Crowley was beaten by primary challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Jeffries, who represents a Brooklyn district next door to Crowley’s, bested Rep. Barbara Lee of California, who had the support of the insurgent movement that had ousted Crowley....

Crowley, though, wasn’t going gently into the night. In the run-up to the vote, he told a number of House Democrats that Lee had cut a check to Ocasio-Cortez, painting her as part of the insurgency that incumbents in Congress feel threatened by, according to Democrats who learned of the message Crowley was sharing."

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/hakeem-jeffries-joe-crowley-house-democratic-caucus-chair/

[PhrankT]

1. Isn't 'The Intercept' a suspicious source?

I know it was under Greenwald.
Yikes.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. And they don't take

Letters to the Editor.

And you are correct - Greenwald is a Russian lover. I wonder how much money he got paid to push this story.

[OnDoutside]

5. Yes

[Power 2 the People]

2. Barbara Lee would have been fabulous

If Crowley did in fact do this to Barbara Lee then we have to wonder why. She deserved better.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Hakeem

Is much younger, and represents a new face of black Americans in the Democratic Party. He shows how you get into the 78%. . . but has a strong focus on the 22%.

I don't do the white American 99% vs. 1% thing.

I'm black - I'm an American. I do the 78% have / 22% have not in the black community.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. It is what it is

Jefferies is young (to me - I'm a gen ex just 3 years younger than him) and truthfully - It's my generation's turn. I think Pelosi's backfill should be someone born in the late 60's to mid 70's.


Hakeem is highly qualified and EARNED the position.

NOTHING - NOTHING - has been handed to that man who came from a working class neighborhood and worked very hard for everything he has. It has nothing to do with internal party bickering and who gave what money to that person - Doesn't matter. He earned it.

Does the Intercept take letters to the editor? Because they need one. They can keep pushing this all they want. But they need to have serious and severe pushback from the Democratic Party VOTERS. Enough.

They should be spending all of their time showing America what a bunch Russian Lover Republicans are up to. THEY are evil.


It's not Alexandria, Barbara, Hakeem, Nancy, Chuck -

It's them 'ones' over there that are evil and need to eradicated from public life.

[PhrankT]

9. Your reply says the truth about what we are news-fed daily anymore.

Consider the source.

[JHan]

13. this. ++++

[ismnotwasm]

14. Plus infinity.

[murielm99]

6. Consider the source.

The intercept? Seriously?

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I didn't realize

Until after my lengthy response.

That IS Greenwald's rag - right? Just what kind of row is he trying to start here?

[OnDoutside]

10. Remember when AOC accused Crowley of standing against her in the General ? And then she walked

that back. This is the Intercept - Screwing Dems is their game.

[George II]

12. She accused Crowley of "mounting a third-party candidacy", and unless I missed it....

....she never apologized for that.

The thing is he was already on the Working Family Party line even before the Democratic Primary. Everyone knew going into the Democratic Primary that he was going to be the WFP candidate in November.

[George II]

11. Supporting one candidate against another is "undermining" the one he didn't support?

[Kaleva]

15. "Barbara Lee blames ageism and sexism after losing tight Dem caucus election to Hakeem Jeffries"

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/29/barbara-lee-blames-ageism-and-sexism-after-losing-tight-dem-caucus-election-to-hakeem-jeffries/

[Kaleva]

16. "After loss, Rep. Barbara Lee wonders when black women get a seat in Democratic leadership"

"Reflecting on the race, Lee said she saw sexism and ageism at work. Jeffries is 48; Lee is 72.

“I absolutely think that that’s the case,” she told reporters after Jeffries was declared the winner. “That’s something that women, especially women of color, African American women, have to face.”"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/after-loss-rep-barbara-lee-wonders-when-black-women-get-a-seat-in-democratic-leadership/2018/11/28/ae26ed0e-f360-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bdd22573c92b

[calimary]

17. Sheesh, don't let the door hit you on your way out, Crowley.

Told to leave the room, you kick over a few chairs, hard enough to break them, on the way out?

Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for soon-to-be EX-Congressman and Poster Child for Poor Sportsmanship, Joe Crowley!

[George II]

18. Much of that article is false and misrepresentative.

For one thing, connecting Lee's contribution to Cortez to Crowley's support for Jeffries is entirely false. She didn't make her contribution to Cortez until AFTER the primary in which Crowley had been eliminated.

Crowley has been Congressman in the district bordering on Jeffries' district, they have been working together for years - first with Jeffries as State Representative and then as Congressman for the last five years. He's seen Jeffries in action first hand.

There was absolutely NO animosity between Crowley and Lee, that's simply a manufactured BS by Glenn Greenwald's questionable Intercept. And who is Greenwald's BFF? Edward Snowden. And where has Snowden been living the last five years? Moscow.

[emulatorloo]

19. It is Glenn Greenwald's rag, The Intercept

I tend to take their “reporting” with a big ole bolder of salt. YMMV of course.

[calimary]

20. Oh brother, Glenn Greenwald.

[dansolo]

21. You know that Crowley denied this, right? nt

[FSogol]

22. Unrec. Typical Intercept propaganda working to divide us.