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UTUSN

(70,671 posts)
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 03:40 AM Oct 2021

Note to MANCHIN (Senema): Ya only got power because/for the 50 divide.

Last edited Sun Oct 17, 2021, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)

History not gonna be nice to you if you stall it all down.

Plus, you've got no vision - or quoting FDR *SMALL vision*

*** Yea, because we're at 50% you've got power. You'll be trash in History.








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Note to MANCHIN (Senema): Ya only got power because/for the 50 divide. (Original Post) UTUSN Oct 2021 OP
Any one know where True Blue American Oct 2021 #1
He runs the shitshow that is No Labels. Celerity Oct 2021 #2
I had emails asking me to join No Labels. As soon as I saw Joe Lieberman True Blue American Oct 2021 #3

True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
1. Any one know where
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 05:37 AM
Oct 2021

Joe Lieberman is? Last I heard he was an Insurance lobbyist just like his wife was when Joe, Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley tried to kill the ACA. They cost us single payer.

Celerity

(43,240 posts)
2. He runs the shitshow that is No Labels.
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 06:21 AM
Oct 2021

Almost all the House Dems trying to block or slash apart Biden's BBB Act are from bi-partisan Problem Solvers Caucus (affiliated with No Labels), and many, many of the 'dump Pelosi as Speaker' crew were Problem Solvers too. So were the renegade 10 House members who tried to strongarm Pelosi and Biden about passing the BIF without anything concrete done on the BBB Act.

Problem Solvers is the Congressional manifestation of Lieberman's No Labels organisation, who have a super sleazy history, including outrageous attacks on other Dems, such labelling Marie Newman a holocaust denier and a Catholic hater in her race against the forced birther, anti LGBTQ conservadem Lipinski.

No Labels was founded and backed to a large extent by RW billionaires. I have no idea why any Dem would want to be associated with them. I find it so disheartening.

Sinema was one of their 'stars' in the House (she voted with Trump 62.6% of the time in her House term in the 115th Congress). The last thing we need is more Senators or House members aligned with them.



Bipartisan ‘No Labels’ group’s super PAC network revealed: mega Chicago donors

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/12/18316470/bipartisan-no-labels-group-s-super-pac-network-revealed-mega-chicago-donors

With a boost from Chicago-area mega donors, including White Sox and Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, No Labels, a group advocating bipartisanship in Congress, has created a network of super PACs to influence the 2018 elections — but doesn’t want its fingerprints on the money.

One of the super PACs, United for Progress Inc., has spent $740,334 as of Sunday to bolster Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., in his March 20 Illinois Democratic primary battle with Marie Newman in the 3rd Congressional District. The names of the super PACS don’t link them to No Labels. A Sun-Times investigation determined super PACS related to No Labels include: United for Progress Inc.; Citizens for a Strong America Inc.; United Together; Govern or Go Home; and Forward, Not Back.

The Sun-Times inquiry included interviews with donors or their representatives and an examination of documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. United for Progress, Inc., is playing political hardball, attacking Newman in the commercials and direct mail pieces it paid for. Lipinski is part of a No Labels offshoot, the congressional “Problem Solvers Caucus.”

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THE ILLINOIS CONNECTIONS: Last year, a No Labels leader, former Sen. Joe Lieberman, was a draw at a meeting at the Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren. Lieberman was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who became an Independent senator from Connecticut.

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Delusional Group Declares Donald Trump a ‘Problem Solver’

The only problem Trump could solve is that we don’t have a dumb enough president

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/delusional-group-declares-donald-trump-a-problem-solver-58107/

Here are some labels that apply to Donald Trump:

–Racist
–Egomaniac
–Bloviator
–Delusional
–Liar
–Asshole

On Monday, the nonpartisan group No Labels gave him a new, and hilarious, one: problem solver.

Six presidential candidates – Democrat Martin O’Malley and Republicans Ben Carson, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Rand Paul and Trump – signed the organization’s Problem Solver Promise, officially making them No Labels Problem Solvers. The group says it will bestow the label on any candidate who signs its meaningless pledge.

No Labels declined to make an exception for Trump – the candidate who has proposed, among many other things, building a giant border wall, deporting 11 million people, banning Muslims from entering the country and shutting down mosques. In just the last two days, he’s come out in favor of direct head-to-head collisions in the NFL and elephant torture.

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‘Holocaust Denier’ Smear Hits Tight Chicago Area Congressional Primary

https://forward.com/fast-forward/396658/holocaust-denier-smear-hits-tight-chicago-area-congressional-primary/

A heated Democratic congressional primary race in suburban Chicago has reached a new low, as accusations of Holocaust denial are falsely hurled at progressive challenger Marie Newman.

Newman, who is seeking to unseat the incumbent Dan Lipinski as the Democratic candidate for Illinois’ 3rd congressional district, has staked a liberal position, hoping it would convince Democrats to chose her way over that of Lipinski, a “blue dog” Democrat known for his more conservative views.

In recent days, Newman claimed, voters have been receiving text messages from activists with the Washington-based No Labels group, trying to convince voters not to support her. In one instance, a voter receiving the text message informed the sender that he has already decided to vote for Newman, not Lipinski. “His opponent is a Holocaust denier among other things,” the Lipinski supporter texted back. In a second exchange, the voter was told again about Newman: “Did you know she’s a Holocaust denier.”

Newman accused Lipinski of “playing politics with a tragedy in human history that cost the lives of millions—and which deeply affects those of Jewish heritage, including my husband and his family.” Lipinski is considered one of the few endangered Democratic incumbents in the nation due to the tight primary. The winner should easily beat a Republican challenger in the district that voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by a healthy 16% margin.

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Group Tied To Lipinski Says Marie Newman Is 'A Holocaust Denier'

IL-3 Democratic challenger Marie Newman claims group tied to Congressman Dan Lipinski is texting voters saying she's a 'Holocaust denier.'

https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/group-tied-lipinski-claims-she-s-holocaust-denier


LA GRANGE, IL -- Challenger Marie Newman is calling out Congressman Dan Lipinski for running a "dishonest machine-style campaign" after some of her supporters complained of receiving text messages stating that Newman is a "Holocaust denier." Newman and Lipinski are said to be in a statistical dead heat in the contentious Democratic primary in Illinois's 3rd Congressional District. Supporters said they began receiving the text messages this past weekend.

A woman who identifies herself as "Leslie Benjamini" from the Washington, D.C.-based No Labels group -- a political centrist organization comprised of Republicans, Democrats and Independents who aim to combat partisan dysfunction in politics by focusing on bipartisan problem solving -- texted a voter asking him if he planned to vote for Dan Lipinski in the March 20 Democratic primary. When the the receiver stated he is voting for Newman, Benjamini states that Lipinski's opponent is a Holocaust denier. Benjamini tells the receiver to look up "No Labels, a new group that is trying to get government working again." The message goes on to state that Lipinski is a "believer in this group."

"His opponent is a Holocaust denier among other things," the text goes on to say. "Please educate yourself before you vote. All I ask."

Lipinski does have an opponent who is a Holocaust denier who is running as the lone candidate in the Republican primary in Illinois' 3rd District, avowed neo-Nazi Art Jones of Lyons. In the second message sent to the Newman supporter, Benjamini mistakes the receiver's phone number for his mother's.

"For the second time I am NOT [NAME] … she is my mother and she hosted a fundraiser for Marie Newman. And for the record, I voted for her early Saturday [March 10]." "Thanks for voting," Benjamini texts back. "Did you know she's a Holocaust denier."

The No Labels group based in Washington, D.C., was founded in 2010. The group strives to "create a vibrant New Center that supports leaders who put country before party." No Labels inspired the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of congressional members that includes Lipinski. A Chicago Sun-Times investigation has also tied No Labels to such Super PACS as United for Progress Inc. As of late, United for Progress Inc. has been sent out a flurry of political hit pieces attacking Newman's progressive agenda, as well as TV and radio commercials

An angry Newman demanded an apology from Lipinski, accusing the congressman of running "dishonest machine campaign."


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True Blue American

(17,982 posts)
3. I had emails asking me to join No Labels. As soon as I saw Joe Lieberman
Sun Oct 17, 2021, 08:34 AM
Oct 2021

I deleted their emails and unsubscribed. I had not signed up in the first place. To me Joe Lieberman has been on my S*** list since he was the first Senator to rant about Clinton. When Gore chose him and he came out going on about how he was chosen I actually yelled at the Tv,” “ You are not the Chosen one, shut up!”
I despise that sleazy little man more than I can say. He finally had to run as an Independent.

Thanks for the up date.

I also want to add that John Kasich is as far from being the kind, lovable Christian man he now clams to be as Trump. I know what he did and tried to do to Ohio. Mike DeWine is worse if that is possible. A Roman Catholic Trump lover!

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