Nina Turner announces bid for House seat

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D), a co-chairwoman for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, has officially jumped into the race to represent Ohio’s 11th Congressional District.

The seat has opened up after President-elect Joe Biden tapped Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“I am a wife, a mother, a sister, an aunt and friend,” Turner said on a Zoom call with supporters.

“My career in public service is varied, having served in local and state government and also in higher education. My views are informed by my own experience and that of people I love," she added. "What I want the people of Akron and Cleveland to know is that I know what it means to be counted out. I am running to ensure the people of Akron and Cleveland are always counted in.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/530301-nina-turner-announces-bid-for-house-seat

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https://ninaturner.com/

Other Candidates:

Shontel Brown County Councilwoman & Ex-Warrensville Heights City Councilwoman
Jeff Johnson: Ex-State Sen., Ex-Cleveland City Councilman, Felon & Frequent Candidate
Tariq Shabazz: Graduate Student, Navy Veteran & '20 Candidate https://www.shabazzforcongress.com/

[redstatebluegirl]

1. Oh please let someone good beat her butt in the primary.

[NurseJackie]

15. Nina Turner Compares Voting For Biden To "EATING SHIT"

Here's a link for the folks who often argue that she didn't actually say that. Or that it's taken out of context. (Lord!) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nina-turner-joe-biden_n_5f200c04c5b638cfec49ecd5

Oh please let someone good beat her butt in the primary.

And HOW! You said it! But... wait, there's more reasons to hope she loses! She's also a Jill Stein voter. She voted for Stein instead of Hillary and encouraged others to do the same. She has no loyalty or allegiance to the Democratic party, or our party's candidates or leadership. In fact, the lamented that she was being "forced" to run "as-a-Democrat".

First of all... the word "forced" is pretty damn revealing of her mental state. But those other three words ("as a Democrat'') are a clear and unmistakable admission that she doesn't identify as being a Democrat, and that this association with the Democratic party is merely a technicality (ie: a means to an end).

Whatever I can afford, I'll donate to her opponent.

[George II]

32. Here's the excerpt from Huffington Post:

Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Co-Chair Nina Turner Compares Voting For Biden To Eating ‘S**t’

Nina Turner, assessing the choice of Biden against President Donald Trump in the November presidential election, told The Atlantic: “It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of shit in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing.’ It’s still shit.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nina-turner-joe-biden_n_5f200c04c5b638cfec49ecd5

And the excerpt from The Atlantic:

Nina Turner, a co-chair of the Sanders campaign, told me she has no appetite for the choice she faces: “It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of shit in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing.’ It’s still shit.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/how-trump-could-win-reelection/612205/

[trueblue2007]

35. YOU SAID:Whatever I can afford, I'll donate to her opponent. I agree & I think she's horrible

[Boogiemack]

38. Didn't she and the late Ed Schultz go to work for RP? Isn't she a Russian asset?

[hlthe2b]

2. I hope I can find some extra $$$...

to donate to SHONTEL BROWN.

[Budi]

3. Which Party is she today now? Hey, what happened to her Corporate K-Street Lobbying job?

Just asking.

[True Blue American]

4. Nina has been running around

Like a chicken with it’s head cut off trying to stay relevant in politics!

Reminds me of Rhyne McLin.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Nina lieberman

[Budi]

7. LOL. Yup.

When's the last time she said a respectable thing about the Democratic Party?

Just asking cuz...

Is she running as a People'sParty?
That's the name of her new political party she's registered.

[awesomerwb1]

6. Whoever she's running against in the primary gets my $$

Anybody know who that might be?

Flash forward to 2022. Nina Turner will claim she lost because "The Establishment" blah blah this, blah blah that, blah blah blah.

Despicable POS

[Budi]

8. (and it was rigged! too)

🙄

[msongs]

9. prefer Tina but she's a swiss citizen now nt

[comradebillyboy]

10. How very special! Will she pretend to

be a Democrat? How could any Democrat vote for a loud Jill Stein supporter in 2016? She certainly didn't support Joe Biden in this election.

[MANative]

11. Ugh. N/T

[Thekaspervote]

12. I'll be supporting any dem in the race but her!

[Auggie]

13. The gerrymandered 11th (wow!):

[SunSeeker]

16. OMG

[brooklynite]

14. Meanwhile, her friends at MPP are saying...

In a stunning recently-leaked video, Joe Biden is heard telling civil rights leaders that they should be satisfied with his rhetorical acknowledgment and expect nothing more. Biden screams at them saying that he will not be using his executive powers to stand up for the Black community that worked hard to elect him — or any other working-class community. This is a huge development because progressives had rested what little hope they had for Biden on the possibility of executive orders — hopes that Biden just smashed as he said he would only be undoing Trump orders.

Adding insult to injury, Biden nominated dairy industry lobbyist and former Obama Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, to head the department again. "Vilsack is a rerun of pro-corporate policies that continue to drive rural communities away from the Democratic Party," said The Intercept.

Just a guess, but Joe Biden and Sherrod Brown won't be doing any endorsement commercials for her.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Smashed? Joe Biden does not drink nt

[comradebillyboy]

22. The people who never supported Biden are angry

that he is not doing their bidding.

As for The Intercept, isn't Glenn Greenwald an apologist for both Trump and Putin?

[Gothmog]

17. This will be a contested Democratic Primary

I thought that Nina Turner quit the Democratic Party and is part of the People's Party (whatever that is). I hope that Fudge's preferred candidate wins. Nina voted for Jill Stein

Link to tweet

[yellowdogintexas]

19. will there be a primary for each party ?

When an elected official leaves office down here we hold a special election. These are fun because there is one slate, not divided by party. No one ever wins the first round unless there are only 2 running. Top two go on to a runoff.

[brooklynite]

20. This is a D+32 district...

The Republicans will be lucky to have one sacrificial lamb.

[mcar]

21. No one who bragged about voting

for Stein should get $1 of support from Democrats.

[comradebillyboy]

23. Did she even vote for Biden this year?

[mcar]

25. She compared it to eating a sh!t sandwich

but I believe she did.

[MontanaMama]

24. Looks like Shontel Brown needs our support.

Nina Turner needs to know that she shouldn’t run as a Democrat if she’s done nothing but actively undermine the party with her words and actions.

[Tarc]

26. Have they announced who the Democratic candidate is yet?

[mikelgb]

27. Steve Schmidt

[relayerbob]

29. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[relayerbob]

28. Thanks, I'll be donating to a Democrat

I consider myself a progressive Democrat. I consider her as an embarrassment

[58Sunliner]

30. I was afraid to be wholly negative about this. But I'm not alone.

[George II]

31. She hasn't won a contested election since she was elected to the Cleveland City Council...

She was appointed to an open State Senate seat, was elected to that seat unopposed, and then lost her bid for Secretary of State.

[2naSalit]

33. That's too bad. ...nt

[George II]

34. A reminder, here is the email sent out to announce Turner's candidacy:

It's from her "People's Party", ( [e-mail] )

Running as a Democrat is her second choice! She makes no bones about the fact that she's using the Democratic Party as an interim until she gets her "people's party" registered in Ohio.

And then she immediately gets into bashing Biden and his administration appointees:

George,

It's official! Sen. Nina Turner is running for Congress. She's running for the seat vacated by Rep. Marcia Fudge, who Joe Biden has chosen as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The People's Party isn't on the ballot in Ohio yet so she will have to run as a Democrat, but we can't think of anyone better to win that seat and bring a friend of the People's Party to Congress.

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Meanwhile, Joe Biden continues to fill his administration with corporate lobbyists and centrists from the Obama administration. On tap is General Lloyd Austin for Defense Secretary, who helped spearhead the 2003 invasion of Iraq and sits on the board of Raytheon, a major supplier of bombs, including to the U.S-Saudi air war in Yemen which has killed at least 100,000 civilians.

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[rpannier]

36. It's a decent slate running in the primaries

Brown and Shabazz seem like good choices
Let her run.
Thanks for posting that bit about Jeff Johnson. There are a lot of Jeff Johnsons that have run for office around the country.
Very little on this Jeff Johnson

[Polybius]

37. Please Bernie, I beg of you, don't support her

At the very least, stay neutral.