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In reply to the discussion: So Ocasio-Cortez has not even taken office, and she's already planning [View all]Gothmog
(144,919 posts)I am curious. What did AOC or sanders do in Texas to help elect democrats? I really do not think that I heard their names mentioned once during the campaign but I was busy working the voter protection war room in my county. I just got the report of the statewide voter protection efforts in Texas and I was surprised to see I ended handling over 40 incidents both during early voting and on election day. Being in the war room, may have cause me to miss hearing about sanders or AOC coming to Texas to help Democrats. None of the candidates that I know were running due to sanders or AOC or even mentioned sanders or AOC during the campaign.
As for Bernie and Texas, I was a delegate to the National Convention where sanders delegates attacked Clinton during the Texas delegation breakfast and nearly caused a riot.
How did that stunt help elect candidates in Texas?
Did the stunt of the sanders delegates booing Congressman John Lewis at the National Convention help elect candidates in Texas? This was a planned stunt by the sanders delegates that the Clinton campaign found out about and warned her delegates about 30 or so minutes before it occurred. According to my whip, sanders was asked to stop this stunt and declined. I do know that Congressman John Lewis campaigned for Beto and several congressional candidates in Texas including Collin Allred and Lizzie Fletcher who both won.
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I am really curious as to how sanders or AOC did anything in Texas to help elect Democrats in the real world in Texas.
BTW,if it is wrong to attack one's allies, then why is it okay for AOC , Cenk and the Justice Democrats to attack other Democrats? Is is okay to attack Democratic allies if they disagree with sanders? The OP of this thread is about AOC's and Cenk's plan to attack democrats in the future.
I really do not expect sanders to run in 2020 and so neither he nor AOC will be on the ballot in Texas. If sanders does run and is the nominee, then I will vote for him in the general election. I will campaign for other candidates during the primary.
You have repeatedly attacked me for pushing right wing talking points. I was not aware that CNN and Jake Tapper were right wing sources. I have worked long and hard in the Democratic Party including being in voter protection efforts since 2004. There is nothing wrong with pointing out that AOC did not answer Tapper's questions on how to pay for her programs. I also want to provide more health care to individuals but AOC telling Tapper that magical hypothetical societal savings would pay for her programs does not work in the real world. Math is math and a governmental entity cannot spend hypothetical magical societal savings to pay for a program. Governmental entities are limited to using money raised as tax revenues or monies raised by borrowing. I am sorry that you find this explanation of what is to me basic governmental accounting condescending.
I will be having fun this weekend going through the spreadsheet on voting rights incidents in Texas. We have made progress but we had too many ballots lost. I helped fun a program that send fully filled out voter registration forms to 15,000 hard D democratic voters who moved to my county from other counties or moved to my county from out of state.. I was irked to find out that my county had a much higher than normal number of voters who had to cast "limited ballots" because their voter registrations were not received in time to cast regular ballots. A limited ballot means that these voters voted a regular ballot and not a provisional ballot for statewide candidates but not local candidates. I understand that the state party and my group are planning on doing this voter registration program next cycle but will try to give more time for these voter registrations to be received by the county in time to cast full normal ballots. To vote a limited ballot, these voters had to go to the county election office to vote and could only do this during the early voting period. I am really amazed that so many hard core Democrats took the time to do this and the state party is encouraged that these voters are the type of voters who will be showing up for future elections.
Have fun in your part of the country. I will continue to work in the real world to turn Texas blue. I like working in the real world to turn Texas blue and will continue to do so.