Sen. Chuck Schumer is DLC ~ he not only betrayed Hackett, he's doing it

Catrina

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Thu Feb-16-06 12:32 AM
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Sen. Chuck Schumer is DLC ~ he not only betrayed Hackett, he's doing it

Edited on Thu Feb-16-06 01:14 AM by Catrina

in other states, to other great Democrats, including Elliot Spitzer who is running for NY Governor in NY.

I already posted information on this in another thread, but I have seen many denials that he is a DLC member, and thought it best to take a closer look at the man who drove Paul Hackett out of the race in Ohio ~

He seems to have appointed himself to go other states and choose for the people of those states, the candidates who will and will not run.

He is an avid supporter of the neocon PNAC plans for the ME. He can tolerate a man like Rep. Brown's original opposition to the war because no one outside of Ohio knows Brown and he's not an Iraq War Veteran.

Hackett is far more of a threat against the wars planned for the ME, therefore, Schumer took it upon himself to get rid of him.

We in NY know Schumer, he's not a nice person, so it was no surprise to learn that it was he who went behind Hackett's back and told his donors not to contribute to him anymore.

The DLC website features him here:

http://www.dlc.org/search_results.cfm

And here is an opinion of him that is shared by many NYers who come to know a little more of him since he became a Senator. This article was written BEFORE the Paul Hackett betrayal so you can see the pattern. He will go from state to state, and we the people will not be given a chance to choose a candidate, not of Chuck has anything to do with it.

If you haven’t studied the DLC website, you should. Get to know who their people are in congress. See for yourself how they water down strong, solid Democratic visions and ideas. You have to wonder if they are really just working for the Republicans, just another kind of dirty op, like the swift boat ads, the detectives hired to dig up dirt on strong democratic candidates, etc. It sometimes seems that the DLC is sabotaging the Democratic party.

Then we have DLC celebrity Senator Schumer from New York, deciding that he’s going to help us decide who will run as Democrats in the next congressional and senatorial election cycle of 2006. He thinks he’s delegated the Pennsylvania candidate to run against Rick Santorum, and he’s bragging that he and his people are taking the decision making process out of the hands of the people of Pennsylvania and, I guess, out of the hands of the people in other battleground states, where he thinks his opinion of who should run is more important than THE PEOPLE’s opinion.

In PA, Schumer picked a good old boy—Bob Casey, jr., son of a former democratic governor— a guy who opposes abortion, who would have voted for the Iraq war and who probably opposes stem cell research, contraception and sex education (though we don’t know, since he’s running a stealth campaign, probably because his handlers know that the more we in Pennsylvania see him, the less we’ll like him.

But I digress. My point is that Schumer picked a candidate for the biggest, most visible election of 2006, who basically sells out the right to abortion that women have fought so hard to get. Selling out abortion is like pulling out the ground from beneath the solid footing of the women’s movement. If Casey wins, the DLC will use the victory to argue that all Democratic candidates should sell out women and who knows what else. I can’t imagine the Democratic women of New York state supporting Schumer after he’s pulled such a treacherous, betraying move. His hubris should be his undoing and I hope he faces a strong challenger come his next election. (I hear he’s a very vindictive politician—another reason to get rid of him.)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rob_kall_050821_real_democrats_must_.htm

I'm glad I took the trouble to look this up ~ I knew he was DLC, but I did NOT know the plans he had for the 2006 election. We can look forward to the destruction of many candidates that do not meet Chuck Schumer's approval, it seems. Paul Hackett wasn't the first, and won't be the last.

Before investing in anyone else I think the DNC better do something about this. This weasel of a man, without the courage to face the man he was about to destroy, in every instance, couldn't hold a candle to Paul Hackett ~

Edited to fix DLC link which features Chuck Schumer ~