Posted on 05/20/2017 6:21:25 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Edited on 05/20/2017 9:19:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The rift within the Democratic Party was on full display at the California Democratic Party Convention on May 19 in Sacramento, California. Progressives joined members of National Nurses United, protesting the Democratic Party establishment’s refusal to support single payer healthcare system. Rather than follow through with Democratic rhetoric that healthcare is a human right, establishment Democrats have responded to voters by scolding and attacking them.
During the first day of the convention, California Democratic Party chair John Burton yelled at protesting nurses to “shut the [bleep] up and go outside.” Burton condescendingly told the protesters, “There’s [sic] some people who have been fighting for that issue before you guys were born.”
The California Democratic establishment, like the national party leadership, has favored corporate and wealthy donors, undermining pushes for a single payer healthcare system that would provide Americans with healthcare—not just health insurance. Eric Bauman, the California Democratic Party vice chair and candidate to succeed Burton as the Party’s chair, received $12,500 a month from the pharmaceutical industry to fight proposition 61, which would “cap the price that any state agency or care program could spend on prescription drugs at what the federal Department of Veterans Affairs pays.” Bauman received these payments while earning a six-figure salary as an adviser to California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Proposition 61 failed to pass in November 2016 after the pharmaceutical industry spent millions of dollars opposing it.
During a rally at the state capitol, National Nurses United Director RoseAnn Demoro told supporters not to wait for establishment Democrats to take the lead on healthcare and making medicare for all a reality. “They cannot be in denial anymore that this is a movement that can primary them.”
DNC Chair Tom Perez spoke at the California Democratic Party Convention, offering the same meaningless rhetoric and platitudes that have incited boos, protests, and criticisms of his ability to lead. “We make sure that healthcare is a right for everyone,” Perez claimed. “And not a privilege for a few.”
Despite his claim, Perez and the Democratic Party leadership refuse to support Medicare for All, insisting Obamacare just needs a few improvements. Obamacare does not ensure healthcare as a right, but rather serves to maximize benefits to the pharmaceutical and health industries. Perez claims the Democratic Party supports providing healthcare to all Americans, but is unwilling to support the policies that will actually do so. After pandering to protesters on the issue and jokingly comparing their presence to infighting at Thanksgiving dinner—a stark change from his constant affirmations that the party is united—Perez reverted to the Democratic go-to in lieu of championing stances on actual issues.
“We have a president …. I don’t know who it is, Putin, or Trump,” Perez said to an uninspired crowd. “They’re in a bromance. This is really weird.” On May 20, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who also doesn’t support single payer healthcare, focused her speech at the California Democratic Party Convention on Russia as well.
In contrast, at a rally for Bernie Sanders supporters at the State Convention hosted by the National Nurses United on May 19, former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner explained the need for the Democratic Party to address the issues impacting working, middle class, and low income Americans. “We need to deal with income inequality, racial justice, but Dems only want to talk about Russia!” she said. “We need a party that stands up for people & doesn’t fake it. In the words of Janet Jackson ‘What have you done for me lately?'”
He sure sounds like a Clintonista.
bttt
It’s language they understand.
Call me cold. I don’t care. I hope they kill each other. See my tagline.
Nice to see
*Gangloons* of trolls incoming before their OFA paychecks start bouncing.
My favorite picture! ; )
It’s just John Burton. I watched him in more than one committee hearing holding up newspapers while people were talking. He’s aways been in power and he truly doesn’t give a f-— unless he kicks you out of a meeting of course. If you’re looking for Burton to sound the death knoll of the desk he from Frisco and was always untouchable. One of the most arrogant pols of all time.
BTW Cal has already introduced single payer for the state. You know about the dem super majority in Sacto?
LOL
Theze people are so unhinged.
Had to endure “Impeach, impeach, impeach “ all day...
And the new one is Pence may be in on it but, that’s okay because Ryan is so much more acceptable.
L’dMAO....
Boo chit, Ryan is more acceptable.
You are completely in the minority and the math says you lose more seats next year.
So, your real problem is some weird fantasy that attrites the entire line of succession, has many Republican die of some swamp disease and the rest addled by some mental disease.
But, that disaster invites some catastrophic event that isn’t going to happen.
So, suck it up.
Trump is president until 2020.
He will fill 350 federal judges.
Will add two more SCOTUS
will oversee a roaring economy
Which will lead to a prosperity approval and rssult in bis re-election, a further increase of Republican reps.
The best part will be an incredible redistricting that gives us the advantage until 2030.
And Trump will complete most of his promises by the end of his 2nd term...
“We have a president …. I don’t know who it is, Putin, or Trump,” Perez said to an uninspired crowd. “They’re in a bromance. This is really weird.”
Good luck trying to convince people Trump is gay.
They hang together thick as thieves at the hint of any opposition from an outside party. But the Dems own California and it’s only natural that once the party achieved control for all practical purposes, factions and intra-party fighting would emerge. Now the battle will be whether the state trucks along into mamby-pamby EuroSoc or dives all-in for LatinoSoc.
Totally agree!
The country is $20MMMM in debt and the loons think single-payer will solve our ills. The day we get single-payer, the vandals break down the gates and 75% pile into the wagon, waiting for remaining 25% to pull it.
It’s all Russia all the time for the rat party. They have nothing else.
The National Nurses United organization needs a good FBI investigation because of Marxist/communist infiltration, if not substantial influence. Two of their present/previous Communications Director/spokesmen (titles are unclear), were open members of the Communist Party USA, Carl Bloice (who later defected, supposedly, to the CP-split off faction known as the Committees of Correspondence, and Chuck Idelson, also a longtime reporter, like Bloice, for the CP’s newspaper (various names, Daily World, Peoples Daily World, Peoples Weekly World).
Wonder how many other local reds are in the NNU? Will never know until someone really looks under the bedpans.
It is even more frightening that Nina Turner is so focused on two non-stories (Russia and the Bolshevik income inequality/racial justice) while our country is in such dire shape.
The Russia nonsense was directed at those in the middle; Dems knew their core supporters couldn’t even spell it, never mind regard it as a threat.
California should be purged from the Union.
Counties could then request readmission based on their lack of liberal crap
lol
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