Posted on 07/12/2019 3:01:11 AM PDT by SMGFan
Congressional Black Caucus members are furious at Justice Democrats, accusing the outside progressive group aligned with firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) of trying to oust lawmakers of color, specifically African-American lawmakers.
Justice Democrats is backing primary challengers to eight-term Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), a Hispanic Caucus member, and 10-term Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). The insurgent group also made noise this year about challenging Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), a CBC member seen as the heir apparent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
And CBC leaders are fretting that Justice Democrats may target other black lawmakers in the coming weeks and months, including Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Emanual Cleaver (D-Mo.) and Anthony Brown (D-Md.). Brown said the group has been making calls in his district, actively trying to recruit a challenger to run against him.
“It just seems strange that the social Democrats seem to be targeting members of the Congressional Black Caucus, individuals who have stood and fought to make sure that African Americans are included and part of this process,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), a senior CBC member, told The Hill.
“I don’t know what that agenda is, but if they want to come after members of the Black Caucus, it’s two ways,” warned Meeks, the Queens Democratic party boss who clashed with Justice Democrats in a local district attorney race last month.
Some Democrats are hoping that Ocasio-Cortez, the rabble-rousing freshman with 4.7 million Twitter followers, gets a primary challenge herself in 2020.
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Party divided, Cannot be united!
Maybe the CBC should get with Trump and control the foreign invasion.
This has been an issue as formerly black areas fill with Hispanics; they want people who “look like them” to represent them, and frankly don’t generally have the best relations with blacks.
When blacktivists bemoaned the shrinking number of blacks in Major League Baseball, they were clearly considering Hispanics from negroid backgrounds as “not black”.
This is what race-baiting gets you...
Like Lincoln said....
I am actually laughing as I am reading this.
If the food fight at the Rat hole turns into Browns vs Blacks this could get very interesting.
Anything the Democrat Party can do to further manifest their anti-American platform is a good thing.
Yup.
They already wrung-out all they can get from blacks the past 50 years.
The Muslims and illegals are the new hotness.
The idiocy remains, even after the usefulness has worn off.
Is the motive ethnic, or are the incumbents not liberal enough?
I’d have to check the data, but I’m pretty sure that Sheila Jackson Lee’s district is more hispanic than Lacy Clay’s.
I've not seen anything more violent than a Latino on Black gang violence where they are fighting over drug dealing turf.
Enter the Commies, skin color isn’t important, they’re Red, through and through, ready to fight. Internecine warfare at it’s finest, enjoy!
“Justice Democrats” = unapologetic full blown Communists
I’m out of popcorn...need more.
The CBC is an African rather than American organization
Political analysis
Bkmk for later reading
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