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Ben & Jerry back Keith Ellison in DNC chairmanship race
The Hill ^ | 02/02/2017 | BY MARK HENSCH

Posted on 02/02/2017 10:45:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream on Thursday endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairmanship.

“Ellison is an authentic champion of working families and he’s ready to bring that energy and mindset to the Democratic Party,” Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield said in a joint U.S. News op-ed published Thursday.

While the ice cream company has released flavors named after public figures, including comedian Stephen Colbert and musicians Dave Matthews and Jerry Garcia, the pair don't announce plans for an Ellison-themed flavor in their op-ed. Instead, they pitch the Minnesota politician as part of the party's "next generation" of leaders.

“The Democratic Party now faces a critical choice: seek out new, young leadership to electrify the next generation so they can take back the state houses, take back the governor’s mansions, take back Congress and take back the White House in order to usher in a new age of good government and social justice,” they added. "Or stick to business-as-usual that the people have already rejected at the ballot box. Let’s try something new.”

Ellison is one of the two leading candidates in the race ahead of a late February vote, a favorite of the party's Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wing who is facing off against former Labor secretary and Obama administration favorite Tom Perez.

Cohen and Greenfield said 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s loss to now-President Trump is evidence that the party should abandon its old-guard politicians.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benjerry; democrats; dnc; keithellison
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Furry Fudge Packer


21 posted on 02/02/2017 10:53:47 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: SeekAndFind
There goes the bacon and ice cream concoction. Will their containers now say Halal compliant? Solidarity and all of that.
22 posted on 02/02/2017 10:55:04 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

[ Have they named an ice cream flavor for him yet? ]

“Sharia Strawberry Surprise”

“Kafir Krispy Krunch”

“Fruity Gumdrop Munch”

“Death to Americreme”


23 posted on 02/02/2017 10:55:04 AM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ellison personifies the DNC and should be made the head ASAP.


24 posted on 02/02/2017 10:56:03 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: jazminerose

Yes
Someone even less qualified than the clueless DWS.


25 posted on 02/02/2017 10:56:41 AM PST by Zathras
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To: SeekAndFind

In support or Ellison they are coming out with “Sharia Sherbet” as they have done for other causes.

Any infidel (non-Muslim or wrong type of Muslim) who eats it should have their hands and tongue cut off the first time and be stoned to death the second offense.

Muslim women can only eat it in the presence of their husband or another close family male and should be punished with beheading (honor killing) if they are found in violation.

It will come in many flavors but they cannot be combined since the combo may look like “rainbow sherbet” and mistaking for a pro-homosexual dessert. Anyone combining flavors should be thrown off a building.


26 posted on 02/02/2017 10:58:15 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: SeekAndFind

27 posted on 02/02/2017 11:03:03 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: jch10
Who is still buying from them??

I was until Ben and Jerry's posted support for BLM late last year.

Just as with Target and Starbucks, we have so many choices that it's easy breezy to avoid socially corrosive "progressive" businesses.

28 posted on 02/02/2017 11:04:24 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: vetvetdoug

Ellison personifies the DNC and should be made the head ASAP.
= = = = = = = = = =
TWO courses of action FOR US here...

1.. Petition AGAINST him pointing out how ‘bad’ he really is.
D’s will support him.

2.. Petition FOR him pointing out how ‘good’ he really is.
D’s will can him in nano second.


29 posted on 02/02/2017 11:09:33 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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To: jazminerose

Mine too. Want to rub it in with Bill nelson


30 posted on 02/02/2017 11:12:54 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: jch10

I do when Publix does 2 for 1


31 posted on 02/02/2017 11:13:49 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: HarleyLady27

IIRC, Ben & Jerry’s is owned now by Unilever. And Unilever gets up to a lot of mischief.


32 posted on 02/02/2017 11:15:15 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: billorites

Worthless waste, YUCK!


33 posted on 02/02/2017 11:20:08 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ellison, along with Ben & Jerry are sinking themselves along with the DNC.

I'm 100% for it.

Go forward gentlemen and save common sense Americans any further hassle by making yourselves irrelevant.

34 posted on 02/02/2017 11:23:10 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: SeekAndFind

I am also backing Ellison to head the Democrat Party. As long as they have people like him as the voice of the party, they will continue to lose power.


35 posted on 02/02/2017 11:26:05 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: SeekAndFind

Ellison, should he become DNC chairman, will help to insure the destruction of the Dem. Party.

So...go Ellison!


36 posted on 02/02/2017 11:26:38 AM PST by Signalman
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To: SeekAndFind

And in other news, Ben & Jerry’s is changing the name of their “Everything But The . . . .” ice cream flavor to “Everything But the Jews”


37 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:16 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Frozen party head.....what flavor?


38 posted on 02/02/2017 11:31:48 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: SeekAndFind

These nitwits also support cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal


39 posted on 02/02/2017 11:32:04 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good grief, this is the best candidates the democrats have to offer? We are very lucky.


40 posted on 02/02/2017 11:34:40 AM PST by OLDCU
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