Posted on 07/14/2018 10:06:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will travel to Kansas together next week to campaign for a pair of candidates in the state, according to The Washington Post.
The pair will start off in Wichita, Kansas on July 20 to campaign for James Thompson in the states 4th district. From there theyll head to outside Kansas City to support former Sanders delegate Brent Welder, who is running for the Democratic nomination in the 3rd congressional district.
Sanders told The Post that he and Ocasio-Cortez, a self-identified democratic socialist, organized the trip after realizing they both wanted to go to Kansas.
All over this country, you have people who understand that we need to [change] the minimum wage to a living wage; that health care is a right; that we need to rebuild our infrastructure, the progressive senator told the newspaper.
Those are popular issues in the Bronx. These are popular issues in Vermont. In Kansas, theyve gone through the [former governor Sam] Brownback agenda, and they do not believe you should give tax breaks to the rich and cut Social Security.
Ocasio-Cortezs stunning defeat of incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D) in the Democratic primary for New Yorks 14th Congressional District sent shockwaves through the party.
Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Crowley of refusing to concede the Democratic primary race and mounting a third-party bid against her.
Crowley denied the claims, saying that he is backing Ocasio-Cortez in the race.
Her: If only I had the crisp white unruly hair and the thick embarrassing accent Bernie has.
Him: If only I had the youth and the ugly horse teeth and the Cliff’s Notes knowledge of economics and politics that little twerp has.
Underripe turnips work well.
Anthony Pappas - Phanthom GOP Candidate - Not campaigning at all. Pappas has no office, web site, or money. The latest is that he has not even filed the paperwork for fundraising.
“What exactly did all those people give their lives for?”
Lyndon Johnson?
“Those two would fit right in with the moonbats in the Peoples Republic of Lawrence-istan”.
Oops, thought you meant Lawrence, Massachusetts...
You’d almost think the folks with those signs are conservative “plants” it’s so over-the-top.
Watch out for her - and the Dems are lucky shes so young, or shed already be in the presidential running.
Yep. She'll be around a while. NY-14 is hers now for as long as she wants it. Expect for the next 4-8 years or so she'll use it to build a foundation and network as she positions herself for bigger and better things.
She will become the face of the new Democratic party; young, brown, and unapologetically socialist. Days are numbered for the 70-80 year old white millionaire corporatist liberals currently running the show.
“Days are numbered for the 70-80 year old white millionaire corporatist liberals currently running the show.”
ABSOLUTELY. It’s amazing they held on this long. I guess they figured that their new base of immigrants, blacks, and deranged white Leftists would be TOO STUPID to actually want their hands on the levers of power.
They were wrong. Those people are not dumb, and they do want power, REAL POWER. So bye-bye white power in the Dems, it is over.
The story is that during the “Bleeding Kansas” years some ant-slavery settlers moved from the town in Massachusetts and settled there, so they named the new town in honor of Lawrence MA.
See post 37. Great minds think alike.
You did not use the term fool, my apology, however you denigrated the guy for being blustery. That was unnecessary.
Your opinion is noted, and your apology is accepted.
Because no one’s going to give him any money.
Cool.
They can hang together as well.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.