Is cofounder Colin McAuliffe related to the idiot former VA governor Terry McAuliffe?
The other D4P group cofounder is :
Sean McElwee, a co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress.
He wants to abolish ICE: How Twitter vaulted 'Abolish ICE' into the mainstream 7/29/2018, 9:44:39 PM · by yesthatjallen · 10 replies The Hill ^ | 07/29/18 | Ali Breland Calls to "Abolish ICE" began as an obscure Twitter hashtag created by liberal activists. It's now a movement supported by prominent progressive leaders and candidates in races across the country and the center of a heated debate in Democratic circles. The viral campaign pushing for the elimination of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is the latest example of how Twitter has become a tool for groups outside the mainstream to get their ideas in front of power brokers. Writer and activist Sean McElwee, who is credited with creating the #AbolishICE hashtag, told The Hill that Twitter's platform and its....He writes for Huffington Post:
The Unbearable Whiteness of Money in Politics 6/26/2016, 12:43:23 PM · by GuavaCheesePuff · 20 replies The Huffington Post ^ | January 23, 2016 | Sean McElwee The 2016 presidential election will be the second since the court’s disastrous Citizens United decision and the first without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act in place. That means big donors will have more sway over elected officials to dictate the agenda. Already the wealthy are pouring money into the election: Politico reports that the 67 biggest donors, who have each given a million dollars or more have donated three times more than 508,000 small donors combined. A new report from Every Voice Center finds that individuals living in 1 percent of the nation’s zip codes (equal to...
And writes for Salon:
To defeat the Tea Party, the left needs bolder leader than Hillary 10/12/2013, 10:05:48 PM · by 2ndDivisionVet · 51 replies Salon ^ | October 12, 2013 | Sean McElwee It’s three years away, but the ongoing government shutdown and debt ceiling debate makes it clear that Democrats need to be thinking now about a candidate able to effectively counter the Tea Party caucus in Congress — which thanks to gerrymandering, isn’t going anywhere until 2020. While the Republican field is already loaded with possible candidates — Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush III and Bobby Jindal – the Democratic field is apparently sealed: Hillary Clinton. RealClearPolitics finds Hillary getting 61 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary against Joe Biden (11), Elizabeth Warren (7),...