Posted on 01/14/2025 9:48:05 AM PST by Angelino97
New York State Senator James Skoufis, a candidate for Democratic National Committee Chair, recently said he would go on “permanent offense” and “dismantle” the infrastructure of the Green Party if successful in his bid. Skoufis made the remarks last month on social media, specifically citing the results of the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
“The Green Party spoiled another major race for us (PA SEN), just the latest on a very long list,” Skoufis wrote in an X post shortly before the New Year. “As [Democratic National Committee] Chair, I’ll go on permanent offense, not just taking up the legal fight during ballot access. We’ll dismantle these Republican-enablers’ infrastructure. The gloves come off.”
The Green Party itself did not respond to Skoufis’ comment; however, it reposted remarks from the party’s 2024 presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein, who posted on X in response: “This DNC chair candidate is planning to make the Dems’ war on Greens permanent. Does anyone fight harder against democracy than the DNC?”
In his initial statement, Skoufis refers to last November’s U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, where Republican Dave McCormick narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Robert Casey Jr. and three other candidates by a plurality. McCormick won with 48.82% of the vote, followed by Casey at 48.6%. Green Party candidate Leila Hazou garnered 0.95%, Libertarian John Thomas earned 1.29%, and Constitution Party candidate Marty Selker received 0.34%. While Skoufis attributes the loss to the Green Party, polling data suggests Hazou’s impact on Casey’s campaign may have been minimal—or at the very least, inconclusive.
For example, a Data for Progress poll conducted in the final weeks of the election showed Hazou drawing limited support, primarily from self-identified independents and Republicans, with negligible statistical backing from Democrats. A Suffolk University poll showed similar trends. However, in both cases, the sample sizes were small, making any definitive conclusions difficult.
While it’s not clear what Skoufis meant by dismantling the Green Party’s infrastructure, the Democratic Party took an aggressive approach to third party efforts last year, especially those of the Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein and independent presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Cornel West. Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the party did things such as challenge state ballot access efforts, hire operatives tasked with countering these campaigns, launch attack ads against Stein, and briefly sought a project manager to attend events and collect campaign intelligence on third party and independent candidates, among other responsibilities.
Skoufis referenced the Green Party again last week, doubling down on his previous post by stating that the Democratic Party “needs to go on offense” and that, as Chair, he would build a “significantly larger team of in-house lawyers to take the fight to the Republican Party, the Green Party, and anyone trying to make it harder to vote.”
The Democratic National Committee will formally vote on its next chair on February 1. Skoufis is one of nearly a dozen candidates seeking the position, including Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin, former Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O’Malley, and past presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson.
Oh, I thought little Davey Hogg was gonna be a shoe in. 😂😂😂
Well, we now know what a threat to democracy is.......
Reclaiming the green party members or driving them totally away from the Democrats?
The Democratic party is not very democratic, are they?
You mean like communists do? How very democratic of you!
Oh oh. Infighting amongst the competing Communist Parties.
Democracy itself is on the ballot, Trump is a threat to democracy, so we were told.
Yet the behavior of Democrats suggests, that they do not want us to have choices in elections apart from Democrat candidates .
The Democrats love democracy.
Methinks there are a 10 million or so hard core republicans. Now if all of them would just send them $10. Think the Nader effect.
I’m sure Green Party voters will love the idea of their party being dismantled.
We must make sure Hogg and Greta never get together. It would create a black hole of stupidity that would swallow the earth.
Worth noting many of the Libertarian candidates are actually rat operatives. The rats spend a lot of money on Libertarian campaigns and they cost us more elections than l can count
Reminds me of how they name all their legislation. The title usually is the exact opposite of what the bill does. For example The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 did the exact opposite.
True dat! 😵
Maria Cantwell is a good example of libertarian efforts, they put her in the senate in 2000 and her current term in her senate seat ends in 2031.
so very democRATic of him...
I smile every time I think that the utterly useless Bob Casey Jr. is finished as a Senator for PA.
What makes it even sweeter is knowing that Casey is still in stunned disbelief that his “career” is OVER.
NOW who is the “threat to Democracy”?
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