Posted on 02/23/2017 2:26:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Days after the November election, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was ascendant. There was no greater sign of its rising stature than the momentum Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota was enjoying in his race to chair the Democratic National Committee.
Ellison, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) during the 2016 presidential primary, was racking up endorsements not only from Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), but establishment figures as well, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers — both of whom backed Hillary Clinton in the primary.
But in December, former Labor Secretary Tom Perez jumped into the DNC race. Now, Ellison and Perez are neck-and-neck, with the election days away. The DNC’s 447 voting members will decide the party’s next chair in Atlanta on Saturday.
That has some Ellison supporters worried that their chance to reshape the party is in danger of disappearing. In an attempt to head off Perez, some prominent Ellison supporters argue that failing to elect him would squander a major opportunity to energize the progressive grassroots and heal the wounds of the 2016 presidential primary....
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After the next few terror attacks the battle lines will become clearer and more and more people will realize the dems are on the wrong side. Ellison's choice will help make the difference even more stark.
Agree.
Be careful what you wish for. I was thrilled when Obama won the nomination back in 2008. No way Americans would elect black extremist named Barack Hussein. What a joke. On me. Ellison could be a big move in normalizing islam amongst many Americans.
There's 350,000 Somalis camped out on the Kenyan border.
LINK Senator Barack Obama in Kenya --- Obama and Odinga: The True Story
African Press Intl | 8/8/08 | Paul Abeles / FR Posted on 6/10/2008 10:48:41 PM by truthandlife
Then-Sen Obama supported this Somali---Mohamed Abdi---in his bid for election to the Kenya Parliament. Mohamed Abdi was NOT elected.
A dual national, Mohamed Abdi was active in the Ellison Congressional campaign in the US.
The monsters the dems created are consuming them.
Hillary Clinton needs to step in the batters box and save something. This is not looking good. They need someone at the helm... Bernie Sanders? Ellison does not speak for the main stream, a costly mistake if they expect to make gains in the next election.
It’s no longer the democrat party. It’s the Urban Communist party.
agreed... no way in hell he would ever win... oh wait... no way in hell he would win twice.. oh wait...
Same reasoning as “you better let them into the country or they are going to be mad.” Except they are already mad in every sense of the word. Stark raving mad.
There’ll be fallout alright.... the Demwit party will “fall out” of history is they support this anti-Semite muslim quack for their leader..... maybe they can move their organization to calypso Louie’s mother ship!!!
Minneapolis has the highest number of Somali refugees in the country. It also has a very large number of undocumented Syrian and Somali refugees, thanks to Keith Ellison.
Minneapolis is the nexus point for the Obama under-the-table connections with Somali Mohamed Abdi who unsuccessfully ran for election to the Kenya Parliament in 2007, a close confident of Obama, , a former US Marine, likely now working to arm the Muslim Luo faction ( Obama’s tribe) of Kenya’s tribally split population, in order for genocide against the Kikuyu to occur.Witness the last minute transfer of 400 million dollars worth of arms to Kenya on Obama’s last day in office, ground support aircraft and undescribed ordnance and kick backs.
Most pilots in the Kenyan Airforce are Luo Muslims trained in Jordan, England and the USA.They will try to bring Kenya into a North African caliphate, an Obama effort which failed in Libya and Egypt, but succeeded in Sudan and Somalia.
Ellison is part of that cadre.
Witness now the many undocumented Muslims from Minneapolis -Saint Paul crossing the border at Emerson , Manitoba, seeking assylum in Canada. All of them are Ellison protoges.
Sure, make Ellison the head of the DNC. And then watch more hell enter our country. I predict traitor Ellison’s early demise, literally.His remedy is about 3 ounces of Pb traveling faster than the speed of sound.
Ellison is an Islamofascist thug, just like Obama is.He thinks t seize the torch for Obama? NO!
Ellison should be jailed but will not be, and so he must go the way of claiming an early 6 x 6 x 6 plot of ground, Alahwahoo Whackbar!
The number one job of any party chair is to raise money from people who want that party to protect their interests.
Ellison doesn’t bring any gravitas for that job. He’s another Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton who would run a shakedown scam that would raise the minimum to keep him away.
The end result will be Democrats even more reliant on independent PACs and untraceable foreign money.
Go Ellison!
Will the ‘protesters’ burn down a city, jump on police cars and break windows? Or just scream in some ‘townhall’?
Will we get the whole silly vile circus or just parts of it?
When Perez is said to be their “moderate” choice we know the Democraps are heading off a cliff....
OMG, don’t tell me they might protest. I’m shocked. Rush is right, this is getting boring.
“keith Ellison .... not my Democrat![’
Ellison as a Muslim anti-Semite is the perfect pick to lead the Democrats.
I always find this conversation interesting because NOI and Calypso-Louie will be among the first “heretical islamist groups” to be summarily executed in the name of radical islam. His “prison-based-buggery-sect” will not play well for him and his adherents.
Ask yourself, why doesn’t Farrakhan visit Muslim countries outside of the US? Why doesn’t Calypso-Louie travel abroad...AT ALL?
Yes, I was going to say, “Win, win”.......WIN!
Kinda poor timing there, isn't it? Most political groups would prefer to be ascending before and during the election. Silly silly Lefties.
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