Posted on 02/13/2017 9:36:05 AM PST by KingofZion
Last fall, Rita Bosworth, a public defender in San Francisco, had an epiphany. "I was thinking about how we were choosing between two Democrats for this open Senate seat," she said. Because California's open primary system leaves the possibility that two members of the same party will advance to the general election, state attorney general Kamala Harris faced off against Rep. Loretta Sanchez, in the race to succeed retiring Democrat Barbara Boxer. They combined to spend nearly $20 million on the contest, which Harris won, and "all of it was being directed toward a race where it was liberal vs. more liberal," Bosworth says. "It just struck me that this was silly." There had to be a better use of progressive manpower.
So in late November, Bosworth launched Sister District, a website that helps activists in safe blue areas support candidates in red states and swing districts who could use the help. *** It recently joined forces with another organization with a similar agenda, Flippable...
*** In the age of Trump, coastal progressives such as Bosworth have increasingly come to believe that Democrats are fighting not just nativism, but also geography. In an op-ed for the New York Times three weeks before the election, reporter Alec MacGillis neatly summed up the Democrats' struggles. "Democrats," he wrote, "just don't want to live where they'd need to live to turn more of the map blue." The headline for the story offered a prescription: "If you really want Democrats to win in Iowa, move there." The geographic clustering of liberals in major metropolitan areas and isolated college towns poses a logistical hurdle. How do you convert excess activist energy in one place into organizing power someplace else?
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At the presidential level, you’re right. At all other levels, not so much.
About three years ago, we noticed a big uptick of seeing Illinois plates, here in TX.
I also recall a story about a (then recent) Chicago to McKinny (TX) transplant who threw a party, at a PUBLIC neighborhood park and was busted for charging entrance.
It made me wonder what incentives were/are possibly being offered to get these folks to relocate to TX.
This is WHY Obama was gearing up to slam massive amounts of Section 8 housing into “red” states and suburbs.
Can’t speak for the rest, but I had to move outwards from DC twice in Virginia, since 1992, to live somewhere sane. . .
And Chicago destroyed several cleancut, small towns in Illinois, by moving so many section 8 people downstate. I wonder if Obama had a hand in that?
She says that like it's a bad thing.
Patience Blowhard.
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