Posted on 04/27/2018 7:47:08 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Liberal groups demanded the resignation of a top House Democrat on Thursday after he was caught on a secret recording trying to strong-arm a progressive candidate to nix his congressional campaign and clear the way for party leaders’ preferred pick to win.
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, told Levi Tillemann, a Democrat running in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, to drop out because “a judgment was made very early on” that opposing candidate Jason Crow, an Army veteran, was the party’s choice to take on a vulnerable Republican.
The recording, which Mr. Tillemann released to the Intercept news website, has infuriated pressure groups who say it’s the latest example of party leaders undercutting progressives, just as they did in the 2016 presidential race by backing Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont.
“There is a battle for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and Steny Hoyer and his corporate cronies already lost,” said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which quickly sent out a fundraising email over the dustup.
In the edited recording, secretly taped in December, Mr. Hoyer signaled the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party organization dedicated to winning House races, had picked sides.
“So your position is a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, that’s fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate?” Mr. Tillemann asks.
Mr. Hoyer responds, “That’s certainly a consequence of our decision.”
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The Democrat always operates like a criminal organization. It has for a loonnnngggg time.
The Democrat Party is run like the Soviet Union!
Quit now? Sure, happens all the time with the Rats.
Memories of Bernie.
I figured trying to convince a person not to run was just part of the game. If you’re the type that would quit at their urging, you’re not the type of person who should be running anyway. They sure tried with Trump. Every news gasbag in the country opened their newscasts with, “OK, let’s get this out of the way first: Donald Trump is NOT going to be president.”
Just a matter of which whore’s turn it is in the barrel.
I’d be saying, “For enough cash money, I’ll go away. I’ll also accept money to not grow corn, let the bidding begin...”
This happens all the time on both sides of the aisle. Does anyone think President Trump was not advised to drop out by the Republicans?
“The Democrat Party is run like the Soviet Union!”
And just how is this any different that what the GOPE has done repeatedly. Mississippi Senate a couple of years ago (trying to save Thud Cochran) and more recently in Alabama with Big Luther. They want to win with “their candidate” too. They operate just like the RATs. Steny Hoyer (actually it should be hoya, because as any Indian will tell you, you shouldn’t step in the hoya) is a RAT example of Bitch McScrotumneck! There is not a nickel’s worth of difference.
Why is everyone so holier than thou here? This is what the Republican Party does every single election.
Fight Steny FIGHT!!!
(Now excuse me while I go cook up some popcorn;)
“I figured trying to convince a person not to run was just part of the game.”
Well, the GOPE sure is lousy at the “game,” what with 17 Presidential Candidates in 2016! Then the one guy they didn’t want and was “sure” couldn’t win, did! I think actually the RATs are probably a whole lot better at it than the GOPE.
(Sure, it basically amounts to: "never obstruct a popular Dem candidate"... but still, they HAVE a standard!!!!!!)
I’d be saying, “For enough cash money, I’ll go away. I’ll also accept money to not grow corn, let the bidding begin...”
From your profile, doesn’t look like you’re planting anything. What part of Utah?
Spendy Horror!!
Isn’t this how politics has & always will work?
The swamp is turning on itself. Alligators will feast. Trump is removing the water.
The dimrats make offers one cannot refuse.
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