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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Steny is #2.
This isn’t about a recording.
This is about trying to dirty up Hoyer to prevent him from
becoming the leader of the House RATs when Pelosi retires
or gets pushed out.
>>”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.<<
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Let’s you and him fight!
They are chipping away at the Old Guard. First Steny, then Jim Clyburn. After that, start packing your bags, Nancy. The progressives want you out!
The DIMs ARE a criminal organization .
Wait , what , barrel ? You mean rodeo ?
I sure agree with that. An nutty as the DemonRats are about deifying their politicians, the GOP is just as weird about being self-doubting hand-wringers. Seriously, they act like a dog that’s been kicked too many times. If you act like a loser, people will assume up-front that you are.
I just wish the Republicans were better at it, we keep losing winnable elections because of crap candidates.
Ogden area. Yeah, it’s desert around here. Funny thing is, you can drive for 15 minutes and be up in alpine forest at 8000 feet. The Wasatch range has peaks that are 10-11,000 feet.
Steny Hoyer and his “corporate cronies” already lost,
I didn’t know Steny is a Republican./////////
Sounds like something O would have his hand in.
All stenny was doing was making sure the Democratic Party doesn’t go full blown commiw so he is picking 50% commie candidates, whereas the grass roots in the party want 100% commie.
Thank the Lord someone.. being you Nuts did NOT SAY ISLE!!!
It drives me Nuts... it is “AISLE” as in “”Cross the AISLE”
Not a teeny weeny sand bar..It is the walkway between two or more seating platforms.
Spellcheck is illiterate.
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Living in Maryland I love this post!
Radio talk host Les Kinsolving called this joker “Spendy Horror”. I have had the misfortune of having to have followed his career since he won a 15-way primary to succeed Gladys Noon Spellman, the “state vegetable of Maryland”, a three term lunatic pro-abort who had a massive stroke shortly before the 1980 election, was unable to take the oath of office in January, 1981, and her seat was declared vacant months after that.
You have to figure that Spendy is safe for this election and the one in 2020. He’ll be 82 years old in 2022, and how the state is gerrymandered by the Maryland legislature will determine his fate. Before he was elected to Congress, he was a state Senator from what was then mostly a while area of southern Prince George’s county. Today, that area is probably 80%+ Black, with the rest being a hodgepodge of other minorities and a few whites who are attached to Joint Base Andrews. He’s lived in Saint Mary’s County in southern Maryland, but that area has had a political realignment and is completely represented by the GOP in Annapolis. I sense that his district will be taken apart, and most of the GOP will be combined with the Eastern Shore (like this district was in the 70s and 80s).
This guy is a master politician; he is just as loony left as Pelosi, but he has a way of calming people down that Pelosi lacks that makes him look like a “centrist”. He claims to be a Baptist but despises pro-life Christians with a purple passion. One bad dude.
Pass the popcorn.
The only crime to a POS Rat is being caught.
Not yet. The progressives aren’t in leadership.
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