Rep.-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said Tuesday that “senior members of the Democratic House” have threatened to make his life “a living hell” unless he backs, without conditions, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to be the next Speaker of the House.
We need new leadership!
Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let’s get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
Grow a fucking spine. we elected all of you assholes to fight for us, not to sit there and fucking be turned into one of them vampires.
Lol they can eff off then, don’t make threats those pos, they better step off is what they can do! They work for We The People so do what we want!
And he should report that right to The People so we know who to primary when the time comes.
In 2016, Bernie was looking great…until the DNC happened, he sported a black eye, and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason. The establishment Dems are just as corrupt as the Repubs. The only hope for America is in the new blood…because the milk’s gone bad.
Trump didn’t win in 2016…Hillary (and DWS) LOST.
and then endorsed Hillary for some unknown reason.
Trump was the reason. Bernie isn’t stupid and he knew what kind of dipshit Trump is.
The fact that they’re speaking about it openly gives me hope tbh
Yes. Note that the person telling us is a new progressive elect with nothing to lose, no corporate support, and absolutely nothing to gain by hiding how it all works.
When possible, broadcasting an extortion attempt is the absolute best way to handle one, and they picked the guy with absolutely no reason to keep this hidden.
I hope and expect to hear more attempts in the near future: I can think of no better way to end the current practices than for those employing them to try them on this new crowd only to have them broadcast for the rest of us.
Israel has been expending all of its political capital since O7. It’s now almost entirely gone.
You see before this time, Democrats had a strong Jewish caucus in their coalition who equated support for Israel as opposition to antisemitism; same with the converse.
This meant that Israel mostly through AIPAC could bully Democrats by forcing a pledge of fealty in order to get not only their endorsement, but their money, and also an assurance they wouldn’t accuse them of being an antisemite and or supporting their opponent.
Cori Bush’s primary loss is textbook of this.
But now the tables are turning. The baggage is now associating with Israel and AIPAC. The cost of being tied to them is worse than the consequences of their opposition. Their ability to drive a wedge is diminishing greatly.
The more this is brought out in public, the better.
My fear is that short of political capital, they’ll start just assassinating people.
They are certainly capable of it.
I need names Donnie. Name the names
Yeah, record these conversations. Save the emails and text messages.
Agreed. I need to know where to donate my $$ in 2 years to primary the hell out of these GOP light types.
My guess is they are anonymous. Probably anonymous internet phone calls or calls from a burner phone.
If they were anonymous, we wouldn’t know they were “house members.”
Yeah, you’re right, the wording doesn’t leave room for anonymous threats.
“Big D” is just republicans from 40 - 50 years ago now. A little token social policy, but just hand everything else to the corporations. Keep us arguing over what bathrooms people get to use while they lose every economic and policy battle.
Bring it on
Then you’ll just have to go through living hell if you want to make a difference for our country. Unless you’re a coward.
“If you’re going through Hell - Keep going!” -Churchill
Damn, not even any sympathy or appreciation just “sacrifice yourself for me or you suck”?
Yes. They wanted to serve the people now do it. I’ve no sympathy, they asked to be there now do the thing we elected you there for.
It doesn’t even sound like you’re on his side and think he deserves to have a rough time because he stepped up. I don’t think you deserve his service with that attitude; hopefully he doesn’t decide the same.
They’ll never fight for us as hard as they fight for Isreal.
won’t somebody please think about the military industrial complex!
Oh so now they’re threatening members to do as they’re told? That isn’t very “democratic” leadership, is it? 🤔 …
No wonder Schumer and Jeffries have felt so confident about the seats.
end Citizens United
That’s the big one. The people running the party are going to defend their nut.
It would require a constitutional amendment, so that’s going to be a pretty big challenge.
There is already a proposed constitutional amendment in the works to do just that, among various other measures at the state level, and it already has state approval for ratification by twenty-five of the necessary thirty-eight to pass.
Essentially, Citizens United and other corrupt rulings like it operate on two legal grounds: making artificial entities (groups, PACs, corporations) legally the same as individual citizens with the same protected rights such as free speech, AND barring states from limiting the amount of cash that flows into the elections they constitutionally control. This amendment addresses both of these legal bases.
Here’s the text of the proposed amendment:
Section 1. We the People have compelling sovereign interests in the freedom of speech, representative self-government, federalism, the integrity of the electoral process, and the political equality of natural persons.
Section 2. Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to forbid Congress or the States, within their respective jurisdictions, from reasonably regulating and limiting contributions and spending in campaigns, elections, or ballot measures.
Section 3. Congress and the States shall have the power to implement and enforce this article by appropriate legislation and may distinguish between natural persons and artificial entities, including by prohibiting artificial entities from raising and spending money in campaigns, elections, or ballot measures.
I know it’s hard to believe, but getting big money out of politics really is a bipartisan issue. It keeps good people out of office altogether and the rest unable to address the power of cash concentrated in a very few hands.
If your state isn’t already on this list, look it over and see if it’s something you can support. It needs to happen not just with an amendment, but at all levels. Every bit helps.
I don’t have a state, but my province is very affected by all the states.
yeah good luck with that.
What do we do with traitors? Jeffries is a fucking traitor who wants to hand us right back to the fascists. What do we do with him? Do we have absolutely no heroes?
We should be executing them.
we criminalize our heroes.
