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friendbot2000 posted:I want Danica to keep her seat because I think if she stays in the state house, she would be a great progressive primary challenger to Tim Kaine. Kaine is simply not doing enough on mental health, prescription drug prices, and labor. He made promises to me when I confronted him about it at a meet and greet. I think Danica is our gal to really get the progressive wing of VA in full swing. Senator Roem would loving own.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Could she run for state senate in 2019? I have no idea! That would also be cool though. I hope she has a long and successful career. 
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My local College Dems are celebrating that my town scored 700+ votes for Evers versus 350 for Walker. 
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There's local party drama happening in my county! The local party decided this year to establish an office in my college town. Apparently there was a spat over this and one group of people in the party think it was a waste of time and resources. However, the College Dems did a bunch of work for canvassing and so another group thinks it was worth it and they should do more to be involved with the College Dems. We now have plans to attend the voting meeting tomorrow, so we can all vote for the cool old people who want to hang out with the College Dems.
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I went to my local Democratic Party meeting tonight and they had leadership elections. I was with the president of the college Democrats, our professor advisor, and one other member. It was an absolute shitshow. There was a dumb factional pissing match happening because a group of them didn't want to work with College Democrats or have an office in our college town (the office that was granted to them for free mind you). They spent the last few weeks organizing a leadership coup instead of helping with the midterms. A bunch of them were also low key super racist to a Hispanic woman who won a leadership position there. I'm really frustrated. 
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Nov 9, 2018 05:30
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The Glumslinger posted:What state are you in? Wisconsin. This was Walworth County. The racist comments especially were pretty hurtful, I bit my tongue because it was a group of like ten ancient white guys but I was babysitting that woman's daughter in between helping with the ballot collection/counting. 
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Nov 9, 2018 05:52
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axeil posted:Join DSA? I go to DSA meetings but the nearest chapter is an hour away and it's hard to motivate myself to get up early Saturday morning to drive out to Milwaukee, especially because I've been struggling really bad with depression recently. I'm on meds now though. When I move to Texas there will be a DSA chapter much closer.
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Nov 9, 2018 05:58
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Ego-bot posted:Getting way ahead of this thread here, but this is John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's newest LG. He ran for the Dem nomination for senate in 2016, primaried the acting LG earlier this year. He's a Sanders aligned guy and he'd be a great candidate to send that loving worm Toomey packing in '22. I remember seeing this guy's picture two years ago! He seems cool.
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Nov 9, 2018 06:41
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Carlosologist posted:LK you should seriously consider creating a DSA chapter in your county if it’s too far for you to get to the other one in WI. I can’t imagine it would be that difficult to do so and since you’re in a college town it would be easy to build support l, I feel I contemplated doing this last year tbh, but my campus leans centrist/Republican, is very white, and is very commuter oriented. The College Dems was only seeing about 50 people attending per week before the midterms, and the president of the College Dems is a socialist. That and I'm moving out of state at the end of this calendar year so it would be a lot of effort and I am just not feeling it right now.
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Grapplejack posted:Ah, inter-party politics. But hey, that lady who won that seat? She's really cool! She's from Peru. I'm excited for her.
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Nov 10, 2018 00:12
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VitalSigns posted:Another interesting data point is that Arizona's Republican governor, like Massachusetts' and Maryland's, had local Democratic politicians endorsing him over his progressive Democratic opponent and also had a Democratic party campaign manager so another possible interpretation is that centrist Democrats are very effective at stabbing progressives and their own party in the back to get centrist Republicans elected. Everybody involved in doing poo poo like this should be persona non grata from the Democratic Party. Actually I misread this post and the fact that it happened in multiple states is mind-blowing and deeply damning.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Considering the only challenger anyone even pretended to take seriously statewide was Chelsea loving Manning, I’m starting to have serious questions about the bench. This all sounds like a severe institutional failing of the state level party.
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Nov 13, 2018 18:57
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Lycus posted:Nelson didn't have a Spanish website in frickin' Florida? At this point any Democratic politician running for national or state-wide office that doesn't have Spanish language outreach is fundamentally unserious. I'd argue any Democratic politician period. It's one thing to not be able to find translators or something, at least you tried, but how the gently caress are you an incumbent Senator without Spanish-language poo poo?
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Spiffster posted:I did an effort posts in the last thread iteration about getting on the ballot for local elections in Indiana but I can’t seem to track it down. Was it archived? It was repurposed for the Midterm election live posting so unfortunately it's now a very long thread.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Is there a Union thread on the forums? It's not necessarily political but it's not not political. My case is wholly non-US so ultimately unrelated nonetheless. There is not but if you wanted to make a thread about it I'd certainly read it.
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Nov 27, 2018 00:58
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I'm really mad about what's happening in Wisconsin but don't know what to do about it. I'm not in a position to protest and all my local reps are Republicans.
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Dec 3, 2018 23:08
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evilweasel posted:that is sort of the point, republicans have basically accepted they're more interested in power than in democracy and so giving you the finger and making sure you can't do anything about it is what they're going for Oh I know. I'm not surprised or anything, just angry. I feel like all the effort I put into getting Evers elected was for nothing and he was the only candidate I canvassed for that won.
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Dec 3, 2018 23:29
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evilweasel posted:The best thing you'll be able to do is canvass for the Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat coming up for election next year. If Democrats take that seat, then suddenly the Wisconsin Supreme Court can start striking down egregious nonsense like your hilariously gerrymandered maps because it goes from 4-3 conservative to 4-3 liberal. Sadly I am moving away in January so this will have been the last Wisconsin election I participate directly in, most likely. I will convince my parents to vote Dem but they're too old and busy to really canvass.
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:Idk as a woman I find it disgraceful to not have abortion as a litmus test. As a woman living in a state that wants to remove my right for a safe legal abortion, I believe its an important issue that a lot of people are letting slide. To me it reads as : Will i let the government decide what I can do with my body? And democrats think any variation of 'yes' is an ok position to have?? It's almost like the entire theory behind "have red state Democrats tack right on social issues and throw marginalized people under the bus" is viscerally morally insulting and also as of the 2018 midterms usually doesn't loving work.
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I’m going to be getting involved in local Texas politics and I’ll post reports as I do. My involvement in Wisconsin has been spotty but I assume it’s like everywhere else, I.e. cliquey and stupid.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:That's probably safe assumption. I can confirm that that's been a fairly universal constant in my experiences. I went to one local Dems meeting and it was such a shitshow it made me never want to go back lmao. I’m gonna go in Texas but woof, buncha fuckin’ olds arguing over who gets to run the clubhouse.
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Dec 26, 2018 19:07
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PerniciousKnid posted:Are there any theories that did work in red states, aside from ones like "run against a pedophile?" Progressives and socialists won office in the Virginia legislature in 2017.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Did they win any rural districts? It's difficult to tell since there's not a lot of information available from cursory Google searches given that I don't exactly know where to live, but they seem to be suburban and not heavily populated. This is all an academic exercise, we all know where this discussion goes, which is debating the merits of having poo poo Democrats who will vote like Joe Manchin and hoping they're willing to pass watered down, useless versions of whatever we want to pass, while global warming barrels towards us unabated.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Heidi Heitkamp was pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, voted against Kavanaugh, made women's issues central to her campaign, was in favor of "reasonable gun control," and she under-performed by more than any other statewide Democratic incumbent running in 2018. She also famously decided to tack far right and back up Trump's white nationalist rhetoric on the caravan so try again lol.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Do you think that was why she under performed more than other candidates who supported it more vigorously? I don't think it did her any favors, and I think she deserved to lose for doing it.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That''s fine, but that really has nothing to do with the original topic about the effectiveness of nationwide social issue positions. I think that tacking right on that issue almost certainly cost her voter enthusiasm and volunteers, given similar reports about other conservative Democrats in red states such as Bresden.
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That name isn’t familiar. Is he a state senator?
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evilweasel posted:Yeah, it's a state senator. The Virginia state legislatures are both controlled by Republicans, but by only a single seat in each chamber. So any resignation/retirement is a big deal. That seems unusual to me, that he would retire under those circumstances?
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evilweasel posted:He'd be up for re-election this year, Virginia does its state elections in off-years (likely as a result of laws intended to keep those people from voting) and Democrats will be going all-out to win so he might as well get out while the getting is good rather than suffer through a tough re-election fight. Same reason you saw a lot of rats fleeing the sinking ship last year from the House. Oh I see. I thought they were on four year terms. I see that YBF will be busy this year. Is Lee Carter up for re-election then? I’m gonna donate to his campaign if I have a job by then.
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evilweasel posted:You're correct they're four year terms, but they weren't up for election in 2017. Their seats aren't staggered, so the entire state senate is up for election this year. Every Virginia state legislator in both houses will be on the ballot. Hm. I think I’m confused as to the timeline here. Don’t worry tho I’ll look it up when I get to my hotel room.
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Jan 2, 2019 17:45
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Your Boy Fancy posted:2014: US House / US Senate (Warner) I see. I think I’m caught up then. So Lee Carter IS up for re-election? 
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Ague Proof posted:Virginia Republicans are a classy bunch who clearly learned from Gillespie's thumping. What a god. 
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Jan 2, 2019 17:57
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm not sure D.C. statehood is necessarily a great idea but it should definitely have congressional representation. Which state already got most of its land back from DC, is it Virginia or Maryland? Edit: thread didn’t refresh for me, sorry my reply is no longer relevant.
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I’m moving into my final destination in San Antonio right now and you can tell the political landscape is very different here. I saw Planned Parenthood protestors for the first time ever today.
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Did any of those reforms make it easier for AOC to primary Chuck Schumer in 2022? I think it would be much funnier if she primaried Cuomo tbh. It also gives her executive experience for 2024 
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Jan 15, 2019 18:11
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Virginia Senate has passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Wait... you mean, the one from the '50s-'60s? Like, a national constitutional amendment? Holy gently caress. 
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If Northam is pushed out, who becomes Governor? Also gently caress Northam lmao.
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Abel Wingnut posted:fairfax This is what I was hoping was the answer, gently caress Northam lmao.
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