{"id":177521,"date":"2019-08-29T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/29\/dont-give-to-the-dscc\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T23:35:00","slug":"dont-give-to-the-dscc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/29\/dont-give-to-the-dscc\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Give to the DSCC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is threatening political consultants who working for John Hickenlooper’s opponents in the Colorado Senate primary<\/a>.<\/div>\n

The DSCC is pulling out the stops to support a candidate, in the Primary, who compared environmentalists to Stalinists and literally drank a glass of fracking fluid.<\/p>\n

All this in a state which is not comfortably blue. <\/p>\n

Way to support progressive ideals:<\/p>\n

Before the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in a 2020 Senate race, it pressured consultants from at least five firms not to work with a leading progressive in the race, the candidate told The Intercept. <\/p>\n

Andrew Romanoff, who is one of more than a dozen candidates vying for Republican Sen. Cory Gardner\u2019s seat, told The Intercept that multiple consultants turned down jobs with his campaign citing pressure from the DSCC. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve made it clear to a number of the firms and individuals we tried to hire that they wouldn\u2019t get any business in Washington or with the DSCC if they worked with me,\u201d Romanoff said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a well-orchestrated operation to blackball ragtag grassroots teams.\u201d <\/p>\n

At least five firms and 25 prospective staff turned down working with his campaign, said Romanoff, who has raised more than $1 million<\/a> in individual contributions so far. \u201cI spoke to the firms, my campaign manager spoke to the staff prospects,\u201d he said. \u201cPretty much everyone who checked in with the DSCC got the same warning: Helping us would cost them.\u201d <\/p>\n

A consultant who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity said that their firm had been far along in talks to work for Romanoff when they got word that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the DSCC weren\u2019t happy. The firm was told by a top DSCC staffer that they \u201cabsolutely under no circumstances could work for Andrew Romanoff, so we withdrew our offer to be his consulting firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the DSCC\u2019s companion organization in the House, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, made it official policy to cut off funding and vendors to Democrats who challenged incumbent Democrats. Putting the policy in writing ratcheted up what had been more of an informal understanding in prior cycles. But if the DSCC\u2019s intervention in Colorado is any indication, the Democrats\u2019 Senate campaign arm is taking the blacklist one step further, by discouraging consultants from working not only for challengers to incumbent Democrats, but also for progressives running against the establishment\u2019s preferred candidate in a seat currently held by the GOP. In Romanoff\u2019s case, the DSCC did so before it had been clear whether Washington\u2019s choice, Hickenlooper, even planned to run<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

I understand that the party establishment feels that it must put its thumb on the scales to support uninspiring corporatist candidates to be victorious.<\/p>\n

After all, this strategy worked so well to get \u2026\u2026\u2026 checks notes \u2026\u2026\u2026 Donald Trump \u2026\u2026\u2026 elected.<\/p>\n

There is bright side for real Democrats who want to run for office, but cannot get high powered DC consultants to work for them though, it’s that these consultants are about as useless as tits on a bull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is threatening political consultants who working for John Hickenlooper’s opponents in the Colorado Senate primary. The DSCC is pulling out the stops to support a candidate, in the Primary, who compared environmentalists to Stalinists and literally drank a glass of fracking fluid. All this in a state which is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,364,374,406],"class_list":["post-177521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}