{"id":177939,"date":"2019-04-26T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/26\/why-you-should-never-give-to-the-dccc-part-gazillion\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:44:00","slug":"why-you-should-never-give-to-the-dccc-part-gazillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/26\/why-you-should-never-give-to-the-dccc-part-gazillion\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Never Give to the DCCC, Part Gazillion"},"content":{"rendered":"
The DCCC is still enforcing its blacklist of consultants who work with primary challengers, and they have chosen Dan Lipinski, who is anti-abortion, anti-gay, and who literally inherited his from his father. <\/div>\n

Needless to say, this has pissed off a lot of party activists<\/a>, and I would argue, right thinking people:<\/p>\n

Progressive groups are coming to the aid of Marie Newman after at least four consultants dropped her campaign under pressure from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s new policy to cut off vendors working with primary challengers. <\/p>\n

Politico reported<\/a> Friday morning that a consultant had dropped Newman\u2019s campaign as recently as Wednesday. She\u2019s taking a second shot at unseating incumbent Dan Lipinski in Illinois\u2019s 3rd District after she came within 2.2 points of beating him in a 2018 primary<\/a>. Democracy for America, or DFA, is endorsing Newman and will fundraise for her, a spokesperson for the group told The Intercept. Politico reported<\/a> that the DCCC was clear with the consultants that if they continued working against Lipinski, their future business with the party would suffer. <\/p>\n

The DCCC policy, critics say, will have the effect of protecting white male incumbents defending seats against challengers in an increasingly diverse party. That\u2019s the case with Lipinski, who inherited the seat from his father in 2005 and has retrograde views when it comes to much of the Democratic agenda, including his opposition to marriage equality and abortion rights. He voted against the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the signature legislation House Democratic leaders are trying to save in their campaign against Medicare for All. <\/p>\n

While some House Democrats have strongly objected<\/a> to the DCCC policy, others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, support it. The DCCC says the policy doesn\u2019t discourage primary challengers and that anyone who wants to run for office can do so without them. The DCCC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe DCCC would rather stand with a so-called Democrat who has stood against reproductive, immigrant, and LGBT rights and a $15 minimum wage rather than allow a fair competition and choice for voters,\u201d said Alexandra Rojas, head of Justice Democrats. \u201cThe Democratic Party leadership is choosing machine politics over ushering in a new generation of leaders and the fundamental idea of democracy. Dan Lipinski needs to go and Marie came within 1,600 votes of defeating him with progressive support in 2018. We look forward to Marie finishing the job, but have not made a formal endorsement at this time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Newman told Politico and confirmed to The Intercept that the two mail firms that dropped her campaign did so specifically because of the DCCC policy implemented by Rep. Cheri Bustos, who chairs the committee. Newman said that a number of consultants unaligned with the DCCC reached out to her on Friday and that she is putting her campaign back together. \u201cIt\u2019s tricky,\u201d she told The Intercept. \u201cThis has been very expensive for my campaign \u2014 it\u2019s cost time and money and effort and frustration, but we\u2019re working through it. <\/p>\n

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

NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed and heavily backed Newman in 2018. The group\u2019s president reacted angrily to the DCCC\u2019s move against her.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me be clear: I have very little use for any consultant supported by the DCCC, I think that they over charge and under perform, but the DCCC creating such a blacklist, and choosing Dan Lipinski as their hill to die on, is really beneath contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DCCC is still enforcing its blacklist of consultants who work with primary challengers, and they have chosen Dan Lipinski, who is anti-abortion, anti-gay, and who literally inherited his from his father. Needless to say, this has pissed off a lot of party activists, and I would argue, right thinking people: Progressive groups are coming …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,513,368,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-177939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-campaign-finance","tag-corruption","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177939"}],"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=177939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}